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Selling items: remember RAW presumes its -used- equipment found in a dungeon; often broken and/or rusty. Using Mending, Prestidigitation to restore New/Mint condition clearly warrants selling for comparable pricing. Most stores desire a 10% profit margin so your GM should be willing to accept a 90% base sale price before applying Diplomacy(negotiation).

Learn Craft Wondrous Items.
- Spellbook: add Presidigition, Mending to keep it pristine. Add elemental resistances as can.

- Rag of Mending: Start a repair service whenever in town.

- Spoon of Prestidigitation: never have a bland meal/drink again, at your preferred temperature. Add Create Food-n-Water when can to avoid relying on rations, water. Hole it for a necklace/caliber until can have it Cursed to avoid losing.

- Crafting allows others help so hire a cleric to cast CLW and create an auto-resetting magical rug of healing.

Learn Bestow Curse and read the chapter on Cursed Items.
- Use the limitations to lower your manufacturing costs.
- ALWAYS Curse your spellbook to automatically return per Loadstone
- ALWAYS Curse your spoon to automatically return per Loadstone.

Easy enuf.
RAW allows assistance during the crafting process so easiest way to enlist the aid of a druid - Wildshape accordingly and set the desired "word". Afterward creation, they can likewise Wildshape to demonstrate the items usage.

As far as it comprehending, reference any training video. Considering the wide range of "tricks" even domestic animals are capable of learning (many even self-taught) very complex behaviors, I can easily see them learning what a particular item does and how.

Ie: my oldest beagle repeatedly watched my open the bedroom door and not only self-taught itself to correctly operate it (stand up and put a paw to each side of the round thing, push up one while pulling down with the other and lean forward: freedom! Annoyingly, it taught the younger sibling and within a few weeks only -keyed- knobs were off-bounds. smh. THREE generations later it seems normal (this IS normal, right?).

Worse, they figured out how to open the refrigerator. Fortunately they wouldn't open things, just bring wanted stuff into the bed for permission/assistance ... lunch meat and butter sticks were favorites (no idea why butter).