Posted on 11/19/2008 1:26:03 PM PST by CHR
Edited on 11/30/2008 5:15:14 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
During the cold war, JFK claimed to have gone to the moon. He got congress to spend billions on his moon landing and pretended america landed there, convincing congress to give him billions, the fakeness of the landing is well documented.
It seems to me that this liberal moneybags, that he took these billions for personal use, or maybe gave them to the USSR (we all know he was soft on communism)
Perhaps his death was similarly staged in order to keep his billions or keep congress of his case.
I wonder if under an obama administration we will see more moon landings.
Wassup, Thomas?
Did you find a house, yet?
MOrning!
Morning!
Just change your temperature to celcius, and you’ll be fine.
Nope. I did that in Germany and almost froze my butt-tocks.
Morning Sis!
*HUG*
We just put a cake in the oven. We’ll take it to the Knights of Columbus Christmas party tomorrow. We’re going to decorate it with white icing, whipped cream, shredded coconut, and penguins ... it’s Antarctica, because the flyer said to bring a “desert.”
I’m glad I don’t have to go anywhere today.
I hope I feel better by Thursday!
I hope so, too! Try not to do anything!
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Found this while I was looking for the blue laser pointer Pat wants for his birthday. The laser pointer costs $800, but the site has a ton of really cool stuff. I’ll get Bill the molecule-model kit and the Periodic Table refrigerator magnets when he signs up for Chemistry.
LoM had that experience. Entire household lost in a warehouse fire in Iran. The only possessions they retained were what they had in their suitcases for the flight home.
Biggest lament -- the lost pictures.
Well, if Bill and Anoreth had scanned and stored their pictures ... (j/k)
My friend’s family were all in their house when an error with their gas-powered generator set it on fire. They all got out without injury, but her father-in-law, who was an invalid, inhaled so much smoke before they got him out that he died from that and the shock a few days later.
OTOH, I just tallied my remaining vacation time and I could take from the 12th through the end of the year off. That would give me time...
I wouldn’t suffer too much from losing my pictures as long as I had the original subjects safe :-).
Yes, that is the first priority! But we have things like a framed sketch of my grandfather, or a painting of someone in LoM’s family about 6 generations back, that are simply irreplaceable.
Yes, I have things that are irreplaceable, too. However, they’re not things of which the loss would cause me real pain. If the people in my pictures are dead, I loved them when they were alive, and I remember them without pictures.
People just value things differently, is all.
I’ve got photos in the old hard drive, but hopefully, I have some of them cached on an email. Somewhere. Some of those, I printed out, but still....
What have I done all morning? I dunno. I made a couple of calls, but it seems this day is going too fast for me. It’s going so fast, in fact, it has given me a migraine.
ARGH! I need some comic relief.
And BOOKS. DON’T leave out the Library in the survey of assets. Yeah, MOST people have nothing irreplaceable on their shelvs, but many have at least a few books that are of elevated value, even if it’s only sentimental value.
I can go buy another copy of “Pilgrim’s Progress”, but the one I have has been in the family for more than 60 years. If it were lost to fire or theft, I’d want effort expended to replace it like-for-like, not old-for-new.
It’s things like this that are often overlooked in the valuation of personal property.
Be especially aware to note any COLLECTIONS a customer might own. Stamps, coins, Lionel trains...whatever. These things need very thorough documentation, and you might find the ability to add, as a billable service, location of a specialist who could provide an expert dollar valuation of those assets. Some collectors have had their collections evaluated, but many have not, and it’s not just anyone who can accurately appraise the value of a collection.
Also, for antiques, artwork, and handmade furniture (especially if custom made or handcrafted by a well-known artisan), you might offer to provide official valuation and documentation for these kinds of items, perhaps even going to the extent of getting a professional valuation notarized to be vaulted with the customer’s other records.
Finally: white gloves.
Stock up on pairs of nice, white gloves.
I don’t care if your customer lives in a trailer park, give their stuff the white glove treatment. Dress smartly, and touch nothing with bare hands; it’ll elevate the “calibre” of your enterpprise, and add perceived value to your services.
Excellent points. Homeowners’ insurance often excludes the value of collections, jewelry, or other items such as valuable books, beyond quite a modest limit (couple of thousand dollars). If people don’t know that, they could be informed - or at least they’d have a recent inventory of their collection, to replace it at their own cost.
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