Pandora II
Ideal_Rock
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My wonderful FI has come into a nice sum of money and has decided to give it to me to spend on rocks and jewellery - we are talking around the $10k mark.
I am totally in shock.
He wants me to invest however rather than buy bling for myself. I''ve been doing rather well on buying antique jewellery on ebay over the last year - certainly better than his shares - and he wants to put me to work on it! Any profits get split 3 ways - 1 third back into the pot, 1 third to FI and 1 third into a Pandora bling fund.
I''m going to carry on with the ebay bits, but would like to buy some coloured stones to set and resell. I see a lot of quite nice settings with horrible black-looking sapphires that would be so much nicer with a pretty tourmaline or spinel instead. I''m also going to look into doing a setting course here in London.
So, gemstone wise I''m thinking I should be looking at garnets, tourmalines and spinels and some of the more unusual stones.
What would you choose?
I am totally in shock.
He wants me to invest however rather than buy bling for myself. I''ve been doing rather well on buying antique jewellery on ebay over the last year - certainly better than his shares - and he wants to put me to work on it! Any profits get split 3 ways - 1 third back into the pot, 1 third to FI and 1 third into a Pandora bling fund.
I''m going to carry on with the ebay bits, but would like to buy some coloured stones to set and resell. I see a lot of quite nice settings with horrible black-looking sapphires that would be so much nicer with a pretty tourmaline or spinel instead. I''m also going to look into doing a setting course here in London.
So, gemstone wise I''m thinking I should be looking at garnets, tourmalines and spinels and some of the more unusual stones.
What would you choose?
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