12 Simple Ways to Organize Your Collection of Earrings

So, your collection of sterling silver earrings is growing and you desperately need ideas on how to organize and store the earrings. You are also spending way too much time trying to find a matching pair of earrings in your jewelry box drawers and you are already late for work. Well, here are some fabulous tips that even those on a tight budget can follow.

1. By using a really cute wine glass, teacup, or even shot glasses if you are a collector, you can organize your earrings, by hanging your French hook earrings onto the cup or glass as display.

2. You can also use large novelty buttons that can hold up to two pairs of earrings, which can be sewn onto a curtain or cloth for display, and organization of jewelry.

3. If you are lucky enough to come across a fireplace screen, they can be used as well for organizing jewelry. You can decorate the fire screen with ribbons or buttons any thing that will add your own special flair to the item to compliment your bedroom or bathroom.

4. Push post and wire hook earrings into styrofoam packing material to keep earrings of a pair together. The styrofoam can be cut to size to fit your jewelry drawers.

5. In a pinch, or tight budget, take two tacks or nails and tie a ribbon, or pipe cleaners around each end, and hang earrings that dangle. For post earrings, use grosgrain ribbons.

6. Mesh organizers from the office supply area of your favorite department or office supply store can easily be used for organizing a great many of your earrings.

7. Keep both earrings of a pair together so that neither will be lost, but stay together. The way you would do this is to lock the earrings together by sliding one post of an earring into the loop of the other earring’s back, then slide the back onto the earring that is being slid into the first. Please note that this will work only with butterfly back earrings.

8. With hoop earrings, you can lock the earrings together by placing the open hoop into the closed hoop and securing the clasp, thereby keeping each of the set together to prevent loss.

9. You can also staple either a piece of cross stitch fabric, lacy material or a window screen cut to fit to an old picture frame without the glass. Place your earring into the holes already provided and attach the back of the earring on the other side. This method also works wonderfully well for hook earrings.

10. Crocheted tank top hung from a lacy, frilly padded hanger is an artsy and practical way of organizing your earrings.

11. If your collection of earrings is fairly large, you may want to consider getting those see-thru plastic tackle boxes that usually come with many little compartments. If you have any old Tupperware items with lids, such as the trays that have several compartments would work well for storing earrings. On the other hand, you might choose their stackable containers as they do come in small sizes as well.

12. Ice cube trays are also great for organizing and storing your earrings. Place a pair of earrings in each of the cube spaces. The trays are stackable and fit into most drawers.

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