Today is Button Day

Do you save buttons?

Do you buy the strip of five buttons when you only need four?

Or the little bag of a dozen cute buttons when you only wanted
the one with the fancy edge?

Do you cut the buttons off of a blouse or shirt that is too worn
to be sent to Goodwill?

Do you have a button tin to keep all those wayward buttons?

I do.

 Yes, it formerly held a fruit cake.

Almost all good tins formerly held a fruit cake.

You throw away the cake and keep the tin.

I love tins.

I have a tin full of cookie cutters.

I have a tin holding miscellaneous pens and pencils.

(It's cute.  It's a little Charles Chips can.)

My Grandmother had a button tin.

My mother had a button tin.

Sad to say,

I don't know what happened to either my Grandmother's or my Mother's tin
but I now have a tin of my own.
The buttons in my Grandmother's tin were old and interesting,
mine, not so much.

Oh, here's a cute article about keeping buttons.

Don't bin it just because you've lost a button!