My Grandmother, who was born in 1890 and sewed all her life, stored her buttons in an old round metal tin. As a child I remember whiling away many afternoons just combing through her button collection. I am happy to say I have her old tin with some of her buttons still in it with an addition of my mother's buttons and now my own. They are just in the tin. It is still relaxing just to sort through the collection. Who will I pass it onto when I die? I gave birth to only sons and my daughters in law, while all sweet have no interest in anything old or to do with sewing.