I was going to throw out my scraps too, and then I was making a blue jeans quilt. How boring! Blocks and blocks of different colors of blue. So I started sewing up my scraps, and making strips out of them. I changed the jeans blocks into snowballs, and used the scraps to make the corner triangles. Mind you, I had to use interfacing to make the scrap strips I used as strong as the jeans patches, but that was all right. Then I used the scrappy strips to make sashing for the blocks. The result was absolutely stunning. Lots of jeans surrounded by a riot of color, fabric, texture and prints. My niece loves it, and says her friends are "pea green with envy". (This from a kid who used to think all quilted items were horribly old fashioned!) Now my mind is all in ablaze with ideas of where else I could use scrappy strips!
If you really don't want to bother with them, and let's face it, not everyone does, please find a good home for them. There are lot's of people who would love to have them! You could advertise on this board: free scraps for the cost of postage only -- how about that?