If you are like me your jewelery box is a single earring graveyard, a testimony to excellent nights out, foreign vay-cays, and as a by-product, a lot of earrings that will never again find their own true mate. Do me a favor? Try not to read too much into this.

So what do you do with them? Hold onto them like some slightly less cool version of Miss Havisham? I'll be honest, I don't think about them much, but I was stuck with limited reading materials on the treadmill last week and started pursuing Real Simple, not a periodical I typically indulge in (I'm overtly hostile towards any publications that advises planting an herb garden as a means of de-stressing your life. Gag me.) but they had this handy tip, so handy it kinda converted me to their magazine, tv show, and general media invasion - 

Spare stud earring? Broken Glasses? Use the earring to replace the missing screw in the arm of your glasses - and voila! Like the sparkle of a pirate's gold tooth, this slightly weird, totally touching, and very DIY quasi-fashion tip stole my heart.

So, off you go! Time to let go.