Give the Gift of Making Stuff!

It’s that time of year where we rack our brains scrolling through Amazon and read unnecessarily long intros to blogs titled “Gifts for Dad” and go into a mini existential crisis wondering if we’re all just consumerist cogs for the elite. Well we’re gonna make it easy on yah this year. Get your partner/daughter/mail person the gift of a skill, the gift of creativity, the gift of just finally being able to fix your leaky sink (if it really is just a leaky sink, they might only need our One Time Project Checkout - it’s only $40, and if they like us, they can put that $40 toward their annual membership).

Here’s our cheat sheet of DTL Gift Ideas:

Give an Annual Membership, Household Membership, or One Time Project Checkout

Purchase

Give some bucks that can be spent on any of our classes.

Purchase

Give a ten hour punch card to our Open Workshop Hours.

Purchase

Give the Gift of MAKING STUFF!

We’re getting this out there early to try to save you from spending too much time racking your brain to come up with good gift ideas so you’re not getting your dad another $30 platter of fancy nuts (one year I got him fancy nuts and when I went to put it in my cart it said “you ordered this products two years ago." It turns out I had bought him the exact same thing for Christmas before. True story). Get someone something more useful than nuts! Consider a Tool Library Membership, Class Gift Bucks, or hours toward the Community Workshop.

HERE’S THE CHEAT SHEET OF DTL GIFT IDEAS:

Give an Annual Membership, Household Membership, or One Time Project Checkout

Purchase

Give some bucks that can be spent on any of our classes.

Purchase

Give a ten hour punch card to our Community Workshop.

Purchase

Stop Buying Gifts, Make Them Instead!

Use our Community Workshop or Tool Library to start making gifts now and have them ready for the holidays!

You spend your money on some junk online because you have to buy a gift but really they don’t want it so it ends up taking space in their garage until they finally find a reason to use it but the battery is already dead because it got cold and of course you can’t replace the battery so then they need to spend the time to figure out how to recycle electronics or feel guilty about throwing it in the landfill. Meanwhile (insert giant retailer here) is making enough money per day to buy a small country full of hungry people who will remain generally hungry during a holiday based on (insert giant religion here) which is all about feeding/clothing/healing those in need.

This is all to say - made gifts take a while to make so we have to break the rules and bother you before Halloween to tell you to use the Community Workshop to build those you love nice quality gifts! You know a made gift is a meaningful gift so buy your hours punch card today to save a few bucks while you build! Rather build something at home? Then sign up for a membership and take our tools home and make something. Hell buy them a gift membership too! It’s almost the holidays for Christ’s sake! Spend your money on us and not them!