The first step toward overcoming our detachment is to turn our homes into sites of production, not just consumption. ... Simple acts such as making our own bread or our own music can become significant ways to reshape the way we approach the material world. Making things gives the maker an appreciation for the labor involved in producing what he consumes. It also increases our sense that we are not merely spectators of life - for example, hours spent passively watching and listening to entertainment that others make - but active and creative participants in the material world.

William T. Cavanaugh, Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire