Ever Pawned Anything?

Oh, yes! I remember when I was in my mid 20's and was so proud of myself for buying my first color television. It was a portable, which then was so heavy I could barely carry it with both hands. Life was hard and that TV went into hock about 4 times a year! After awhile I looked at it as a savings account instead of entertainment. That taught me a valuable lesson and although I could not save much money then I began to squirrel away anything I could and it was wonderful to know that I had at least a few bucks set aside if I needed them.

NOT YET...but who knows what tomorrow will bring! I have had a couple of Garage Sales, and really must get on with doing more downsizing! I am beginning to think, one of the biggest drawbacks from living in the same place for 32 years, as you become a gatherer/collector, and never face the downsizing of moving. Thinking life would go on forever, I have been a collector and NOW, it must go... I Do NOT want my son to have the burden..of getting rid of "my stuff"! Yards and yards of material, skein after skein of wool..enough Pergamano equipment to set up a craft shop...cooking equipment to set up a kitchen store...I'll bet if they stumbled across my "potato ricer" they wouldn't even know what it was...LOL! And I have been a collector of "antiquities--days of yore" things...like a solid brass washboard. Hard to let go of these things..but it has to be done! Hope you are well, today!

Living in poverty most of my life, I am no stranger to the pawn shop and have hocked belongings for essentials...like food. My self-esteem always takes a shameful blow when I would have to take something to the pawn shop. Many of us see tough times and have to choose to sell belongings, you just do it a bit differently by directly selling the items yourself. Hopefully, you will never have to make the choice to hock something.

I've never pawned anything. When times are tough I'd rather sell items I can live without rather than pawn something and worry about trying to buy it back. We have sold many things before when times were tough. We sold hubby's computer when we moved in here.. it got us $300, but we didn't need his computer anymore since space is limited here, and he had Vista which I didn't like at all!

No i haven't, I have kept everything that my parents gave me that had centimental value. The thought was there. I still have my class ring on my hand and my musical instrument from high school under my bed and I don't really plan on getting rid of them.

I've pawned some jewelries before when I was having financial difficulties. Sad to note that I was not able to redeem those items. I haven't redeemed 10 pieces of jewelries such as 3 rings, 1 choker, 2 necklaces, 2 pairs of earrings and 2 bracelets. I missed those things. They were precious for me but because I haven't received the notices from the pawnshop, I was not able to pay them on time. The notices were sent thru our Post Office but because of the inefficient services of our post office I lost my jewelries.

Ive never pawned anything but recently I sold my gold to raise some cash. Pawn shops were almost obsolete here in Ireland untill the recent downturn and now are popping up everywhere.

i have never done this before. but i see there are so many of these places just popping up all over the place. If i need to do this i would in a minute. I am just so grateful that I don't have to

For me yes it is good so keep up the good work then you have no hassle to do it in your way.

I hate pawning stuff, but sometime I find something useful to buy from pawn shops such as fishing poles.