I'm a saver...of everything...but not a few inches of thread. That's for the birds or my pillows for the cat shelter in town. A few weeks ago I had finished with something on the sewing machine and wanted to go to the sofa in the other room to do something like thread snipping or something. I sat down and wondered where all this thread was coming from. After a little while I realized it was coming from the bobbin in the sewing room, about 20 or more feet away. About that time my husband got up to go to the kitchen. STOP! STOP! I clipped the thread, went and got the bobbin, and wound all that thread back unto the bobbin. Took a while.