I have always had the patience to take a tangled up mess of necklaces, bracelets, whatever and untangle them. My kids would even have their friends bring me theirs. One of them had already been thrown away by their Mom and I untangles it. So when we were going through Mom's jewerly we came upon a big mess. Some were going to throw it away. My girls knew it was meant for me. At first I thought it was two chains, one silver, one gold. But as I finally got a gold one out, there was still more in there. Then I found out I had three still to go! After about 8 straight hours and my eys quite unfocused the last two came apart. So now I have 4 nice necklaces of Mom's to call my own that my family was ready to throw away. One of them is a very lovely cross that i will some day give to my oldest grandaughter from her Grandma Pete