- "Don't Throw It Away—Take It to the Repair Cafe" - 3 Updates
| lenona321@yahoo.com: Jul 24 05:35PM -0700 https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/07/how-repair-cafes-can-fix-our-throwaway-culture/564923/ Excerpts: ...What she's discovered was that it wasn't that people liked throwing away old stuff. "Often when they don't know how to repair something, they replace it, but they keep the old one in the cupboard—out of guilt," she said. "Then at a certain moment, the cupboard is full and you decide this has been lying around [long enough]." That's why the cafes teach people how to repair their belongings, rather than doing it for them. Back at Elkridge Library, Goedeke led a session on how to rewire lamps, taking one apart and showing the audience the individual components. Each time the fixers worked on something, they explained the process to the person across the table... ...For him, though, the focus isn't so much on the appliances as it is on interacting with his community. "I have to be honest, when you go telling people you want to save the world, they often say, 'That sounds nice, but I don't have the time,'" he said. "But if there is this aspect of, 'Do you want your toaster fixed, and while you're having that done, can we talk about saving the world?' they tend to be more receptive." Each cafe operates differently, but Postma says one thing often stays the same: "The atmosphere is always the same," she said. "It's always many funny products and happy people." |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jul 25 11:48AM -0700 > That's why the cafes teach people how to repair their belongings, rather than doing it for them. Back at Elkridge Library, Goedeke led a session on how to rewire lamps, taking one apart and showing the audience the individual components. Each time the fixers worked on something, they explained the process to the person across the table... > ...For him, though, the focus isn't so much on the appliances as it is on interacting with his community. "I have to be honest, when you go telling people you want to save the world, they often say, 'That sounds nice, but I don't have the time,'" he said. "But if there is this aspect of, 'Do you want your toaster fixed, and while you're having that done, can we talk about saving the world?' they tend to be more receptive." > Each cafe operates differently, but Postma says one thing often stays the same: "The atmosphere is always the same," she said. "It's always many funny products and happy people." And? |
| lenona321@yahoo.com: Jul 25 05:37PM -0700 > > That's why the cafes teach people how to repair their belongings, rather than doing it for them. As the above hints, one saves money by learning repair skills. |
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