The older I get, the harder I find it to throw things away. By far, clothes are the most difficult for me to get rid of as I keep thinking that I will have occasion to wear again what hasn’t been worn in years. Despite my reluctance, I decided to go through my wardrobe and donate anything I hadn’t put on in over a year. It wasn’t easy to let go of some things, especially when I remembered how much I had paid for them and how little they had been used. After several hours, my closet was clean and my dresser drawers were all organized, save for one.
The drawer in question was one that held a lifetime worth of gifts from my husband, friends and family in the form of jewelry. I had accumulated enough that I started putting them in one of the top drawers of my dresser, which was starting to look like a pirates treasure chest. Not only did I store my jewelry away, I rarely wore it anymore as digging through that drawer for the right piece seemed more trouble than it was worth. I decided I needed to do something about that as well.
My first thought was to get a jewelry box (or three) to hold all his stuff. At least it would be out of the drawer and in...