Oh wow! Curious if you have the collection indexed by the year/month you picked it. Would love to see how button designs and types have changed over the years.
2-3 times takes a toll almost everywhere, I am a grad student in Iowa where costs are not that high. Eating out more than once a week seems like a luxury to me.
I took JP's class a few years ago at Iowa, great guy and really passionate about HCI for kids. He is fairly active via emails, you might want to get in touch with him there if you wish to donate.
Computer Scientist with an interest in Healthcare, real-time systems, distributed computing, and everything unconventional