My Gram always told me that a good sewing room had three things: A button box (usually an old Danish Cookie tin), giggling kids and a candy jar. I have so many buttons that I will never use them all. I have most of them categorized by size in little compartmentalized cases but I have one large cookie tin with a lot of my Gram's old buttons. I can't bring myself to ever use them. Some are my Grandfather's old navy buttons. I just love to sit and sift through them sometimes.