I have taken $2-300 in cash to the road to California Quilt show and still had to charge another $150 or so plus hotel, 3 meals and gas. At a shop in Anaheim the first time I went I spent about $260. and almost everything was under $3. per yard. Got several great fabrics for backs. My husband knows I try to spend mostly cash and usually doesn't ask how much, He just looks at my stash and shakes his head. Sometime's asks "don't you have enough?" If it's a project he knows I'm working on for a gift or something I charge it because he knows I'm buying for that gift.