When I finish a project then I clean up all the odds and ends. I put strips in their plastic shoe boxes by sizes, or cut them up into squares and they go in their boxes by sizes. The crumbs go into to a plastic box which I keep a roll of calculator tape in and when I want to watch something on TV, which is seldom, I sit and mindless sew the crumbs on to the calculator tape and make scrappy quilts. Everything goes together in those scrappy quilts and they are always liked. It doesn't become overwhelming to me if I do the clean up a little at a time and then they are put to good use.