That is the point, a washer that did cost a few pennies now costs almost a quarter.

Cost so much to drive and the stores are all corporate and built in monstrous traffic cluster flucks that even to go out your way is too much.

Do it yourself is not cheap or convenient anymore.

If you oil your drill bits and don't spin them too fast they don't get dull. Only takes a second to punch though a coin. I agree, it's still not worth it.

I don't accept that it is too expensive to make anything here. It is only so because big money pays their lobbyists to make it so. They don't want competition, producers, they want consumers.