I think we all have an opinion on this one. My sewing area is in the family room. Most of the time I am good about putting them in my thread catcher. I have two on my sewing desk, one for thread and scraps to small to use and the other for paper garbage. I work hard at being efficient so no one had to clean up after me and if unexpected company comes, they only see all my projects I am working on. Then when full, I use them to stuff inside of critters, balls, pincushions, pillows not being used to much, things of that nature so I can even recycle them. I find on using them for pincushions, if you stuff at bottom, easier to close up, more weight at bottom and then use less poly stuffing. I just can't seem to throw out those scraps no matter how small. My group calls me the scrap queen. I find a use for all of it.