Handmade, Or Bought?

I started out writing about brooms and the one I had just made. As I starting typing I felt the energy inside me start to stir. It was not the typical energy of inspiration that I normally feel when I set to writing. It was gentle and combative all at once. I stopped typing turning inward I could feel the energy twist and turn, almost like it was bubbling under my skin. Every time I started to type it would get more intense. So I stopped to pondered and asked well what the hell I write than.  This question was not particularly directed at me or anyone.   Than quite clearly I was told by the god and goddess to stop writing, that I need more study, and to write about what I thought was just a personal issue for me… “Is it better to make your tools or buy them?”

Well this is quite complicated when I think about it. What is better Handmade or store bought? It is not as simple as yes or no, the simple answer and the bottom line are both. Now for me if I can make it I will for many reasons. COST is a big one but not the main reason. The main reason is it helps me attune to the God and Goddess, as well as with nature and the tool. I sense that I am more connected to it if I have made it. I am a very creative person and I enjoy making them very much. I have said this before.

Now, How about the tools I can't not make? How does one choose them? How does one know they are right? If you buy all your tools how do you choose them? Well There are two approaches I plan to take on this one? One is I am on the look out for found items that call to me. Example I found a brass bell along time ago that I kept around and I love it. I felt drown to the first time I touched it. When I was reading in my book current book of study about the bell. I new right away that bell was and always has been meant to sit on my alter. Now this calling works well to if you are buying something in a store or thrift shops. Now If you are buying some thing online what do you do? I am still not sure I would be very Leary of it but I know that maybe my only choice at some time. I think I would do ritual of sort asking the god and goddess to guide me on the web and than search for it listing to my own intuition and use it to let the them guide me.

How do you decide between found, homemade, bought, or found?
Do you make any of you tools? What ones?
What is your favorite tool and why?