For me personally, BOM's are a 'good thing'...I did a sampler (plus others I should not confess!LOL) and picked up actually 2 a month from a shop for this....it taught me much and kept me on my toes...for if I finished them, brought them in the next month I had a discount on my next blocks...etc. You will learn much from these!! Some will even deliver in the mail...but, if you can get out and go pick them up...I recommend it! The one shop here on BOM saturday does a small program early doing a show and tell in a sense of what is new and what is happening...much fun!