Where Buttons End Up

[Jazzy1]

 

[Jeni]

yes, my grandma had a great button collection.
I spent countless hours counting or organizing them. I never thought of it but she knew how to keep me entertained while she cooked dinner for grandpa etc.

 

[IrishEyes]

Yes, it was my preschool sort/classify project while she played Solitaire with her cards watching me.
Real treat I thought.

 

[Jazzy1]

When I was a child I have the best memories of playing in my grandmas button tin. She kept them in an old Christmas cookie tin she’d gotten. I remember they way they felt and sounded when you plunged your hand in.

 

[jujube]

Oh, yes, dumping the tin out to try to find a matching button to one you'd lost.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

My wife had one, and it's still here. I've never thought of it much, but at times I've found just the button I needed when missing one from a shirt, or a bigger button that closes the waist on a pair of pants.

 

[timoc]

I've got a stack of old biscuit tins in my shed, keeping all very small stuff together.
One tin for electrical bits and bobs, another for rubber washers and plastics, another for pencils and marking pens etc. but I keep my Gran's old tin in the house with buttons, needles and threads, doesn't everyone.

 

[Jules]

We had his, his mother’s, my mother’s and mine. Now it’s down to two. His is a memento of his mother. It’s just an old, brown bottle that a vitamin sauce came in. Mine is just a metal box and I add to it if I remove unique buttons from something.

 

[JustBonee]

I have a big canister of buttons I’ve collected over the years, that sit with my sewing supplies.

Those buttons are many and varied shapes and sizes … some have interesting stories behind them as they go back to the 1960’s.

 

[Aunt Bea]

We had one!

I remember looking for a few exotic buttons among the hundreds of very average shirt buttons. Sets of buttons were strung together with a piece of thread.

We also had a similar can full of old broken crayons in every color imaginable.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I don’t know. I only met my grandma once

 

[jujube]

I finally organized mine into a segmented plastic craft box with two layers. I have the reds together, the blues, etc. Not as much fun as the old tin one, but easier to find something.

In Victorian times, it was popular among little girls to have a "button string". They'd collect buttons from relatives and friends and braid them into strings. There was quite a competition to see who would have the longer string.

That reminds me of the chains made of folded chewing gum wrappers we'd make when I was in junior high. The longer, the better.