March 1, 2010
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Jewelry — Randel @ 3:10 pm
If there are any dentists who have been saving up those gold fillings from when they fall out of their patients mouths, I bet that they are cashing in on them about now. Just think, they charged these people money to put them in, and then when they fell out they probably got charged for having a new one put in. The dentist takes the old one and throws them in a drawer and ten years later is selling old gold fillings and getting some more money for the whole deal.
I wonder if selling old gold fillings has been around for years, but now that the gold prices have spiked it might be more popular. I thought about selling gold class rings that I bought at a garage sale, since they are so heavy. Those rings coupled with all the old knotted up gold necklaces that I have, should bring in a little bit of money.
I still want to know if I can go back to my dentist from when I was a kid and collect that filling that fell out and he replaced. I remember it being a big one in one of my molars, so it might be worth a few dollars. I told my sister about the whole selling gold craze and she did not know but she is going to go through her jewelry box tonight. She never had any cavities when we were growing up, so she does not care about my gold filling story.
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February 22, 2010
The kitchen designers St Petersburg company that we hired did a fantastic job. In fact they finished the job a week ahead of schedule and our kitchen looks great. I have been having all of my friends and family come over and check them out, I am so proud of the way they look.
I was a little worried at first but that was only because I found this kitchen designers St Petersburg company online and they were new to the area. I had set up the appointment for them to come and look over the old kitchen and they came the very next day. Every other company that I found in the phonebook or online under cabinetry FL could not come until next month to give me their estimate so I just went with this one to move things along quicker.
Had I known that they were going to do such a great job, I would not have been so freaked out when they took out the old cabinets. I just knew that there was no turning back then and was worried that I might regret not waiting for a more experienced cabinetry FL company. Now that I see what a great job they can do, I tell everyone about them and hopefully that will get them more jobs.
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February 10, 2010
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Shopping — Randel @ 4:35 pm
The office supply store was advertising a big sale on all of their in stock office supplies for the weekend. I knew that our office was really in need of some office supplies, so I planned on attending and stocking up. The office supply store was very close to the hardware store where I needed to pick up some paint anyway so I mapped out my errands for Saturday and just had to wait for the weekend to arrive.
On Friday night, I just happened to be driving by the office supply store and it looked like they were having a big sale then too. I stopped and when I went in, there were people everywhere. I guess that they had advertised just the Saturday sale in the newspaper and not the Friday sale.
The Friday sale was for thirty percent off of office supplies and the sale that was set for the next day was for thirty five percent. All of these smart customers knew that everything would be gone quickly on Saturday morning so paying an extra five percent was really not that big of deal to them to get what they wanted. I was so glad that I just happened to be driving by and stopped; now it was one less thing to do in the morning.
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January 31, 2010
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Jewelry — Randel @ 3:22 pm
I am selling coins to a collector that I bought at a garage sale. I always show up for garage sales that are at elderly people’s houses because they usually have some good old valuable stuff that they do not realize is worth money. The sale where I got the good coins was just down the road from my house. In fact, I think that my mother told me the old lady used to babysit me a long time ago.
I looked online after buying the coins and found that selling coins is super easy. You just post an ad on one of the auction sites and if you sell coins that people really want, they will find them and bid them up. I thought that I might have to find local collectors but online collectors are just fine too. I have to meet the guy to sell coins since the postal service does not want actual money to be sent through the mail.
I completely understand the rule and if it were to get lost or something then I would be out a thousand dollars. Yes I got a thousand dollar bid for some rare coins from a garage sale that I paid fifty cents for. I am planning on attending even more sales this year and cashing in.
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January 18, 2010
I think that we may have found the perfect website design company for us and they are not even local, like my boss wanted them to be but he is fine with it. In fact, he was the one who brought their name to me and told me to check them out. I let him know that they were actually an Arizona website design company as soon as I figured it out and he let me know that he already knew that but had seen reviews for them that were outstanding and he wanted to use them.
I contacted the Arizona website design company and requested that they call us back to discuss building our company’s website. They returned the call in less than an hour and I transferred them to my boss and he explained exactly what he wanted and they assured him that he would get it.
