College Living: DIY Clothes
Being a college student far away from home has its ups and downs. Take it from me — I live over 550 miles away from UPLB. It’s fun. You get to be your own boss. You can stay up/out as late as you want to, spend as much time on the computer as desired, and for some people, get as drunk as you want on any night you fancy. But it can also get ugly. You make life choices mostly on your own. You get to decide when you start working on your school work. You
force todiscipline yourself to sacrifice and skip out on some fun things for the sake of attaining that college degree you aspire so much. You get homesick and you sometimes crave for your mom’s home cooked goodies.One of the heaviest downsides though, is that you live within a college student’s budget. Sometimes, you spend hungry boring nights alone in your apartment fantasizing over food and clothes online.
For this entry, I will focus on the clothes and boredom problem. Spending a fortune on clothes seems like a must especially for most of us Iskos/Iskas. Since we don’t don a certain uniform everyday, we have to have at least two weeks worth of clothes for us to survive. We also have to have specific types of clothes in case of formal reports/presentations, parties, balls, and the like. After a few months, you get fed up of the things in your closet. And at times, when life picks on you very well, the laundry service you stick to may accidentally stain or stretch your clothes. So how do you deal with these clothes you can’t wear anymore? How can you make it wearable again? My answer is to Do It Yourself. More on the other side.
