New York's Pop Up Repair Shop

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October 6, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. - Richard Whately - New York's Pop Up Repair Shop Your lamp broke? Oh well, buy a new one. Your toaster oven broke? Again, just buy a new one. Are you one of those people who are more apt to throw out older, broken household items and just buy new replacements -- instead of perhaps thinking about giving it a chance to be fixed? Well, for Sandra Goldmark and her husband Michael Banta, they finally wanted to try and create a solution that "aimed at breaking the cycle of use-and-discard goods." And thus, New York City's Pop Up Repair Shop was born. Says resource specialist Darby Hoover, "We need to remind ourselves that there is value in repair and there is value in trying to keep something out of the landfill." { read more } Be The Change Before being so quick to discard something, take a second to think if you - or maybe someone you know - could perhaps fix or repair the item. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The Science of Love Relationships Are More Important than Ambition Building A Regret Free Life 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 149,721 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More