How to De-Stash Your Unwanted Jewelry Components
by Rena Klingenberg. © 2003-Present Rena Klingenberg. All Rights Reserved
When you want to get rid of some of your jewelry components – what do you do with the unwanted stash?
(I’m assuming those components are good enough quality for making jewelry.)
Ideas for De-Stashing Your
Unwanted Jewelry Components:
- Keep the unwanted components to use when creating “rough drafts” or prototypes of your new jewelry design ideas.
- Use them when you teach jewelry workshops.
- Create and sell jewelry kits with the older components.
- Check out some of the Facebook destash groups (you can find them with an online search for “Facebook destash group”) to connect with other jewelry artists who may want these components.
- For selling your stash of the old components, you may want to investigate Etsy.com (a lot of destash jewelry supplies are bought and sold there).
- Donate your unwanted jewelry components locally – and they’ll find their way to a jewelry artist who will happily use them …. without your having to create online listings, pack, and ship them.
- Donate them to local art guilds.
- Donate them to retirement homes or senior centers, where jewelry making is a popular craft.
- Donate them to a local school.
- Donate them to your local college art department.
- Donate them to a local thrift store. Lots of jewelry artists scour these stores for treasures like yours at affordable prices, and they’d be delighted to find your stash of components.
