The Button Box

[davran]

I used to pretend the buttons were people and lined them all up in their desks at school. I also used to like sucking them ... and once swallowed a big white pyjama button!! I don't remember telling my mother about it and I'm still here umpteen years later, so I guess it passed through!

I don't remember my children playing with them much, but have a vivid recollection of my daughter spending nearly a whole morning playing with a pack of blakeys (those little metal crescent things you nail onto the heels of shoes to protect them). I don't know what was going on in her head, but she made them into all sorts of shapes.

You can't beat a child's imagination!

[fmackay]

My mother's button box was a babymilk powder tin - can't remember the name of it - which we used to love emptying out and trying to find pairs of buttons and any unusual ones.