I was LUCKY enough several years ago to have a gallon size jar of buttons given to me. Talk about dumpster diving, only this was into a jar of buttons. I had a friend stop by and that jar reminded her of the times when she was little and going through her mothers jar. I sorted them out and put them into baby food jars. Boy, the assortment I found. I gave several jars of the regular assortment to the nursing home for mending.