Goodwill Mystery Jewelry Bag 2 - I can't believe this had a Tiffany piece

Check out what my son found in his jewelry bag! I am still in shock that we found a Tiffany piece.. I mean, this kind of thing just does not happen to people like us, right?

If you would like to purchase any of these pieces, mail me at palsliveslife@gmail.com, and mention 'Goodwill Jewelry Bag 2' in the subject, and the timestamp of the pieces you are interested in. We can figure out the total cost, including shipping. Mercari and Poshmark handle @palslivelife.

Here are the time stamps for all the pieces in the video
There are over 120 pieces in this bag. 01:11 1. Dragonfly beads (Craft jar)
01:26 2. Seashell Phoenix Necklace $25 (SOLD for $15)
01:49 3. Silver Cuff Bracelet $5
02:28 4. Long faux pearl and black bead necklace $5
03:25 5. Long faux pearl and clear bead necklace $5
04:01 6. Christina Collection Rhinestone bracelet $5
04:42 7. Gold Tone Spring Loaded Cuff $2
05:01 8. Rhinestone Knot Brooch $8
05:20 9. Turkish Bracelet (TBD)
05:57 10. 'Mother' Bracelet $5
06:58 11. Crystal Helicopter Pendant (Only) $8
07:23 12. Blue Rose Brooch (NFS)
08:21 13. White Enamel Flower Necklace $10
08:40 14. Viser Brown Leather Strap Bracelet Watch $10
10:14 15. 'Little Sis' bracelet $5
10:55 16. Turquoise and silver necklace
11:18 17. Marvel Spiderman watch (Open to offers)
11:53 18. Vintage Angel Fish pendant (NFS)
12:05 19: Golden chain with tiny ring charm (TBD)
12:36 20. Long golden necklace with butterflies in the tassel $8
13:13 21. Long golden necklace with fringe $8
13:50 22. Champagne pearl necklace $25
14:06 23. Two tone metal heart pendant $4
14:39 24. Black silk thread bead necklace $8
14:54 25. Faux pearl necklace $10
15:12 26. Necklace with tiger's eye chips and golden beads $12
15:28 27. Wooden stretch bracelet $2
15:38 28. Wooden 3D cube illusion necklace $10
16:04 29. Lapis lazuli chip necklace $15-20
16:30 30. Wooden bead beach necklace $4
16:46 31. Pearl stud earrings $5
17:18 32. Golden clover leaf and green bead necklace $25 (NFS)
17:32 33. Silver belt $5
18:09 34. Pink rhinestone pendant $5
18:51 35. Sun Valley 50-year celebration brooch $25
19:12 36. Metal feathers and black chord necklace $5
19:30 37. Murano beach cha-cha bracelet $6
20:33 38. Mother of pearl totem pendant $2
21:30 39. Large flat rhinestone studs $1
21:48 40. Aspen Highlands pin $5
22:03 41. Peacock pendant on long chain $10
22:47 42. Rhinestone flower earrings $3
22:55 43. Small flat rhinestone studs $1
23:02 44. Large black rhinestone stud $3
23:35 45. White stone wrap bracelet $5
23:53 46. Candy cane brooch $5 (NFS)
24:12 47. Pink enamel flower necklace $10
24:53 48. Fresh water pearl earrings (TBD)
25:15 49. Faux pearl stud earrings $2
25:35 50. Golden enamel flower pendant $4
25:52 51. Lapis lazuli chip bracelet $10
27:26 52. Small pearl stud earrings $1
28:56 53. Teal flowers and rhinestone necklace $10
29:15 54. Red and blue bracelet $10 (NFS)
29:38 55. Golden large pearl and rhinestone brooch $5
30:01 56. Gold tone cutout bracelet $5
30:16 57. Silver tone locket necklace $5 (NFS)
31:33 58. Rhinestone snowflake brooch $5
