I have absolutely run through the same feelings and thoughts whenever I'm at Lowes or Home depot about to purchase a tool of any sorts. I know my friends or neighbors likely have the tool I need, but as you said, I've been programmed to build my arsenal of tools so that I can be fully prepared for any home/automotive maintenance projects that pop up in my domain. In our modern American culture, I feel like that sense of leaning on your community when you need a physical item, is almost never touched upon in any of the messaging we receive as we grow up, at least not from popular culture or the media. Hopefully we would have someone in our immediate environment that would instill the knowledge of "try to borrow the item your only going to use sporadically", but it seems to be a lost value system that was clearly stronger in decades past. btw, I am confident your going to use that bit many, many times in the foreseeable future. I have one just like it, and I certainly do! =-)
Pop culture messaging is a HUGE part of it for sure! And yes, I have already used the bit several times, but more because it's what was loaded in the driver, not because it was the best tool for the job
Love the bin of bags to pick up at the store! We don’t have anything like that around here. Most thrift stores use donated bags (reusable and non) to send customers home with their purchases. I hope those bags then get put to use or returned as a donation to get used again. Food pantries are also always in need of bags, and you would be surprised at the number of clients that keep and return those bags to be used over and over again. I will also second Buy Nothing groups. I can look around just the one room I’m in and see three or four things that came from Buy Nothing and I recently got rid of a bunch of partially used school supplies (which no one will take as a donation) through Buy Nothing.
All of the thrift stores that I've been to around here have paper or plastic shopping bags or they sell their own branded bags (like Savers). I love that the ones near you are reusing the bags that get donated! A food pantry is a good call too.
Buy Nothing (usually runs as hyperlocal Facebook group) solves all these problems. Also riding bicycle, using public transit, and batching/combining errands into 1x/week trip optimizes resources.
That's a good call about Buy Nothing actually. We've found some amazing free things and been able to borrow from others on there before. I'm not on FB, so I always forget it exists!
I have absolutely run through the same feelings and thoughts whenever I'm at Lowes or Home depot about to purchase a tool of any sorts. I know my friends or neighbors likely have the tool I need, but as you said, I've been programmed to build my arsenal of tools so that I can be fully prepared for any home/automotive maintenance projects that pop up in my domain. In our modern American culture, I feel like that sense of leaning on your community when you need a physical item, is almost never touched upon in any of the messaging we receive as we grow up, at least not from popular culture or the media. Hopefully we would have someone in our immediate environment that would instill the knowledge of "try to borrow the item your only going to use sporadically", but it seems to be a lost value system that was clearly stronger in decades past. btw, I am confident your going to use that bit many, many times in the foreseeable future. I have one just like it, and I certainly do! =-)
Pop culture messaging is a HUGE part of it for sure! And yes, I have already used the bit several times, but more because it's what was loaded in the driver, not because it was the best tool for the job
Love the bin of bags to pick up at the store! We don’t have anything like that around here. Most thrift stores use donated bags (reusable and non) to send customers home with their purchases. I hope those bags then get put to use or returned as a donation to get used again. Food pantries are also always in need of bags, and you would be surprised at the number of clients that keep and return those bags to be used over and over again. I will also second Buy Nothing groups. I can look around just the one room I’m in and see three or four things that came from Buy Nothing and I recently got rid of a bunch of partially used school supplies (which no one will take as a donation) through Buy Nothing.
All of the thrift stores that I've been to around here have paper or plastic shopping bags or they sell their own branded bags (like Savers). I love that the ones near you are reusing the bags that get donated! A food pantry is a good call too.
Buy Nothing (usually runs as hyperlocal Facebook group) solves all these problems. Also riding bicycle, using public transit, and batching/combining errands into 1x/week trip optimizes resources.
That's a good call about Buy Nothing actually. We've found some amazing free things and been able to borrow from others on there before. I'm not on FB, so I always forget it exists!