Opened up the second shop finally! I counted over 200 cards of vintage buttons that I bought from a retired seamstress's son. As much as I love having these in my possession, they deserve to be USED! I do keep some things just to look at and I will save a few buttons for myself and personal projects but seeing as I have a suitcase of these and a ton of lace and rick rack also acquired during that transaction... Perhaps if I wasn't also a crocheter and a knitter, a sewer, a jewelry maker, a day of the dead altar maker, and just a renter- maybe then I would keep it all.
Besides, how else could I validate still buying supplies were I not destashing!