Comments on: Craftsman tool chest becomes non-traditional jewelry box

By: Unclutterer » Archive » Reader question: How store earrings?

Unclutterer » Archive » Reader question: How store earrings? — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:30:39 +0000

[...] and Accessory Trays, which I bought at my local Container Store, for all of my earrings. I use a tool chest as my jewelry box and the trays set in the drawers [...]

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By: Kristine

Kristine — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:04:40 +0000

The best jewelry box I used was a fishman’s tackle box. It was GREAT when I was traveling back and forth to college.

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:59:56 +0000

I like this post. Definitely think outside the box when uncluttering. Although personally, I wouldn’t like my wife bringing a toolbox into the bedroom, it accomplishes what they are after, could be disguised, or fits well into a industrially decorated home.

By: pambamboo

pambamboo — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:14:35 +0000

Hmmm – well I’m a jeweler too! My partner and I hand craft gold and silver pieces, it’s important that my personal jewelry be not only easy to see but clean and not tarnished! So i keep each piece in a no tarnish plastic bag and attached the bags to the back of our bedroom door with velcro stuff. Doesn’t look too cool but nobody sees it but me and now I not only don’t forget what I have but it’s always clean and shiny!

By: Aliza

Aliza — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:38:49 +0000

I use those plastic containers with separators for fishing lures that I buy in Kmart for about $6. I have a smaller one for when I travel. It works for me!

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:46:17 +0000

Unclutters ARE forced to improvise. My jewelry solution was simpler and cheaper, because my jewelry is simpler and cheaper. I found a little plastic bead compartment box from the craft store with 12 fixed compartments. This is enough for my earrings (sorted by type) and because of its small size, it slides easily into my nightstand drawer. A few more earrings, and I’d probably buy another but still doesn’t take up much room. Effective, easy to use and (best of all) uncluttered for $1.99.

By: Deep C

Deep C — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:27:22 +0000

Cool …
now I will always think about the jewelery box also before gifting any jewelery item like that.

By: Lana

Lana — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:51:09 +0000

Great ideas, Debbie. I especially love that metal lunchbox trick. I have a couple of really cool ones that I’d hate to give away, but they’re not really serving a purpose (other than looking good). Now I can put them to use.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:44:54 +0000

I don’t have very much jewelry that I’d need to store it all with easy access, but the stuff that I do wear fits nicely into a nail/screw sorter (also found in the hardware section)…it’s smaller, but has a bunch of compartments perfect for my assorted earrings and necklaces.

By: awurrlu

awurrlu — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:10:50 +0000

I suggested buying one of the larger five-drawer wheeled versions of these chests to my partner, who’s a photographer, for storing his clients’ slide boxes and locking up camera equipment. He ended up buying two. I first saw them used for non-tool use at my local post office, where they used them for stamp storage.

I keep threatening to get one for the kitchen, and putting a butcher block top on it, but owning three seems excessive. You do need to have something of the industrial chic look to be able to pull them off, though! The black ones are perfect!

By: Jenny (Usagi)

Jenny (Usagi) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:47:48 +0000

I kept the net bags (they happened to be a pretty purple) that some baby red potatoes came in, used thumb tacks to attach them to the wall in my closet. I was looking for small s hooks and having trouble finding them, then I noticed a box of paper clips… so now all my jewelry is hanging on my closet wall, no more tarnishing from being in my bathroom when I shower, all easily displayed when I’m getting dressed and not in tangled piles in a box. Plus it was basically free since I had everything at home already to make it.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:50:57 +0000

I also make jewellery and my neckpieces are almost always circular. Both the weight and the price of this deter me from this particular solution, but I love the idea of the size of it, especially with the shallow drawers. Good on you for finding something that works in your space! Seems like an excellent solution, especially if you had expensive pieces – the weight would definitely throw off home invaders.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:00:29 +0000

Also people seem to be forgetting that Erin thinks this looks cool, not ugly.

I store my bead necklaces on a wooden rotating tie rack, my chain necklaces and rings in a flat jewelry box with little compartments, my stud earring stuck into a ribbon that I keep in an open box with my hair scrunchies, and my dangly earrings in film cannisters in a metal lunchbox that was just so darling I couldn’t resist it.

I also saw someone put chicken wire in a picture frame (with no glass) and then put tiny s-hooks on it to hold many kinds of jewelry. French-hook earrings were just hooked directly over the wire.

I’ve also heard of people using fishing tackle boxes for beading supplies or sewing supplies–they could be used for jewelry, too. They are durable and inexpensive for all the compartments you get, but most people don’t think they look cool, so you might want to store it on a shelf in your closet.

Anybody else have unusual jewelry storage solutions that work for you?

By: Erin at Unclutterer

Erin at Unclutterer — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:35:29 +0000

Mugsy –

Why does the price and the weight matter? Living an uncluttered lifestyle is about properly honoring and storing the things you choose to have in your home. I imagine that you paid a pretty penny for your refrigerator and that it weighs more than 100 pounds. I imagine, too, that you value the food you store in it. Under your logic of price and weight being ridiculous factors, a refrigerator would be unreasonable. I doubt that you think a refrigerator is ridiculous, however. So why do you apply a different standard for my jewelry? I greatly value the contents of my jewelry box. Why shouldn’t I store them in a safe, protective environment? My solution is non-traditional, as I stated in my post, and that’s the real point of this post. Seek out the best solution, which may be uncommon, for your storage and lifestyle, and properly contain what you choose to keep in your home. Being uncluttered is not about owning the cheapest thing or the lightest or living an ascetic life. It’s about having a place for everything, and everything in its place.