Fabaddict, I'm with you. I make smaller and smaller seams as my pieces get smaller. A one half inch strip is still a quarter inch wide with two eighth inch seams. LOL I put all sizes together, and seldom care about the color of what is going next to what. I just try to get the sizes to match to make fewer seams.
And my "lint" goes into cat pillows for the local cat shelter. Have made several of them; some for me, too.