Cabinet for renting home appliances .. Can the "Things Library" treat our obsession with buying?

Borrowing Instead of buying, this was the goal of creating a small library of borrowing and exchanging household items that you might need for a few or a few times.

At the Upper Norwood Library - a civil society-run library that includes five neighborhoods in south London - the wooden lockers carried a small banner titled "The Library of Things ... a place to borrow useful household items and other goods that occupy space and collect dust in the home."

In a report in the British Independent newspaper, writer Hazal Sheffield, in a dialogue with the participating institution of Things Library Sofia Sofia, touched on this project that not only made the borrowing process easier, but also a way to bring people together.

Symbolic prices
Between the shelves of the library you will find your list of tools and household appliances, such as a loudspeaker, pasta maker, sewing machine, tile cutter, carpet cleaner, tent

Borrowing the tools offered by the library requires payment of the admission fee, which does not exceed one pound sterling, in addition to seven pounds per day. For example, at 3:30 pm, Lindsay Pereria goes with her child to borrow a carpet cleaner because it is "too expensive", and she believes Providing such things in this place would be a "really good idea".

Sofia Wyatt emphasized that its mission is to make the borrowing process better than buying, although you can purchase some tools at high prices that you will likely only use once or twice, you will eventually have to store them.

Alternatively, you can borrow these facilities for seven or eight pounds a day, and learn to use them as well.

Easy to borrow
Just as you find the book you are looking for in the library, you will also find the tools you want to borrow within the lighted doors of the cabinet, to facilitate the process of operation and research.

Wyatt stated that the idea is to spread tanks in libraries and public places, where two more libraries will be established for the same purpose in 2020 in West and South London.

The author explained that every time a person joins the library he becomes part of a network of borrowers who are invited to various events and activities, such as meetings to fix household items.

Crises are a means of innovation
In fact, the history of the participating libraries can be traced back to the period of the Great Depression when the game libraries in Harlem, which cater to the needs of families who could not afford to buy them, appeared after a number of children were arrested for stealing games.

However, tool libraries began to appear in the United States during the 1940s, and there is little evidence to suggest the movement reached the UK until the last decade when the Edinburgh Tool Library opened at an old police station in Leith Walk in Edinburgh in 2015.

The writer added that there are now branches of the things library in Oxford, Fromm, Stirling, Edinburgh and Totnes.

However, the treasury system represents tremendous progress, especially since the library management and organization require a number of volunteers.

In this regard, Wyatt said, "The people who work in the community-run organizations are very wonderful, but they often suffer from stress because there is not enough funding for their work."

Increase revenue
The writer quoted Wyatt that the costs of manufacturing and installation, as well as the cost of purchasing all equipment, were estimated at about 30,000 pounds.

In this regard, Wyatt said, "We encourage people to help fund such projects. There will always be a way to provide the funding that will be for the benefit of society and for the benefit of us all."

On the other hand, the director of the Upper Norwood Trust Library, Emily Jewell, reported that the revenue she gets from hosting the Things Library helps the traditional library survive, adding that “as a community library we need to raise money to survive, as opening our own library of things It seems perfect, because it enabled us to serve our community and increase revenue, when the Things Library offered to join us as executives and we were very excited by the opportunity to partner and learn from the experts. "

The writer indicated that the Wyatt team and the Things Library had developed relationships with manufacturers, including Bosch and North Face, to obtain customer reviews of the quality and popularity of products due to the direct relationship with consumers.

For example, thanks to the Things Library, North Face realized that a light-colored backpack was less popular than other products, because it was more likely to get dirty.

Wyatt explained that the Things Library is more than just a simple sharing platform. It is like "Zipcar" or "Airbnb" for things, because it provides consumers with an alternative to buy new products instead of encouraging participation after the purchase.