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A Repair Café is a meeting place where people work together, with the help of experienced repair people, to mend broken household items that they bring in.  The usual items are electrical appliances, furniture, clothing, toys, or just about anything that you can carry in by yourself.  There is no cost, but also no guarantee that your item can be fixed there.  You will be expected to participate in the repair or learn how to repair it on your own at home.  The emphasis is on community-building, keeping well-loved useful items out of the landfill, and learning how to make repairs on your own.

Fall Café Coming Right Up

Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 7 and put that problematic toaster/vacuum cleaner/lamp/pants-that-need-hemming in a sack by the door. It’s time to fix that stuff. This Café is at O-Space, between 10 and 2. You’ll need to pre-register here. And if you are a handy sort who can’t wait to reverse-engineer a balky appliance or restring a necklace, become a FIXER. The world needs more fixers. Sign up here. And welcome!

Spring Café a Sunny Success

Under lovely sunny skies, Vashonites brought about sixty items to the Café. Of those, fifty items were fixed, including many lamps, a sewing machine, some mending, a clock or two, some complicated ceramics, and a teak bench. Four items got advice on how to fix and, alas, five were unfixable. All in all, 330 pounds of treasures were NOT taken to the landfill.

Lamps101 class at Orbit Youth Space

Lamps 101 Rocked

Saturday’s Youth Fixit Class at Orbit Youth Space rocked. Kids and fixers teamed up to learn about electricity, make a basic lamp and then fix a broken one. More tonnage saved from the landfill and fun as well. And there was pizza!

Stay tuned for more like this!

That socket didn’t buy itself…

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