The guy selling old silver coins at the coin show last week was practically giving them away. I think that he either really needed the money, or just wanted to reduce his inventory. I paid only five dollars for a coin that I know is worth twenty dollars at least. I talked with him about it, and he told me that he only had five dollars into it, so that was all he needed back.

I walked around to a few other vendors who sell coins usually every weekend here and asked them about the guy selling old silver coins dirt cheap. They told us that he just recently closed down his pawn shop that he had been running for over thirty years and just really wanted to unload as much merchandise that he could and by offering everything lower, he was trying to insure that it indeed happened.

I would think that if you come to a show, to sell coins that you should be able to get at least their market value since you are dealing with people that are experts in this area. I feel kind of bad with getting my silver coin for only a quarter of what it is worth, but it is what the guy insisted on.

Selling old jewelry has become a past time of my grandparents these days. I know that my great grandmother was very wealthy and left all her jewelry to my grandma but I would think that she probably wanted her to keep it, wear it and then pass it down. My grandparents have instead decided that selling jewelry is a way to pay the bills and travel. They have taken four vacations just this year and are in the stages of planning another one.

When the gold prices hit such a high, they came up with selling old jewelry to give them the lifestyle they wanted. They have not considered anyone else’s feelings, including my mothers and mine. I would love to just get one of my great grandmother’s pieces to have for a keepsake but at the rate my grandparents are going, it will all be gone before too long.

I hope that selling jewelry has not become the way to get by for other people. If there are family heirlooms then considering other people’s feelings would be a smart thing to do before you sell off everything for a few fun vacations here and there. I am hoping to discuss this matter with my grandparents and hope that I can make them see my point of view on it.

I wanted to do something very young and fun for my grandma’s eightieth birthday party. It was going to be a surprise party and I figured that if all the guest were wearing glow necklaces and glow bracelets, then they would not have to hide. They could just stand in the dark and when she walked in, she would see all of their faces just glowing in the dark.

I ordered 100 glow bracelets and 100 glow necklaces, so each guest would have one of each. I even made sure that they put a few on the cake. It looked awesome. I walked my grandmother into the room, which she thought was a dark room for a movie screening. She was very surprised to see people from her childhood that she had not seen since she was a kid.

The party was a complete success with the 100 glow bracelets and glow necklaces; my grandmother commented that she felt like a kid again. That was probably the best feeling in the whole world for me, when she said that.

Every single guest that attended the party wrote on a blanket with glow in the dark ink. My grandmother asked to have that blanket be with her when she passed on. She wanted to have a bit of that night always with her.