Jewelry is like a lot of other possessions that eventually becomes just burdensome. My brother is in the jewelry business, so decades worth of gifts of jewels to my mother and to me have become a real problem. What in the world should I do with that stuff? I quit wearing all those rings when my hands stopped looking like a young person's. Broken fingernails and callouses from gardening, scratches and small scars....adorn those hands with emeralds? I don't think so! Sharon IBSSG