I never purchase fabric nor batting unless it is on sale and then I buy quite a bit so I have enough to last a year. Example, I use black to accent a lot of my blocks so when it was 50% off, I got ten yards. Yipes! Yet I know I will use it up. I also watch the free table at Quilting Guild very closely. Word as gotten around that I am the scrap lady--I use almost anything for string quilts for the battered women's center in our county.