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Handy Jewelry tip for contact-lens wearers

That has almost nothing to do with contact lenses. If you have, like me, accumulated a small pile of spare lens cases from buying the ultra-jumbo size saline solution that for no good reason always includes a case, this may be useful to you. I have something like 30 of these things that I'm *never* going to use for lenses.

I've started using them to keep my piercing jewelry in. works for small earrings, too. The big plus to this is that you can disinfect them/keep them sterile while storing them (sound familiar? Thought it would..). I've put some alcohol in with mine.

I used to disinfect/de-gunk my small earrings and noserings by tossing them all in a glass and pouring hydrogen peroxide over them and then letting them sit, pouring that out, dropping them all in the sink, picking them up, rinsing them, pouring rubbing alcohol over them and letting them sit for a bit. Then I'd stick them in my jewelry-box and the point would become moot.

Now I just do the peroxide bit with the lid off (it releases gas, so no lid...lid bad), hold the lid over the top to drain, rinse them, pour a little (not filling them all the way, just about half) alcohol in and shut them up. Bing! Piercing jewelry that stays sterile. Like my contacts. I have to rinse them off or let them dry before putting them in, but that's *infinitely* better than picking up something that may very well have touched catbutt (for some weird reason, my big fat cat likes to climb *into* my jewelry box. No clue.) and putting it in a piercing.

Why didn't I ever do this before?