Very important - button tin...

[DottyDot]

It's my birthday today and my wonderful dp has got me a mixed bag of buttons (from Duttons for buttons ). I love them but now need to find the perfect button tin.

It needs to be round, not too big (a Celebrations tin would be too big) and just right..

Any suggestions?! I don't mind buying a tin of something (anything!) if it's the right tin!

Thank you

I was bought a tin of M&S version jammy dodgers which came in a jammy dodger shaped tin and thats now my lovely button tin (but I need more buttons). Its about 1/2 height and a bit smaller than a celebrations tin.

fab

go to a charity shop and find an old cocoa/quality street/bisto tin.

or a wooden tea caddy

it has to be a metal tin, and preferably old. (unless it's the tea caddy, in which case it wins on the old part)

ps, it has to be big (celebrations good size) because your button collection will grow quickly.

ooh I'm glad you understand the importance of the button tin

I want it to be medium-sized - not sure why...! I've been looking on e-bay and am horribly excited to find you can bid for tins + loads of buttons with them - might not be able to resist....

oh wow though - those Dibor tins are beautiful!

I've been known to buy biscuits just for the tin.

My buttons are in an oblong tin that came from Lakeland - it has irises on it

Mine are in an old liquorice allsorts tin that has allsorts raised up on the lid

Wrong, wrong, wrong! You need a jar so you can see them at all times... Kilner jars are great for this. Then you can have lots of jars for different colours, which you then put on the shelf in your craft room (aka my dining room)... no, I am not anal... well only about my buttons...

No!
You need lots of jars so you can arrange them by colour and then look at them lovingly.
Then everytime you get a new button you can file it according to colour.
sigh.

Probably the wrong place to post this, but I am phobic about buttons. I can cope with them on an item of clothing, but if I find them lying around loose, I actually start to shake .
As you were, I'll leave quietly

I want a button tin!!! Unfortunately I get attached to the first container things go in and move are in a non descript tupperware . And dd plays with them thus strengthening the attachment. Perhaps I could transfer them to the chocolate tin dh bought with my favourite chocs for just after ds born? My mum had two brown plastic tubs. Perhaps our family just isn't destined to have lovely button tins

Mine! Not move!

Saltire-it's foam for me! Will never be an upholsterer!

O it has to be glass, doesn't it? You have to be able to see them at all times. Mine are on the dresser in the kitchen.

I have the small buttons ( I classify by size, not colour ) in a gorgeous old Coke bottle that my ds brought back from Russia, bought on the day we got our dd. He's absolutely disgusted that I stole it for buttons. The others are in an Ikea jar.

I'm so glad it isn't just me.

Saltire, I used to work with someone with the same phobia as you.

During a PE lesson a beanbag split, only it wasn't filled with beans - it was filled with buttons - she had to send for help because she couldn't pick them up or walk past them.

I have a bit of a fetish for buttons in jars!

An empty Douwe Egberts coffee jar is perfect. Especially if you tie some ribbon around the top

I am very of the jammy dodger button tin.

I have a button vase, a glass one in my shelf.

jumpeduppantryboy I'd have been the same. I can't explain why I am so phobic about them, as I said in my earlier post, if they are sewn onto clothing them I am fine, although I do them up as quickly as possible, and given a choice I'd pick something with a zip fastening!.

I am with LatteLady

...it must be a jar! A lovely big Kilner jar.

what is wrong with you all keeping buttons in tins???

No, it has to be a tin, because it has to be secret. You have to be able to open it, not knowing which buttons will be on top this time, and you have to be able to sort through to find your favourite buttons - the little pearl one that's almost spherical except where the holes are, the one like a ladybird, the very flat, smooth shiny one that's exactly the same colour as a bar of Caramac, the shimmery paua shell one, the translucent amber one, the shiny black one with a chip out if it that I wouldn't let my Mum throw away because I felt sorry for it....

fond memories of my Mam's old button tin; a beautiful Quality Street tin from the 1950's. Got chucked when my parents moved :(

I loved playing with them as a child, sorting them into colours and size...
Mine are in a kilner jar and it's not the same

Can't be glass jars!
where's the surprise element to that?!

Oh, I have a friend who is button phobic. She can not explain it, she knows it is utterly ridiculous and can laugh about it but she can't even cope with buttons on clothing.

I think of her whenever I rummage in my button tin :)