Day 21 -- Yard Sale, Part 2

I helped at the yard sale. Unfortunately, she didn't advertise and the house isn't on a very busy street so the attendance was disappointingly low. She put me in charge of watching over the jewelry (easy for small things to "disappear") and gave me the OK to make whatever deal I could. She's in financial distress and just wanted to sell her stuff and get some quick cash. She had mostly costume pieces, but I noticed two gold rings (engagement-type ring, but with CZ and not real diamonds). I couldn't tell if they were 14kt or not (the inside marking was too small), but I thought they might be.

People come to yard sales and try to buy all the "junk" jewelry at one, low price, hoping there might be some gold in the lot. And gold re-sale is at an all-time high right now. A woman who zeroed right in on the rings wanted to give me $5 for each ring and my friend was going to let them go at that price (she just wanted to move the merchandise!), but I thought they might be worth more if sold to a gold dealer. I told her I would take them to a friend who has frequent "gold parties" and see if I could get more than $10 for the pair. If not, I would return them and she could sell them at her follow-up yard sale next Sunday. I could have just let the gold-savvy woman buy the rings at the offered price and not get further involved, or I could have purchased the rings myself in order to re-sell and make the profit, but I did the NICE (and ethical) thing and offered to sell the rings on her behalf. She was so happy at my suggestion.

I had my eye on pair of pretty sterling, onyx and marcasite earrings that were just my style so I offered her $15. (I knew she wouldn't be offered more at this yard particular sale and $15 was a more-than-fair price.) She totally surprised me and said she wanted me to have them as a gift for helping her! That was so NICE and I was very touched! As I said before, being NICE to others brings NICE back to you and I learned that today.

At home I discovered that the earrings perfectly match a bracelet I own but rarely wear because I have no earrings that work with it. I've been wearing my NICE, new earrings, with the bracelet, all day.