Christmas time brings gift giving to a height. With gifts comes wrapping paper. But before you wrap the gift, it needs to be contained in something with smooth symmetrical surfaces, namely, a box. Such was the case for my oldest daughter.

In her pursuit for a small box for wrapping a gift, she came across a 3″x3″x1″ jewelry box in our Christmas box repository. Upon opening the box, she discovered a pair of gold colored earrings.

Since these were clip on earrings and not pierced earrings, my daughter thought that they were cuff links. She brought them to our attention as we sat around the evening meal. Assuming that they were my cuff links she announced that I must have forgotten them from Christmases long ago. As I pulled them out of the box, I noted that they were not cuff links at all but earrings. Thus the mystery begins.

Everyone, including myself, has pierced ears. So, who were the earrings for? We came up with three possible conclusions:
1. They were a gift for someone else that was forgotten, ala Griswalds.
2. They were a gift from someone else that was to be exchange for pierced earrings.
3. They were a gift for someone else that needed to be exchanged for pierced earrings.

In reflecting back on the earrings, everyone sort of remembers them, but it would have been from a time long long ago. Mean while, my 2 ½ year old grand daughter enjoys being a fashion queen by showing off her gold colored clip on earrings.