The main use of jewelry boxes is in name: to store and organize your jewelry collection. However, it is possible, in a pinch, to use your jewelry boxes for other purposes. That is, of course, assuming you have room to spare in your jewelry boxes for anything other than necklaces, rings, and other beautiful trinkets. If you’re a pragmatist who uses everything at hand to solve your problems, this tip might help. Jeweler purists may be horrified, so beware. These are just ideas. We never said they were good.
Additional Hardware: At best, many of us have at least a couple of loose screws, or a nail or bolt or two. If you have a couple of extra drawers available in your jewelry boxes, you could dedicate them to storing the extra hardware you accumulate from putting together furniture or toys, or just the ones you buy because you think you need them and then need a place to put them that keeps them from being on the shelf. floor and then get stepped on by your bare foot. Jewelry boxes are great for keeping small things like earrings from spilling out, so they’ll also keep all the nuts and bolts square.
Memory loss: If you have a digital camera or other data storage device, chances are you use one of those powerful but annoying little thin SD cards. They’re thin, fragile, and possibly your closest equivalent to a family photo album, so keep them in a safe place. Jewelry boxes are perfect for this because, once again, they are perfect for storing small, breakable items. The soft suede or velvet lining of many jewelry boxes will keep your memory cards (and, by extension, your keepsakes) safe.
Power source: Batteries, such as screws and nails, are other small things that are necessary but sometimes troublesome to store. Some are quite large, like the D’s, while others, like the ones on watches, can be frighteningly small. Jewelers can help with all of this, keeping them stored, organized and ready for when they need to connect to a device and turn it on. Smaller batteries can be stored in ring rolls or the small compartments you’ll find in jewelry boxes, while larger ones can be stored in one of the larger drawers or in some compartments of the watch, once you take out the pillows. . Wait, now what do you do with the pillows?
Well, it seems there are a lot of things that could be kept in jewelry boxes. You could even use them to store office supplies like paperclips and staples, or hot drink items like sugar packets and tea bags. However, they are probably best used the way they were designed, to provide decent and safe storage for jewelry that is as beautiful as the boxes themselves. Using jewelry cases to store something other than jewelry seems wrong, somehow, as if it diminishes the boxes in some way. Better, in this case, leave things as they are.