Ruth, that is exactly how I was brought up--waste not/want not. I still have buttons and things from my Gram who taught me so much of her ways. Like you I find things others can use by looking through my tins of stuff! The ski country is glad to have this storm, I am sure. My friends in N.H. all cross country ski so they are thrilled also. I have a string of old keys amoung my Gram's stuff-skeleton keys and lock box keys etc. I am thinking of making a shadow box with velvet or some nice fabric to show them off -there is also one on a leather type fob from some place they must have stayed and kept the key! I have the buttons from Gramps WWI jacket that got moth eaten years ago from being hung in the garage! Sometimes I just like to go through these things and smile thinking about the uses they served over the years. If alive today would be my grandparents 94th wedding anniversary! Stay warm and dry! Helen