button idea

No more than I think only gals collect buttons.

(Yeah... that sounds safe...)

I come from a Navy family. 'Nuff said?

Doc

On Oct 9, 6:33*am, Roberta Roberta@Home wrote:
You think only guys save screws? I try not to accumulate more than a
little plastic box-full, but you're right, it is satisfying to have
the right bit of screw on hand NOW.

To keep this On topic, there were lots of articles in quilt mags some
months ago about rust dying. Good way to use up a lot of the stuff
that collects, but I haven't gotten round to trying it yet.
Roberta in D

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:27:15 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Zachary Smith"



wrote:
On Oct 7, 8:49*am, Maureen Wozniak wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 21:35:01 -0500, Taria wrote
(in article ):

This is a fun way to use those bins full of buttons.
http://www.recyclart.org/2009/03/curtain-with-buttons/

taria

Wow! *I love it. *Another reason to collect buttons.

Maureen

We need something like that for guys made out of screws. *Most of us
have a can/jar/55 gallon drum full of odd screws collected over a
lifetime of odd jobs/repairs/salvage... *DW used to think it was silly/
stupid until something needed repairing, and sure enough - the right
screw was in the jar without having to make a run 10 miles to the
nearest hardware/home improvement store (that might not have had the
right size anyway...)

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My mom did that, too, -- and so do I I have a lot of my buttons
sorted roughly by color into a little box I got in the fishing tackle
department at Fleet Farm, with a separate container for white ones,
especially those rather uninteresting one that come off shirts, pajamas,
etc. I certainly can't throw away or use for rags anything that has
buttons on it.

Julia in MN

On 10/7/2010 3:31 PM, Dr. Zachary Smith wrote:
On Oct 6, 10:35 pm, wrote:
This is a fun way to use those bins full of buttons.http://www.recyclart.org/2009/03/curtain-with-buttons/

taria

I couldn't tell you why, but my mom had two button boxes/bins. One
had all the whites, off-whites, and clear/white rhinestones, and the
other had all the colored (rest of the) buttons. DW inherited them,
and while she doesn't know why either, still keeps them
"segregated". ???

Doc


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