A Box Full of Junk Jewelry

When I first began to liquidate noncash donations for Servant Christian Community Foundation www.servantchristian.com, I was presented with a very large box of costume jewelry that was left through an estate to an overseas missionary. Having served in missions nine years prior to this, I was very interested in trying to bring some valuable support to missions.

My first thought was that maybe we could get $100 for all of this junk jewelry and tried to find someone in the area that bought these types of items. I did find a place that reluctantly said that they would take a look at these items (there were about 200 pieces). As I was driving the jewelry to them, the thought occurred to me to run it by our regular jewelry buyer, and she was glad to give the items a quick glance to see if any had any gold or precious stones. The next day I got a call from her saying that they found 29 rings that had value and she would pay $800 for them; I would have never thought. I was able to sell the rest of the jewelry for $75 at a local costume jewelry outlet. It goes to show you, you never know what value your items have until you allow an expert to take a look.

If you are ever intested in donating some of your old jewelry, please go to http://www.idonate.com/ and follow the instructions and we will make arrangments to receive your donations. Our whole purpose as a ministry is to help Create a Culture of Generosity.