Lament over the costs of DIY!

I have always been someone who believed in the saying “learn a trade and you’ll put something aside,” that is, whoever learns DIY saves a lot of money. Lately I find myself saying: not so much! I am truly astonished, for example, by the cost of wood in Italy. It is abominable! It costs more to build yourself a little cabinet with a softwood than to buy one ready-made, perhaps even in hardwood! It’s unbelievable… I would like to do more craftwork, but the costs discourage me enormously. My great-grandfather had something of the craftsman about him, and my father did too, to some extent. My older brother was able to work for a craft workshop and learned many things. It’s in my blood, I like doing it, but the costs in Italy make it unthinkable! Masonry already costs much less, but woodworking is not very feasible. But this is how art is lost in a society! Who still works wood in Italy? There are almost no craftsmen left. Things are made in series, industrially, but there is no artistic touch. Let us preserve human creativity! Let us preserve and foster craftsmanship! Let us support it also from an economic point of view!