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Today was trash pick-up day, as is every Wednesday. I had been doing a lot of, call it... scrap making this past week as I have been making sample blocks to see how my resizing is working with making my latest quilt. I actually ended up with a good half kitchen trash bag full.

While it was true that I was basically using scrap fabric to make them to begin with, I also needed to use some fabric that was larger 'scraps', and I used fabric that was left over from making other quilts that was basically taken from cuts of a yard or two at the most.

When I put the trash out this morning for pick up and tossed the bag of scraps in with it, I had this washed over feeling of guilt. That somehow I should be saving these to use yet again, or use in a quilt if I could. But I was in the same frame of mind, that I have had some scraps sitting around for years and was I honestly ever going to use them?

I thought about sending them on, or donating them, but alas, hate the thought of paying postage at today's outrageous prices, and our local donation place, has been seen to just toss any fabric that can't be folded and placed for sale on it's own.

So, I swallowed my guilt feelings and for better or worse, have a cleaner quilting room this morning. And I was wondering if others face the guilt complex slightly when tossing a lot of scraps.