The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

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    6 months ago

    Yeah I borrowed a bunch of hand and power tools from the Oakland public library when I lived there in the 2010s. They also had a shit ton of video games

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      6 months ago

      Hopefully opportunity attracted you elsewhere, re: leaving Oakland?

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        6 months ago

        Housing was too expensive and we wanted to move back east closer to family. Most of our Oakland friends took a similar path between ‘18 and ‘22

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          6 months ago

          too expensive … [people moved elsewhere]

          A huge loss, generally speaking. Darn the almighty dollar!