Does anyone else ever get disappointed

[bigmonkey]

3. As a kid I didn't appreciate the sweaters.

At that time I always thought of them as those things my grandmother kept making for me without my input. When, in my twenties, I went to the store to "pick up a couple of sweaters", I finally found out about their monetary value.

I will say, though, that one time she asked for my input on a sweater and when it came out as I expected I wore that thing until the elbows disappeared! Natural wool crew neck fisherman's knit. I still have it, and wish I could get it repaired.

Despite my cavalier behavior at eighteen, I really respect crafts like knitting now. Matters of taste, though, are notoriously contentious: even the Romans remarked on it.