I hear you, anytime I get birthday, mothersday, or christmas money I blow it all at my LQS it may be more expensive but I too know the value of having one. I do buy online, but it is hard to match up fabrics online so I reserve the fabric shopping for the store and buy only fabrics I know what they look like online that my LQS doesn't have. I too believe it doesn't take much to support your LQS but I also think the ones that are successful are because they sell online, they sell machines, they offer lots of different classes. Some people are just really good about business