buttons....I seldom use them....but I have inherited jars of buttons. when I as a child, I remember helping my grandmother turn old clothing and fabric items into "strips" for rag rugs. We would remove the seams and buttons. The like button sets would be sewn together with needle and thread and placed in the button jar. The fabric strips would be sewn together on grandma's treadle and my job was to roll them into balls to be taken to the weaver who made them into scatter rugs.