If your grandchild had a favorite stuffed toy with a ripped ear, would you be glad to sew it back on? Say one of your kids got a flat bike tire: do you know how to fix it in a jiffy? Have you had a lamp that looks great but the switch won’t work? What if you were trying to get an app on your smartphone to work – would it be handy to have a teenager show you how?

That’s the idea behind Repair Café. A Repair Cafe is a no-charge community event where people bring their futzy, wonky, cranky, or torn household items to volunteer repair coaches who are glad to try to fix ‘em up. People bring all kinds of things to a repair cafe: bikes, wooden chairs, kids toys, kitchen appliances, lamps, stuffed animals, jackets, skateboards, and similar. The motto behind Repair Café is “most items can be fixed…but even if they don’t, we have a good time trying!”

Find us on the Hudson Valley Repair Cafes page as well https://www.repaircafehv.org/wynantskill