March 23, 2010

Coaching A Scottsdale Sports League Team

I told my mother that I had joined one of the Scottsdale sports league teams and she just laughed. I wonder why she laughed and she said that knowing me, I joined the Scottsdale dodgeball league that she has heard all about from other people. In fact, I had joined the Scottsdale dodgeball league and was going to be the head coach too.

I just left her house and kept wondering why she would be laughing, about some silly sports league. She knew that I loved dodgeball when I was a kid and I also know that she hates the game. I wonder if when she was younger, if she had a bad experience with dodgeball. I have heard lots of people who love the game and then have heard just as many, who hate the game.

Well, being the coach of the dodgeball Scottsdale sports league team is something that I am looking forward to. I have already called everyone on my roster and our first practice will be this week, with our first game being next weekend. I was going to invite my mother, but something tells me that she would probably not want to come to it.

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March 1, 2010

People Are Selling Lots Of Old Gold

I have heard that a lot of people are selling old gold and that the jewelry stores and big companies that are offering them big money are pushing them to do it. I guess that if you have some old pieces that are just lying around and you have a chance to turn it into some fast cash then it is a good deal.

My mother used to sell gold online until all the big chain stores jumped on the internet and pushed her so far down the search engines that she was lucky to get ten sales a month. Prior to that, she was paying all her bills just by her site and her marketing to sell gold online. She sold old pieces that she had and many that she picked up at estate sales and flea markets.

I know that she has lots of those pieces still packed away in boxes in the garage and now that the jewelry stores are offering per pound for the gold and silver, I think that it is a great time for her to start selling old gold to them. I called her to let her know, just in case that she did not and she was thrilled to think that she might be able to get something out of those old jewelry pieces after all.

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