Let us disrupt the otherwise normal bucolic sight of everyone in the neighborhood out on a warm afternoon, mowing away at their green lawns. Why does each house need to own their own lawnmower? At around $300 a pop for a new one, they're not cheap, and households could cut costs drastically if they shared them, but negotiating that can lead to arguments over how much each borrower should chip in, if any, and when. So the Eschaton blog muses on this and wonders, why couldn't there be a Zipcar for tools? Well there is! They're called tool rental libraries.
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3 comments:
I do not "rent" tools because you don't know how they've been used and/or abused.
I do not "loan" out my tools because you don't know how the other person is going to use it or abuse it.
You also don't know if you're going to get it back.
I just want my neighbor to start cutting my grass. He can keep the mower.
Camden has a tool LENDING library, no renting.
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