This is probably a very good time to become a DIY maintenance, junkyard connoisseur, scavenger-maker, jury-rigger type person. I think there’s a different kind of maker movement brewing. One grounded in junk and entropy rather than from scratch building, 3d printing etc
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Covid is going to nudge us towards a fat home with self-maintaining/repairing/healing capabilities. It’s not quite a producerist home but something like a consumerist-with-mods home. Semi-homemade maker movement. Or home-adapted.
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had a weird thought the other day when rinsing a plastic tub for ♻️ about how our grandparents had random metal or plastic containers around bc.. they were available. it was never about frugality
and how everything seems so available now but that could all be gone
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a lot of people end up like this out of necessity from growing up in scarcity. my mom (chinese inmigrant) is a resourceful tinkerer and has an intuitive sense for fixing things, but wouldn’t necessarily identify with “maker culture”
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