Button Jar!

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Nice to read that so many people have a button box. I inherited my button (and bead ) box from my mum. It is a little bamboo canister with picture of a deer and fawn under a tree. As I used to sew and knit a lot my collection grew but I was fortunate to be given a wooden box with printers trays and sorted the buttons into the compartments.

jayward

yes i have my own button tin ,i remember my son playing with the button from my mums tin.i too think its nice to know so many people have a box

champys

I have one too. Apart from the normal 'household' buttons that end up in it, our local fabric shop sometimes sells bags with a random mix of buttons for 1 Euro and that is hard to resist! I often use buttons from my tin to decorate home-crafted bags, wallets and other items.

Grebe

I have a button bag:rotfl: I love how it feels to squish it about, OMG i need to get a life!!
The best thing about having a button bag, box, tin or tub is when you go for a rummage through to find what you need and you encounter a particular button that brings back memories of where and what it came from. Bliddy was near in tears when I recently found some of the wee doggy bone shaped buttons that adorned a jacket I knitted for my baby girl 26 years ago.

jcr16

i don't have a button box as such but in my sewing box i do have a small variety of buttons to use for repair jobs.

ANNEGEDDES

midnightraven3 wrote: »

oh yessssssssssss

in fact i have several
i have yankee candle jars of them, for the mixed ones
but i have plastic boxes for ones i use lots of
red, blue, green black & white/pearl ones

but i remember as a child playing with my grans button box
she had stitch holders in hers and i would thread them on

i still like getting them out and having a wee sort through (AKA playing!!!)

I have a cath kidston one filled with buttons but yankee candle jar thats a good idea!! I never know what to do with mine1

hart44

I am lucky, I work as a cleaner in a play and party center so Im always finding pretty buttons the kids have lost off clothing and I bring them home to add to the box I have and love looking through every now and then

Chickenbrain2009

Yup, I have a button jar, in fact two of them. I think it TERRIBLY extravagent to throw away buttons and they are so expensive!
I am 58 and was getting my grandaughter to sift my buttons yesterday. I used to go to jumble sales and buy things just for the buttons! You could get some very posh buttons for about twenty p! My friend used to go to jumble sales for the zips!
Pam

lilac_lady

I'm so glad I'm not the only button collector here. Like many of you I spent hours playing with buttons (changed days) and although I seldom use them I still find a kind of comfort in having a button box.

luxor4t

I thought EVERYBODY had a button tin, by law

I mean, can you imagine having to go out to BUY buttons....oops, I did that this week, but they were pink, blue & pearly ones I mean, ordinary buttons.

Currently I have a glass 'kilner' type jar of mop buttons, another with 'pretty' buttons & a tall tin of 'useful' buttons. I also found a button tin in a CS recently - very sad, but I'm looking after it carefully.

I have asked for my mum's tin when she no longer wants it: it is some kind of coronation tin with a young queen & duke of Edinburgh on it, I've looked at it so often I can't describe it properly iykwim.