Single or married we all have the same fears about having enough $'s but somehow we get by. I try to buy all my quilt fabrics on my spring trip to Lancaster, go there with a list of what a really need and keep my eye out of background, backing and batting prices.
Friend recently retired, she had worked 2 jobs, and now finds that she has too much time on her hands, that's something we quilters never have as we never have enough time to make all the quilts we have in our heads. May in Jersey