I found what I was looking for….

5 Comments / By Jo / July 2, 2011

For the last few months I have been looking and hunting all the thrift and antique stores I go to trying to find a large container. I finally found one yesterday when I was out and about….

Any guess what I needed it for?

BUTTONS….Lots of Buttons.

Every time I cut a button off, my hubby just wonders why. To be honest, sometimes I wonder why too….why do I keep them? I rarely use them….

I just can’t let the buttons go. I have fond memories of digging through my mom’s buttons as a kid. I have fond memories of my kids digging through my buttons looking for different shapes and sizes, finding the unusual, the outrageous… finding a match.

I am thinking that someday I’ll me making those same kind of button memories with a grandchild…maybe that’s why I keep them.

I think the $2 was a good investment for my “someday Grandma box”.

5 thoughts on “I found what I was looking for….”

Susan
July 2, 2011 at 4:52 am

I envy you your button stash! I loved digging through my Grandma’s buttons when I was young. I spent hours (and I do mean hours) looking through her buttons and I never got tired of them. Keep collecting…..one day your grandchildren will love them too :o)

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Donna
July 2, 2011 at 4:52 am

I’ve got the same kind of memories – but my button can is the size of a coffee can. Still, it might create memories!

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Deanna
July 2, 2011 at 5:52 am

I am a button person, too. But, I don’t just save them, I sometimes buy them also. Here are pictures of some recent acquisitions: http://weddingdressblue.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/cool-buttons/

ps–Don’t feel bad. Mine fill an entire dresser drawer. For no particular reason.

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Joyce
July 2, 2011 at 6:01 am

So fun! And to think I probably sent some of those large tins to Goodwill over the winter. ;)

I have button jars. When I sort about 1/3 of my sewing room last fall, I started to get the buttons out of bags & tins & jars. I have a dark jar and a jar of white buttons. :)

I also have my grandmother’s button box. That hasn’t been sorted yet. I like it the way it is. I, too, played in that as a kid. So thankful I have it now.

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PJ
July 2, 2011 at 12:23 pm

My mom had a button box (old cookie or fruitcake tin) that had a wonderful wealth of buttons. I spent many hours picking out some of the pretty buttons to use on doll clothes and later on my clothes. Today I still cut off all the buttons of worn out clothes.

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