Comments on: Reader question: How store earrings?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:59:16 +0000

I love the chocolate box idea!

By: Mikel

Mikel — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:51:50 +0000

I wanted something cheap and temporary.
I strung dental floss tautly between two pushpins on a wall inside my closet.
This is good for hanging earrings, but doesn’t work for studs or posts.

By: Mirthe

Mirthe — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:47:50 +0000

I’ve been struggling with storing my earrings for ages, but a while ago I had the idea of buying a picture frame and stapling bits of chain to the back. I finally got round to putting it all together today and it turned out even better than I’d hoped. Check out the results on Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/mirth.....026068538/)

By: forvrin

forvrin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:01:29 +0000

Wow. This is late, but I love what my wife does with her earrings. She got herself a standing photo frame with a black cardboard backing. Punching holes in it, she then hangs her earrings in a tasteful display.

I thought it was such a neat idea.

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:18:30 +0000

A friend of mine (female) does the same thing as Nadia, except that she keeps her hanging cloth on display on the otherwise empty side wall next to her vanity in the washroom. As well as earrings and broaches, she adds buttons and pins she collects, and it is a great conversation piece. She has a couple open-hoop earrings that she never wears anymore but on which hang her necklaces.
She is not too worried about security, because there are never more than 2 or 3 guests in her small apartment at any one time.

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By: Laure

Laure — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:40:38 +0000

Wow–thanks so much for posting my question–and for all the fantastic responses! I’ve got LOTS of ideas to play with now. (walks off muttering, “egg cartons or bead sorters or ice cube trays or . . . ?” )

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:58:37 +0000

I use a great device that I found over at Etsy…basically a picture frame with earring mounts put in.

Ever since I switched I use more of my earrings more often, and I know better what I’ve got!

Laura

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:27:50 +0000

This isn’t exactly “uncluttered” but I, too, need to see my earrings to remember them. I almost exclusively wear french wires.

I took a small wooden photo frame, removed the glass, and stretched a piece of window screen over the backing (with a pleasant sheet of paper behind the screen). The frame stands on my dresser relying on the built in stand. It could hang in a closet or dressing room if I had such luxuries.

It’s easy to hang the french wires on the mesh. My 4 x 6 frame neatly holds 9-12 pairs of not too large earrings. The studs and rubber stops for the wires live in a small wooden box that lives on my dresser. The box could easily move to the drawer except that it still makes me smile to see it.

By: TallDave

TallDave — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:57:43 +0000

I’m surprised no one suggested “have fewer earrings”.

By: a

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:00:59 +0000

How store earrings? I not know.

By: Aisha

Aisha — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:44:46 +0000

My mom uses old chocolate boxes, kind of along the lines of the ice cube tray. Just prettier. But less sturdy in the long term, I suppose.

By: dancing monkey

dancing monkey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:27:30 +0000

I too use a bamboo place matto hang my dangly earrings, because I like to have those items on display. But it doesn't work for necklaces or studs, really, so I'm going to check out the Target tool section. Amy Sedaris recommends using chicken wire or mesh from a screen door, as well as an egg carton.

By: Nadia.t..

Nadia.t.. — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:39:05 +0000

I have mostly long dangling earrings so what I did is took a bamboo mat (you know those things people use to make sushi roles)

Loop a ribbon and hook it on my cupboard door (the inside)

And hang all my earrings nicely displayed!

At the same time i stuck hook all around the earrings display and hang my necklaces!

For me, If I do visually see it, I will never wear it or even remembered I even owned it in the first place!

By: wren

wren — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:59:26 +0000

I’m notorious for reusing containers that came with one thing for something else. As such, all my jewelry (and there isn’t much) is in:

*check boxes – bracelets and necklaces and super big earrings
*egg carton – earrings, finger rings, toe rings

These things get stacked in a old shoe box. Also, I use an old shoe box to hold all my headbands and hair clips. Inside of that is also a thin piece of cardboard which holds bobby pins.

Fwiw, check boxes are my primary mode of organizing. With the advent of blank cds, all my old floppy disk boxes are getting new uses too.