Posts Tagged ‘thanksgiving’

It has its advantages, and certainly its disadvantages working for a Diamond company. When I got married it meant my fiancé got to choose the biggest and most perfect diamond to adorn her hand, whilst I paid a low low rate for the quantity of rock that my credit card financed.

Since then however, it seems that every birthday, holiday, anniversary, indeed for any occasion my wife turns to the Diamond-USA website as her personal gift catalog and makes her selection.

A number of items have already been shortlisted for her Christmas 2008 gift, including a lovely pair of single stone drop earrings and a diamond studded bracelet.

At a time when global financial insecurity takes center stage of every news report and is the primary conversation on buses, trains and dinner parties, where can you turn to keep your savings safe and your future assured?

A number of leading investors have ruled out buying property for now since prices are likely to continue falling for at least the next few quarters. With gold prices falling and oil on the decline its emerging that the recommended and advised investment is Diamonds.

Although a number of diamond companies are seeing their shares fall in stock market trading this is not an indication that the value of diamonds themselves are falling. The price of diamonds is a relatively stable metric whilst the fall in demand is merely affecting the value of mining and retailing companies.

So the advice is stock up on the bling bling, enjoy it while the economy falters and sell it when it recovers.

It already that time of year where thoughts turn to how best to budget your holiday finances. How much do you spend on your spouse, your friends and then the all important alcohol budget. This year however with the looming gray clouds of financial instability the question and the contemplation takes on a new impetus.

Obviously I cannot afford not to buy the usual crate of Cabernet Sauvignon, bottle of single malt Scotch and case of locally brewed beer. After all Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without at least one good hangover. For my wife, well she’s already dropping hints that she’d like diamond earrings for Xmas.

So that means I’m having to plan my apologies for the cheap gifts my friends, cousins aunties and uncles will receive. I’ve bought a bag of goodies from the art and craft store and between now and then me, my wife and kids will be hand-crafting a range of homemade and hopefully very thoughtful somethings J