I gave away one of the last baby things and a bag of file folders to a friend, and mended a towel that's been laying around my bedroom for a while. I had to cut off about 3" inches (~7cm) of the towel and hem it--I threw out the resulting scrap right away as it was too small and too odd a shape to be useful in other ways. Then I threw out a broken toy I had hopes to fix, but that particular child hasn't noticed the toy since gifting in December, so out it goes. Child has plenty of toys.