I really don't look at it as ''time management'' but just a stroke of very very very good luck. There was NO WAY i was going to stand in line for 3-4 hours to have fabric cut....no matter how good the sale was ( but is ''was very good sale'' )....I just don't have the patience for waiting like that. I swear, most of those eary shoppers have 2-3 BASKETS full of flannel