Dangly earrings

I recently went through and changed the way my jewelry was stored.  I previously had it all in a hanging organizer that has little pockets and Velcro straps for holding things.   For the past couple of years this has worked fine, until I found this great earring organizer at the Dollarama for $4.00.

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So with my newfound organizing treasure in hand I went about changing how I did things.  As I emptied my old organizer I realized I hadn’t been using so many of my earrings mainly because it was hard to see what I all had and it was annoying to get them out of the little pockets.  As I went through my items I decided to get rid of some stuff.  As I was going through my jewelry I realized  I still had all these dangly earrings that I very rarely wear! Why do I have them if i never use them? I had a bit of an “A-ha!” moment.  I have them because I used to wear them all the time! Pre kids I would almost always wear a dangly earring as I didn’t see the point in small studs.  They weren’t flashy enough for me.  But I started having babies and things changed.  I couldn’t be bothered with dangly earrings if any jewelry at all!  They were magnets for little hands to grab and pull, they were in my way, and it would feel silly wearing flashy earrings around the house since I was now a stay at home mom who didn’t have a huge desire to go to “fancy” places nearly as often as I used to.  So why on earth 5 years later am I holding on to all these long uesless (to me) earrings?  Well,  I think it’s because those earrings reminded me of fun times.  They were a part of my youth and pre kid days.  I have changed so much as a person and my lifestyle is so much different so of course my style would change along with it.  What I ended up doing was getting rid of most of my dangly earrings and kept only a select handful for those times that I do go out and want something flashy and carefree. In what ways have you changed and where do you need to let go of some things to reflect that change?