Buying a cocker-poo or wasting your money

 It is interesting that diamond prices are very artificial.  There are organizations like DeBeers that have huge stockpiles of diamonds in storage.  Probably (in my mind) there sre more in storage than there are out in the market.  This artificial rarity keeps prices high.  And yet they continue to mine them every year.  

If they released all those diamonds onto the market the prices would drop everywhere to the point you might be able to buy them in cartons of a dozen like eggs in gas station convenience stores.


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Fake and lab created diamonds.


Unless you are trying to get a potential lover into bed with a jewelry purchase.... JUST DON'T BUY THEM!


Lab created diamonds are technically and CHEMICALLY diamonds, but not real.  I have a deep-seated prejudice I guess against anything artificial.  It is such a strange market, that some companies actually put flaws into the lab diamonds to make people think they are real.  

My mother used to put plastic flowers in her living room, and when silk flowers became available, she used those...they were never the same and at their worst they were tacky.  You can now buy silks that are a bloody fortune and really are beautiful...but I am not sure that if my anniversary was at hand that I would buy a box of silk flowers. (These wonderful silks are usually used in jewelry store displays or hotels and in museum houses to approximate real flowers that do not have to be tended or replaced)  


Yags(a sort of garnet) were available a long time ago, cubic zirconia (still common) ...They all just belong in Walmart including the lab created.  Now, If you have a million-dollar necklace that you leave lying around on your bedside table and want to have a copy made to fool thieves...well, OK.  But fake is fake, and I cannot justify the price they ask for fake. Nor can I justify anything that is so obviously intended to defraud people.


Colored stones or diamonds...if it is not real and unaltered then don't buy it.


Truly Jewelry Educated people may spot the fake immediately so if you are trying to fool people, it may back-fire. Lab created diamonds cannot generally be spotted as fakes, and that REALLY scares me. (Some fake stones are actually labeled along the girdle of the stones.)


Here is the deal...If you cannot buy diamonds then perhaps sapphires will be nice...if you cannot afford Sapphires then Tourmalines are beautiful.  If you cannot afford those how about beautiful Amethysts....there are always less expensive stones and all can be beautiful and REAL. Good pearls are always nice.(of course all pearls that are not gathered from the wild are also fakes)


Better to own less expensive real stones than fakes...and even worse, very expensive fakes.  I think Cocker-poos are very cute dogs but I am not going to spend 1000 dollars or more on one!  We are completely out of our minds to spend money like that!!!!

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