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Well, here: Platform21's Most Remarkable Repair Contest (based on its "Repair Manifesto"). I ran across this a few days ago - basically, you send in photos and a description of something you've repaired (instead of tossing and buying new), and the most amazing fix wins.

I'll be watching. Eager to enter, I started thinking about stuff I've repaired lately. Just this month, I've sewn a couple buttons, secured a pant hem, glued shiny little baubles back onto a hair stick, and performed surgery on my shredding machine. Remarkable? Not so much.

So I asked around the office - what's something you've repaired personally instead of throwing away?

Mike: I’ve kinda only fixed home stuff…fixed sink, fixed toilet, patched a hole in the wall…but you can’t really throw a wall away. I’ve had my mom patch my jeans.

Theresa: I'm big on glue, wood glue for loose chair legs, glue guns for broken xmas ornaments, crazy glue for cracked pottery.

Toshio: A bike flat. I just put together an IKEA-esque bookshelf, does that count?

Ah, well. Maybe one of us can enter next year.

-Jenifer…off to very unremarkably tighten a screw on her saucepan handle…


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