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Jewelry — Nikki @ 7:34 pm
01/30/2010
I have always wanted to find out just how much all the great gold rings, necklaces and brooches were worth that my grandmother left me. My mother kept them in a box in her room until I turned eighteen and then she gave them to me. I have only worn a few pieces here and there, but they are very old fashioned for my taste.
I had not thought to ever sell old jewelry but if the price is right, I just might consider it. A friend of mine told me that her mother actually does sell scrap jewelry and makes some good money every month. She said her mother finds deals at garage sales, flea markets and pawn shops and then takes them to companies that buy scrap gold. I guess that gold prices are at an all time high and you can get some big payouts for gold pieces.
I am meeting with the appraiser at the jewelry store today and should know shortly after that if it would be smart to sell old jewelry or not. I may hang on to my grandmothers pieces and start looking for the kinds of things my friend’s mother does and then sell scrap jewelry just as a side thing to make a little extra cash, I go to garage sales all the time and see jewelry for sale.
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01/27/2010
When we started the search for a new house, we knew that we would probably have to redo the kitchen since we are both chefs and need to have our kitchens a certain way. We loved the house that we saw last, but knew that we would have to completely gut the kitchen and start from scratch.
I started looking for kitchen remodeling company Tampa Bay online and found some really great websites that had some great kitchen ideas. I really liked one of them that named some of the favorite brands of cabinetry and countertops that I like. I decided to call the kitchen remodeling company Tampa Bay and see if they would be willing to give us an estimate on a house that we did not own yet.
The kitchen remodeling company came out and they ended up being some of the best kitchen designers Tampa Bay that I have ever had the chance to talk to. It seemed that every idea that my husband and I had for the new kitchen, they knew how to make it work. I would have no problem in recommending the kitchen designers Tampa Bay to help you if you are thinking of doing some kitchen remodeling in the near future.
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01/18/2010
The woman who is usually in charge of ordering all the janitorial products for the office is on sick leave and no one else has any idea how much of anything she usually orders and from where. We had to call down to accounting and have them send up an old bill to try and figure it out.
I decided that since I was the manager, I should be the one to solve the problem but I actually needed some help managing the cleaning supplies website that we order from. The name of the company and the web address were all on the old statement and it seemed that she ordered pretty much the same janitorial products every month.
After maneuvering our way around the site and taking three hours, I along with my secretary, were able to get the order placed for every cleaning supply we thought we would need. In fact, I even went ahead and ordered a few extra new mops and brooms after seeing the old ones that looked really bad and very old. I think that when our cleaning supplies ordering woman comes back she will be pleasantly surprised with everything that I purchased for her.
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For the past four hours, I have been working with the accounting department to find out where we may be able to trim off a little fat from our budget. I asked the rest of the staff to have a meeting while I was here doing this, to come up with other ideas and I put my manager in charge.
One of the girls in accounting told me that we could probably look into finding a discount office supplies company for our office supplies and that would probably save about twenty to thirty percent a month on that bill. Those were the kinds of things that I was looking for and knew that there were probably dozens more of situations just like that one that could help us keep our heads above water.
My manager did come upstairs to the accounting department after the meeting with the rest of the staff and handed me a list of other things they thought would help save money. One of the things on the list was finding a discount office supplies provider that we could get our office supplies from, it was good to see that we were all on the same page.
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01/12/2010
I may be looking into a different insurance agent soon and am not sure if I can move my current term life insurance policy to my new agent or not. I have thought about just cancelling it, but it only has five more years left on it and I think that it may be better to just let it ride out.
I heard that my insurance agent may be in some kind of legal trouble and do not want to be any part of that. I searched online for some other agents in my area and think that I may go with the same company but a different agent across town. I gave him a call today and discussed possibly buying a no medical exam life insurance policy to pick up the extra amount of debt that I have incurred since opening the term life insurance policy.
The new agent assured me that as soon as the existing term policy ran out, that he could implement a new one with the same amount of years or just go with another no medical exam life insurance policy that would also make up the difference in coverage. I was happy to have found someone to possibly switch to that understood what I needed.
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