Article: Unlike a set of towels, a cutlery collection, or a kitchen appliance, checks are small and lightweight, and consequently easy to misplace. If the wedding couple opens their gifts (or their cards) during the reception, your check could easily be lost or misplaced. To avoid this confusion, mail the check, either before or after the wedding.  Concerning wedding etiquette, it's appropriate to mail a check any time before the wedding, or shortly after the wedding. Do not wait more than three months post-wedding to mail the check.  If you mail the check, address it to a permanent address where you know one or both members of the couple will receive the check. If you're flying or driving across the country—or even across the state line—to attend this wedding, it may be impractical and expensive to bring a large, bulky gift with you. In instances like this, a check is the more convenient and practical option. If you're traveling to a destination wedding, giving a check can solve much of the hassle associated with bringing a gift to a distant location. Consider giving the couple a gift card to a place that has personal meaning to one or both of them. The gift card could be to one of their favorite stores or restaurants. Gift cards do not need to be physically taken to the bank and cashed, which makes them much more convenient for the recipient. If you know where the couple has registered—for example, Target or Bed Bath and Beyond—you can purchase a gift card to that location, so the couple can purchase items on their registry if they choose to.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Mail the check to avoid it being misplaced at the wedding. Take travel into account. Give a gift card instead of a check.

Problem: Article: You should be slow to decrease your prices. People often take low prices as a sign of shoddy workmanship. Furthermore, underselling your competitors makes it difficult for anyone to make a living in the business. Be willing to wait for your items to begin selling and never sell below the price of supplies. Check your price calculations against comparable items. Review online jewelry sites or brick and mortar stores to see what things are selling for. If you can talk to an experienced designer, ask them for price estimates. Most importantly, ask yourself if you are selling enough items or, conversely, if you are selling them quickly enough to justify a price increase. Have people offered to buy any of your jewelry designs? This is a good indication of the marketability of your designs. If your items are not selling, it is typically better to change your design than lower your prices. This can mean reducing material or labor costs.  I could also mean starting over with a completely new design that more people are interested in purchasing.  Assess your materials. If you aren’t purchasing in bulk and getting wholesale prices, the materials will be too expensive for you to turn a profit. It can be hard to sell labor intensive items that require a lot of time, because consumers do not necessarily understand how much time is required to make them and are not willing to pay commensurate prices. Sometimes adapting these labor intensive products into smaller designs is a good way to reduce the amount of time you put into them and begin selling them at rates the market will bear. If your items are selling well and you have committed customers, you can increase your price. Consider developing two price ranges. Continuing making the products that have been successful, but also begin making higher quality products that you can charge more for. With this two tier pricing system, you can continue to attract new customers with cheap products, while pulling in larger margins in the upscale market.
Summary: Don’t sell yourself short. Perform market research. Reevaluate your design. Increase your prices.

The beard of an adult male turkey is longer than that of an immature male. Typically, immature male turkeys have beards measuring 6 inches (15 cm) or shorter. At the age of 2, most turkeys will have a beard between 9 and 10 inches (23 and 25 cm). Turkeys with beard beyond 10 inches (25 cm) are usually older than 3 years, but most beards do not exceed 11 inches (28 cm). The white striping that decorates the rest of each feather should extend all the way to the tip of the feather if the turkey is an adult male. Juvenile males have undecorated wing feather tips. The tip of an adult feather is usually rounded, too, but juvenile feathers are more pointed. For best results, spread the wing out until it is in a fully fanned position and check the outermost feather. The coloration and shape of the other wing feathers can change at different paces, so the outermost wing feather will give you the most accurate results. Fan out the tail feathers of the turkey or wait for it to do it naturally. The central tail feathers of an immature male are longer than the rest, but all tail feathers arch evenly on an adult male. Note that adult tail feathers are usually 12 to 15 inches (30.5 and 38 cm) long, while juvenile tail feathers are usually shorter. The exact length of juvenile tail feathers will vary depending on the exact age and overall growth of the bird, though. All juvenile turkeys have buff-tipped feathers on the lower third of the breast, regardless of their sex. Knowing that the turkey is a juvenile will allow you to use other factors to sex the bird. Note that juvenile breast feathers also tend to be more slender, and the tips are generally rounded. Adult breast feathers have squared tips. Both juvenile and adult male turkeys have leg spurs, but the spurs on a young male will look more like stubs since they are still developing. Immature males will have spurs that are less than 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) long.  After the age of 2, adult males spurs can range between 1/2 and 1 inch (1.25 and 2.5 cm). Male turkeys over the age of 4 can have spurs measuring almost 2 inch (2.5 cm) or longer in very rare cases.
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Measure the turkey's beard. Inspect the tips of the wing feathers. Check the spread of that tail feathers. Take a look at the breast feathers. Examine any spurs on the turkey's legs.