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Singleton Jewels

by Tracee Sioux on March 11th, 2008

single earrings

I keep these earrings - without their match - because . . .

After several years and a move to a new house in a new city I’m hoping to find it’s pair.

Because it’s dear to me and extremely expensive? (It’s mostly cheap crap from Claire’s Boutique.)

There’s one lapis earring up there that I liked so much I actually wore it (at least twice) with a different earring hoping to bring back that asymmetrical fashion of the 80s. I lost its pair around 2001.

Perhaps I’ve internalized my grandparents’ depression-era “waste not, want not” philosophy a little to deeply?

I wonder if Joshua over at Junk Creation can do something cool with a bunch of broken and matchless jewelry.

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8 opinions for Singleton Jewels

  • Ashley
    Mar 11, 2008 at 7:04 am

    Tracee, a while back I was trying to ‘get organized :)” and I was putting all my earrings into an ice cube tray (great tip from the internet) and I found I had the exact same thing - so many mismatches that I’m STILL hanging onto! And only like half of them are sentimental! What am I doing? Will I keep them so long that the other half become sentimental?

  • jessica
    Mar 11, 2008 at 7:07 am

    i do the exact same thing! i have a bunch of earrings with no mate. i’ve moved twice, once from a different state, and i keep hoping that both earrings are still somewhere in all my stuff and that they are anxious to reunite:)

  • Ashley
    Mar 11, 2008 at 7:19 am

    It just seems wrong to throw away a handful of jewelry..

  • Ashley
    Mar 11, 2008 at 7:20 am

    I really like that broken off peice of barette!

  • Violet
    Mar 11, 2008 at 7:50 am

    Of course, it’s always the ones you love and wear all the time that seem to lose a mate. I never seem to lose the ones I don’t care much about.

    I have a jewelry box full of other crap too like necklaces that came unstrung, an ugly ring I found on the street and my personal progress bracelet I got as a Beehive in Young Women’s (remember those, mormon girls?)

    I made some of my single earrings into charms for my charm bracelet though.

  • Tracee
    Mar 11, 2008 at 8:09 am

    that’s a good idea Violet. I don’t really care about some of this stuff - it just feels ungrateful and gratuitous to throw it away.

    I did that ice thing too - now I have those at the top of a shelf and never wear them! But, they are organized.

  • lavon
    Mar 12, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I like the charm bracelet idea. I have a bag of recently divorced earrings. I just recently started attaching them as decorations on demin handbags, jackets, whatever they look good on. I still love them even though their mate took off.

  • Tracee
    Mar 12, 2008 at 11:35 am

    see I knew if I put it out there someone would have a great reason for me to hang onto my cheap jewels. great idea with the handbag, jackets, etc.

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