Meutch: Sharing With Your Community

Remember when you needed a wheelbarrow last summer when you had mulch delivered to your driveway? You didn’t own a wheelbarrow at the time. But you ended up buying one for that once-a-year project. Now the wheelbarrow sits in your garage 51 weeks of the year. Unused. What about that time you wanted to hem window curtains, but didn’t have a sewing machine? You chose to hem them by hand. A tedious task you didn’t enjoy. It took a lot longer than you expected. Something that would likely take less than 15 minutes on a sewing machine. Wouldn’t it have been a lot easier and faster if you borrowed a sewing machine to hem your curtains? Or if you could lend your wheelbarrow to a neighbor who only needed it for one day? That’s where a new site called Meutch can help. About Meutch Created by Sam Firke and launched this month, Meutch (short for “mutual aid”) is an online sharing community where you can share items you have or want to give away. To people you know in your neighborhood, from your…