Repair Cafes: Similar to Makerspaces, but Focused on Repairing Stuff

Repair Cafes Inspire Hand-On Learning, Reduce Waste, and Strengthen Community Bonds

From their web site at repaircafe.org:

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.

Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

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What a great idea.

Sadly, the world (or at least the parts of it around me) has changed so much since I was growing up, as we used to just call it going to visit your neighbor, who new how to do “X”, and next week your neighbor would come over to visit you 'cause you knew how to do “Y”.

Heavy Sigh…

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Sounds a lot like bicycle co-ops, which are awesome.

Sounds like something we could do once a month. :slight_smile: