Our story
It started in a garage. I was helping clear out my family’s, and kept pulling out things that had barely been used: tools bought for one job, gear from one holiday, boxes of “just in case”. All of it was sitting there gathering dust, while people nearby were buying the very same things brand new.
I thought: there has to be a better way. What if neighbours could simply lend to each other? Whoever owns it earns a little from something that was sitting idle, and whoever needs it saves money and skips buying something they will use once. That idea became LendMe. It first came to me back in 2018, and it has stayed with me ever since. Years of turning it over, and now it is finally real.
We are starting on the Sunshine Coast, with neighbours helping neighbours, before opening up across Australia. Every item that gets shared is one less thing made, shipped and bought new. We are not claiming to fix the planet. We just think the world has more than enough stuff already, and making better use of it is a good place to start.
Welcome to LendMe.
Sam, our Founder