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Who Wears Rings
dav1965
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I have a really nice diamond ring wedding band that i wear if we are going someplace special. I have lost 2 wedding rings from where i had cancer and they fell off somewhere.
I have a black onix ring that has dad written in it that i do not wear because i might lose it.
I have a ring that has JS on the top for James Stallings that i just never wear.
Then i have a 3 or 4 caret purple stone that was my grand dads that i never wear because he was not a good man.
There is 1 more but i cant remember what it is off the top of my head.
I do wear nice watches and a necklace but thats about all. I have 4 or 6 necklaces. I can buy jewelry for scrap prices from my daughter.
I buy all the silver and gold i can afford.
I have a black onix ring that has dad written in it that i do not wear because i might lose it.
I have a ring that has JS on the top for James Stallings that i just never wear.
Then i have a 3 or 4 caret purple stone that was my grand dads that i never wear because he was not a good man.
There is 1 more but i cant remember what it is off the top of my head.
I do wear nice watches and a necklace but thats about all. I have 4 or 6 necklaces. I can buy jewelry for scrap prices from my daughter.
I buy all the silver and gold i can afford.
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It is a cheap 14 K with 3 of the 4 diamond chips left. The band wore through and cracked earlier this year and had a jeweler repair it. They wanted to ?restore? it. Not sure what that means on a $100.00 ring, but I made sure they left the years on it.
Brad Steele
I can't imagine what my jewelry would look like based on what my hands look like.
My wife has lost her wedding ring twice in the last 27 years. We found it once and we replaced it once. I know exactly where my wedding ring is - and it looks just like it did 27 years ago.
at the time I was working construction , my wife worked for a Pepsi distributor and knew too many route drivers who lost or ripped up there finger pulling down the doors on there trucks , jump up grab the door and leave there finger or a big chunk of skin hanging when the door would stick
I have enough scars on my hands ( last one table saw got me no fun and 7 stitches ) but still want to take all my fingers with me when I go
When I was young"er" I worked with too many men that had lost "that" finger for one reason or another, because of the ring.
Told the wife that I didn't need to buy a wedding band, as I would not wear it anyway, was OK with her, she understood.
Wife has wore out 2 rings, I replaced. I told her the third one is the last one. She only wears it when we go out.
No rings for me, anywhere
My nephew got ear rings(he is male) when I saw him I started laughing. His mommy didn't think that was funny.
Mine fits tighter in the summer than in the winter, it actually fell off just yesterday, I wouldn't have noticed if it hadn't made noise when it hit the floor.
My senior year in high school I came home with a ring in my ear.
My dad gave me two options. I could take it out or he would take it out for me. He was not joking. Lol.
That would have been what I said too.
But he is my Nephew and is 19 so I just asked him if he was a Pirate or a fag magnet? MY SIL didn't think that was funny either
My wife replaced it for our 30th anniversary with a white gold band with some small diamonds in it.
On my right hand I wear a 14K yellow gold ring with a 1911 2 1/2 dollar gold piece in it.
My High Schoool principal had one that I loved, and I always thought I'd get one. In 1988 when my son was born, I bought about any coin I could get dated 1988! I saw the 1911 gold piece at the coin shop and bought it.
In 2010 my wife took the coin had it put in a ring for our 25th anniversary.
I also have a beautiful white gold ring with 3/4 karat diamond and 2 sapphires that was my Grandpas. I wear it on occasion for special events.
I also wear a watch daily. I change them up every couple of months. I have a number of watches.
I once was given (by my dad) his gold wedding band that he wore the entire 21 years he was married to my mom. She passed and he remarried some time later. I did wear that ring for a couple years but lost it and have never put on another since. My wife of nearly 47 years has never been into any kind of jewelry. Notta, niltch! She has always been into everything nature related.....horses, goats, DOGS (big time) and ME! 8-) One can't go wrong marrying a farm girl!
He jumped out the back of a truck and his wedding ring hung on the door latch and * it off. The finger that is.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
Many years later helped push a Caddy out of snow, shucked mud and snow from my hand and off the ring went into snow in the woods. Filed a missing report with MP's at the Point. About four months later a Cadet on cross country team at the Point found it and turned it in to MP's. He would not take a reward.
I can't seem to lose this ring so guess I will keep it on a little longer.
Since 2013 I had 7 operations on that hand and probably could wear it again I'm just used to not wearing it now.
I haven't worn a watch since 1978.
She did stop.
She does not wear hers most of the time, and I am fine with that.
She puts it on "sometimes" when we go out, when she feels like dressing up.
You said "not wearing your wedding ring" Guess since I do not have one, and never have, I should not be answering this.
It would be hypocritical of me to feel any different toward her if she did not wear her ring - assuming she did not wear it for the same reason I don't wear mine.
In other words, I would not ask her to destroy her jewelry (or hands), if she used (abused?) her hands the way I do mine.
I have leather gloves. She does not.
Her choice.
I have a friend who wears his wedding ring on his right hand.
If someone asks why he wears it on the wrong hand, he replies "I married the wrong girl"!
When I was a corpsman in the Army, I saw several "de-gloving" injuries. At that time, the only treatment was amputation of the finger. Today, microsurgery has improved to the point that hospital "hand centers" can sometimes sew everything back together, provided the skin isn't too mangled.
I recommend that those who work around machinery, ladders, & vehicles leave all rings at home.
Neal
I don't think this had any impact to my phobia with them, but a mechanic friend of mine has a burned wedding ring. He arced across a starter and frame with his ring and it burned a circle on his finger quit bad. Now, not only does he have a scar ring, he has less functionality with that finger. So, be careful when working with electricity.
Lucked out, and my MOS in the ?Corps would not allow dog tags. One in boot laces, one in breast pocket. 2841, ground radio repair. Worked on things with huage capacitors, the size of pop cans.
My wife wears a wedding ring, and that?s it. Wouldn?t bother me if she put it up and never wore it again.
I trust her, and she me, or we never would have married.
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Only time without my wedding ring or a ring on my left hand was for a couple of surgeries.
Just doesn't seem right without a ring there.