Do you keep jewelry you don't wear?

[Indylady]

Besides gifts and sentimental pieces, do you keep jewelry you don't wear?

I have some pieces that I absolutely love, and spent years searching for and collecting; but, I don't wear them all. What do you do with pieces you don't wear frequently? Keep them, or clear out space in your jewelry box? Thanks in advance

 

[Harpertoo]

I have been trying to clear out things I don't wear or have never really worn. I further sorted through things I don't think my daughter will really have much use for and have proceeded to sell those....the items I still really like, but don't wear, I have a tougher time with.
I may get a box to just put them away in the hopes I'll be more decisive down the road.
I don't like having things I don't wear. Feels like clutter.

 

[Maisie]

I have a few bands that are too big for me but for some reason I keep hold of them. Maybe my subconscious thinks I will gain the weight back

 

[missy]

I have many pieces I don't wear. My preferences go in cycles and I am glad I kept many of my pieces from over 20 years ago because sometimes I like to wear them. For example I started wearing yellow gold again a couple of years ago and I am sure that my aesthetic preferences will change again. Plus sometimes I like to change it up a bit and while I might always go back to my favorites I enjoy wearing different pieces occasionally.

 

[Enerchi]

I keep things that have sentimental value. I've passed a few items down to DD already and had them resized for her miniature little 4.5 finger (I'm an 8, so I consider her hands SUPER tiny!)

I would probably sell items if I could figure out how to list/get paid via PayPal. Its that kind of thing that's holding me back from clearing out stuff I have no interest in.

 

[luv2sparkle]

I keep everything now. I got rid of a couple pieces and I was sorry later. Things cycle around for me a bit and eventually I like my old stuff again. Plus with the way gold prices have gone, I am glad I kept my weighty pieces.

 

[marcy]

I have more pieces of jewelry I don't wear than those I do. I occasionally have a liquidation sale and try to sell them at work but I don't get much for them. I'd rather get a little money for them and find someone who will enjoy wearing them.

 

[LtypeI]

I've started cycling mine more lately - no reason to keep pieces I know I'll never wear. However, I've held on to things that I think my daughter might like. She's 3 so she doesn't get to wear any of them now, but I have a lot of stuff set aside for her. Example - I've developed a new sensitivity to earrings and can only wear platinum/palladium, but I have a beautiful pair of diamond earrings my parents gave me. Set aside for the kiddo...

 

[kenny]

Yeah, that remind me I should sell some stuff.

 

[JewelFreak]

Some things I've kept forever & not worn -- glad I did. One is an 8-strand seed pearl torsade with a big carved jadeite clasp surrounded by bigger pearls. It was my grandmother's & I had no interest in wearing it -- for 20 yrs, then gave it a try & loved it. I wore it to work a lot. Wasn't sure if it was real or not but everybody at Tiffany's thought it was & went nuts for it. I finally, with my loupe, found a maker's name on it -- it is costume! I still wear it 'cause it's so pretty.

Other things, I need to sell. I don't think anybody who knows gems would be interested in some pieces -- multi-garnet earrings I bought for not much before I found PS, billed as genuine but who knows? Items like that. There are some good things I can easily part with, though. And some I never wear but will always keep for sentimental reasons.

--- Laurie

 

[Circe]

I used to be a complete sentimental hoarder, and then I discovered the pre-loved section, and now I've happily consolidated a gazillion pieces that I never wore and would never wear - the myriad little gold pieces I'd gotten as gifts over the years, the ex-boyfriend jewelry, the test pieces and the mistakes - into my gorgeous deco target ring and my Cartier three-stone and my new french-cut watch. And I'm aiming for an OMC, now.

The only things I find myself hiccuping on are the ones that I never wear, that are, a) sentimental, and, b) I still love. Like, my first two anniversary rings and (ironically enough) the ring I got for myself to celebrate my son's birth? They haven't fit since he was born. They may never fit again, as I want to have another kid, and it's not like the joints are going to shrink. But I haven't been able to do it yet, because hope springs eternal in the idiot breast. I figure so long they're not going anywhere, I can change my mind - hard to do in the other direction!

 

[MonkeysInk]

I have a bunch of silver jewelry that I need to sell for scrap or online or something...I'd just as soon have the $$$ to put toward a fabulous project, even if it's just a few dollars at a time. I have just a few really nice pieces and I rotate through them pretty regularly.

 

[armywife13]

I have costume jewelry that I rarely wear but I keep because (1) one or twice a year I find an occasion to wear them and (2) there would be no resale value.

With diamond jewlery, I have two items I have but do not wear-the ring DH proposed with and the wedding set I got married with. The are both pieces from a maul jeweler and not a great quality, but they hold sentimental value to DH and I, so they stay tucked away in the jewelry box.

 

[Sky56]

I keep some of it and get rid of others. Lately, I've been downsizing and my goal is to have only things I wear and love, and some things kept which I love too much to part with but hardly wear.