Ok lets look at a positive side... we all have bought things we thought we just could not live without lesson learned. Now let me tell you how to replace some of those things with items you have at home already.............first the binding spool around the neck I never liked that so lucky I didn't buy one but what I do have and can't live with out is a Cheddar Ball Jar. You know the kind that you buy at the store full of puffed chesse or popcorn, well I bought one, the kids ate the puffed cheese and I kept the jar. Hubby slit a square on the plastic lid. Now I take it to the ironing board as I iron my binding it falls into the jar then I pull the last end of binding through the hole he cut and snap the lid back on......wala.....I put the jar on the floor next to me and sew the binding. It doesn't get turned around or choke me either and it also serves as a container to save your bias strips to make blocks. The only thing that I wore out on my jar was the lid so I just go buy another one and I am happy again. Now about the pins........I don't like the teeny tiny pins but I do like the flat head pins or the one's with the yellow head and at times they do get blunt so I just run it through my hair (works really good it you have an oily head) and this resharpens the pins. Grandma use to do this all the time. I also like the binding clips that you buy at the hair salon supply store but I have gotten very spoiled and like the new clover clips. Have I ever bought things I shouldn't have or didn't need yes I have but as everyone sometimes we just get carried away with the gusto of quilt shows and sellers. Hope this helps. Live and learn.