SA: If you have something that's broken let's say a lamp, a vacuum, a microwave, maybe even an old radio. Don't toss it in the trash bring it to a repair café 

SF: Repair Café is sort of like a pop-up it's a free event where people come together and get their things fixed 

SA: Suzie Fromer helps coordinate roughly 60 repair cafes in the Hudson Valley 

SF: We need to stop throwing things out it's really bad for the environment but it's also bad for people's economic health 

SA: They're challenging the notion of a disposable society

SF: So there's this term that gets bandied around called planned obsolescence which is that things are not made to last and of course this is where it buts into the right to repair movement which is that things are made to not to not be able to fix yourself or even at a local repair shop but the laws are really starting to change 

SA: At a repair café volunteers will try to fix just about anything 

SF: I'm a jewelry fixer and we have a lot of jewelry that comes in, a lot of small appliances, a lot of what we would call electrical-mechanical fixes and so we have the electrical-mechanical stations then we have textile stations but we fix a lot of stuff cushions, curtains, sewing on a button 

SA: They'll even teach you how to be a fixer 

SF: Keep your stuff, get it fixed

SA: In Westchester, Sean Adams WCBS 880 News