Jewelry Organizing Tips | Clutter Video Tip

http://www.ClutterDiet.com Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Lovey Howell and Ginger understood the importance of proper jewelry storage and being prepared for “what-if” situations. Your pendants, pearls & charms are small & easily misplaced so figuring out the right way to organize jewelry is important. So, just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale of strategies to store your baubles & beads. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.

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Hi I’m Lorie Marrero, creator of The Clutter Diet Book & online program, & today we’re talking about jewelry. I am not talking about jewelry that is valuable & requires a safe or special insurance policies. I’m talking about every-day jewelry that you don’t mind leaving out & wearing on a daily basis.

The first question is, “What space do I have to store this jewelry?” Do you have wall space, dresser-top space, floor space, or no space at all?

Let’s first talk about dresser-top space and jewelry armoires. You can do lots of different things with them. Remember the goal of any organizing project is visibility, & this gives you great visibility to a collection of necklaces. Accessibility is your other goal, you can easily grab these necklaces & even store them on top of each other & still get to them pretty easily.

Look for a receptacle at the bottom of the door so that longer necklaces have a place to go when it’s time to shut the door. Also look for slide-out trays; that’s the most efficient use of space. The idea obviously is that you could use all the vertical space. Pull out trays allow you to make a selection & put it back & it’s nice for your visibility & accessibility.

Things that are supposed to hold earrings that are, indicated for sticking the post right in there & individually showing them are a “don’t buy”. They’re not practical, but you can certainly make do if you end up with them. Instead look for compartments that have little spaces just to put whatever you want in them. Velvet lined means that they cushion your jewelry, it doesn’t clatter around, & it stays put as you open & close the trays.

If you have floor space, find one of these that has legs like a piece of furniture. They have very large pieces that you can buy for about a couple of hundred dollars that will store loads of. Look online for “jewelry armoires” & you can find a lot of choices.

If you have drawer space available, then find some good inserts. Here’s an example of an insert. You can buy these at closet stores or any very large house wares stores. Find something with lots of little compartments that you could put anything in. So you can have the visibility & then easily grab what you want & put it back. They have lots of configurations of these- put them in shallow drawers & you’ve got all the visibility you need. You can even make those drawers lock by buying a mechanism & installing it.

If you have no space available for jewelry, think about something that hangs up in your closet & actually stores a lot of stuff in it. You have visibility to each pocket with these acrylic pouches. These will hold a lot of stuff in a very small amount of space & it even hides it away for security.

We got a question from our friend Greta, “Do you keep those jewelry boxes with the velvet padding when you get a new piece of jewelry that’s very nice?” If you want to keep them you can, but most people don’t have room to keep a lot of that. I would say if it makes you happy, keep one box for a ring & one box for earrings. If you want to gift a ring or earrings you’ll have a nice gift box. Keep those with your gift boxes instead of with your jewelry. Otherwise, there’s not a huge reason to keep them. It’s better if you would put them in a caddy, so you can make a selection out of your jewelry instead of keeping it hidden in a bunch of boxes that you have to open & re-open to gain visibility.

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See you next time & may you always be happy & grateful for having more than enough.

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