WTH do you do with all the extra buttons or other extras that come with clothes?

[DietCokeLover]

They are adding to my mess in my top drawer!
/hillary

Me too!

[Melaine]

Some are in my jewelry box but the ultimate destination is my sewing bag.

[mommylamb]

I save buttons. I've had to go back and use them many times. I toss the thread that sometimes comes with fine knit sweaters. I don't sew, so what's the point.

[MamaMolly]

I save them in a really pretty pressed glass jar. They look nice and it is one of the things on or in my dresser that I have no problem letting Lula play with. I got the jar at a junk store, I'm sure, and liked that it had a screw on lid.

My mom kept them in a coffee can and I remember loving to play with them as a kid.

[tiapam]

Ok, I am going to save the next pretty jar I get and do that. And I realized I have a good spot for it in a cabinet above the laundry machines. I already put a small box of sewing things there (when I put it away!). I just do mending so I don't have much.

I did come across the idea of a button wreath a while back and thought it was a neat and easy idea (and I am not crafty!). Here are two examples of how you could do it:

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/20...on_wreath.html

http://www.marthastewart.com/article...reath-ornament

I also saw button bouquets at a craft fair this summer. There is a lot of info online if you Google it. The seller I saw used salt shakers and what looked like florist wire. I really wanted one but I was a good girl and restrained myself. I figure if I really want one I can make it myself!

I also remember playing with my mom's button box. It was some sort of plastic box that had held something else before. I still remember the picture on top! I think my sister has it, I will have to visit it and see if I remember any buttons.

[DrSally]

I was just complaining I'd have to toss my trench coat because I lost one of the big buttons on the front. Usually those extras are sewn onto a tag. It was an inexpensive trench from TJMaxx... but fit well and cute.

Just found the extra button in my zippy... Coat saved!

Good news!

[edurnemk]

I have a sewing supply box, and I keep extra buttons and threads in a ziploc inside this box.

[DrSally]

I don't keep them because I don't know where to keep them. I figure I could find something that matches well enough. But, I think I'll try to find a place and keep them. Do you all keep them in the little bag they come in or just loose?

Just toss loose. I think I'm going to switch my system to a Mason Jar. I think it would be more fun and those little compartments in my tackle box drive me to color sort, which is really not necessary!

[KrisM]

Just toss loose. I think I'm going to switch my system to a Mason Jar. I think it would be more fun and those little compartments in my tackle box drive me to color sort, which is really not necessary!

I have a small drawer in my dresser that holds lonely socks until I find a mate. I am going to put a small basket in there to catch the buttons.

[cono0507]

This is such a tiny bit of stuff in the house, but seriously, I cut tags off a new shirt for DD today and did not know what to do with the extra button. I know I have buttons in more than one spot right now, some of which I can no longer remember. Do you put everyone's extra buttons in one spot? Separate spots? What do you actually put them in? I don't often need one but of course when I do, I can't find it!

I take them out of the mini-bags they come in and dump all the buttons in a ziploc in my sewing kit. I'm glad I keep them because I have definitely made use of them when we've lost buttons along the way!