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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8972865" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>I know that experience <em>intimately</em>.</p><p></p><p>First show I went to, I set a $500 budget. Spent $1000.</p><p></p><p>The next show I set a $1000 budget. Spent $1800.</p><p></p><p>Yada yada yada…</p><p></p><p>I’m much better at keeping to my budget these days, but it took going to a show a decade or so ago and spending WAAAAAY too much to knock some sense back into me. Essentially, I had a commitment out of town, and could only attend the first day of the (3 day) show, and was having problems deciding what to buy. So I <em>didn’t</em> decide- I bought <strong>everything</strong> I liked.</p><p></p><p>Well, <em>almost</em> everything. On my way out of the show, I passed on one newly discovered stone that was exceedingly rare. The cutter, Bill Vance, had 20+ carats of faceted material for sale, approximately 75% of the world’s supply. He offered to sell me one of the largest for $3000. I could have bought it, but the reality of what I had already spent was starting to sink in. I passed on it.</p><p></p><p>He sold it about 6 months later for $20k. </p><p></p><p>If I had bought it, selling it it would have put me back in the black with plenty of room to spare. Thing is, I’m not sure I would/could have sold it then. </p><p></p><p>To this day, I’ve never sold a piece of my jewelry and only 2 stones I’ve purchased. What little has left my Draconic hoard were gifts to friends and family.</p><p></p><p>I‘ve only a couple weeks ago cherry-picked some of my best stuff to sell in order to raise funds. I photographed them all (badly) and catalogued them for appraisal & sale with the purpose of replacing the decrepit wooden fence & motorized gate of my parents’ house with a metal one so they don’t have to take out a loan to do the work.m Depending on the job bids and what I can get for my stones, we might even add a solar power & storage setup.</p><p></p><p>But I can already feel myself second-guessing <em>my</em> <em>own plan </em>because of how cool some are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8972865, member: 19675"] I know that experience [I]intimately[/I]. First show I went to, I set a $500 budget. Spent $1000. The next show I set a $1000 budget. Spent $1800. Yada yada yada… I’m much better at keeping to my budget these days, but it took going to a show a decade or so ago and spending WAAAAAY too much to knock some sense back into me. Essentially, I had a commitment out of town, and could only attend the first day of the (3 day) show, and was having problems deciding what to buy. So I [I]didn’t[/I] decide- I bought [B]everything[/B] I liked. Well, [I]almost[/I] everything. On my way out of the show, I passed on one newly discovered stone that was exceedingly rare. The cutter, Bill Vance, had 20+ carats of faceted material for sale, approximately 75% of the world’s supply. He offered to sell me one of the largest for $3000. I could have bought it, but the reality of what I had already spent was starting to sink in. I passed on it. He sold it about 6 months later for $20k. If I had bought it, selling it it would have put me back in the black with plenty of room to spare. Thing is, I’m not sure I would/could have sold it then. To this day, I’ve never sold a piece of my jewelry and only 2 stones I’ve purchased. What little has left my Draconic hoard were gifts to friends and family. I‘ve only a couple weeks ago cherry-picked some of my best stuff to sell in order to raise funds. I photographed them all (badly) and catalogued them for appraisal & sale with the purpose of replacing the decrepit wooden fence & motorized gate of my parents’ house with a metal one so they don’t have to take out a loan to do the work.m Depending on the job bids and what I can get for my stones, we might even add a solar power & storage setup. But I can already feel myself second-guessing [I]my[/I] [I]own plan [/I]because of how cool some are. [/QUOTE]
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