The rising price of gold bullion is making gold jewelry almost too expensive to buy anymore. I’m seeing more and more sterling silver being used and sold. I understand the reasons for that, sterling is very pretty and is less expensive than gold, but silver tarnishes and gold doesn’t. When I look at sterling silver jewelry I am always cautious about what should be done to prevent tarnishing.
Hooray for spring
As I get older I appreciate spring a lot more than when I was young. I don’t really know why I was so unobservant as a kid, but it was only recently that I noticed just how many plants are blossoming and how pretty they are. I’m very grateful that I don’t have spring allergies; most of my other relatives do spend several weeks during the spring suffering with allergies, sneezing and blowing their noses. I don’t know why they won’t just go to the doctor and get allergy shots! Spring is too pretty to spend indoors hiding, don’t you agree?
Tide on the black market
This past week I’ve seen a couple of articles about the laundry detergent, Tide, is becoming a popular item to be shoplifted and sold on the black market. I stopped buying Tide for the most part a couple of years ago because the price has increased steadily over the years and it has simply gotten too expensive unless I have coupons to use. But I have to wonder exactly how it is that the shoplifters are getting away with stealing it? The Tide bottles are really quite large. Are they putting them on the bottom rack of their shopping carts and then just walking out the door? I’ve read that some stores are starting to put anti-theft devices on their bottles of Tide. I think that is amazing!
The new timeline
Have you converted your Facebook page to the new timeline yet? I have been resisting the change; I really did not want to bother trying to learn something new AGAIN. Generally speaking I am usually accepting of change, but to be perfectly honest when I was looking at my friend’s pages that had already converted I found the new format to be confusing. To be honest, I still DO think that it is confusing. I suppose I’ll get used to it, but it is definitely going to take a while before I’m comfortable with it. A lot of my friends have been complaining that they don’t like it, but then again several say that they like it just fine; it reminds them of the “MySpace” pages. I never had a MySpace page, I guess that I never felt “self-important” enough to crow about me online. I only signed up for Facebook as a way to keep in touch with several of my friends, since they never seem to send individual emails.
Reliving prom a little with my daughter
Guest post written by Donna Reins
I realize that I’m way past the age to care about prom dress shopping, but I like to put myself in my prom-going shoes to help my daughter some. Prom is a much bigger deal now than it was back when I was in high school. I guess that I shouldn’t be that surprised about it because there are so many things that are made specifically about prom and TV and movies make it into a much bigger deal than back in my day. It gets me a little excited too so I’m having a lot of fun helping her pick out all kinds of prom stuff.
I’ve been doing a fair amount of research to help her pick out some prom trends for this year and when I was doing that I saw some bankrupt alternatives online. I hadn’t been looking for them, but I thought that I could really use them with all of my credit card debt, so I’m going to check them out.
I’ve already seen all types of gorgeous dresses, but I’m really supportive of a cocktail length dress and awesome shoes instead of a floor length gown. I think that the shorter dresses tend to cost a little less anyway.