Borrow & Build. We provide communities with the tools they need to create the change they want.
Buffalo, NY
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Our first day back open at our new location, and it feels SO good! ✨🛠️ Stop by 2626 Main Street for all your tool borrowing needs! #borrowandbuild #borrowdontbuy
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Dare to Repair is BACK on Saturday, June 5th! 🔧 #daretorepair #repaircafe #righttorepair - mailchi.mp/thetoollibrary/sp…
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This New Year, we resolve to:
☝️make sharing the norm not the exception
✌️make money less important
Cheers to all our volunteers, members, and donors for helping us build a kinder, more equitable world in 2021! 🥂
#borrowandbuild #libraries
Looking to volunteer? Lend a hand on over a dozen events with The Tool Library this spring and help improve the place you love! 💪 - mailchi.mp/thetoollibrary/sp…
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#TGIF, which means time for some weekend DIYing. We're not only about lending tools, but also showing the community and our members the best and safest ways to use them - like earlier today when we demoed a pneumatic finish nailer! 🛠️ #toollibrary
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Heads-up, fellow tooligans! Dare to Repair is still on for tonight, but the Tool Library will be closing early at 5 p.m. Thank you in advance for your understanding!
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Tonight's Dare to Repair: February Edition at Dudley Branch Library is ON! Bundle up, strap on those snow shoes, and bring us your broken goods to get fixed. 🛠
Please note that we will only cancel in the event that the Dudley Branch Library closes - which we do not foresee.
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Get Your Broken Stuff Fixed For FREE at Our Next Dare to Repair Cafe! 🔧🔨 - mailchi.mp/thetoollibrary/da…
Sometimes its the smallest changes that have the biggest impacts in our communities.
Get inspired and show some love for your neighborhood this year. Oh, and if you need tools, we've got you covered! 😉🛠️
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Be sure to join us and @recyclebuffalo at our next Dare to Repair Cafe at Dudley Branch Library on Thursday, February 27th starting at 5PM to get your free fixes on! Excited for our new partnership with @buffalolibrary to share the repairs across the WNY community! ❤️ 🛠️
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So much gratitude to this group of fixing phenoms, Don, Chip, Dave, Tom, and Marcus (not pictured: Frank), for sharing their time & talents with the WNY community today! 🙌🙏🛠️
39 items came in from over 17 zip codes during today's Dare to Repair Cafe.
#daretorepair #repaircafe
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Won't You Be Our Guest? Join the Tool Library for our second annual Borrow Build & Brunch Fundraiser 🔨🍹 - mailchi.mp/thetoollibrary/bo…
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Lend us your ears, we'll lend you our shears! ✂️🌳
The first of many Tree Stewardship Tuesdays is on tap this afternoon giving you a hands-on, crash course in proper tree stewardship and maintenance. Join us starting at 4PM at the Tool Library.
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Get Fixed or Lend a Hand with Upcoming Events at the Tool Library! 🔧👷 - mailchi.mp/thetoollibrary/da…
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Want to help the Tool Library get some kewl new tools for school?! 🛠️
Nominate us as Cellino Plumbing's Nonprofit of the Month using this link:
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#toollibrary #sharemore #sharingeconomy #borrowandbuild
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Since 2017, our volunteer fixers have worked with over 700 individuals, successfully repaired 319 items, and diverted 2,579 lbs. of potential waste from local landfills.
Learn more and get involved today: buff.ly/2KzU4Lm
#daretorepair #fixitdontditchit #repaircafe
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Screens are basically nature's air conditioning vents, so why not learn to fix your own at our mobile screen repair station?! 🦋🛠️
Join us and dozens of other awesome vendors and businesses this Saturday, August 10th at the Flutterby Festival:
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The Tool Library will be CLOSED on Wednesday, July 3rd & Thursday, July 4th! 🎊 - mailchi.mp/thetoollibrary/tl…
Did you know that the Tool Library is staffed entirely by volunteers?! 😱
That's why we need YOUR help! During the summer we're often shorthanded and when volunteers can't make it to the shop that makes our members very sad. 😢
Join Team Tooligan today:
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We're sad to see another long-time Tooligan leaving our ranks, but know that Fabian Windheim is off to do bigger and better things as an engineer in Ithaca! 👨🔧
Congratulations on your new job 🎉 and I'm sure we'll see you at a Dare to Repair or two 😉
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When one tool falls another rises to take its place.
While we troubleshoot our Black & Decker pole saw, we're excited to welcome a new electric Sun Joe pole saw to our family. 👩🔧👨🔧
Stop by the shop and start borrowing this and 3,000+ other tools today!
#toollibrary
We'd like to give a hey, howdy, hello there to the Tool Library's newest board member and tooligan, Cheyenne Ketter-Franklin! Cheyenne is a a Buffalo native, born and raised right here in University District.
