I have a large wooden box with a drawer and two smaller mirrored boxes, and basically everything was just slung in. I don't wear jewellery very often and no wonder really, finding matching earrings or an untangled necklace was just too much like hard work.
Here is a photo of the before, pretty crazy eh?!
There was all sorts in the boxes that didn't fall under the category of jewellery. Things I found included spare buttons that had come with clothes, general rubbish, curler pins and 78p in loose change. If I keep finding that amount of change every time I do a bit of decluttering I could make a small fortune!
It took a couple of hours to go through the boxes, but it was worth it in the end. Earrings have been reunited with their other half, necklaces have been untangled, silver has been cleaned and I have rediscovered items I had completely forgotten that I owned.
I also took the opportunity to get rid of pieces that I know I won't wear in the future. Some will go to the charity shop, other bits were just broken and needed to be thrown away. There is one silver bracelet that I got from a friend that is lovely but just not my taste which I will sell.
One of the downsides of this decluttering is that I have found stuff that I don't have a place for yet, like the spare buttons. Now, I plan to have a sewing box in the future but until then I need to keep these bits together. So I have designated a shoe box as a 'repatriation box'. When I create a place for things, I will check the box to see if there is anything ready to go home.
It felt good to have started the decluttering project, and I am really please with the results. I think that I may not have the right box to keep all of my jewellery in, and if I buy any more I will have to think very carefully about how I will keep it - but that may not be a bad thing, I might stop spending money on bits and bats now I can actually see what I have!
So here are the results, much better I am sure you will agree!
Happy New Year Everyone!
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