5. Be sure to visit our boards on Pinterest!
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Here's the birthstone board for July: Ruby Those born in the month of July have
the ruby as their birthstone.  This board contains various pieces of jewelry
that contain rubies that are offered by merchants at www.TIAS .com

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please "follow" us!  We update these boards daily.
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comments from our readers each week. Send your story to newsletter@tias.com and
we'll publish it in an upcoming newsletter.  We *love* to hear your stories! 
If you have a story you'd like to share, tell us about it and if you have any
photos, we'd love to see them!

This story is a reprint from 2003:

The Jar It's sad, but this is not all that uncommon. After your read the story
post your ideas to the online bulletin board at:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewforum.php?forum=16&31

Once a week I treat myself to a trip to the Goodwill store in my hometown after
work.  Some weeks are better than others, you never know what you will find. 
One particular day, I came across a beautiful apothecary-type jar, ivory in
color with gold-gilt leaves around it.  I'm not a big fan of glassware, mostly
because it is more of a hassle to store and pack when sold.  I went past the
jar, then went back to it.  No, keep moving I told myself. Before I checked
out, I returned to the aisle the jar was in. For some reason I decided to buy
it.  When I got home, I put the jar on my entertainment center where it has
caught the attention of everyone who stops by.  I had tried a few times to open
the jar, but it would not budge.

A girlfriend stopped by one night, and she tried to open the jar for me. 
Suddenly, she had a ghastlyook on her face.  She shook the jar and said "I
think you are sporting somebody's Grama on your entertainment center!" The jar
is a cremation urn!!  My family is really creeped out by it, but what bothers
me is how it ended up at a thrift store!  I feel a tie to this jar, just
because I think nobody should be forgotten.  It will have a place in my home
for as long as I live!!  (Much to the dismay of my husband & kids).  What would
you do?  Bonny P.
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