Thought That Selling Coins Would Be Easier

Posted March 1st, 2010 by
Categories: Jewelry

I thought that selling coins would be easier than what it has turned out to be. I found some old silver and gold coins in the attic of our new home and the old owners told me that they were definitely not theirs, so I could do whatever I wanted with them. I figured that since they were so old, they might be worth thousands of dollars.

I looked online about selling old silver coins and the best people to contact when trying to do that in my area. I made two separate appointments with coin dealers to see if selling coins to them would pay off. I made sure to make them about an hour apart so that I had enough time to get across town.

The one thing that I learned, that if you are selling old silver coins then you really should do your homework of what they are worth before talking with any dealer. The dealers want to give you the least amount of money that they possibly can but you have to make sure that it is fair. I had no idea if it was fair or not. One dealer offered me fifty dollars and the other offered over five hundred dollars. Of course I want to take the five hundred but what if they are actually worth more and I could get double that amount.

My Boys Do Not Like Footed Pajamas

Posted February 22nd, 2010 by
Categories: Shopping

There have only been a few times that my boys have worn pajamas. I would think that maybe we should make them wear them more, like when they have guests over but I am not sure if that would work. I bought them some footed pajamas last year and they did not like them. I ended up selling the footed pajamas in a garage sale for twenty five cents a pair, when I had paid over ten for them and they really never wore them.

I took the boys to the store with me and let them walk all over the boys pajamas section and they could not find anything that the liked. I told them that they had to pick out something to wear at their grandparent’s house, since walking around in your underwear is just not allowed. Or at least, I do not think that my parents need to see my boy running around in their underwear.

My next thing to try, since the footed pajamas and the boys pajamas section shopping trip has not worked out that well is to buy them both bathrobes and have them wear those till they get right into bed. That might be the most acceptable situation to do with them that we can all agree on.

Offering Food Service Supplies In Addition To Cleaning Supplies

Posted February 9th, 2010 by
Categories: Shopping

Our cleaning supplies sales rep. came into the office earlier this week than normal to drop off a new catalog and let us know that all the items in the catalog were also online. It seemed that most of the new items were food service supplies and since we like to simplify all the time, we thought that it would be a smart move to order as much as we could from just one company. We had been using the cleaning supplies company for about three years and have never had any problems so we figured that ordering other things from them would be a good move.

The food service supplies that were offered were brand name and the food products that we were using were a generic. It looked that by switching to them for everything we needed; we could get a higher grade of products and pay less. It would be crazy to not use them and have only one bill come in for two services. We called and cancelled the order that had already been placed with our old company and added our new one onto the cleaning supplies company order that would be shipped at the end of the week.

The Multimedia Production Crew Was From Raleigh NC

Posted February 2nd, 2010 by
Categories: Internet

The multimedia production Raleigh NC crew that showed up on campus this morning was just filming a documentary for the school. I guess that they had been hired by the recruiting department to shoot a video of what campus life was really like. I have a feeling that they will tone it down a bit from what looks good and what really goes on after dark. This is probably why they did not have any film students do it and hired it out to the multimedia production Raleigh NC crew.

I was interested in this company and other works they had done so I used a social networking Raleigh directory that has all the best companies listed in it. If this crew, was really as good as they should be, then they would definitely be in the social networking Raleigh directory, under film makers, or something to do with advertising. I found them right away and checked out their website to see some of their other documentaries. Everything that they had posted looked really good.

I hoped to be in some of the film since it was probably going to be played to almost every incoming freshman for the next ten years to get them excited to come to this school.

Deciding To Sell Silver Dollars Or Not

Posted January 31st, 2010 by
Categories: Jewelry

I only want to ask a few dealers how much I can get if I do decide to sell silver dollars that I have stored away in my attic. My father had collected them for years and he gave them to me when he was downsizing last year. He told me that he knew they were worth some money but not sure of the exact amount. I thought about having them appraised but forgot after they were put in the attic.

Now, I have a friend who is really down on her luck and needs a little help right now. I think that if I talk to someone who can help me sell silver dollars, not all of them but a few then I am going to help her. I wonder how many people have handled selling silver dollars to help out a friend, probably not too many.

I know that my father would be proud of me for selling silver dollars and helping my friend and he would have done the exact same thing in my shoes but I do not plan on telling him if I do go through with it. The less he knows about any problems, mine or friends, is for the best.

