Do you wear your wedding ring?

I don't, but then again I regularly work with high voltage where a ring would be a bad idea. How about you?

I'm going to have it melted down and made into a tooth.

:D

I gave all the cash I had with me (7, 8 dollars) to a woman with two gold teeth standing with her baby outside the store I was leaving this afternoon. She spoke a Slavic language and held an index card that explained her needs (money to feed her baby). Onlookers made fun of me for giving.

Some might argue that she should have ripped out her teeth and sold them before begging, however. :eyes:

I'm so tired of the attitude here in the OC. Spoiled. Greedy. Better than. I could tell you stories...unbelievable...

cool. I like it.

:P

Heat it and butter it up if you really want to try and get it off.

It was always tight. I can't believe less than 10 lbs can make such a huge difference in my hands! How crazy is that? :crazy:

Good thing I'm still happy with the giver.

No need to wear it anymore.

if you don't need it

I bought food for the kids with the money.

I thought it was a good use of the ring! ;)

:P :evilgrin:

I'll wear it again, just as soon as it gets melted down into something wearable...

I made Mrs R a nice pair of earrings out of my mother's engagement ring after Ma died.

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Long story... I'll tell it to ya over lunch, though :) :hi:

:P

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guitar strings when I wore it on my ring finger.

I really did try, and you can ask Mrs R. But it made me nuts, because I've never worn jewelry of any sort, nor even a wristwatch. Got to the point where I'd put in on when I was going out of the house / office, and took it off right away when I got back.

And you know what THAT habit led to, right? You're right: Lost ring.

Fortunately, Mrs R understands, and has not pressured me to replace it.

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but when you're working with lamps that ignite with 30kV it makes you kinda wary... I don't blame you in the least, it feels weird if I have it or my watch on now. Although my ring is in with her jewelery for 'safe keeping'

you'll wish you didn't have.

Redstone

I'm pretty used to my ring now, but when I play I put in on a carabiner keychain so I don't lose it.

kind of like this one, but mine has a little light built into it too.

i never wear any jewelry either, not even a watch. and even tho i haven't seen my wedding band in over 10 years, i know that it's around here someplace- so i'm not going to consider it "lost" just yet.

and I have an "engagement" ring that I wear with it. IT has a stone and snags on things sometimes. Mostly, I wear my rings because I want people to know I am married and I think they look nice and of course, I am attached to them cuz my hubby gave them to me.

The saddest thing is when widows wear their husband's ring on a chain around their neck. My boss and my coworker do that. It is sweet but I feel so bad for them...

And we don't give a shit.

are you sure you're still married???/?



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I totally understand.

People ask us how long we've been married and we both look at one another waiting to see if the other one knows. We're idiots.

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We went to the town hall to get hitched and I giggled all the way throught "the vows." Mr. Gray was so amused.

As a matter of fact, I'm having trouble right now trying to pin down the date. As you can imagine, we don't do anything on our anniversary.

because there hasn't been a marriage here for quite some time.

:shrug:

Unless I'm having surgery, or some such thing.......

But otherwise, it's always on my ring finger........

It's a lost wax ring, and I love it!

those look really cool!

too dangerous - caught a finger with a differnet ring in a calf chute a long time ago - that was a good lesson. Also for some stupid reason we got gold rings (tradition) and I really prefer silver. So I don't even put it on when I do wear jewelry.

Still just as married though.

not any more. I busted the knuckle up on my left ring finger pretty bad about 10 years ago. It left the knuckle larger than it used to be. I had the ring resized to fit over the knuckle, but then it was loose and flopped around too much once I slid it all the way on. The Mrs, doesn't care, we never have been too much into the whole symbolism thing of it anyway.

My engagement ring/wedding ring belonged to my husband's mother, and she left it to him when she died. My FiL gave it to her right before he shipped out during WWII. It's a very slender set, platinum, with a diamond and baguette's on the engagement ring, and a tiny row of diamonds on the wedding ring. I told my husband, when we decided to make it legal, that I didn't want the whole ring thing, but I didn't know his mother's set had been saved for him in a safety deposit box. It was pretty much the only thing, worth anything, the she had left for him.

Sometimes, I wear nothing at all (it's loose at times) or I just wear the wedding ring, which is so slender it doesn't look like a wedding ring. I've has people "approach" me when I'm just wearing the wedding ring, and held it up to indicate my status. Several have been mad, because they didn't recognize it as a wedding ring.

OTOH, I've had many compliments on it (all by women) because it's so dainty, and not showy at all.

I've never seen either one without them, actually. My mom loves rings, and my dad is relatively non-jewelry-phobic for a guy, or so he says.

up from the damn hives...but most of the time, yes. I love my ring!

I think she'd like one if we ever had enough money lying around to spend on such a thing.

Lost it in a creek about 3 months after we got married...couldn't find it, and haven't replaced it yet.

I found it in a box the other night, along with what was apparently a gift my ex had bought but never gave me.

I must confess, it re-broke my heart.

I don't wear them to Mexican food, because it's drippy, and if I'm at a bar by myself (free drinks yay).

My wedding band is quite pretty and has a lovely, geeky inscription. I've always worn a ring on my left hand, and since December, that ring has been my engagement ring.

I don't wear rings on my left hand, and CMW has never worn rings on either hand.

I've lost 60 lbs and it won't stay on my ring finger any longer. Soon I guess I won't wear it. My husband can't wear his at all. We're getting new ones when we reach our goal weights.

easy to do with a simple band. Jeweler puts it in a press, pulls the lever, instantly shrunk (or expanded, whatever you want).

with something better and kept putting it off. Our procrastination worked in our favor this time because now we can get our new rings made to the correct size. I don't have an engagement ring so no worries there (I told him the money spent wasn't worth it and I'd rather have a million other things).

