My husband has collected coins all his life. Some more valuable than others. This week he took a bunch of silver coins, not really anything super special and I was 
shocked how much $$$ he got. He also said it’s at an all time high.
If she doesn’t care about preserving the piece of jewelry, maybe trading to a local coin/jewelry appraiser/collector is the way to go. My H went to a local “coin shop” that has been in business for decades.
I did have a lot of old silver quarters that I sold. I’m sure that contributed to my lovely check.
I have stamp and coin collections from my grandfather. Today I asked the kids if they have any interest in the hobbies. My mother gifted them to my husband, but he seems not interested. The stamp and coin hobbies brought my grandfather much joy, but I think it’s only the coins that have value today - perhaps more value than I’ve realized.
My kids have/will have fond memories of their dad having the coin hobby. Taking little trips for him to go to a coin show (and for me and the kids to do something else that was actually fun 
) was part of their childhood.
None of them has any actual interest though in investing time or energy in this hobby. Or space in their homes for the stuff! He will leave them each one or two special coins as a token of memory but otherwise it’s best - for us - to unload the rest now or when it’s most profitable.
I have a bag of coins from my Dad’s stepdad ( he collected coins) that have been sitting in the safe deposit box. I need to ask my kids if they are interested in them and if not look into a local place that will take them.
Our dear disabled Army vet neighbor who we’ve helped over the past three years passed away just before Christmas. Christmas of ‘24 he gifted me with a very heavy silver “nugget” from his coin and metals collection. This thread made me take a closer look at it:
It’s 1 kilo. It’s the only thing I have to remember him by, so I won’t sell it, but I had no idea of its value.
My suggestion is to pull the hard drive to smash & trash. Recycle the rest at Best Buy or Staples or GoodWill electronics recycling stores.
Taking the storage out of a Chromebook involves shutting down, flipping it over, removing bottom screws (sometimes hidden under rubber feet), and carefully prying off the base to access the motherboard. The internal drive (usually an M.2 SSD or eMMC) can then be unscrewed or removed
Do restaurants usually fry everything - meat, vegetables, and pastry - in the same oil? We went out for dinner; I don’t eat pork products from religious custom although not strict kosher by any means.
The server must have heard me mention perhaps taking pork off one potential pizza. When we started ordering a different pizza, she alerted me that the fried zucchini on it was fried in the same oil as pork. Then later when we asked about a choux dessert, she said the pastry was fried in that same oil.
I’m glad she alerted me but it seemed odd to me to use the same oil for everything. Maybe I’ve just been clueless and that’s the situation everywhere?
As far as I can remember, per health department guidelines, meat is supposed to be kept away from other foods, and that includes frying. Anything that touches raw meat cannot touch other foods. I can’t imagine frying pork and pastries in the same fryer! Did the waitress mean oil from the same source?
Husband and I both got the impression that she meant possible cross contamination within the same frying oil. Checking back over the menu, she might have meant the “crispy Guanciale” which would not be raw meat. So that might have been cooked in the same oil as the fried zucchini, eggplant, and choux dough. There’s also a deep fried breaded pork chop but one would hope that would have its own fryer.
I’ve been watching Netflix with ads and the Target ad repeats ad nauseum. What the heck is mushroom coffee?
@oldmom4896 – Is Netflix with ads any good?? Do you recommend it? I’m about to sign up and I want to know if it’s worth saving the $10 per month to go with ads.
I”m not @oldmom4896 but ads (to me) are always annoying! That said, I have Netflix with ads and I feel like maybe the Netflix ads are shorter than the Hulu ads. I may just be imagining it.
It’s so ridiculous that we have to pay to have things (streaming service) AND we have to pay to NOT have things (ads)!!!
I’ll pay any amount not to ever see an ad. Depends on your tolerance level.
I tolerate the ads. They are short and there’s a countdown timer. Never more than 3 in a row, never more than 90 seconds total.
We have Netflix without ads because, it is our most used streaming service. I also added the $3 to Prime so there are no ads because, we do stream often. The rest of the streaming we dod not pay for and they do have ads.
I just switched from Netflix without ads to Netflix with ads. Why - because I want to subscribe to PBS Passport and now I can justify it as not increasing our overall streaming cost! H mostly watches Netflix and he said he didn’t care after I sold it with “we can always switch back” (which he won’t initiate).
And imho it is always good to support PBS in the face of no federal government support.
So no one answered: what in the world is mushroom coffee? They sell it at Target (I saw it last Friday!) and advertise it on Netflix.
Here’s an article about Mushroom Coffee. It appears to be ground coffee with ground mushrooms (non psychedelic).
I don’t drink coffee and have no personal experience.
