January 30, 2010
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Jewelry — BigTme @ 7:40 pm
I found a site online that says they will pay you thirty percent more than most other buyers of gold and diamonds. I was offered seven hundred dollars for some of my old gold rings and bracelets that I do not wear anymore, but thought it was too low, from a local jewelry store. Now, if I can get the seven hundred dollars and then thirty percent on top of that, it may be worth it to sell old jewelry to a company that I have never heard of before.
I am weary of people and companies that I do not know, so more checking into this place will have to be done before I can put all my jewelry into a bag and send it off to them. I suppose since it says they have been dealing with people who selling old jewelry for thirty years, I still need to be sure they are a legit company. I may just end up calling the jewelry store that made the prior offer and let them know that I have been offered thirty percent more to sell old jewelry and see if they can give me that much, or at least meet me in the middle.
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January 27, 2010
When my husband told me we were going to be visiting a kitchen showroom Tampa Bay, I was thrilled. I remember that he told me in the morning, before we both left for work. I was so excited all day thinking that I would be meeting him later in the evening at the kitchen showroom Tampa Bay to start picking out new cabinets and countertops.
When I got to the kitchen showroom, the staff there made me feel very welcome. My husband was running a little late so they just let me walk around a bit before he got there. When my husband finally arrived, we sat down and went over all the features we were looking to have in our new kitchen. I was definitely set on having granite countertop Tampa Bay in my new kitchen. We were shown numerous different styles and colors of granite countertops in the Tampa Bay showroom.
My husband and I went with a great oak cabinet and a really nice neutral looking granite countertop that would be installed in our kitchen. The new cabinets and countertop was going to bring our kitchen up to date. I would not have to keep our guests away from the kitchen anymore; I would be able to invite them in once the renovations were done.
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January 18, 2010
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Shopping — BigTme @ 2:39 pm
I had to help out our new janitor with her cleaning products closet that had been left unstocked and a huge mess by our last janitor. I had never stepped inside it before today but felt that I could just not leave here there to deal with the problem on her own. I was the one who hired her and told her that all the janitorial products that she would need were located in this very closet, which I truly believed.
After we seemed to clean it up and organize it a bit, we made a list of all the cleaning products that we thought we would need for the next few weeks. I gave her permission to drive over to the local grocery store and buy it all with my credit card.
I knew that we had used a big janitorial products company in the past that delivered but we did not have time to find out who they were, place the order and then wait for it all to be delivered. We would go that route next month but for now we just needed to stock up on things to make my new janitors life much easier. I have a feeling that this new janitor is going to work out and handle everything much better than our last one.
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Shopping — BigTme @ 2:09 pm
I was tired of having the discount office furniture store send us the bill for our west coast store. I do not know how they get corporate to approve all of their purchases because we certainly do not get our requests approved all the time. I know that we all use the same office supply store and those bills never get sent to us so I decided to do some investigating.
I called and talked to a manager at the discount office furniture store and he said that the gentleman who places the orders for the furniture all the time, has us ship to him, but requested that we get sent the bill with our address on it. I knew then that he was pulling something and making it look as though we were the ones who were ordering stuff all the time and corporate would just pay it instead of taking the time to question it all. It would explain why they turn down a lot of our purchase requests. They already think that between our essential office supply bill that we are taking advantage and ordering new furniture all the time too. We have been asking for a new copy machine for a year now and they told us that the money is just not in the budget.
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January 12, 2010
I was shocked when the lady who we called to set up a portfolio refused to work with us. She asked my wife a lot of questions including if we had life insurance or not and if we had at least a six month reserve put away, in case one of us lost our jobs. We knew that we should do that but just thought that we were fine for now.
I immediately called an insurance agent to have some affordable life insurance quotes faxed over and then we went through and set up a budget so that we could save that six month reserve in no time. We knew that the affordable life insurance quotes would be much easier than working on a budget. It took us just two hours to get the budget half way completed.
When the life insurance quotes were finally sent, we found that no medical exam life insurance seemed like it would work for us and that way, we could get it set up easier and quicker. Our plan to have the budget done and the no medical exam life insurance in place was working. We estimated that it would take us about eight months to get a six month reserve set aside and then we would call the lady about the portfolio again.
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