Don't throw it away. Someone can use it...a caring center..or maybe a Senior Center...etc. I lost ALL my material to Hurricane IKE..In fact we lost everything we owned of 37 years..home and everything but thank God we are alive..I had craft items and probably about $3,000. or so of material, my machine and wow..hate to think anymore about it...Thank God we survived...So share with someone that can really use it..YOU ARE BLESSED beyond measure.