I keep everything! I also take all the scraps my quilting friends are throwing out. I'm just finishing up a 108" by 108" quilt made of 1" squares from all of these "scraps". I've been offered over $1,000 for it and it's not even quilted yet! I keep two seperate boxes of 1.5" squares and triangles to make 2" squares at all times. I cut these out when my hands are too sore to hand piece or quilt and the quilt bug is biting too hard to ignore. I'm not in a hurry, this is suppose to be a RELAXING hobby!