Your friend sounds a lot like the friend I have been helping with her fabric. The last time we went out, she spent $300.00 on fabric !! MY friend has rubbermaid containers full of fabric. All size of containers, from very large to medium. Every month Wal mart comes out with a new quilt pattern. She gets the pattern, then buys only one yard of each fabric needed for the quilt. She says she doesn't want to make the whole quilt, just one block from the quilt. If she likes a fabric she buys at least one yard of it. At Wal mart they know her as the yard lady. When she buys vests or other patterns like it, she doesn't buy only one but two or three, sometimes more. I am now benifeting from her buying. I am getting some of her overstock. Lucky for me. I don't have enough room now to store what she has given me over the last two days.