I've always been interested in repair and have done a good bit of mending on my own clothes. I have a few black tee shirts from Target from about six or seven y

I've always been interested in repair and have done a good bit of mending on my own clothes. I have a few black tee shirts from Target from about six or seven years ago that have just gotten a few small holes that I've repaired and you can't notice. Takes less than 5 minutes after a while from getting the thread out all the way to cutting it at the end. For down jackets, you can get yourself a roll of repair tape for ~$5 that's as simple as cut and place. I used to work for a large outdoors retailer and we had access to damaged and returned goods at crazy discounts. I got a $200 down jacket for $2.50. Add the $5 roll of repair tape that I still have and we've got a great jacket that I've worn for about four years now. It's kind of fun to do as well. Having sentimental value with the things you use is kind of nice, as long as you don't go overboard.