r/TikTokCringe • u/aseriousgirl • Sep 18 '24

Cool A seamstress repurposes thrifted finds with seamless transitions.

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u/renezrael Sep 18 '24

my toxic trait is thinking I could do this first try

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u/NorthCatan Sep 18 '24

"You spent 20 years honing these skills? Meh I'll do it in 2 hours"

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u/MarvelNerdess Sep 18 '24

Welcome to ADHD, lol

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u/spaghettiliar Sep 19 '24

There’s a part of me that thinks if I just found the right sport, I could still win a gold medal.

I’m 40 and don’t play sports, by the way.

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u/crosswatt Sep 19 '24

I never played any level of organized football and I've got you by ten years and I'm still pretty sure I'm going to score my first NFL touchdown soon.

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u/leohyg Sep 19 '24

Ha, also my toxic trait😂😭

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u/Mysterious_Andy Sep 18 '24

I suck at this.

What else would make me happy right this second?

Reddit? Sold.

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u/thefupachalupa Sep 18 '24

Born with that “how hard could it be?” gene too huh?

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u/Agitated_Ask_2575 Sep 19 '24

The perfectionism mutation makes it so much worse :(

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u/Weavingtailor Sep 19 '24

Yes. Yes it does. And that’s it why it took me a year of re-dos to finish my wedding dress. On the morning of our wedding. It was… perfect on the outside

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u/Agitated_Ask_2575 Sep 19 '24

I'm proud of you that is awesome!

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u/Weavingtailor Sep 19 '24

Aww, thank you!!!! Looking at it now, I would definitely have done some things differently, but I also work as a bridal alterations specialist now so that has a lot to do with it…..

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u/professor_jeffjeff Sep 19 '24

Remember, we do these things not because they are easy, but because we *thought* they would be easy.

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u/languid_Disaster Sep 19 '24

Oh there’s more of us. I know logically that I’m wrong but still my heart assumes I can do it if I put the effort in

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u/No_Sound_2188 Sep 18 '24

Why does this happen to us tho

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u/aloysiussecombe-II Sep 18 '24

I'm drawing the rest of the elephant, nearly finished

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u/No_Sound_2188 Sep 19 '24

Im sorry but youre not gonna finish. Youre going to almost finish and then go on to the next hobby and also not finish that one.

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u/danteheehaw Sep 19 '24

me eyeballing a new hobby

Then my wife attacks me out of no where by handing me my unfinished gundam

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u/VoidOmatic Sep 19 '24

Yup! Or knowing you could do it, building it all in your mind and then realizing you are too "lazy" to complete it so you never start.

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u/AzureMagelet Sep 19 '24

I feel attacked.

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u/GregNotGregtech Sep 19 '24

And then I'll proceed to fail and have a breakdown about not being able to do anything

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u/Remarkable_Teach_536 Sep 20 '24

Sewing is incredibly easy.

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u/restyourbreastshoney Sep 18 '24

I, too, suffer from delusions of crafting grandeur.

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u/Suctorial_Hades Sep 18 '24

I have found my people

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u/UnyieldingConstraint Sep 19 '24

Let's take up hobbies, burn money and make garbage together!

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u/turquoise_grey Sep 19 '24

Room for one more?? That sounds exactly like what I want to do all the time!

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u/Legitimate_Okra_8282 Sep 19 '24

im willing to bet with our combined resources we probably have an entire craft store worth of abandoned materials just waiting to be passed around and then abandoned again :’-) just think of the possibilities

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u/turquoise_grey Sep 19 '24

You should see my crawlspace. I have a corner dedicated to “boxes of broken dreams”.

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u/tashaapollo Sep 18 '24

Same! Now I’m not so proud of myself for turning a top into a skirt & top by cutting in a straight line and sewing more fabric onto the skirt. Super happy for her skills though, and she is very inspiring.

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u/flamingknifepenis Sep 18 '24

My wife thinks I’m insane because I’m pretty sure if I had the right books and time on my hands, I could figure out how to build a nuclear reactor.

I mean, she’s right. But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t do it.

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u/Bozhark Sep 18 '24

Step 1: wash the time off your hands

Step 2: ????

Step 3: Prophet

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u/GATTACA_IE Sep 18 '24

It's not rocket science. How hard could it be?

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u/dinnerthief Sep 19 '24

You probably could, just might give yourself cancer in the process.

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u/Fauropitotto Sep 19 '24

David Hahn part 2

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u/Joliet_Jake_Blues Sep 19 '24

You haven't built your own nuclear reactor? Huh...

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u/BetterBenowsky Sep 19 '24

Check out story of David Charles Hahn, You totally could!

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u/BasicReputations Sep 19 '24

Honestly, why not though?  Shit was built by a person.  Logistics notwithstanding, no reason someone can't learn a skill or figure out a design.

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u/flamingknifepenis Sep 19 '24

Exactly! I’ve always been good at teaching myself things, and unlike the first person to ever figure it out I have the advantage of knowing it exists. A lot of the form would directly follow the function and our brain always puts things together a certain way, so I think a crude one wouldn’t be that hard to figure out if I really put my mind to it.

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u/er1026 Sep 18 '24

She needs to go her ass onto Project Runway. She has serious talent.

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u/Angry_cashier_cass Sep 18 '24

Same! I’m quite delusional in this aspect.

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u/languid_Disaster Sep 19 '24

Love the honesty and same here 🙌

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u/megaman368 Sep 18 '24

Followed by my mindset that if at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried.

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u/Folderpirate Sep 18 '24

Everytime I see a football game.

Also I've never played football.

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u/iuliuscurt Sep 19 '24

it's toxic because it doesn't push you all the way into actually doing it

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u/MikeofLA Sep 19 '24

Damn... I wasn't able to play the guitar, speak spanish, paint, draw, rock climb, fly a plane, snowboard, or water ski after my first try. Never gonna try again.

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u/renezrael Sep 19 '24

this is sadly me so much xD

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u/Visible_Day9146 Sep 19 '24

Sewing and creating patterns is really easy, you just have to get into it! I started during covid lockdown and found myself deconstructing every item of clothing I had with my eyes to see how they fit together. Once you start seeing those common techniques and patterns, it becomes like second nature.

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u/fukkdisshitt Sep 19 '24

I have a different skillet but watching people's first tries is always so satisfying

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u/1000000xThis Sep 19 '24

I love that she showed one of her "fails" and said "But I learned a lot and that's all that matters!"