I was totally thinking of selling some of my pieces - rings, necklaces etc - that I don’t wear a lot, but recently my teenage daughter, who used to not have any interest in my old stuff - clothes, jewelry, handbags, watches, even fragrance!! - started raiding my closet with a vengeance 🙄🤷🏻♀️, so that gave me total pause to sell or donate my stuff. She wishes I kept some of my old clothes and jewelry from the 90’s!! Who knew…Sigh. I guess I’ll just keep hanging onto it (I gave her some of my old tiffany silver recently) and she can figure it out later!
What do you do with fine jewelry pieces you rarely wear?
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I’ve just bought an inexpensive pair of diamond cluster earrings to top up my Niece’s 21st birthday presents(7 already)- I’ve already bought her jewellery with the proceeds of the watches I sold, but didn’t want to gift her valuable diamonds as she has one more year at university and I don’t want her to have them lost or stolen.
Going forward, every birthday, I will gift her a few pieces of my jewellery, although I am continuing to buy for myself, obviously I would not give her pieces I would wear.
But I know she will treasure and not sell them-she still has the life size doll I bought her in Paris when she was born, I bought her a Mandarin (spessartite) garnet ring for her 18th which she treasures.
Going forward, every birthday, I will gift her a few pieces of my jewellery, although I am continuing to buy for myself, obviously I would not give her pieces I would wear.
But I know she will treasure and not sell them-she still has the life size doll I bought her in Paris when she was born, I bought her a Mandarin (spessartite) garnet ring for her 18th which she treasures.
I do the same. I love buying and giving jewelry to my niece. My aunts did the same for me and I felt so special at the time. I want the same for her.
I know it’s not for everyone but it’s been great for me to let go of some pieces, an actual relief. I realized that I spent time every day rummaging through boxes and pouches, looking for this and that. I have less to go thru now but still enough beautiful pieces.
I will also start giving some to older nieces, my kid is too young and is only interested in horrible plated gold pieces
I will also start giving some to older nieces, my kid is too young and is only interested in horrible plated gold pieces
This is what I am planning to do lol. Though I have neither a niece nor a daughter yet.
I wrote a whole schedule of what pieces for each bday (estimating when I'd get bigger pieces of the same thing and pass down the smaller ones).
For now, I gift them to my sister, mum and grandma. All of whom like jewelry but do not buy for various reasons. They also all happen to like smaller pieces than I do.
I would consider holding onto some of your pieces for your daughter if you have the space. My daughters did not show much interest in my clothes or my jewelry until high school and it escalated quickly by college. Some of the clothes I held onto that no longer fit me especially in timeless cuts are loved by them. The jewelry is even more appreciated. Of course I don't believe that this is universal. I buy what I love thinking that they may sell everything I may leave them. They have also seen me repurpose sentimental pieces that were gifted to me and have them reset into a more usable loved piece which was great advice given by a lot of other posters. Kids watch what you do.
I’m sure they appreciate it!
In the end in total I gifted my Niece 4 pieces of jewellery, including the earrings.
Although my grumpy sister complained that I’d spent too much on her(my prerogative) , my gorgeous Niece was obviously over the moon with everything, said that I had her taste down to a T, so for future birthdays etc, I’ll continue to do the same.
Like you, I have a schedule of pieces to gift her!❤️❤️
I don’t buy my own fine jewelry so my pieces all hold a sort of sentimental value, so I couldn’t try and sell because the sentimental value would be far more than the monetary…
I have a daughter and 2 sons, and now a step daughter. I’d rather gift or leave my jewelry to my kids.
My grandmother was so deliberate in her planning of her pieces to pass to us grandkids. It was so meaningful that the value of the items were never considered by us kids.
I have a daughter and 2 sons, and now a step daughter. I’d rather gift or leave my jewelry to my kids.
My grandmother was so deliberate in her planning of her pieces to pass to us grandkids. It was so meaningful that the value of the items were never considered by us kids.
I would love to do the same, but at a loss to find a "safe" place to sell them. I have heard of so many "scammers" on ebay, that purchase your item and then either say they never received it, or opened a return and sent back a different item. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I did get burned once selling a Tiffany necklace on eBay and the buyer said they never received it, so now I would never ship without tracking and insurance. Also, I’ve started to rely more on local luxury consignment shops to do the selling for me. Buyers seem to “trust” them more and they have better marketing than I can do, so they are able to get higher prices for items that makes up for the consignment fee.
That's so sweet! Also, no one gets spoiled the way nieces do by an aunt (or sometimes an uncle).
Yes, my late Aunt used to spoil me-I still miss her greatly..
I already have 4 pieces of jewellery lined up for my Niece’s 22nd birthday next June, after the success of this year’s present(and previous jewellery gifts to her), and even pieces for her 23rd earmarked.
Nothing like being prepared!
Of course I’m also planning my own purchases!
That is my big fear on ebay also. I really don't know of any luxury consignment stores where I live, and TheRealReal takes such a huge commission that I think I'd rather just leave it to fate at this point. May I add that my daughter shows ZERO interest in jewelry. I know....horrors!!! lol
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This may change as she gets older, you never know..how old is she?
It’s now October, and Christmas will be on us before we know it.
I will most probably gift my Niece some more jewellery as she loved the pieces I gave her for her 21st birthday in June so much.
I have some already lined up for her 22nd birthday, but I’ll give her some less valuable pieces for Christmas as well.
She does seem to love jewellery!