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DIY is my dad putting up shelves

Is anyone else left reeling at all this talk of philosophy and the Arts and Crafts movement? Surely DIY is fundamentally about home improvement, and any other context (computer programming seems to have acquired a small stake in the term) is loudly and proudly associating itself with the image of a suburban homeowner fixing things around the house?
Which means the opening section should be squarely focused on the main meaning, and all the derivative aspects should be pushed down into the bowels of the article. In fact, given the dearth of references, it preferably needs a guy in overalls with an angle grinder to hack off those rusty bits altogether. Earthlyreason (talk) 17:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Strongly agreed. Wikipedia's coverage of this subject is ridiculously skewed towards some sort of new-age system of personal reinvention. It's likely that someone (probably me) is going to have to go around merging the various sub-articles which have sprouted on this into [[DIY (philosophy) and then leaving do it yourself as an article purely on home improvement. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:03, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

DIY other origins in rock music==

I am absolutely certain that Todd Rungren and Eric Stolz used DIY techniques before punk with their own music, anyone else know anything about this? also Frank Zappa used DIY for albums like Joes Garage. So its not exclusive to punk , hipsters etc.

Dutmi055 (talk) 21:11, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Totally! DIY has been widely labeled with punk, but punk is definitely not the earliest origin of DIY. However, the reason why these two are so attached to each other is under exploration. 50.179.176.17 (talk) 15:33, 17 February 2016 (UTC)LouiseLiu