I even wore it to mix cement (oops!). You can imagine the look I got from the jeweler when I went to get it cleaned. :D It gets thoroughly cleaned once a month and I clean it every other day with a toothbrush and jewelry cleaner.

Too many smart women out there :silly:

He also worked with equipment where wearing the ring would have been dangerous. My husband was fine with this. I didn't wear mine because I disliked the fact that society thought that it was acceptable for a man to not wear a wedding ring but not a woman.

Currently, both my husband and I wear our rings.

Banquets and weddings and shit. Other than that no. It's worn maybe twice a year.

I have to wash my hands too much. It gets wet underneath and I have to keep taking it off to dry underneath it or I get a rash.
Too much trouble. I'm a busy woman.

Not a good thing to get caught when you take a fall. Ive seen the results.

It was getting a little small for the ring finger and I'd wear in on the pinkie intermittantly. Unfortuantely the pinkie was a little to small for the ring and it is now resting (somewhere) in a local pond (at least I know where it is).

Still feel it on my finger though, even after 15 years.

My wife stopped wearing hers after the 2nd kid came along, a combination of not fitting on the swollen fingers of a pregnant women and it being dangerous at work.

Went back to bench lab work, where wearing rings is never a good idea.

i've never liked the feel of jewelry, so i don't wear any, or own any- except for my wedding ring, which i haven't even seen in the last decade...and since we've moved, i'm not even all that certain where it might actually be at the moment.

I've been working on a slight of hand thing with a ring on my left hand, so I switched to my right.

Too dangerous. When I go home at the end of the work day, I prefer to have all ten of my fingers!

I always wear the band. I rarely wear my engagement ring though. I love it, but I just find it uncomfortable, so that only goes on for special occasions. My husband only wears his ring on the weekends. He can't wear any kind of jewelry at work for safety reasons.

So did my husband. We had to have them removed!

I'm not married :) But I do wear rings every day!

for a medical procedure. The hospital made me.

But I love seeing it there on my finger every day. Ours are just little silver bands with engraved lines through the center (bought at a little Asian-owned shop in West Edmonton Mall), but that day reminds me of the happiest time in my life.

We told my new future brother and sister-in-law and nieces before we told anybody else. They were with us looking over our shoulders excitedly when we bought them.

I take my rings off when I wash my hands and while I'm sleeping. Also, I take them off if I'm doing yard work or using harsh cleaners in the house.

but I'm no longer married.

Still, I love the ring, and it cost mucho bucks.

What should I do with it???

It would be kind of an alloy if melted...it's about 2/3 platinum and 1/3 gold. It would probably look more silvery, but would make a helluva tooth.

Maybe we can photoshop this so you're sure ya want it...;)

It can only be an improvement :)

I wouldn't want you to melt it down. When you're 95 you'll take it out from wherever you've kept it, and remember. By then it should be all good.

I give birth in May. Swollen fingers. :(

I guess your gender has officially been declared. Good luck with the last two months of pregnancy. :hi:

Thank you, I am plenty ready. I have been pregnant for almost two years! This was an "oops" pregnancy. I had my son last June. This little boy and his brother will be 11 months apart. Ah, however we are done! The uterus is retired after this one!

My "oops" baby came six 1/2 years after I thought my uterus was done. :rofl: Of course as you know, it wasn't awfully funny at the time.

We will be sure just before the baby is born to see if the procedure that my husband had done did it's job. He volunteered for the fixing. Doesn't want me going through any surgeries or taking b.c. He says that having the babies are enough on the poor body. He is a sweetie for doing so.

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luckily, no high voltage at his job.......

but I shouldn't. It's got paint in between the diamonds now and has some little scratches on the gold. I really should learn to take it off when I'm doing nasty jobs. :banghead:

if I've been typing a lot and my fingers swell.

I like to sleep naked. And for some reason I feel more naked when I haven't got my ring on.

but I do have a ring that the man gave me and I wear it all the time.

The replacement was a size smaller, and it won't go over my knuckle now, so I'm always wearing my ring.

like i need to be reminded about how stupid i was????

Part of my job involves doing fan checks and other maintenance inside of computer servers while they're running (most high-quality modern servers allow hot swapping of parts). One day, I fried a computer because my wedding ring hit a couple of hot solder joints. After that, we posted a notice on the server cages reminding people to remove their rings when servicing the equipment. Over the following three months, I accidentally left my ring in servers on three different occasions...including one day when I'd checked 14 different machines. Luckily, I'd left it in the third, and hadn't decided to work through them backwards.

At first, I just started leaving it in my office, but after forgetting it a few times I just stopped wearing to work completely. Then I stopped putting it on AFTER work.

Nowadays, I only wear it on weekends when I'm not doing anything physical, or when I'm going out with my wife. She wears hers religiously, but has no problem with me not wearing mine.

To the ring, or to me. See, the ring is 119 years old and the original stone (a cabochon garnet of amazing size and clarity) has been reset in the original setting twice. I want to continue wearing this ring until I can pass it on to my niece, and that means taking care of it. So it does not go in water, soil or anywhere it might get icky. Fortunately, it's a cab, so I don't have to worry about snagging it on things.

DH wore his for 80% of the first two years we were married, then he lost it during year 3 for most of a year. (I found it in a bag of cans of cat food...) He's pretty good about wearing his now, but we have the same agreement there, too -- his ring is 90 years old.