I know that the one website design company that was the front runner had expressed some concern in how quickly my boss wanted the site to be completed with the amount of content it would have but this Arizona website design company promised to have it done by the deadline that my boss had set for them.
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January 13, 2010
I started looking into SEO services in my area and found that there are not that many qualified people in this little town that can help me. I started searching online to possibly find an SEO consultant in the bigger cities that are not too far from here. I usually go into the city four or five times a week and can meet with someone about SEO services then.
My online search produced about ten different companies that have numerous SEO consultants that could possibly help me. I know that my site is a little outdated and could use some sprucing up but the guy who designed it ten years ago is no longer working on anything to do with websites. I called and talked with his wife and she explained that he had to give it up because of his health and that I should look into hiring someone else to help me out. Hence, the search for an SEO consultant since that seems to be what is recommended online.
I was able to set up four appointments with some different SEO services companies and met with each of them over the course of one day. I ended up hiring the company and the consultant that did not keep me waiting, they were the only ones.
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My parents called and asked me to help them find some really nice security type iron doors for their house. They had heard about some break- ins in the area and wanted to take some precautionary steps toward it happening to them. I started my search for iron doors online and found a company that makes not only iron doors, but iron gates and iron window coverings as well.
I told my parents all about my findings later that day when I went over for dinner. They told me that they just wanted the iron doors, but maybe an iron gate installed at the back of the yard would be a smart thing too. My dad had always thought that putting bars on your windows makes your house look like you are actually trying to keep people in, not out so the window coverings were out of the question.
I set up a time for the iron doors company to come out to my parent’s house and measure the openings for the doors and the gate. They were very helpful in explaining how the ordering and the installation would all work. My parents were very excited to place the order for the new iron gate and the iron doors. They both knew that it was a very smart move and the salesman agreed with them also.
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January 4, 2010
The final bill just came for the dell repair company. Last month, we had a storm blow through, that practically tore off the roof of our office. It rained in part of the building and destroyed some poweredge servers. We were able to salvage some things, but others had to be thrown away in the trash and turned into our insurance company.
The dell repair company came and helped us fix about ten computers and five printers that had gotten just a little damp but were still working a little bit. They actually replaced a couple of small parts, the ones that had gotten the most wet and then they were back up and running in good order.
I have told everyone about how the dell repair company fixed the computers and printers and all of my friends say that they would have just assumed by the look of the building that they thought that everything, just like the poweredge servers would have been a total loss. When I explained exactly how close the repair man looked at everything, they also thought that we would probably be paying thousands to them for their expertise. They were wrong about that also, the bill was only for five hundred dollars and most of that was for parts.
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December 23, 2009
My son wanted some book for Christmas that had to deal with search engine marketing. I had no idea where to find the book, so I had to sneak onto his computer and see what kinds of books were linked to his account at the book store. I found the one that he was talking about, it was written by a guy named Danny DeMichele.
I guess that I have heard him mention that name a time or ten but it never registered that this hero of his would also be the author of the book that he wanted. I ordered the book directly from this Danny DeMichele himself and waited for its arrival.
My son, who is eighteen, hinted on Christmas Eve that he planned on reading all of Christmas day if I got him what he had asked for. I was excited to think that I had actually gotten him something that he really wanted. This Danny DeMichele really has my son’s attention. My son is planning on going to college and studying website internet marketing and he is getting a head start on everyone else by reading this book. I am going to buy up every book ever written about the subject and deliver them to him for his birthday next month.
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December 22, 2009
The big sale at the convention center was being advertised all over the state. I guess that there were going to be somewhere around two hundred vendors there selling different computer products. I knew that it was probably a pretty good bet that I would be able to find some used sun hardware so I planned on attending.
When I got to the convention center, I got a map after paying my five dollar admission fee. I was glad to see that on the map, were ten different used sun hardware vendor locations. I knew that I would probably have to cover the entire area, since they were spread out all over the center. I had a list of the used sun equipment that I needed to find and thought that it might be possible to find it all right here. I might have to check out every single sun vendor but the chances of all of it being here under one roof was pretty good.
I had found four of the ten used sun equipment booths and was half way through my list already. The odds of completing the list were looking really good. I continued on my way through all ten and found absolutely everything but the last item that I needed, which I figured I would just order online.
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