BeaverCraft

We pulled this list together for a presentation at a craft conference last year. The category is consistent — spoons, hooks, coasters, openers, ornaments, toys.
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Things every household used to have at least one homemade version of. Things that now ship from a warehouse with a $40 markup over what the materials would cost.
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It isn’t a time problem. We have more discretionary time than any generation before us. It’s a permission problem.
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Somewhere in the last fifty years we stopped teaching each other that we were allowed to make these things ourselves. The skill didn’t disappear — the permission did.