Retail therapy is a real thing, so are the wounds that can be cured with free fabric!
Thanks for making me feel better about my fall

I hope you got much good stuff and have ways to use it. Sorting out the randomness into some form of order like "let's take out all the strips" can help deal with a big pile. And then you see if any of those strips can help your current project... even if only 1 does you can count that as justification