Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use

Keep a thing seven years and you'll (always) find a use for it.

Prov. If you keep a seemingly useless thing for seven years, you will supposedly have some occasion to use it during that time. Jill: My mother sent me a four-foot-tall ceramic vase for my birthday. What can I possibly use it for? Jane: Keep it seven years and you'll find some use for it.

See also: and, find, keep, seven, thing, use, year

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zoya	ZO-yah (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian
Clothilde	klo-TEELD	French
Shanika	shə-NEE-kə	African American (Modern)
Ignacio	eeg-NAH-thyo (Spanish), eeg-NAH-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Augustinas	-	Lithuanian
Polydeukes	-	Greek Mythology