watch the offers here on the board- often as we have a box of scraps ready to go it is offered for the cost of postage to get it to you- the scraps are free. one of our local quilt shops always has a large basket of scraps on the floor- from cutting kits, making shop displays, classes---along with the basket is a box of quart size ziplocks- you can have as many as you can stuff into the ziplock *& close it* for $5. check with your local to see if they might be willing to start doing something like that. but here on the forum you can often get free scraps--for postage