How To Repair Your Stuff
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Think of all the broken stuff you're storing in your home. A blender that won't blend? A bike without brakes? A buttonless blouse? Resist the urge to buy new stuff—and listen to this How To! episode instead! Courtney Martin brings together Phoebe Schenker, executive director of Reuse Alliance and founder of The Mending Library, and Sue-Jean, a reuse enthusiast, to talk about breathing new life into old items.
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If you liked this episode check out: How To Find the Gems in All Your Junk and How To Let Go of Kid Clutter
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| 0:30.0 | What's the quirkiest thing someone has brought in that they thought you could repair? |
| 0:34.0 | Oh my goodness. We get all kinds of stuff. We've had a pitching machine. We've had a vintage |
| 0:40.1 | pinball machine. We had a lanternfish mask. The light stopped working. We repaired it. So we get all |
| 0:50.2 | kinds of stuff. Welcome to how to. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm Courtney Martin. |
| 0:57.0 | I have a confession. |
| 1:02.2 | It's something I feel a lot of shame about you guys, but also feel sort of stuck around. |
| 1:04.5 | Okay, I'm just going to say it. |
| 1:11.6 | I live in a house where no small amount of Amazon packages are dropped on the doorstep on the regular. |
| 1:13.2 | All right. |
| 1:14.8 | So I've said it. |
| 1:19.4 | I'm just going to look at my order history here and give you a little sense of what we have ordered recently. |
| 1:20.5 | Okay. |
| 1:20.8 | We have those grill prep trays for Father's Day that we got for John. |
| 1:25.0 | I think one of them has already melted in some freak accident. Um, printer ink, a wireless doorbell and, oh, whoopee cushions. Yeah, my youngest is a |
| 1:35.7 | prankster. And yes, pranks necessitate prime two-day delivery, at least when you're eight years |
| 1:40.9 | old. So this house of five desirous humans is consuming way too much |
| 1:46.6 | new stuff, which is why today I am summoning an expert who can help me do right by myself, |
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