Button Box - big or little? Post 729 by Angela Lansbury.


I read a post on Facebook about somebody recalling as a child playing with buttons in their mother's button box. The button box was a biscuit tin, recycled.

What a great idea. A large circular tin, for biscuits, or a higher one for cakes. My buttons are scattered in several boxes, not as large as a cake tin. 

I have buttons in small glass recycled jam jars. That way you can see the colours. They are scattered along book shelves. 

Wouldn't it be easier to have all the buttons in one large tin. My biggest tin is from a Xmas cake, a Panettone.

Why keep a button box?

To replace lost buttons, on shirts, coats.

To replace missing buttons on items bought cheaply from charity shops.

To add decoratively.

To cover stains.

To make button toys, like little human figures.

To make eyes on puppets. 

To add extra security on wrap skirts.

To secure crossover wrap tops gapping, showing cleavage, threatening to pull undone.

To sew behind bigger buttons to keep them secure. (On the other side of the fabric.)

As pretend money or tokens in board games.

To make noughts and crosses or draughts on a drawn or printed chequerboard.

To make pendants, necklaces, bracelets, ear-rings, rings, either stuck on or threaded through.

To decorate button boxes or sewing boxes.

To create a picture, glued on a backing sheet and framed.

To decorate a pocket.

To create the illusion of an outside pocket to foil robbers.

To add to two pieces of an outfit, or the accessories such as a belt and hat, in order to create a co-ordinated look.

To relieve the funereal look of black clothes. 

To conceal a torn part of a fabric.

Beautiful elephant  buttons post 483.

Useful Websites and posts about buttons

Buying buttons post 344

Button box post 525

This little button box is cute, but rather small. Okay for small buttons. What a waste of good buttons! I would prefer a double layer of glass or perspex with buttons visible underneath, maybe held by clingfilm, so you could admire them but also remove and use them when they are needed.

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