So I love the idea of homemade products, nice personalized items that match my individual tastes. I have a number of projects that I would like to start from a bunch of old sheets, worn out jeans, and fabric picked up on the cheap. But the truth is that summer has come and gone and I haven’t gotten a lot done (which is to say anything). I definitely believe in the idea of recycling materials and saving money versus going to box stores, but I’m just not passionate about homemade projects like I am other activities. Well, this weekend I decided to explore a different option, buying someone else’s homemade products. At our local farmer’s market, not only can you get an excellent selection of local produce, meat, and baked goods, but they also sell craft items as well. I picked out a nice set of cloth napkins with a fall oriented theme for $1.25 each. To me that’s a price that is so inexpensive, I’m not sure if it would be more economically prudent to make my own. The way I figure it, even if I could make all four napkins with a 1/2 yard of fabric it would probably still cost me 3 dollars or so. When you add in the cost of the other sowing supplies, and the time it would take for me to actually make the napkins, it would definitely seem to be advantageous to just buy them from the farmer’s market. Now I would think that once you start look at more expensive (larger) items that can be made from recycled materials (for example curtains), it might be more advantageous to make my own, but I don’t think that’s always the case. While there is the fact that the napkins are using new, not recycled material, their projected longevity makes me feel this difference is fairly negligible. What do you think, did I get a good deal or am I just lazy?