The Boss Is Hiring The New Web Design Company

Posted January 18th, 2010 by
Categories: Webmaster

My boss told me that we were going to hire a new web design company that had just moved to the area and I wondered if this was really a good idea. I had already been in contact with a very successful Arizona website design company for weeks and they had agreed to do the site at an unbelievably low price.

I tried to talk with my boss about his sudden change of heart with the Arizona website design company that we had talked in great length about but he had already made up his mind and we were apparently hiring the new web design company that I knew nothing about. Not to mention, they probably knew nothing about us or what we wanted out of our site.

I asked if I could sit in on the meeting that was scheduled for later in the week with our new web design company and my boss told me that it would be fine, as long as I treated them respectfully and did not show them that I really did not want to use them. I agreed with his terms and then walked down the hallway to make the call to the Arizona website design company to let them know that the deal we had been working on for over a month now was not going to happen.

Need A New Office Supplies Company Very Soon

Posted January 18th, 2010 by
Categories: Shopping

I have four days to find a new office supplies company that can deliver the amount of office supplies this office goes through in a week. I just heard from the company that I used to use that they are closing their doors at the end of the week and there is nothing that can be done about it. I guess that the economy got them too and their sales have been falling for quite some time and they just had to make the decision and go out of business.

I remember when they not only sold office supplies but offered discount office furniture too. They had the most affordable pieces of office furniture around until a huge chain store moved to town and actually would price match their discount office furniture prices and give another ten percent discount on top of that. I think they only continued to sell the furniture for about three months after that happened.

I have decided to turn to the internet for my new office supplies provider and that way there is no way that another local store can do the same thing to me after I get comfortable with using them. It can save a lot more headaches in the future.

The Term Life Insurance Was Less Expensive

Posted January 12th, 2010 by
Categories: Finance & Insurance

I was happy to find out that I could get some very affordable term life insurance from a company that is online. I had seen different ads from them and had thought about requesting quotes from them a couple of times but always put it off thinking that I could not afford it. I bit the bullet and did it after hearing of a friend of mine passing suddenly and she did not have any life insurance. Apparently her family was struggling to pay for the funeral, let alone pay off all her debt too.

I did not want that to happen to my family, so I decided to check out the term life insurance quotes and at least get a policy that would cover the cost of a funeral, if need be. I even considered choosing no medical exam life insurance, since it might be a quicker way to get the policy rolling but I found that the term life insurance was about twenty percent cheaper than the no medical exam life insurance. I needed to make this as affordable for myself as possible.

I have been telling lots of my coworkers and friends all about how easy it was for me to set up my policy and there have been quite a few of them that have looked into getting either term life insurance or no medical exam life insurance for themselves.

New Technicians Installed The Used Servers

Posted December 31st, 2009 by
Categories: Computers & Software

The technician that came to install the used servers had no idea what he was doing and messed everything up. All the wiring in the storage room that had been working just fine had been unplugged and the old servers were sitting on the floor next to the used poweredge servers that had never left the boxes they were shipped in. He left a bill for five hundred dollars and the secretary at the front desk paid it without every checking his work.

I think that the four technicians that came in the following day had to spend about four hours first putting everything back where it belonged and then four more switching the old servers over to the used servers that we were going to use now.

After they submitted their bill, the secretary told them that they would have to be mailed a check due to recent situations brought to her attention. In other words, she had gotten into big trouble and could not pay them for the installation of the used poweredge servers until her boss approved it and was satisfied with the work. I knew that they had done a good job when the whole system in the office came back up and was running like it used to years ago.

The Neighbor Gave Us A Deal On Used HP Proliant Servers

Posted December 30th, 2009 by
Categories: Computers & Software

My next door neighbor used to own a computer repair shop and closed it down last month because a big chain store had moved into town and taken a lot of business away from him. I felt really bad for him but he told me that he had tons of used equipment to sell and would be fine for a while. He offered to give me a chance to check out his inventory first, before he started selling it on the auction sites.

I had no use for it but my son might want some so I asked him to come and take a look. My son ended up spending about five thousand dollars with my neighbor, mainly for some used hp servers. My son owns a company that goes through servers very quickly. I think that the neighbor told him that the used proliant servers he had would last him longer than any other brand out there.

My son took his advice on the used hp servers and bought every one of the used proliant servers that the neighbor had. He gave my son an extra discount for paying him cash and everyone was happy with the way the deal all went down.