We quilters, by our very nature, are recyclers. When our children finish that box of cold cereal we swoop down on the box and take it to our sewing rooms knowing it can be transformed into great templates.
Shoe boxes hold parts of projects in progress.
And those fabric dryer sheets are good for more than cleaning out the lint filter. I'll pause while you run and do a load of laundry and bring back a used dryer sheet. And that's because for many years that was my approach to quilting. If it had curves, it its ends had to be turned under, if it couldn't be machine pieced, I wouldn't even give it a view through my see-thru ruler. The kind that had embellishments of curved leaves, rounded hearts, twists and turns and lots of edges that had to be turned under.