It has two big benefits: it's a great way to pick up supplies for crafts you've never done but want to try, and it's a great way to get rid of supplies for crafts you tried and realized you either don't like or are never going to be good at <g>.
I wish I knew how to knit. There was some GORGEOUS yarn today (there was probably more yarn than anything else) that would've made a great sweater or scarf. I tried to convince good church friend to get some...she got some yarn, but she got the yarn she needed for HER projects. She also surrendered some yarn that turned out to be too hard to work with.
I also thought it was interesting that someone brought in a shoebox full of old greeting cards they, or other people they knew, received. I was flipping through them with the notion of maybe using the pictures on the front of the cards for...something (I did see one that would've looked adorable in a frame) and I noticed a few of the cards were pretty...chatty. I picked up one; the sender had written three paragraphs about settling into their new home in Georgia, planting veggies, mowing their lawn by hand, etc. It wasn't anything SUPER personal but it was an interesting glimpse into someone else's life.
