One of the most fun things I got to do when I was little was to play in moms button box. I really loved those buttons! One time after I was married my folks were moving to a smaller place and mom was cleaning out stuff. She brought me the button box! I was elated........until I opened the box and it was empty! She had dumped the buttons in the garbage and the truck had already taken them away! I was crushed. I still have that old box. It is a metal can that had had a frute cake from Montgomery Ward in about 1935. I guess loving that button box so much is what prompts me to buy buttons. I have filled it op with novelty buttons and a few that are actually for clothing.