I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread
I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year
I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now
A subreddit I loved was “visiblemending” where people fixed things with visible stitches, patches, etc often in very fun and creative ways! It’s totally a thing and totally cool.
We need a c/visiblemending. Please someone, make this happen!