I think you might have something there except I am in the opposite range. I keep a well stocked pantry, stocked freezers and use my leftovers, creatively if necessary. If something is a good buy, I buy more of it. It's the same with fabric. I've always had a stash. When my kids were @ home we used it like a pantry. They helped design what they wanted, we shopped in the fabric closet where there were bolts of fabric and I made them what they wanted. I keep and use scraps. I recently made a quilt for my DGD along with a pillow case, a decorative pillow, and a mug rug out of the "left overs". She shopped my stash for the fabric. I may have enough left to make another mug rug. LOL