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Jewellry — Christi @ 12:39 am
01/31/2010
Selling silver online is supposed to be really easy. I have not done too much research on it but a friend of mine told me that he may sell old silver dollar collections online for some extra cash. He apparently bought out an old antique shop that was going out of business and sold off everything but the coin collections. He figures that he could sell old silver dollar collections for twenty four hours straight and still have some left over in his basement.
I sold some gold jewelry once to the local pawn shop but had never thought of selling silver since most places do not advertise that they accept silver, just gold. I am sure that since the gold is so high right now, they would rather have it but the amount of silver jewelry that I have should actually add up to a good amount.
I suppose if I compare the weight of my silver to the weight of my friends coin collections it might give me a rough idea of how much I can get after he sells a few of his online. He seems to think that most of the coins in the collections he has are not very valuable by themselves, but the silver can be melted down and recycled.
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01/18/2010
I found out that a very good friend of mine from college is moving into the area and will be working with a very well known Phoenix website design firm. I knew that he would make it big one day and it seemed that this move would put him right up there with some of the best custom web design professionals in the country.
I knew that only forty percent of this Phoenix website design firms business came from the area and the rest was all done over the internet and they had many international accounts. I think that my company had used them once or twice to tweak our site but I do not handle that division of the company so I cannot be too sure.
I called and congratulated my friend on the new job and told him that I was not surprised to hear that he had become such a big hot shot custom web design professional after all. He was shocked to learn that I had already found out about his big move and asked me where I had gotten my information from. I explained that we had several friends who have a hard time keeping secrets about big accomplishments.
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Shopping — Christi @ 2:13 pm
I think that it took us about a week to decide on which pieces to buy out of the discount office furniture catalog but the order has now been placed and there is no turning back. I went with the all oak set for my office and some really nice looking cherry wood and leather chairs for the waiting room. My partner did pretty much the opposite with cherry in his office and oak in the waiting room. The entire cost of all the discount office furniture was less than five thousand dollars and we are very happy about that.
After we placed such a big order with the company, they sent us a two hundred dollar gift certificate that could be used towards any of the items in their discount office supplies section of the site. I knew that we would be using tons of ink and paper in the copy machines and printers, so we spent the entire amount on those discount office supplies.
I made sure to print out how much each of the items had cost us to compare to some other discount office supplies stores that we need to look into very soon. Our office should be completed in less than thirty days and we need to have everything ordered and ready to go to open the doors.
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Finance — Christi @ 3:52 pm
01/12/2010
I may have to call my insurance agent and see if my term life insurance policy can be cancelled. I just found out that I lost my job and am only going to be getting a severance package of six months. I have heard of other agents being out of work for the past year and not able to find a job, so I think that I am going to start having to plan for the worst and hope for the best.
I have had my term life insurance policy for the past ten years, and have never been late on a payment. I have two other policies also, both of them are no medical exam life insurance policies and they are for smaller amounts. I got the term life insurance policy when I bought my last house, but since I most likely will be putting it on the market; I will not need the bigger policy that was meant to pay off the house, if something would happen to me.
I know that by keeping the no medical exam life insurance policies, I will have enough coverage, as long as the house sells very quickly. I can always go back and get a new term life insurance policy when and if I find a new job.
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