However -- I got frustrated with one mass button box when I wanted to find matching buttons. I have one of those upright boxes with lots of little plastic drawers in it. The buttons are now separated by color. The biggest drawer has the white buttons, and the colors are in the smaller drawers. Makes it much faster to find out if I have an appropriate button or not. (More often than not, I have a button that works.)Same here - rummaging through a couple of hundred white buttons takes long enough to find the matching sets. All mixed up would take a lot longer.
That brings to mind the local fabric store. It has a tub of loose buttons. If you use the regular scoop, and just dip in and take a scoop -- whatever comes up-- then the price is quite low. If you sort out matching buttons, then you have to pay a per-each price that's much higher.
My green drawer has some large bright green buttons eldest DD 'stole' when she was about 18 months old. We were in a department store where they had buttons in plastic tubes from which you could select and pay per-each. I couldn't find what I wanted, Emma was getting restless and the pushchair was just a bit too close for little hands. She grabbed at one of the tubes and sent a shower of those green buttons all over the place! I picked them all up, or so I thought) and put them back into the tube and got out of the shop. Ten minutes later when I took her out of the pushchair to go into a little haberdashery shop, closed now :-( I found that she was sitting on a stash of green buttons. Although they ended up in my button box I don't think I've found a use for even one of them in in about 30 years!
Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
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