Sleep doesn't come easy for me and I usually lie awake at night and make different comparisons. One night after many emails from corporate, I was thinking how vitally important my magnet is. It is the first test when I am holding a piece of jewelry. Of course, I have made quite a few deductions from just holding the jewelry. Out comes the magnet (much like an inner radar in life). If the jewelry sticks to the magnet or has the slightest of pull, it is not gold. No pull detected. Moving along to the next step of the process (didn't get any bad vibes, but still can't make the call).
Next I start looking at stamps. Sometimes there are no visible stamps which makes me start asking questions. It has to have some kind of stamp. We can't all get through life without any obvious stamps. Oh well, I'll just slide that between my 10k and 14k piles and see what happens. Time for the acid test. We have made it this far so let's see how you hold up in acid. The pieces that haven't sent up any red flags make it through with flying colors (red, yellow or hopefully a green - this bit is for my fellow Golden Girls - my how we get excited when that 18k stamped piece actually lights with that 18k green!).
I've let that questionable piece of jewelry hang around this long so I may as well stick it in some acid and see what happens. Well a light came on and started popping back and forth. I knew something didn't feel quite right. Let's test a little deeper, gosh I really want this to be gold. Out comes the file which can make the moment a little uneasy but it is something you have to do. You are going to essentially destroy the piece of jewelry and then find out you can't even buy it. Put that information on the table. This could get ugly. You file or even cut if necessary then back in the acid. The tension has been building. There it is "not gold".
Once in a while something may get past the magnet but you felt all along it just wasn't gold. You didn't give up on it right away, but after chipping away, eventually you can determine what is real.
Trust your gut, it can make decisions that your heart (or your magnet) may not be capable of making.
Michelle Perkins
Golden Girl
252 531-0515
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