5. Be sure to visit our boards on Pinterest! https://www.pintere
t.com/TIASAntiques/

The birthstone for August is Peridot Peridot, the birthstone for those born in
the month of August, is said to host magical powers and healing properties to
protect against nightmares and to bring the wearer power, influence, and a
wonderful year.

Here is a link to the Pinterest Peridot page: https://www.pinter
st.com/TIASAntiques/august-birthstone-peridot/

Feel free to stop by and check out all of our boards and while you're there,
please "follow" us!  We update these boards daily.
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6. TIAS.com is on Twitter! Click here and be sure to follow us! 
ttps://twitter.com/TIASdotCOM

We've also started an Instagram page, so please be sure to follow us there
too!  http://instagram.com/tiasdotcom We recently added quite a number of
really unique items there.
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7. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help We try to post stories and
comments from our readers each week. Send your story to newsletter@tias.com. 
With everyone enjoying the outdoors and vacations, we're a little short on new
stories. For now, we'll republish some interesting stories from past issues,
but we sure would love to hear new stories!

Here is another interesting reprint from 2003:

When my grandmother was young her family was very poor. Her father ran off and
left her mom with four young children.  They had no money for toys.  One day
though the town was having a raffle.  The prize was a doll.  Tickets were one
cent each.  Too much said my Great-grandmother.  Well the guy told her he had
two tickets left and would give her both tickets for the penny. She bought
them and won the doll for my grandmother.  Being it was the only toy she had
she treasured it.  Now it is my most prized possession as she has passed it
down to me.  It is what has inspired me to start a doll collection for my
daughter. Debbie S.

What inspired your collection? Drop us a note at newsletter@tias.com.
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