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It’s more fun to make a laptop bag from an old wetsuit than it is to buy one.
It’s easy to make money, as long as that’s all you wish to do. I find it easier to make things than to make money, and it appears that that’s all I do. Fortunately we live in a society where many raw materials are free as long as you have a few favorite dumpsters.
The false economies of making your own stuff are addictive. Most everything I own is an amalgam of trash reconfigured with a rather large and expensive set of scratched and greasy tools. It’s always a good idea at the time: make a bicycle trailer (the storebought ones don’t suit my needs), build a kite, sew a laptop bag.
Jack O’Neill was probably in a similar situation when ...
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