Please join us in welcoming Cheyenne! 👏 🙌
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Legend has is that the @googoodolls song Iris is actually written about the gardens at the Winspear-Tyler Triangle. 😂
Thank you to the handful of volunteers from Buffalo in Bloom, the University Heights Collaborative, and Tool Library who keep these gardens looking great!
Nothing gets the sap flowing like a little morning tree pruning. 🌳✂️
The Tool Library works closely w/ the City of Buffalo, the Buffalo Green Fund, & @CCEErieCounty to maintain an inventory of pruning tools available for use by graduates of the CommuniTREE Steward Project?
You asked, we delivered!
Two (count 'em) ✌️ new electric tillers now in stock and ready to be borrowed at the Tool Library!
#cooltools #rototiller #toollibrary #sharingeconomy #borrowdontbuy #borrowandbuild #gardening #universityheights #buffalo #buffalove #wny
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Fact: Most Tool Library members make the cost of their annual membership dues back the first time they borrow.
DeWalt Orbital Sander Retail Price: $59.99
Annual Tool Belt Membership Price: $20.00
Sign up and start borrowing today!
#tooltuesday #toollibrary #sharingeconomy
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"Borrow we must. It's a habit that builds community, fosters connection, counteracts loneliness, and incidently saves planetary resources."
Stop into the shop and start borrowing today!
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Did you know that a $50 Tool Box membership to the Tool Library gets you access to 25 tools at once?
One of our members just upgraded in preparation for their own "demolition derby" and saved about $200 in the process. 🤑
#toollibrary #borrowdontbuy #sharingeconomy
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🚨 Last chance to get fixed at Dare to Repair! 🚨
Join us, @NYSDEC, @recyclebuffalo, and all our partners in repair TOMORROW at @ReinsteinWoods starting at 10AM.
#daretorepair #fixitdontditchit #repaircafe #repair
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Baby got back(lap). 🍑
Properly sharpened reel mowers are not only more economical than their gas-powered brethren, they're also much more sustainable!
#babybackthatlapup #toollibrary #sharingeconomy #borrowdontbuy #lawncare #landscaping #sustainability #buffalo #buffalove
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A big THANK YOU to Mike for leading a small but mighty crew through the basics of car maintenance. From fixing a flat and changing your oil, to swapping out wiper blades and a busted tail light, who knew it could be so easy to save money? 🚗💸
#doyouevenpneumaticliftbro #diy
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When the students become the teachers 🤓
It was an absolute pleasure partnering with @UBSchoolofMGT students and faculty over the past two semesters to learn the basics of Salesforce!
Watch out world, our CRM skillz are 🔥🔥🔥
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#servicelearning
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In 2019, our fantastic team of volunteer fixers have successfully repaired 44 items and diverted 414 lbs of potential waste from local landfills. 😱🌎♻️
Join us and @recyclebuffalo for our next Dare to Repair Cafe at Bennett High School THIS Saturday starting at 9AM.
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Mark your calendars for our three remaining DIY workshops in your quest to become a Jack (or Jill) of all trades! RSVP on our website: buff.ly/2GKL0BG
#diy #workshop #toollibrary #toolsforchange #sharingeconony #knowledgeispower
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Why buy when you can share? Join the Capen Garden Walk and University Heights Arts Association for their annual spring plant & seed exchange THIS Saturday at University Presbyterian Church!
#sharemore
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you... But then, as a last ditch effort, they co-opt you.”
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Extreme Mulch Makeover: Bailey Avenue Tree Pits Edition is THIS SATURDAY!
Stop by the Varsity Theater starting at 10AM and help us move over five yards of mulch to keep our business district looking top notch.
#baileyfightsblight #publicart #baileyave #universitydistrict
Thank you to all the women out there who inspire us to action every day and remind us that the greatest gift in life is the gift of giving back.
#mothersdayeveryday
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Another incredible haul of donated tools.😍
Whether you're downsizing or decluttering, don't ditch it - donate it! By putting these tools back into useful circulation we can limit the amount of materials entering the waste stream.
#sharingeconomy #toollibrary #sharemore
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Whether you're a DIYer just starting out, a contractor on a budget, or a community group looking to organize an event, the Tool Library has a membership that's right for you!
Stop into the shop or visit us online to sign up and start saving today!
#toollibrary #sharingeconomy
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When people on Main Street think you're paid landscapers, but you're like "Nah, we volunteers 💅"
Thank you to an incredible crew of volunteers who joined us on Saturday to mulch 40+ tree pits along Main Street.
#volunteer #service #mulchmania #mainstreet #buffalo
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Saving you money and sticking it to the cable monopolies - can you think of a more beautiful scenario?
Join John O'Brien on Tuesday, May 7th at 6PM at the University Heights CoLab for a hands-on DIY workshop on how you can cut the cord. ✂️🔌
#diy #cutthecord
