I keep my everyday pins (the long ones with the yellow round heads) in two pin cushions....I don't pin a lot when stitching except for long seams where I generally pin every foot or so or at the intersection of seams....I mainly use my pins for pining the row and position number (eg. row 1, column A , row 1 column B ect) onto the blocks in the upper left hand corner. I don't have a design wall, use my queen bed so doing this let's me keep everything in order. I also have a separate pin supply I keep in a magnetic dish downstairs by the longarm...Use these for loading the quilt sandwich. I like the magnetic dish as it sticks to my bars as they are steel. I have found however, that over time, the pins have also become magnetized and sometimes stick together which is annoying. I also have little plastic boxes of pins that I use for things like holding appliques in place. these special pins stay in their boxes until needed....