Poppins connects people who have things they use rarely with those who want to buy or rent them
Do you need a kitchen mixer, a drill, a tent or a raclette machine? Perhaps you have a bread machine, an ice-cream maker or a toastie maker in the cupboard gathering dust?
If the answer to either question is “yes”, Lucie Basch has a solution. The French entrepreneur and pioneer of a hugely successful anti-food waste app is now turning her attention to a different problem: the simultaneous underuse and overconsumption of everyday household objects.
Basch has co-founded a new app, named Poppins, in reference to the world’s most famous nanny’s seemingly bottomless carpet bag full of impossibly large items, including a hatstand. The aim is to connect people who have things they don’t need with people who might want to borrow or rent them under the slogan “own less, have more”.
Basch says research has shown the average French person owns about 2.5 tonnes of objects, around a third of which are never used.
