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Mar 18, 2008    |       4 comments

My Friend and I Won at Blingo!

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I received a nice surprise email today. One of you who signed up for Blingo.com and named me as their friend won today. As a result…I won too! We both won a movie ticket or a $5 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Thank you!!!! 🙂

If you haven’t heard of Blingo yet, it is a search engine powered by Google that gives out random prizes. One time, they even had a car up for grabs. I use Blingo all the time for searching for things on the internet and I even use it to see if I am spelling a word correctly. It doesn’t cost anything to use and join. I previously won a $5 gift certificate, so this is my second win with Blingo.

If you are interested in signing up for Blingo and would like to be my friend, here is the link to follow: Join Blingo. Or, you can visit Blingo.com and click on Register to sign up without using my friend link.

A big thank you to my Blingo friends!

Mar 17, 2008    |       23 comments

Ever Hear of Gold Parties?

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Gold Parties seem to be pretty popular in lower Michigan right now due to the price of gold hovering around $1,000/ounce. People are gathering their old/damaged jewelry and going to these parties to cash in. They are sort of like tupperware parties, but you aren’t spending money…you are making it.

“Patty Miller, 40, of Grand Blanc, said she went to a gold party a few weeks ago, taking some gold rings and necklaces that were “just sitting around” and didn’t expect much.

“I ended up making $320,” said Miller.

[Via The Flint Journal]

I have looked around my house for any gold pieces I could find. Unfortunately, I only have a couple of rings. I’ve never really been into jewelry and the stuff I did buy was the cheap imitation stuff. If you have gold jewelry laying around, it may be an option to sell some of your gold to have more money to use to payoff your debt.

But do your homework first, though. While some gold parties may be hosted by reputable jewelers, the sudden popularity of these parties may bring out some people buying gold that may undervalue your gold (intentionally or unintentionally).

“We are professional jewelers,” Fregoli said. “Now you have some incompetent people doing this business who don’t know the difference between gold and a brick.”

So sellers beware, they caution.

[Via The Macomb Daily]

As with many things, it may be worthwhile to get a few offers before you sell. We don’t have any gold parties near where we live, but I may bring along my gold jewelry next time we go shopping and are near some jewelers.

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