Gold Jewellery – Why I Love It
Gold Jewellery
I have had a love affair with gold jewellery and designer handbags for quite some time.
I grew up in a small town and we had a local jewellery store down on our town square. Everyone knew they had quality jewelry, but we all also knew that it was higher than a cat’s back.
The people with money bought their jewlery gifts there, or, if you were like my family, and you wanted something smaller for a real special occasion you would go to “Overstreets” down on the square to purchase your jewelry.
That little independent jewelry store was great. They charged more but they always supported all types of community events and fundraisers. So it kind of evened out in the end.
If you wanted a larger selection of gold jewellery with less expensive prices you would drive twenty to thirty minutes depending on if there was a parade or something like that to slow traffic down, to the mall which was located in nearby larger town. The mall had the big department stores,and, of course, the chain jewellery stores.
I remember getting to go with my sister and her fiancee at the time to go make payments on their wedding rings. Sounds nuts doesn’t it? Yep, every other Saturday night we would trot to the the nearby town and waltz into the chain jewellery store to make payments on their wedding rings. The plan of course was to have these coveted rings paid off before the magical day.
I was all of nine years old and looking back, I”m pretty sure I smudged up every glass case and window with all my ooohing and awing at the fantastic silver, diamond and gold jewellery. The jewellery store clerks probably dreaded me coming, and, most likely, they got their Windex in hand ready for double duty after I left.
I had my eye on a gold jewellery cobra chain and a very special gold bracelet. I thought if I could just somehow get that gold chain necklace, I don’t know, maybe I could rule the world, or at least I would catch a lot of attention at my school.
See, I had watched the Olympics and watched how Mark Spitz had won not just any medals but big bright GOLD medals. I was so enthralled with his success that my dad gave me a stop watch so I could practice holding my breath before I went to sleep at night.
The stop watch was to help with my swimming training and, of course, to help me secure Olympic gold metals of my own one day! In retrospect, I’ll bet my mom and dad were giggling to themselves as they watched me using my stop watch to time my breaths every night before I dropped off to sleep.
If you are like me and most other jewellery loving folks, you probably started your love affair with gold jewellery early in life with a similar or perhaps grander experience, and probably your first pieces of gold jewellery were only inexpensive pieces of gold costume jewellery.
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