Anyone collect buttons?

I definitely do, but it didn't start out that way. I bought a detector to find coins and to be honest never thought for a second about buttons. That all changed when I hunted my first old site and found a rare military button that paid for the $1,000 detector which some in my family thought was an insane purchase. Of course digging up a grand made me like buttons a whole lot more so then began the learning process of what they were, and the determination to find more. For about the next year and a half all my best finds seemed to be buttons which as I said wasn't the plan, but just how it worked out. Eventually the better coin finds started to catch up and these days many years later I like them equal. If I ever had to give up my dug coin or dug button collection I'd be absolutely torn... there's just some things in each group that I wouldn't want to part with. Gladly I don't, and will never have to make that choice.

I love my dandy buttons, but I do keep all of them.

I have a few mason jars full and an old cookie tin full. Wife's grandmother's philosophy was always " you never know when you'll need a button". So she kept every single one she came across.

The jars full came from yard sales, thrift stores etc... sometimes you can snag a candy jar of buttons for 5bucks or less...i grab those.... normal common ones go to daughter for crafts, the rest go in the collection..

You guys/girls that live near CW sites find some sweet buttons.