I remember the first few months when I first moved out of "Mom and Pop's" place and I had my very first apartment by myself. Money was incredibly tight and I was determined that I would be ok on my own. Some weeks, I would have 25 cents left over after paying bills and living expenses...and I would go to the local Woolworth's store and buy two skeins of embroidery floss for 10 cents a skein! After 10 weeks I had 20 different colors!
I also remember that I drew my own designs on muslin and would take hours to decide which colors of embroidery floss that I would use in the design....then I would enjoy sewing on that design with my "treasure" of embroidery floss.
After all of these years, I still really really enjoy embroidering activities, and I will never forget standing in Woolworth's wondering which 2 colors of floss that I would buy that week.