Being diabetic I am supposed to always watch what I eat . yeah

that fell apart completely in nov/dec along with not having meds for a few weeks. The good news - getting back on the wagon seems to be working quickly. The bad news - payingattention to food instead of dreaming about food, not so fun

Good news, Morgana!

I guess? I did not know about Shark Tank, I, uh, clicked on a Facebook ad. For some reason Facebook thought I would be interested in wine...anyway, it is really nifty packaging, which I appreciate, and not bad wine. From Santa Rosa, which I also like for sentimental family reasons.

Yeah, it seemed cool, I just didn't think the name would actually play.

Flossing woooo \\m/

Has anyone ever sold gold to one of those We Buy Gold places?

I've only heard bad things. A pawnshop won't give you top price, but if they have a good reputation to maintain, they won't rip you off either. Sometimes jewelers buy gold.

Morgana, yay for no dialysis! May that continue.

I'm not losing a friend- damn right I'm keeping her- but she's going from someone I'll see at least twice a week and exchanging favors with to long distance.

My BFF lives 8 hours away. It's tough sometimes. But you can stay close even so.

I am checking with my BFF's brother who is a comic book collector who has online friends to see if he knows someone he trusts in LA who can assess ita's collection.

I also wonder if the io9 community might be able to help.

I am fat. I generally don't care, but I have a lot of hip pain that I am afraid to have assessed because I think I will be told to lose weight. But I have lost weight, several times, and gain that back plus 20. I think I just killed my metabolism by not really eating during high school to maintain 103 pounds, which was important to me then. Now, I really love to eat, although I do not eat much sugar/dessert type stuff.

My understanding of the cash for gold and we buy gold business model is that they are all scams. If you have the time, take it to a jewelers (they often can repurpose flawed bands into "new" products) or a pawn shop.

Yeah, it seemed cool, I just didn't think the name would actually play.

I wouldn't have bought it off just the name, it's true. The concept definitely has to be explained. But I guess they are doing that pretty well. The cabernet, ftr, not great. I might stick to the whites, which is a very peculiar thing for me to say.

Connie, I'm with, Zen. Probably anything else you can think to do with gold would be better than one of those Cash for Gold outfits, from what I've heard. Super shady business model.

So lovely that you found each other, sarameg, and so hard that you are going to be geographically separated.

Zen I mean, clearly I do it all the time. Just the transition is hard. Moving to this hood gained me a lot of super local good friends (next door! Around the corner!) and that was a new and welcome blessing. Like people I want to get old with. I'm losing that in the one I'm closest to.

I get it, sarameg. It just reminded me of the sitch with my BFF. We've never even lived in the same city, even.

If you have the time, take it to a jewelers (they often can repurpose flawed bands into "new" products)

I've done that. The shops here won't give any value for the stones, but they'll weigh out how much gold (and the type of gold - for instance, 14 karat, or 18 karat).

Allyson, regarding the comic book collection, if Colin is willing to reach out to Wil Wheaton, he's well connected to the local Pasadena comic shop, and I'm sure they would give him a fair pricing for the charity's behalf.