I am always finding large batches of material and one good buy was a box of quilt magazines for 3.00 that turned out to be 90 when I got home and counte them. Once I got a popcorn tin full of DMC embroidery thread. since I cross stitch, I haven't had to buy thread since. I paid 1.00 for the tin and after I put them on cards and labled them, I have just about every color.