The Other Golden Globe Awards

Earlier this week, we discussed the Golden Globe Awards which were given out this past weekend. After many years of using the same design, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to have a contest to call for designs for a new Golden Globe Statuette. The new statuette is topped with a globe that is plated in 24 karate gold.

Hollywood's Golden Globe Awards are not the only Golden Globe awards that have existed. Because these awards are connected to the Hollywood film industry, they receive much more attention than any other Golden Globe awards would get.

The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race was held in 1968-1969 and its claim to fame is that most of those people competing in the race were not able to finish. Even worse, one of the competitors took his own life. The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race might have been continued if it had not been so beset with problems. It was the first round-the-world yacht race, but this first race was not the beginning of a continual sporting legacy.

It is too bad that the progress of the Sunday Times Golden Globes was hindered by so many problems. When it comes to arranging and organizing things, some endeavors have a much better start out of the gate than others. And in the case of the Sunday Times Golden Globes race, competing agendas and unclear parameter got in the way of what might have been a very promising competition.

If you pause to look around your home and think that you have yet to make the organizing progress that you thought you would make last year...that you promised yourself you would make at the beginning of this month when the new year started, it is not too late. You can clean up and get organized and you never know that treasures you may find as you pick up around the house.  Perhaps if you make the clean up into a competition, you can get your family members to lend a hand.

As an incentive, remember that you can take any old or broken gold jewelry that you find and sell it to a gold buyer. Then you can take the cash for gold you get from selling your unused gold jewelry and get yourself something nice. You certainly will deserve an award (and reward) for your efforts.