I examine jars of buttons looking for antique or very different ones. One halloween when my daughter was choosing her costume for the parade and costume competition we dicided that dressed as a cotumemonger (spelling) or "pearleys" an English tradition where these people had clothing was covered with buttons would e fun. We glued thousands of white buttons on a full long shirt, a jacket, a straw hat and a mask. (October in New Hampshire is cold) It was a great costume and it was fun to hear the buttons sometimes fall on the street as she walked. Speaking of falling, I had a box of buttons that I was taking to my son's nursery school for collage activities. As I drove to the school and was turning a corner I heard his shhhhhhhhhhhhhh on the road. I had left the box of buttons on the top of the car and as I turned the corner they spilled all over the road. I didn't pick them up.