How To! | Repair Your Stuff

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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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. Links Mentioned: Reuse Alliance iFixIt WikiHow Tool Lending Libraries If you liked this episode check out: How To Find the Gems in All Your Junk and How To Let Go of Kid Clutter Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our supervising producer is Joel Meyer. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.0	Pokemon range comprises toys only whilst thoughts last.
0:53.6	What's the quirkiest thing someone has brought in that they thought you could repair?
1:11.5	Oh, my goodness. We get all kinds of stuff. We've had a pitching machine. We've had a vintage, like, pinball machine. We had a lanternfish mask. The lights stopped working. We repaired it. so we get all kinds of stuff.
1:19.1	Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. I have a confession. It's something I feel a lot of shame about you guys, but also feel sort of stuck around. Okay, I'm just going to say it. I live in a
1:25.5	house where no small amount of Amazon packages are dropped on the doorstep on the regular.
1:32.0	Alright, so I've said it.
1:35.2	I'm just gonna look at my order history here and give you a little sense of what we have ordered recently.
1:40.6	Okay, we have those grill prep trays for Father's Day that we got for John. I think one of
1:45.7	them has already melted in some freak accident. Printer ink, a wireless doorbell, and, oh,
1:53.9	whoopee cushions. Yeah, my youngest is a prankster. And yes, pranks necessitate prime two-day
1:59.3	delivery, at least when you're eight years old.
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