We looked for a substitute for it against the day when it wore out. We looked for about seven years. Finally, I decided to make my own.
Here is a picture of our new kitchen sink rug. Notice how similar it is to the original. It cost us $120.00 in fabric. It cost me about 100 hours of labor. If I was paid $1.00/hr. to make it, it would cost $220.00. If I gave myself a raise and charged Wyoming's minimum wage ($5.15/hr.), it would cost $635. If I were paid what I was paid as a professor, it would be worth $4320.00.
This refutes my hypothesis that I can make things better and cheaper than I can buy them in a store. However, Steve and I maintain that we never found a kitchen sink rug that came as close to the original. Perhaps if we had known what the end result would have been, we might have settled on another rug.
1 comment:
The real question is, is the cost of your rugs a reasonable value?
Look at it like this: Your first rug cost $35. Add to that the cost of your current rug (which I value at $635 because, while I believe in supporting a living wage, who is going to pay a professor to make a rug?) for a total of $670. Not to pick nits but I calculated that you left Minnesota more like 18 years ago (not 15), so even if you purchased the rug on the way back to California it has to be at least 18 years old. $670 divided by 18 years comes to $37.22/year, or about $0.10 per day. I think $0.10 per day is fairly reasonable, especially when you consider that every day you own that rug the price decreases. Of course, this is just a very round estimate.
Feel better?
Post a Comment