Barkingatstrangers
Rough_Rock
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- Nov 21, 2021
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So my husband and I have been struggling to come up with any gift ideas for each other and with Christmas a week off we were both getting pretty anxious the last couple of days. Complicating matters: we are feeling a bit apprehensive about the shift in the economy coming up as a new US administration and its trade policies come in. Both thought maybe this is not the time to buy new baubles.
This morning, he suggested jewelry and I hemmed and hawed although he knows I love it.... and suddenly across my feed comes a really pretty pair of Art Deco yellow gold and ruby earrings. And they could have been a sister piece to an inherited bracelet I have, square gold links, with a tiny ruby/sapphire/diamond.
I dip out of the bidding really early... still a good price, but not what we budgeted for. I tell him we're not buying them. He fusses, says go higher to X amount, they're worth more (he also loves Deco, he's in a meeting and can't bid.)I tell him nah, I'll find something else.
Then OF COURSE I can't resist sneaking back to see what they're at. Huh, I think. Not as high as I thought they'd be by now. So I bump up my bid just by a touch. Someone else bumps theirs with 2 minutes to go. I bump it to a touch over in the final 30 seconds.... and lose by literally a few pounds.
Guess who texts me this not 30 seconds later....
This morning, he suggested jewelry and I hemmed and hawed although he knows I love it.... and suddenly across my feed comes a really pretty pair of Art Deco yellow gold and ruby earrings. And they could have been a sister piece to an inherited bracelet I have, square gold links, with a tiny ruby/sapphire/diamond.
I dip out of the bidding really early... still a good price, but not what we budgeted for. I tell him we're not buying them. He fusses, says go higher to X amount, they're worth more (he also loves Deco, he's in a meeting and can't bid.)I tell him nah, I'll find something else.
Then OF COURSE I can't resist sneaking back to see what they're at. Huh, I think. Not as high as I thought they'd be by now. So I bump up my bid just by a touch. Someone else bumps theirs with 2 minutes to go. I bump it to a touch over in the final 30 seconds.... and lose by literally a few pounds.
Guess who texts me this not 30 seconds later....
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