31:42 59. 1960's Winter Olympics pin $75
32:12 60. Blue bead dangle earrings $5
32:18 61. 'Nana' brooch $8
32:35 62. Savvy Bling stretchy bracelet $5
32:54 63. Carved bone/plastic chunky ring $8 (NFS)
33:17 64. Russian possibly WWII Insignia/Brooch $15
33:28 65. Aspen vintage pin $5
33:34 66. 'S' drawstring bracelet $4
34:18 67. Geneva golden watch pendant $8
34:34 68. Cream bracelet with tree charm and magnetic closure $5
35:26 69. Mother of pearl multi-strand wire necklace $8
35:46 70. 'VAIL' ski pin $5
35:57 71. Multi-layered rhinestone ring $5
36:19 72. Set of 4 Mother of pearl buttons $2
36:34 73. Silver tone triangular pendant on black chord $3
36:43 74. Men's leather and brass bracelet $5
37:08 75. Vintage rhinestone screw-on earrings $8
37:17 76. Viser navy blue leather strap bracelet watch $10
38:05 77. Copper wire wrap earrings $3
38:22 78. Tiny hoop-like plain earrings $2
38:31 79. Gold tone sterling silver chain with rhinestone cross $25+
39:12 80. Vintage Sunshine Valley ski pin $5
39:23 81. Vintage Sun Valley ski pin $5
39:42 82. Vintage Northstar at Tahoe ski pin $8
39:47 83. Rectangular Aspen ski pin $5
39:52 84. Sunshine, Norquay, Lake Louis Canada Ski pin $10
39:59 85. Cortina M. 1224 Italian Alps pin $30
40:25 86. Barbara Lavallee Alaskan Art pin $10
40:37 87. Vail Beaver Creek Skis pin $15
40:57 88. Rhinestone hoop-like earrings $3
41:06 89. Silver tone snowflake pin $4
41:18 90. Silver tone shield ring (SOLD for $2)
41:30 91. Silver tone oval bangle bracelet $5
41:36 92. Sterling silver and amethyst earrings $35 (NFS)
41:41 93. Three more Mother of pearl pendants $6
42:02 94. Sterling silver eye stud earrings $5 (NFS)
42:38 95. Olympics Memorabilia watch $10
43:25 96. T & Co. 925 hoops (TBD and NFS)
44:10 97. Glass beads for earrings $1
44:21 98. Brass ball marker from 100th US Open from Pebble Beach from year 2000 $15
44:47 99. Faceted bead bracelet $5
45:10 100. Long golden necklace with faceted beads $5
45:22 101. Golden and green collar necklace $5
45:38 102. Silver tone necklace marked 18kGP with golden pearls (TBD)
45:45 103. String of spotted peach beads $2
45:54 104. Silver disk dangle earrings $2
46:15 105. Black stone pendant on silver chain $5
46:27 106. Large half pearl bracelet $4
46:36 107. Vintage green and Amber glass bead necklace $20
47:06 108. Dainty black bead multistrand necklace $5
47:18 109. Tiny turtle necklace $2
47:42 110. Pearl and gold four strand necklace $15
47:52 111. Long multistrand gold chain with leaf dangle $5
48:00 112. Long multistrand necklace with black beads and silver filigree beads $5
48:10 113. Teal faceted bead necklace with magnetic closure $10
48:20 114. Cookie Lee soda can tab necklace $5
48:27 115. Silver toned bracelet with pink rhinestones marked 18KRGP (TBD)
48:48 116. Silver-tone necklace with a name (Craft pile)
48:55 117. Long golden necklace with light green beads $8
49:00 118. Short golden necklace with purple & teal beads $5
49:05 119. Long golden necklace with purple & red beads $5
49:10 120. Long golden necklace with filigree beads & pearls $8
49:16 121. Black bead long necklace $5
49:25 122. Silver flower and pearl bracelet $4

