WE all are different, but I'm with Maggiem and I feel, from my own experience (?) that quilts and dolls and even a pretty something that someone has made with love has a dimension beyond that of the utilitarian. Having said that, I sent 3 quilts to Japan (to a friend and asked her to give them to a distribution place) and the response came back the Japanese have made sure no one is cold so she gave the quilts to someone who would take them! I think I stepped on some cultural toes.....
Also, many of us have stashes we are working on and using what we have in a sharing way when things are a little harder for almost all of us is OK, even special. Once I raised just short of $2000 on a private quilt raffle for one of my grandkids, but unless you have a good target group many quilt raffles fall far short of expectations (one quilt brought in a couple hundred and I would have rather given it away at our churches' fall blanket drive).
But overall, isn't it nice we are such a range of differentness? Makes life more interesting.