How do you justify occasionally spending $18 for yarn for a pair of socks or $48 for a scarf? You’d never spend $18 on a pair of socks in the store. As long as I don’t need the money for the necessities of life like food and mortgage I can justify it:
1. The time I take knitting the project keeps me out of trouble and away from opportunities to spend way more on random things I don’t need.
2. It’s a good value timewise. A movie costs in excess of $10 and it’s over in two hours.
3. It’s healthy – $18 could buy a lot of chocolate.
4. You can wear what you made. Try wearing $18 worth of chocolate on any part of your body other than your hips, where it ultimately settles.
5. Use can use the item as a gift. Unless, of course the recipient would prefer $18 worth of chocolate.
6. I don’t smoke, eat much chocolate or go to bars. I only have two magazine subscriptions (a previous addiction), and don’t spend money on TV, certainly I can splurge guiltfree on yarn.
Now I feel better. I hope you do, too.
Life's a Stitch 
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