What to do with the leftovers?

So I've finished quite a few projects over the last couple of years. I have all this yarn sitting around and want to start another project... my urge of course is to find a project, go buy the yarn I want/need, and start it. But what about the yarn I have? Yesterday we had a house showing and had run out of fruit for the fruit bowl, so Matt filled it with yarn. I thought, "Good idea!" And it was a good idea. But still, I want to knit with it.

Another dilemma... I've misplaced my two sets of double-pointed needles and I sort of wanted to start another project with them. It's driving my crazy. They could be just packed up somewhere. I'm not terribly organized with the knitting yet, although Matt did get a nice bag from a friend when he started knitting a couple of years ago. She'd bought a denim bag and painted "Born to Knit" on it with some sort of paint pen. It's great. Marcel loves it too. Here he is on his favorite chair with the favorite bag and his favorite throw, which I finished just a couple weeks ago.