Originally Posted by Maire

I save all of mine, partly because of sentimentality. When I was a child in the 1940's we had very few toys due to the war & poor family. I would spend hours building houses, castles, etc with the empty spools, I loved those spools.
My children played with them & now grandchildren also play with them or string them on yarn for a necklace. True, they don't play with them as much as I did as a child but it thrils me when they do.