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I was going to make this comment on another thread, but I'll let it go there. Because I realized that one never makes due when they can buy something new. Just saying, I came to a UU realization this afternoon.
I was going to make this comment on another thread, but I'll let it go there. Because I realized that one never makes due when they can buy something new. Just saying, I came to a UU realization this afternoon.
I was going to make this comment on another thread, but I'll let it go there. Because I realized that one never makes due when they can buy something new. Just saying, I came to a UU realization this afternoon.
I usually buy new and then make due. For instance I still regularly wear socks and shirts that I had in the 80's.
Good catch Graham. Sorry that it confused you. It probably should have been do, not due. In my professional life I do have an editor who catches all of those little slip ups, but she refuses to edit my forum posts, oh well. But you got it figured out, and that's what counts.I was confused about the comment and then wondered whether it was ‘American’ English and whether ‘never make do when you can buy new’ would be the ‘British’ English equivalent. Perhaps I’ve still misunderstood your point, sorry if that’s the case.
Ref: https://www.grammar.com/make_do_vs._make_due
Good catch Graham. Sorry that it confused you. It probably should have been do, not due. In my professional life I do have an editor who catches all of those little slip ups, but she refuses to edit my forum posts, oh well. But you got it figured out, and that's what counts.
I tend to make do with something I already have if I can. My wife and I were talking about it the other day. I was heading out the door for a group strum with my old Makala sticking out of a book bag that my thirty two year old son used in middle school. My wife suggested that I buy a new backpack that doesn't look like something a middle school kid would be sporting. Maybe that isn't a good example. I have a gig bag for it somewhere, it just wasn't as handy as the old book bag. But I think that what got me going on the subject is the car uke. Most of those types of threads my first reaction, when I put myself in that situation, is to think of something I already have that would work and suggest that other people do the same. So I think that I just came to a realization that most people use those situations as a reason to get a new ukulele. I'm not helping, so I need to quit doing that. They don't want to use their old $65 Makala for a car uke, or camping uke, or a beach uke, they want a new uke. I just thought that maybe it worth a comment. Maybe not. Anyway, I like all the responses and I especially like to poem from the Samurai Guitarist.
I’m really pleased that my response was (mostly) I’m in-line with your original intent and think that our thoughts on the subject seem to overlap well. Repurposing gives good example of ways that show that we don’t need to buy new and can make do. As a young man making a (problem’s) solution from what ever I had was a necessary way of life and I’m pleased to not have to do that anymore. However old habits die hard and hence I too have pressed a Makala Concert into sterling service and carried it around in an old hold-all, neither looked pretty but for me both did the job required.
‘Never make do when you can buy something new’ is surely music to the Marketing Man’s ears; but I say ‘Never buy something new when you can make do’, it's better for your pocket, better for the environment and it keeps you thinking flexibly.
Guilty as charged on all counts.I’m sure that an awful lot of people use some new purpose or event as reasons, or rather self justification, for buying something that they otherwise would not buy. Christmas will be with us shortly and in many households that involves freshening the home up with those new curtains, decorations and even carpets ready for the visitors to enjoy - “it’s got to be all ready in time for Christmas” is the expensive phrase I’ve sometimes heard. For Weddings and Christenings people seem to buy a new suit or outfit when there’s nothing wrong with the old one, etc. They are buying new when the could - and I suggest that they should - make do.
In terms of the homonyms of this thread:
at least in the United states the standard usage is "due" [e.g., making due] when using it as a verb and "do" when it is an adjective [a make do solution].