why I didn’t go through with making a DIY hat

The real question is: why was this so freaking stressful?

I’m typically a decisive and reasonable person but this DIY trucker hat bar task made me walk out and return on 3 separate accounts with no luck 🙃.

maybe it was because there was always one patch missing that would have been awesome to see as an option, or maybe it was that the cost to ~make~ this hat would have been over $50 by the end of it 😐.

Either way, I will try again but damn, that stress was not what I was expecting 😂

Anyone else run into this?

2024/6/20 Edited to

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