Gold Prices Push Consumers to Sell

A new kind of gold rush is unfolding at jewelry stores and pawn shop counters, featuring not prospectors, but buyers. White collar workers, retirees and many others have been digging through jewelry boxes and safety deposit boxes to cash in, as gold prices flirt with $1,000 an ounce. Coins, old wedding rings, necklaces given by ex-boyfriends, hand me down gold pieces, everything is fair game when it brings this kind of profit. If you have some extra money now is a good time to hit the pawn shops for some real bargains and they should get even more valuable with the U.S. dollar going down so bad. I don't think I have anything that valuable around here so no use looking. :0)