It was exciting to hear there is an actual National Button Day on November 16. Further investigation showed that it’s these kinds of buttons being celebrated.
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It was exciting to hear there is an actual National Button Day on November 16. Further investigation showed that it’s these kinds of buttons being celebrated.
I think you have some of the same buttons that were in my mother’s button box. Only she had thrice as many. She never saw a button that couldn’t be saved.
Since most of these were my mother’s buttons, it wouldn’t surprise me to know they match up.
I love both kinds of buttons, but I buy the clothing kind much more often than the pithy saying kind. This goes hand in hand with the yarn obsession.
Saving buttons is a worthy endeavor. Any time my husband has to discard a shirt — because he left a pen in the pocket, usually — he is required to cut all the buttons off first. I do the same with blouses and coats. And those little packets of “extra buttons” that come with some clothing items? I still have the packets for clothes I no longer own.
Maybe I need therapy.
Most of my buttons were my mother’s. But I have some in there, too, and some are just ridiculous. Like one from a satiny pajama shirt from many years ago. I can’t think there’ll ever be a reason to use it. Saving buttons makes a lot more sense if you knit, crochet, or sew clothes larger than 1:6 scale!
But there’s just something fun about buttons, I agree.