storing jewellery

Nile

If you have too many earrings to store neatly in your jewellery box, here is a cheap storage option you could use.

Although my jewellery box has small square spaces for earrings, I still have too many to fit neatly in the spaces.:rolleyes:

To keep the earrings in pairs and easy to find, I've made little storage cards for them.

I've cut some white card into 35mm x 25mm pieces. Then I bend/turn over the 25mm edge to create a crease of 5mm thick. This means that the card will 'stand up' when laid down flat in the jewellery box. Finally, I put a needle through the card to create holes for the earrings.

It might look quite cheap but who looks in your jewellery box anyway? I can find my earrings in pairs quickly and easily.

I hope my tip is useful.

Kind Regards

Nile

samh_2

My necklaces and earrings used to get in a real tangle in my trinket box so I now keep them on a pin board attached to the inside of one of our wardrobe doors. The only problem is I either need to buy another pin board or stop buying earrings!

Suzy_Babe

I have loads of stud earrings and have found that the best way to store them is in clear plastic 'tablet holders' (bought mine from Poundland a couple of years ago). Each box (which measures 7" x 4") contains seven rectangular boxes (one for each day of the week), and each rectangular box is further separated into four compartments (marked morning / noon / evening / night). I can then see at a glance which earrings are in which compartment.

For my larger 'danglies' I use those small, round containers (usually sold in runs of three, available from Superdrug and Boots) which are supposed to be for storing your various lotions and potions when you go on holiday. I think they usually retail for about #1 a run, but I bought mine a couple of years ago when they were selling them off (after the main holiday season) and paid just 10p a run.

I also tend to store my earrings by 'colour' (eg: brown in one run; yellow in another; blue in another) and store my nosestuds with them, so that I don't have to scrabble about through thirty-something nose studs looking for one of a particular colour; may sound daft, but it really saves a lot of time, especially first thing in the morning!

rlm_3

samh wrote:

My necklaces and earrings used to get in a real tangle in my trinket box so I now keep them on a pin board attached to the inside of one of our wardrobe doors. The only problem is I either need to buy another pin board or stop buying earrings!

On a similar theme, I have a friend who has all of her necklaces and dangly earring hanging individually on small nails (tacks?) hammered into the wall. It works really well because you can see everything at a glance and nothing gets tangled.

I'd like to do something like that but can't attach stuff to the walls of our rented flat. I've been keeping my eye out for a pin board (or the materials to make one) so I can do the same. ATM everything is just bunged together in my jewelry box.

smytt

My beads, necklaces and bangles are driving me mad!! I have some of them hanging over door handles and loads all tangled up!! Anyone got any ideas about what to do with them!?!

Olliebeak

What about a wooden coffee mug stand? You'd get lots on one of those!

smytt

I tried the one i have in the kitchen but the necklaces are just too long, I tried draping them off the side of the chest of drawers but that caused it to topple!! GRRRR!!!

Olliebeak

How about some of those hooks with the sticky-sucker thingys on them? I use those on the sides of my kitchen cupboards to hold things like measuring spoons, measuring cups, kitchen scissors. A couple of those would stick on the back of your bedroom door for long necklaces and the bangles/bracelets could still hang on your mug-tree. Or try hanging the necklaces from the top bits and then twisting in half and loop the bottom bit up again iyswim .

JemJam

Olliebeak wrote: »

How about some of those hooks with the sticky-sucker thingys on them? .

i use them too, and i was bored so decided to put sum tiny nails into part of my shelf that i never use thats out of the way so i use that a lot, plus i got a few hooks from ikea (the ones that are like dog bums lol) and i use them.

Tho i sill have 2 drawers full of beads; the colleciton never goes down no matter how much i get rid of?!:rolleyes:

smytt

That sounds like a good idea Olliebeak! I never thought to twist them up again! Some of my necklaces are chunky and wouldnt do that but they could always go on the sticky hooks!

by the way what does iyswim mean??