End of Day 1, Exhausted but Optimistic

Maybe I should have picked a smaller task, like the sock drawer... But the vision of actually finding things sustained me. It was incredibly difficult to toss those first few extremely tangled (or broken) chains; and these were the cheep stuff! The jewelry box had become a "catch all." I found a Christmas ornament, baby silverware, & a stain glass window medallion; the most unusual item was a buffalo tooth gained through a Girl Scout Swap exchange dating back to my years in middle school.

I'm glad that my donations to the Rummage sale have begun. (I loved using the snack-size reclosable bags to keep the donations from re-tangling and to keep items organized for the sale volunteers. - tip from book!)

I did keep some jewelry despite my past unadorned nature. I'm going to give it a year and see if access or personality defined my past behavior; then I'll re-evaluate what I kept.