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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I didn’t know I could do that! I live next to a Home Depot. I’ll try that sometime.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

They also usually rent out equipment, like carpet cleaners, post-hole diggers, large drain snakes, etc. And relatively cheap for the one time possibly in your lifetime you need to use it.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's definitely the cheapest option if you only need the truck for an hour or two to carry something home. Actually I think it's free if you are fast enough, just have to pay for gas.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

I've rented trucks from Lowe's as well. Hella cheap if you're quick with it.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Huh! They could buy a board, take the truck to pick up a friend at the airport, return the truck and the board...

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

You don't need to buy anything, I've rented the truck from home Depot to carry unrelated items before.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

There is usually a mileage bit on there too, its X miles for Y hours sort of thing iirc.

Still can be relatively cheap BTW, just saying its not pure time as of the last time I did it. Which was to move a few slabs of butcher block for my desk, so that was about 4-5 years ago.