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tyranasaurusbec · 1 year ago

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ouagh this cosplay shit is spensive

like fabric costs i'm used to and like i use coupons and shit at joanns but like the foam building??? wayyyyyyyyyy pricey

i have a crafting exclusive budget and i just went over it for the first time in 2 and a half years (it's 50/month + rollover from other months and like... i've spent almost $250 this month yikies) cause i gotta buy all this new shit - and yeah it's an investment bc i plan on continuing to do this + probably take more commissions from friends again but like as someone who hates spending money this is driving me all kinds of crazy

also i bought a pattern from someone and literally the instructions are so bad and there's a note that says "if you have any questions ask us on social media" so i did (after much psyching myself up) and then he told me he'd send me a video but then didn't - i followed up like 3 days later and he left me on read :( like why tell me you're gonna do it if you're not gonna do it or give me a time frame when i follow up like i assumed he was just going to give me a 360 view of the part i asked about or like tell me which pieces connect to which because it's VERY unclear from the instructions

#vent #i've done cheaper cosplays before like i did a whole fma:b one for ~85 (although the person i did it for bought like the boots and gloves)#and i think the scarlet witch one i did was probably less than 50 #but vash is big boy expensive i'm still not done buying things i'll probably spend another $20-30 which would put me close to 300 #although it's hard to price out all the foam stuff bc like i only used a fraction of it #i shouldnt need to buy as much for my 2nd cosplay for comic con bc i'm doing a lot of the legwork now #so it'll probably come out to like 350 for the two but that's soooooooo much money wow #also v privileged of me to make enough money to have a craft budget #i have no idea how like people who actually have low income do this like i used to make $350 a paycheck when i was an intern #ok i think the tags are longer than the post now oops

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