I, too, was raised with the idea of "save it for a rainy day, you might need it later, we might not be able to afford another one" crap so that now, since DH died, I'm left alone to get rid of 40 years of what we collected, or, the stuff we had left after all our years of having a happy time collecting stuff that's turning out to be just junk. The material I'll keep, sheets and short cuts and squares over 2 inches of course. I want to make two quilts, one for sister and one for me, hers in pink shades and mine in blues.