Originally Posted by GGrammie
I too, remember, material being sold at Penney's Sears, MW. almost every department store sold material. I also remember my mom and neighbors, taking old clothes apart to make things for the kids. We all collected buttons. On rainy days we would amuse ourselves by stringing like buttons together with strings from the meat market.
How things have changed...
I used to love Mom's button box when I was little. She used to take a BiG button and put a doubled string through it somehow and got the button to sit in the middle of the string and then when she pulled on the string in opposite directions the button it would spin. Sounds crazy but we little ones loved it. A real homemade toy.