• Steven McTowelie@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    On a whim I googled my city’s library and “tools” and I found a non-profit society that specializes in lending of hand and power tools! This is incredible and I wouldn’t have known about it without this prompt: thank you!

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      Can you share the name of this non profit society, is it a part of your local public library or it’s own independent thing?.

      I need a spanner for like single hex nut and I don’t want to buy one for it to collect dust in my drawer lol

      • Steven McTowelie@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yeah mine was called the [City Name] Tool Library, and it was a non-profit that was independent of our local library. I imagine that they receive donated tools from contractors and companies around the city.

        As an example, I googled a random city name (Calgary) and found one for them as well: https://calgarytoollibrary.org/

        There are likely tons of similar organizations throughout Canada (and probably your country as well!)