I have my mother's button box - a round metal container which has all sorts
of odd buttons in it, like metal buttons which look as if they have come
from military uniforms, and the sort which attached temporarily, with
clips, like the old ones used on nurses' uniforms. Most of Mother's
My button box is spread across two smallish boxes because it's easier to
find a suitable button from a smallish pile than from a large one. Only
problem is that all the button are jumbled up, so matching buttons can be in
both boxes.
I keep a few beautiful Victorian buttons which belonged to my
Does anyone keep a button box anymore?
My buttons live in a collection of those little cylindrical plastic boxes
that once held the films for my camera. That way I can keep them sorted
into groups - shirt buttons in one, for instance. And it's easy to stick a
label on the outside.
Did you
Hi Devon and everyone
I do keep a button box. I have a tin purchased from a thrift shop, and the
leftovers of my mom's button jar (which has tiny folded papers containing
collections of wee shell buttons, shoe buttons, and other small attaching
devices). Instead of fishing around for a button to
Hello spiders!
I also keep a button box. I have all my buttons, many of which came from
my mom (yes, lots of memories there!) in a glass box, about 9 inches square
by 2 inches high, with an open top. I keep it on my dining room table, and
people who come over *love* to paw through it, and
My mother was never one for sewing but she did own
an old treadle machine for doing minor repairs and
one of the drawers was full of an odd assortment
of buttons. I added to the collection when I began
sewing my own clothes. Each time I purchased buttons
the extras went into the drawer.
I have not been keeping a button box, but I have been gifted buttons and
purchased cheap assorted buttons so I DO have buttons. However, I also
have my Mom's buttons and her Mom's buttons and the other buttons that are
at my Mom's house, these are MY buttons, but I still have to FIND themlol.
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:30:36 -0800 (PST), Bev wrote:
The button box has a masculine equivalent - the nuts-and-bolts jars that
guys seem to have in their workshops (in my case there are many on shelves
throughout the house. Want some?) - so maybe if your daughter doesn't find
enough button boxes,
Does anyone keep a button box anymore?
My daughter called yesterday from college and asked me to send her my button
box. She found a button box in a thrift shop in Vermont, where the college is,
and has decided to do a project for her Mixed Media Class in which she
constructs trees made out of
Devon, I would be quite happy to send you a handful from my button box, but
not the box as the postage is astronomical. Let me know your address
privately and I will send you some. My MIL and I both have quite an
accummulation of unmatched buttons in stashes around the house.
Lynn Scott,
I don't have any buttons or boxes, but I would love to get my hands on some
interesting ones to maybe use as spangles.
Lynn
wildgun004smate
Clarksburg, WV
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At 05:43 AM 3/23/2004, you wrote:
Does anyone keep a button box anymore?
Yes -- I have a button box. It has my buttons, my mother's buttons, my
mother in law's buttons and my grandmother's buttons. Grandma kept her
buttons in a metal cookie tin. As a child, to keep us out of trouble on a
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