40 and the question about what you collect which i can’t find the number to for some reason??
40: think of a piece of jewelry you own: what’s it’s story? does it have any meaning to you?
The necklace I’m wearing right now is a gold silhouette of a lotus flower that I got in college—RISD is just down the street from my alma mater, and they had the best student and alumni craft fairs. Going into senior year, most of my jewelry collection had been stolen out of my dad’s car on the drive up, so I kindly informed Boyfriend that he would be getting me jewelry of some sort for Chanukah that year. (We’d been together for like 2.5 years at that point, and he knew I was sad about the theft, so this was not an especially dramatic or unreasonable a request one way or another.)
He was game but very nervous, not really having bought jewelry before. So we moseyed down to the RISD holiday fair that December and I showed him stuff I liked and tried to explain why. In the process, I found this necklace...but insisted on purchasing it for myself, because a) I liked and wanted it promptly, and also needed the chain adjusted by the artist in the moment and b) it would’ve been way too easy to just let him jump in. Luckily, it turned out that he’s great at buying jewelry (at least for me, specifically) and the necklace he eventually procured is one I still wear all the time—as are various other necklaces and earrings he’s gifted over the years :)
50: what’s an odd thing you collect?
For a while growing up, I was acquiring artily-decorated little glass bottles that served no purpose; I just thought they were neat with the little buttons and paper and ribbons and whatever else. They’re still all in my room at my parents’ house, but they’ll presumably become more tchotchkes for my home office at some point. If my parents ever make good on their threat to downsize, anyway.