Jewelry organizing challenge, part 2: My mother’s stuff

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After I published the jewelry organizing challenge earlier this week, my mother said she needed help organizing her jewelry. I was glad to help, LOL! She uses multiple jewelry organizing tips already, but it had been awhile since she had gone through her jewelry for: discards/donations; repair; and clean/store correctly.

After completing the exercise of going through her jewelry and making three piles, then taking care of those three piles, we now know what she needs to finish this task: more jewelry organizers! She has removed all the jewelry she wants to, for her donation pile. Her donation pile is to be used for future crafts. More on those crafts in a later post. She has a very small pile of jewelry that needs to be repaired. The remaining jewelry was organized by style, as I had suggested in my early jewelry organizing challenge.

Four jewelry organizers were the challenge! This is what they looked like before starting the challenge. Note the catchall bowl is a pottery bowl one of my aunts gave to my mom. The bobblehead snails and jewelry stand sit on top of another jewelry box. The black plastic bin is what we are going to use for small items that don’t belong with the jewelry. Here’s hoping we only find jewelry with the jewelry!

 

The longest necklaces that were hanging on hooks on her bureau-top jewelry organizer, were too long for that organizer. She doesn’t want to add more cup hooks to her bathroom wall to accommodate all these long necklaces and so she knows that she needs to purchase a wall shelf made for organizing jewelry. Fortunately, we found some of these jewelry shelves on Amazon and I shared them in my earlier jewelry organizing challenge post.

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Mixed in among her jewelry were a lot of buttons that come with new clothing. Those will be going in the sewing box. Batteries can go in the battery carry case. We also found three soft cloths used for wiping eyeglasses. Those will be stored with the eyeglasses! A cute pencil is now with office items in an organizer on the desk, as well as all the paper clips and thumbtacks that were with her jewelry. And the cute little bobble-head snails that were lined up on the top of the jewelry case have been moved elsewhere. My mom found that it wasn’t convenient to have to remove five cute little knickknacks to get into the jewelry case.

Halfway through the organizing task of sorting the jewelry. We even found some drill bit heads with the jewelry.

 

Necklaces too long for storage were in this jewelry box. They were moved to the “long necklaces” pile. Broken jewelry and earrings missing one of the pair were moved to the discard/donate pile.

 

This jewelry box wasn’t fully utilized since cute decor on top of the lid made it inconvenient to open. It became a catchall for jewelry not work often or seasonally.

 

The creating piles of similar items is complete.

 

“I Wish He Was Worth It” and “I Wish I Was a Rock Star” are pins I gave my mother from when I worked at Banana Republic! This jewelry box is a good place to store the bead and macaroni necklaces my brother and I made for her over 30 years ago that she wants to hold onto.

 

After all her jewelry has been moved to an organizing unit, this is what remains: an empty catchall bowl, jewelry to discard/donate, long necklaces, and a catchall for non-jewelry items that will be moved elsewhere.

 

What have your experiences been like when you organize your jewelry? Let me know in the comments or on a social media post. Thanks for reading my blog. If you want to read the earlier blog post I wrote about organizing your jewelry, here’s the link: https://livingwithdana.com/2024/02/organize-your-jewelry-challenge/

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