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Trash or Treasure: Assessing Your Possessions

One personal junk is another personal treasure. Never is that more true than when you are doing a spring clean up.

The good weather held out for Fred Dowlings 25th anniversary junk day and treasure exchange. Each year for the past 25 years, co-op residents have gathered in the spirit of reducing, reusing, recycling of their possessions. Residents trade and dispose of unwanted items; its a win-win situation, all around. This year an Antiques Road Show was added to the day. I was on-hand as residents brought their prized possessions and family heirlooms to be appraised.

Some of the riches unearthed include: a 1953 Coronation toy carriage at $350; a Queen Victoria Jubilee milk pitcher at $175;a pearl brooch for $250; an antique desk for $275. The piece de resistance was a silver and diamond necklace valued at $750.

Here are some things to keep in mind when assessing the value of your items.

Condition

Chips, cracks and breaks on crystal, glass, porcelain and ceramics reduces the value of anything to a very minimal amount. Despite that fact, any item can have sentimental value even those with damage can have value to you.

Spotting Damage

Sometimes you cant tell if a piece of porcelain is cracked. Use the ping test flicking youre your thumb and finger again the porcelain. If it gives a ping sound, there are no cracks. If it gives a thud sound, it is damaged. The same test applies to crystal.

Value

Appraised value, retail value and your selling value are all different amounts.

The appraised value, sometimes called the insurance value is the amount that you would insure an item for. It is based on the amount you would have to pay to replace the item if it made an insurance claim.

The retail value is the amount that a store would sell it for. Your selling price is the amount that you would get if you sold it.

Your selling price will always be less than the retail value because most likely, you would sell your item to a dealer who in turn marks up the price.

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Spanking - Is it Proper Punishment - Essay

For year parents have been using spanking as a means of disciplining a child. It was always seen as a good method until now. Many have come to question this form of punishment wondering whether this method is too harsh. Some argue that it may lead to abuse, while others say that without it children might not learn from their mistakes. By looking at the several views of people we may later come to understand and go along with one side of the argument.

In the article, Study: Harm Outweighs Benefits of Spanking, Shankar Vedantam questions whether spanking is a greatly harmful or beneficial method of disciplining a child. She does so by comparing the opposite views of Elizabeth Gershoff and Robert Larzelere. Elizabeth believes that spanking is 100% harmful to children, as it makes them temporarily complaint and raises the risk of the child becoming aggressive, antisocial, and chronically defiant. Conversely, Robert Larzelere believes that if a child becomes aggressive after spanking, it is because he or she had problems to begin with, and if it wasnt for the spanking, he or she would have been worse off. The most argued problem with spanking is that it might turn into abuse. On that ground, both researchers agree that spanking delivered in vexation is indeed not effective and could turn into abuse. The great controversy about spanking lies along a societal fault, whereas the rights of parents conflict with those of children. For example, spanking is illegal in most states in the U.S.; however, it is still practiced. Larzelere then argues that the severity and circumstances are more important than whether parents spank their children. This controversy has many baffled, as even the American Psychological Association are undecided about whether spanking in the house is a bad practice.

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