So what are your thoughts.
I've recently been looking at things like expression engine, http://buildwithcraft.com http://statamic.com
and http://modx.com
Purely because, writing my own CMS from scratch is one helluva ballache. The above sites look appealing because they afford enough flexibility to write a CMS to control pages using templating in PHP, much like using laravel or something.
However, some of the price tags look a little scary, I do like modx though being free. Just wondered what you guys do?