Hooks and lead are cheap when you roll your own. Thankfully my favorite hooks are anyway. I gave a member here about 100 +/- heads that were either mistakes, blemishes, experiments, etc. He was happy to have them for brush pile season lol.

$0.037- Hooks
$0.015 Lead (based on an average jig weight of 0.12oz if you poured equal amounts of 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, and 1/4oz heads, and lead costing $2/pound (often free though)

at roughly a nickel in materials per head, it's not worth my time or labor to try and make chicken salad out of chicken dung

I might would reconsider if I were using a more expensive hook where hook costs alone were $0.15 a piece ( xx heavy mustad, priced per 1000 from Barlows)