# Can you make it better and cheaper at home?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/814473>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 19, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/814473 "2018-05-19T20:08:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/814473/101 "2018-05-28T00:59:50Z")

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> [@DigitalC](#):
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> Mayonnaise, takes 2 minutes to make something that tastes much much better than anything store bought. Store bought mayo tastes absolutely nothing like what mayo is supposed to taste like.

Homemade mayo does taste different, absolutely. But I actually prefer commercial mayo for most things I normally use mayo for.

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**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/814473/102 "2018-05-28T03:14:30Z")

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Preserved lemons. Hellishly expensive to buy in the supermarket, but if you have a lemon tree, ridiculously easy to make: jar, lemons, salt, time. And the lime tree I planted four or five years back is really starting to fruit heavily now, so I’m going to try making preserved limes this year.

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/814473/103 "2018-05-29T01:44:50Z")

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I was thinking about this thread’s concept today as I was considering going to the music store to look for sheet music to play. I was wondering if I could just write my own music instead, and play that - it would be less expensive than buying music at the store, though it’d be a matter of opinion if my music is preferred to music written by others. Not to mention that writing my own music takes more time.

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/814473/104 "2018-05-29T02:39:44Z")

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Window treatments. I could never afford custom window treatments, but I can make them.

And spaghetti sauce, but who has all day to hang out in the kitchen, slowly filling the house with wonderful aroma?

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/814473/105 "2018-06-01T14:24:03Z")

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Pizza crust.

Not a whole pizza - might be cheaper, but likely not better.

But when you look at the store-bought premade crusts, and wanna have do-it-yourself pizza at home, you should make the crust yourself if you have the time. Store-bought is edible… though just, but homemade is much better.

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