Posted by Faith on January 30th, 2010 I have only wanted to sell old jewelry that belonged to my grandmother one time and that was about six months ago when it seemed like I was not going to be able to pay my mortgage payment for the month. I was laid off temporarily and after searching online for ideas to come up with quick cash, I found sell old jewelry on one of the lists. I knew that some of my grandmother’s pieces were very expensive but I wanted to hang on to them for my daughters to have someday.
When my husband found out that I was thinking of selling old jewelry he became really mad and felt like I did not have faith in him to handle our financial responsibilities. I know that without my salary, we could just make the bills before but without it, I felt like I needed to do something. He let me know that in no way would I be selling old jewelry to pay for our house. He believes that it is like stealing from our kid’s inheritance by selling the old jewelry of my grandmothers.
When we had the jewelry appraised over five years ago, it was worth over fifty thousand dollars, so he truly believes that it should double if not triple in the next fifteen to twenty years and our children can make the decision to sell it or not when the time is right.
Posted by Faith on January 27th, 2010 My daughter and I were out shopping one day and came across a kitchen remodeling company Tampa Bay showroom. I had always wanted to redo my kitchen, but never had the money when my kids were smaller. Since they had all moved out over the last five years, I was thinking that I should go forward with what I have always wanted to do.
In the kitchen remodeling company Tampa Bay showroom, there were so many new and fresh ideas for kitchen renovations, that I had a hard time sticking with one. I would fall in love with one style and then turn the corner only to see something else that I really liked. The kitchen designers Tampa Bay salesman that helped me, told me that I needed to make a list of everything I want my kitchen to be and then go from there. I knew that I wanted some nice new countertops and a new hardwood floor.
After I made the list for the kitchen designers Tampa Bay salesman, he asked me what my favorite colors were and then he created a computer model of the most beautiful kitchen I have ever seen. This was going to be the kitchen that I would put into my house.
Posted by Faith on January 18th, 2010 I wanted to find a new cleaning products company that would deliver since we had to cut staff and cannot afford to send anyone out for hours running around picking up cleaning supplies every month. When we had to cut staff, I had a meeting with everyone who was still here and informed them that we still needed to find other ways to save money to insure that they all would be able to keep their jobs.
The janitor told me that he knew for a fact that by using a local cleaning products company, we were paying way too much. I asked him why he had never said anything before and he let me know that since we had been using them before he got here, he just thought that we had made the choice to buy local. I laughed and told everyone in the room that this is not the case and if we can find other things, just like the cleaning supplies then we needed to start making those changes quickly.
Who knows, if we had done this sooner we might have been able to save some jobs. I hope that my staff takes this seriously and by the end of the week we have other new suppliers, not just a new cleaning supplies company.
Posted by Faith on January 18th, 2010 The bill for the office supplies came in the mail last night and I was not too happy with all the extra discount office furniture my staff had purchased while I was on vacation. I have always been very generous when they let me know that they really need something and I do not think that I have ever told them no but they took advantage of me being gone and they are all going to find out how unhappy I really am in the morning.
I got to my office very early the next morning to try and figure out just who had ordered all the discount office furniture by inspecting every ones offices. I found two nice new leather chairs in my manager’s office that I know he did not need and a few of my bookkeepers took it upon themselves to get some nice new desks. I have no idea why they think that it would have been alright to do this without my approval but I will have to ask them when they get in.
I called all the guilty people I find into my office and let them know that I had gotten last month’s new office supplies bill and you should have seen their faces. They all looked like they knew what I was going to say next, but they did not.
Posted by Faith on January 12th, 2010 I just happened to stumble upon a really cool website that offered life insurance to all fifty states. I was actually searching for just a company that could give me a quote for the state that I live in, but I suppose a company that can give you life insurance quotes for any state would be better. I guess it is kind of like the chain store of life insurance quotes. They should be able to offer better deals, if they do more business.
I got three different quotes, all for no medical exam life insurance and looked them all over very carefully. I knew that I had never seen a no medical exam life insurance policy before and did not know exactly what to look for. I found a chat room online that was all about life insurance. I asked just about every question that could be asked pertaining to no medical exam life insurance policies. I found out more in the hour of chatting, then I had ever known about life insurance quotes and how to read them.
In the end, I went with the no medical exam life insurance policy that was pretty much the same as two of the other ones but was about two hundred dollars cheaper than the others. I felt great about getting set up for the future, it made me feel responsible.