Gold "Galactic"

[Crazyface]

When my mum was diagnosed with the Big C, she gave me a large chunky gold necklace that her partner, now deceased, had bought her. She told me she thought it was quite valuable. Sadly she died two years ago after a two year fight, but she's left us with a huge bank of memories which we still laugh at now and again. I've worn the necklace no more than three times. It's long and no one can really see it's on me, and it been in a bedside draw for 18 months. I had a chat with the wife over it and decided to go and have it valued and maybe sell. Thinking I could maybe put it towards some NEW golf clubs, which I've never had, so at least her gift would get used. So on Tuesday this week we had a walk into town where there is a jewellers. A smart young lads gave it the once over with his spy glass. Went in the back. Another smart lady came out. It was weighed. She nodded. Calculations were done. £1746 !!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!! It was sold. The lady of the shop said it was so big they wouldn't sell it as it was to large and expensive. WOW!!
THANKS MUM.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

It's hard to know what to do with something passed down like that. You don't use it but you feel conflicted about selling it. It sits in a draw gathering dust, not achieving anything.

Now it gets put to good use, you lose the pressure of what to do with it. A jeweller will melt that down and turn it into multiple items, it lives on in multiple ways.

Enjoy the windfall and have fun with it. Great legacy

 

[BrianM]

It's hard to know what to do with something passed down like that. You don't use it but you feel conflicted about selling it. It sits in a draw gathering dust, not achieving anything.

Now it gets put to good use, you lose the pressure of what to do with it. A jeweller will melt that down and turn it into multiple items, it lives on in multiple ways.

Enjoy the windfall and have fun with it. Great legacy

Well put

 

[Tashyboy]

I have said this before, what was our parents “ love”, which could have been our grandparents “love”. Is not necessarily ours. It not what we would wear or hang on the wall. Items that are left to us sometimes we have no emotional attachment to them. But me Grandma Cliffords wobbly bread board which I still use is a thing of beauty and that is going nowhere.
Me mum came round to our house about ten years ago. She told me that all of the gold and jewellery she had that had been passed down to her from her dad. And there was a shed load, to much to go into detail. She decided to go down town and flog it so she could go on a cruise. She told me she “ got a good price”. I asked her “ who told you that”. She replied “ the bloke on the market who bought it” . It told her “ he is hardly going to say Ave had yer pants down”.
Now I was a bit angry because when she decided she was selling it, me or my brother would of made sure we went to a few places and made sure she had “ got a good price”. Also as my brother said “ once she had got a price we could have bought it off her as an investment”. Mum said a couple of months later she had dropped a clanger.
Oddly enough me mum has given me quite a few items which were my grandads. some I will keep some I won’t.
Good luck with your new clubs Crazy face, and when you knob your first shot, just look up smile and say “ cheers mum”.

Lovely Sunday morning story CF.

 

[Mel Smooth]

Where was I listening the other day... Just checked with the wife - it was on This Morning. There was a jewellery expert on who was taking calls from people thinking of selling jewellery and he felt in his opinion that gold could triple in value over the next ten years.

If you fancy a punt, get some stocks bought - it doesn't have to be physical gold that you posses.

 

[IanM]

Lost my mum in law just before Xmas. Donna was at the house last week with her brother starting to sort out her affairs.

She came home with a gold letter opener with a mouse figure on the handle. Apparently, in hospital mum in law said, "Give Ian the letter opener. He shreds envelopes to death!"

If that's the worse think she said about me, that's praise indeed.