Goodwill mystery Jewelry bag #1

The mystery jewelry bags have been super hard to find now a days with people snatching them up the moment they get put on the shop floor. I have been trying to get one for D for over a month when I finally got my hands on not 1, but 4. Three in my regular store, and one before those three at a store 20 minutes drive from us. Here are more details of how I landed these 4, and what I found in the very first bag.

Spoiler: (STOP READING RIGHT NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW)

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So, if you want to know the final count, I found $465 worth costume jewelry, and some silver pieces. It was so much fun opening this bag, that if you are having a hard time finding one if these mystery bags, I can create one foryou. Check out the details in the video description on youtube.

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Water wasting lawn to waterwise garden

Whatch the video here We recently converted our dead ugly lawn to this beautiful waterwise, money saving, native garden and our city paid US to do this. Happy New Year everyone and in this video I'm going to share with you the steps that you need to take to convert your lawn that consumes tons of water and needs a lot of work, but does nothing for your environment. You can't really use it because it's on the front side of the house. To this beautiful native garden that you don't even have to water that often, so saves you money. You don't have to mow it or take care of it, so saves you time, And you can take a walk through it, it serves ton of native species of birds and bugs in providing them food and shelter. And you don't have to spend a dime on it. And on the contrary, with just a little bit of patience, you can get your city to pay you for it. So this was our lawn and when we moved in. And as you can see it did not look that bad. It actually looked pretty plush. But very soon we learned that it did so because the sprinklers were set to water it for almost 15 minutes every single night. There were 5 sprinkler heads and each residential sprinkler head is designed to spray between 1 to 6 gallons of water per minute. So if you do the math we were pouring atleast 75 gallons of water into that lawn each day, or a minimum of 2250 gains of water each month.. and then we had to mow it atleast once a month. It was expensive and time consuming, and then the drought in California led to a city issued a mandate that we should not waste water on land, and our front yard became and eyesore. I had heard about native plants that do not require as much water, and while researching them, I came across a program by our city called Landscape rebate program, that pays residents up to $3000 for converting their lawn to a garden with water wise native plants. Our county has an online portal that you can submit your application through. So I created a profile. It is important that you still have your lawn when you submit your application and until they come and do their inspection. They won't pay for any work you have started before the inspection and approval. So if you want your garden to be paid for, you will need to be a little patient. Take ton of pictures of your lawn, dead or alive. they don't care. And measure the area you are playing to convert. They also want you to give them a list of native plants you are planning to plant that will eventually cover half of the area you are planning to convert. The portal also provides you a list of plants and shrubs they prefer and the area of coverage for each. This is just a tentative list. So don't stress over it. Just make a list. here is a list I submitted initially. Don't worry, you don't have to stick to this list. Once they receive your application, and they send someone to your house to inspect, and measure the area for you. After that they approve the application, and give you a Motion to Proceed. This is what you have been waiting for, and now you can start the actual work. The approval initially gives you 90 days to complete the project, but later you are allowed two 45 day extensions on the deadline. So all in all, you have about 6 months to complete your conversion. Now the first step of conversion is to kind of plan out where you want your garden beds to be and which parts are going to be your paths to walk through. You want to remove any sprinkler heads and pipes from areas you might not want them in. You can buy some garden edging, I bought mine from Amazon, and put it around the pathways and garden beds. At this stage, if your lawn is still alive, you can just cover the garden beds with cardboard. I, however, had to find some wet material to add to those areas because my lawn was very very dead and almost completely dry. The idea is that the cardboard is going to prevent any lawn from growing back, and the decomposition of the wet material is eventually going to lead to decomposition of the old lawn roots, killing the lawn and fertilizing the soil in the process. So, I went to the local Starbucks, and asked them for used coffee grounds. Unfortunately, Starbucks has stopped their used coffee grounds program, and now they kind of give you their used grounds in these large plastic bags, if you request. I had to make several trips to my local store to get enough "grounds" to cover the ground I wanted to convert. We spread the coffee grounds around, and splashed the area with water. The soil in my front lawn was so compacted and dry, that the water was not selling in at all. So, I drilled some holes in it with my largest drill bit in hopes that the water can actually get to the soil. I then covered the garden beds with cardboard from boxes I had been saving for this project. If I was sure of location of where I wanted a particular plant to be, I dug a hole there before laying the cardboard down and put the plant with the pot in it as a marker. But then, I did dig other holes afterwards as well. So either ways is okay. Then we added some horse manure compost we got from a local horse farm on top of the cardboard, and then added some mulch on top of that. The Boganvillas you see here were just a place marker for two crape myrtle pants I had ordered. And then the rain started and I could not work on this project for a couple of months. So I applied for the extension, and waited for some clear days. Once the rain subsided, we covered the pathways with some garden cloth I had ordered from Amazon. I know I know, garden cloths are not exactly great for the environment, but I wanted to add mulch here, and wanted some material underneath that would not just compete disintegrate within a few seasons. The plan is to change the mulch and the garden cloth out for some stone tiles after a few years. But here it is now. All finished. We bought these paver stones and black mulch from Home depot. We already had these gray tiles in our backyard, and I love the contrast between the black and brown mulch, and the red and gray tiles. My kids love walking through it. Oh, and for the rebate, all I had to do, was create a list of the approved plants I finally planted and submit that on the portal along with pictures of the finished conversion. We had also applied for and received rebate for converting the back yard lawn, converting the sprinkler system to inline drip, and for changing out our old sprinkler controllers to these nice new weather controlled Rachio controllers. The rebate amount covered all the plants and material we purchased, and would have covered for over 50% of the labor if we had hired someone to do the work. But I personally love gardening and totally enjoyed the process. And in a way got paid to do so, you can say ;). Ayways, if you are thinking about doing a similar conversion, check if your city offers any such rebates before you start any work. And even if it does not, I would still recommend the conversion. The money and time you save is totally worth it. I don't know what to do with my lawn mower any more, and our water bill has reduced substantially.

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Can they reach the temperatures? Ninja Foodi XL Pro Air Oven Vs Instant Omni Plus

Since my breads did not bake as expected last week, I bought an oven thermometer and tested how long it takes all the ovens to reach the temperatures. And unfortunately, the Ninja Foodi XL Pro Air oven completely failed the test.

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My very first attempt at baking in these two ovens. It definitely did not go as I thought it would. Check it out. #InstantOmni #InstantPotOmni #NinjaFoodiXLProAirOven #NinjaFoodiOven #AirfryerSourdough #SourdoughBread #SourdoughFocaccia #InstantOmniVersusNinjaFoodi #InstantOmniPlusVersusNinjaFoodiXLProAirOven #PalsLivesLife

My lil helper

Today I asked Dhruv to pick up one of his shirts, that he had just changed out of and was lying on the floor, and take it to the hamper. He said, 'No no', as he has started saying now a days, and started playing with his car again. I went back to watching TV. In a few minutes he disappeared. I asked J where he was, and J didn't knew. I noticed that the shirt I had asked him to pick up had disappeared, as well. Just then, Dhruv walked back into the living room, saw a pair of his pants on the floor, and took those to the hamper as well. He then came back, and walked towards me clapping his hands, with a smile on his face. I know, it's such a small thing. But, he really made my day. He is not even a year and a half yet.