Borrow This And Improve It

The idea

Most broken things aren't broken.

They're just waiting for someone who knows what a $6 nut can do.

Borrow This And Improve It is a personal log for things you've rescued from abandonment or the trash — what you found, what you did to fix or improve it, and your plan for passing it on when you're done. It's not a marketplace. It's a practice: a way of training yourself to see the potential in something before you see its flaws.

The reduce, reuse, recycle ethos is easy to agree with in the abstract. This app makes it concrete. You open it when you find something worth saving, document the repair, and mark it when it finds a new home. The whole lifecycle, in one place, on your device.

Borrow This And Improve It is currently in Android beta while a few more features are added. It will publish publicly after How Pranked My House launches.

What it does

Features

• 📋
  Rescue log
  Document items you've saved from the trash, with photos, descriptions, and where you found them.
• 🔧
  Improvement history
  Track what you did to fix or improve each item — parts, cost, time, what you learned.
• 🤝
  Pass-it-on tracking
  Record your intentions for each item and mark it when it finds a new home.
• 📸
  Before & after photos
  Document the transformation with photos at every stage.
• 🔒
  Private by design
  Your rescue log stays on your device. No accounts, no uploads.

Get it

Android beta is open.

Borrow This And Improve It is currently in Android beta testing. If you want to test it early and help shape the final features, reach out. It will be published publicly after How Pranked My House launches.