Does anyone else find the costs to hire the required gear for graduation ceremonies a bit ridiculous?

So I've got my graduation ceremony coming up in a few days and as of now I'm 50/50 on whether I attend it or not. I decided to go online and hire the gear required for my ceremony and was surprised to see that it costs 85 dollars??? I mean maybe it's just me but that seems like a bit much considering you're simply hiring the gear. I have a few friends working full-time who said that's "easy money" and "you can make it back quickly", but due to this current job market I'm still only working part-time and don't see $85 as easy money. Due to some implications with my course, I couldn't attend the summer ceremony even though I finished my course in time for it, and now the ceremony I will be attending will have none of my friends I made throughout my course, but instead a bunch of students who were never in the same class as me, and that was already putting me off from attending this ceremony, but now the costs to simply hire the required gear seems a bit crazy to me. Maybe I'm being a bit overdramatic with this and the price might seem fair to most people, but I feel like $85 to simply hire gear especially in today's world is a bit nuts.