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Woman finds 'basic' engagement ring BEFORE boyfriend proposes and complains about it [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 7, 2018 | Valerie Edwards

Posted on 11/07/2018 8:30:32 AM PST by C19fan

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To: Tired of Taxes

“So then, years later, after the divorce (yeah), I had nothing to pawn.”

To be fair, you would not have later been redeeming the loan ticket anyway.


61 posted on 11/07/2018 9:20:58 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: metmom

I’ve been married over 40 years. We got engaged in high school and my ring cost $300, which was a lot for an 18 y.o. kid to spend. The marriage has been happy and lasted. The ring is in a drawer. I still have it but it’s too small for my 60 year old finger :-)


62 posted on 11/07/2018 9:21:45 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: Vermont Lt
If we are being biblical, what do your sister wives think?

Shutter...
The very thought sends shivers up my spine

Polyandry must even be worse though

63 posted on 11/07/2018 9:22:43 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Scythian_Reborn

That looks like an heirloom, maybe from his mother. It may have been her most treasured possession: three beautiful diamonds, which can be easily updated into a more elegant setting. I would have been honored to receive such a ring.


64 posted on 11/07/2018 9:24:05 AM PST by keats5
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To: C19fan

Dude should RUN, not walk, far away from this narcissistic bitch.


65 posted on 11/07/2018 9:24:15 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan

Sell that ring and run. Man have no need to get married anymore for any reason . The institution holds exactly 0 upside or benefits for a man.


66 posted on 11/07/2018 9:26:23 AM PST by southern rock
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To: Tired of Taxes

The pawn or resale value of jewelry is minimal, anyway. I have a very nice set of Mikimoto pearls that my mother gave me when she wanted an even better one (and my cousin’s ship was going to WestPac), and they’re worth only about $700 as a resale.


67 posted on 11/07/2018 9:27:03 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: blueplum
rings always start small and after five years of marriage, upgrade.

No, they don't.

68 posted on 11/07/2018 9:28:33 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan

I’m hoping the ring was for the guy’s other girlfriend...


69 posted on 11/07/2018 9:29:46 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: C19fan

maybe he already figured her out and the ring was actually for someone else


70 posted on 11/07/2018 9:30:45 AM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: gaijin

My daughter and I found a science activity where you can create your own diamond using a microwave. We haven’t tried it yet, but we probably will over the holidays!


71 posted on 11/07/2018 9:31:32 AM PST by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: HangnJudge

Any man with multiple wife’s MUST be nuts. Any woman with two husbands would be equally crazy.

I was kidding with my original comment. But I agree with your answer.


72 posted on 11/07/2018 9:33:35 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: metmom

It never occurred to me to “upgrade,” either. Sometimes I wear my little gold ring with blue topazes on my right hand. It doesn’t fit on my left hand with my wedding ring, which is also the original, what we could afford in 1988.

I just looked at it, and it could stand to be polished up a little. I need to go to a jeweler to get a watch battery replaced anyway.


73 posted on 11/07/2018 9:34:03 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

Sounds like our story. We were moving some furniture for my in-laws when the U-haul trailer became unhitched and put a dent in his car. Since U-haul attached the trailer themselves, there was a settlement- for roughly $300. My ring came as soon as the check cleared. Unfortunately, the diamond fell out one day while I was hiking in the woods, never to be found again.

My hubby later got me one three times the size of the original. I never had the heart to tell him it stuck out too far. At the time, it kept scratching my daughter’s little arm when we would hold hands, and I reluctantly quit wearing it. I still rarely wear it, as I am not a fancy woman, and it doesn’t work with gardening, or scrubbing toilets or making meatloaf. But neither of us care much. We still love each other.


74 posted on 11/07/2018 9:34:23 AM PST by keats5
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To: C19fan

I married a Russian. She had never heard of an “engagement” ring. I couldn’t be happier.


75 posted on 11/07/2018 9:37:42 AM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
The ring is in a drawer. I still have it but it’s too small for my 60 year old finger :-)

A jeweler can stretch the band to fit. They have a machine for it. Gold is ductile.

76 posted on 11/07/2018 9:39:19 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

I like it....but, as others say, depending upon financial situation I might say “Don’t spend too much”. I didn’t even have an engagement ring. Just wedding band...but, later the hub bought a nice “anniversary ring” that matches the band...when we had more moolah.


77 posted on 11/07/2018 9:39:47 AM PST by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: C19fan

I pray this poor man takes that ring and runs for the hills!


78 posted on 11/07/2018 9:44:07 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: C19fan

I haven’t read a lot of comments over at the source site for the article, but within the first few that I did read I found one I really liked: “Wow...what self-centred entitled snowflakes we have created....they know the price of everything and the value of NOTHING!”

That sums it up so beautifully.


79 posted on 11/07/2018 9:46:54 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

consider her roasted and he needs to get someone different....consider himself lucky for this advance notice


80 posted on 11/07/2018 9:49:13 AM PST by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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