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I'd add sewing to the list, too. I can buy a black satin blouse on clearance, or at the thrift shop for $5-$10, but by the time I buy fabric, thread, buttons, pattern, etc, I'd have spent well more than that. My DIY tends to be more in embellishing or modifying purchased items than starting from scratch, for that very reason.
Also, I suspect that I may feel this way partly because I'm pretty young, and Hot Topic has been around for most of my life. So I used to read all these forum threads from people talking about how they used to have to make all their own stuff, or buy studded jewelery from sex shops, and here everyone I knew was wearing the same exact thing, bought at the mall. Probably faux nostalgia on my part, like people who never lived in the 50s but insist everything was way better back then.
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