B4 - valuing my posessions

[Isometry]

Do I put the new value or the used value of things? For example, I own a camara that's on Amazon for $400 new or $150 used. How would I value that?
For heirloom jewelry, is there a good way to guess? I've never bought jewelry on my own, so I have no clue.
For oddball things without a real 'sell' value--my business card collection, weird art things I've made, etc--how do I list these?

 

[OhCanadiana]

Do I put the new value or the used value of things? For example, I own a camara that's on Amazon for $400 new or $150 used. How would I value that?
For heirloom jewelry, is there a good way to guess? I've never bought jewelry on my own, so I have no clue.
For oddball things without a real 'sell' value--my business card collection, weird art things I've made, etc--how do I list these?

Best guess of used value if you were to sell it (or buy the equivalent)

Oddball things just assign a fair value or if they have no resale value say no commercial value

For heirloom jewelry, you could take it to a jeweler. Otherwise, jewelry value depends largely on material if it's gold or platinum or has specific stones. You can try googling similar items and use a scale to weigh pure gold items for example. Also, do you have it insured at all? The value it is insured for could give you a hint.

 

[Isometry]

Okay, thanks!

For the jewelry, I don't have it insured. I assume it's gold, and one piece has what looks like diamonds in it, but I don't actually know for sure.

 

[CharlieD10]

Get the jewelry appraised, especially if it is an heirloom piece, so you know exactly what it values and whether you should insure it!

 

[Isometry]

Okay, so I'm googling "jewelry appraisal" and it looks like an expensive way to find out how much these thing are worth. There's nothing really elaborate. Picture linked below because I like visuals.

This is a tangent, but what would be the point of insuring heirloom jewelry? I wouldn't want to buy replacements if they were damaged/broken (one is already damaged) because the value to me is that they were my grandmother's and supposedly her grandmother's too, not that they're made of valuable materials. I wear them when I see my grandmother, because it makes her happy, (for some reason she thinks of me as her one Arab grandchild) but wearing replacement pieces would have no value to me or to her. Here is all of my jewelry, including my wedding ring, in the picture I took for the B4, though I may take a better one later when it's day out. The twisty one is what's damaged. Any other jewelry I own is things like friendship bracelets from middle school friends, that have sentimental value only.

E: I ended up googling jewelry that looked similar and estimating the value based on that.

 

[OhCanadiana]

Okay, so I'm googling "jewelry appraisal" and it looks like an expensive way to find out how much these thing are worth. There's nothing really elaborate. Picture linked below because I like visuals.

This is a tangent, but what would be the point of insuring heirloom jewelry? I wouldn't want to buy replacements if they were damaged/broken (one is already damaged) because the value to me is that they were my grandmother's and supposedly her grandmother's too, not that they're made of valuable materials. I wear them when I see my grandmother, because it makes her happy, (for some reason she thinks of me as her one Arab grandchild) but wearing replacement pieces would have no value to me or to her. Here is all of my jewelry, including my wedding ring, in the picture I took for the B4, though I may take a better one later when it's day out. The twisty one is what's damaged. Any other jewelry I own is things like friendship bracelets from middle school friends, that have sentimental value only.

E: I ended up googling jewelry that looked similar and estimating the value based on that.

Glad you figured it out