How a Popup Camper Changed the Way I Think About Ownership

About Toy & Tool

A few summers ago I bought a popup camper. My family of five loved it — but if I’m honest, we used it maybe two weeks a year. The other fifty weeks it sat in the backyard, quietly reminding me of the payments I was still making on something that wasn’t moving.

So I listed it for rent. That summer it paid for deep sea fishing, go-karts, and more family memories than we’d managed in years. And one of the families who rented it sent me a message afterward — three kids who’d never been camping before, grinning ear to ear around a campfire. They couldn’t have done that without my camper. I couldn’t have paid for our summer without them.

That’s Toy & Tool. Most of us own things we barely use, while someone nearby wants to use exactly that thing. We’re just the connection between those two people.

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Craig MacMaster, Founder