Read Thy Book - Sam's Blog
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Pics
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Pics

Picture

June 24th, 2021

6/24/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture

Behold!  Jewelery Hooks!  Tim put this up for me to hang my necklaces on shortly after we moved here.  It's so much better than a jewelry box for keeping things neat and tidy.  Just the sort of thing that I like.  

Up until yesterday, there was a lot more stuff on those hooks. A lotalot. Too much really. (I wish I had thought to take a before photo)   And most of it was big chunky stuff.  Stuff with lots of angles and dangles. Just the sort of things that practically invite tangles.  (sorry didn't mean to rhyme there) And earlier in the week, after nearly pulling out my hair with frustration trying untangle  3 pieces, one of which was a multi-strand necklace, I kind of stepped back and said, "Wait a minute, when was the last time I even wore that?" And the answer was, 'more than 5 years ago' which was, essential a different lifetime.

So as I spent far too much time in the kitchen under really good light, with two straight pins very slowly separating each from the other (and ultimately finding success, yay me) I considered the situation.

Most of it was costume jewelry.  Good quality, but still, not real anything. Just costume.   So not an enormous financial investment.  All of them were pieces that served me well back then when I was working a regular 9-5 job and dressed nicely every day. But none of them were the kinds of jewelry that work with my life now.  As a Florida resident and retiree, my daily wear now is shorts and sandals or sneakers. Anything I can wear on the beach.   During the summer I can absolutely guarantee you that I will be sweaty every single day and on hiking day I promise you sweaty and dirty. In winter my wardrobe is jeans and sneakers.  Still super casual.  If I'm not hiking odds are good that I could be  be pruning trees, washing windows,  walking on the beach or making cookies  - not a single activity that requires statement jewelry.

Maybe it was time to thin the herd.  The question was, what would I do with anything I decided I could live without?  I suppose I could donate it to Salvation Army or GoodWill.  I have donated lots of things to those places in my lifetime.  But I don't know.  Jewelry, even stuff no longer pertinent to my life, feels so personal.   Too personal to just discard willynilly.  

I couldn't imagine foisting it off on neighbors or friends, "Here, have a piece of jewelry I no longer use and has nothing to do with your life at all". That isn't thoughtful.  

Then it dawned on me!  One of our nieces is a teacher of drama and music.  Her school does marvelous plays. Statement jewelry does well on stage. It's big,  it's sparkly and it's noticeable even at a distance.  High Drama stuff.  So I reached out to her and she was delighted to have it.

I spent some time choosing which pieces to let go of and folded each necklace (sometimes with matching earrings!) into a paper towel envelope.  Hey, don't judge me!  In my family it is a time honoured method of transporting necklaces without arriving with a bag of tangle.  I then put all of the envelopes into a bag. Followed by re-arranging my remaining necklaces on the  hooks in far better fashion.  Satisfaction, thy name is job well done.

Yesterday, our niece, Carrie, came by and together we opened each jewelry envelope so she could decide if any of them would serve her drama department.  As we looked at each piece she knew exactly which of the upcoming plays each piece could be used. Sometimes she even immediately knew which character of the play would wear which piece!  She took the whole bagful.  Awesome!

Talk about a win/win.  Her drama department has a new infusion of sparkly bits for costuming and I have a far tidier, neater, less tangley jewelry.

There was only one necklace that was hard to give up but it was the right decision. And if I miss it too much, well I guess I will just have to attend the play to visit it.  Hah!




0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Yup, this is me. Some people said, "Sam, you should write a Blog".   "Well, there's a thought", I thought to myself. And so here it is.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly