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We figured that the recession might have caused a enormous boon in cheaper alternatives, such as handmade products (and as Andy will happily tell you, he is on a singular mission to catalogue all instances of enormous boons). Our thinking hadn't quite developed far enough to consider to what extent hand crafted goods would replace commercial products. For example:
There are over 1,300 different styles of menstrual pads available to buy on Etsy.com. We thought they were customised sleep masks, but seemingly there are plenty of ladies who, for environmental and health reasons, prefer to tackle their grumpy moments with a natural, fully washable alternative to a pack of 10 Bodyform ultra-towels. Although this sort of stuff was obviously very popular before commercialisation, we're not sure about some of the designs:
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