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Have old broken stuff? These people will fix it for you – for free

Have old broken stuff? These people will fix it for you – for free

The Washington Post - By Tara Bahrampour

A little more than a decade ago, Martine Postma, a journalist in the Netherlands, noticed something had changed since her childhood in the 1970s. When a household item — a clock, a vacuum cleaner, a chair — broke, people used to try to fix it. Now, their first impulse was to throw it away. As a …

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