It has been suggested that I blog about rings--like the kind you wear on your finger. I'm not exactly certain as to why, but because I am a puppet I will do so.
My wife's wedding ring was free. So that was cool. It was her great-grandmother's 29th birthday gift. It's white gold with 29 small diamonds. Really cool. I think we bought some groceries with the extra money.
My ring wasn't that expensive--although I was apparently the pickiest ring-picker-outer ever. It's not that I never found what I was looking for, it's that I didn't care what I was looking for. I just figured that if she gave it to me, then it'd be perfect. But that started to cause her stress, so I picked a really cool one. I just looked on the internet to see if I could find a picture of something resembling my ring, but I didn't. This post is getting more exciting by the sentence.
Okay, the comments on this post better be worth the time I've taken to write this, the lamest post in my short history of blogging.
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Um... in waiting for DG to post what she's been dying to post, I'll just go ahead and post my philosophy. So far I'm safe because you (Coop) didn't spend money on a ring, so I won't be offending the host, at least.
I think that spending large amounts of money on a ring when a young couple is about to start out their marriage is about the most ridiculous, stupid, and materialistic thing that you can do. So a ring is a symbol, right? Does it have to be a $2000 symbol when you don't have money to pay tuition? What are girls my age even DOING walking around with these expensive rocks on their fingers? I'd really rather NOT have to pay off the debt of a rock that's on my finger.
I think that our generation (and maybe the generation before us? I haven't done my research) has blown the ring thing WAY out of proportion. Get something you can afford, not something that is as good or better than what everyone else has.
As far as the "wearing it forever" excuse---you know, that this is what she has to look at forever, I'm currently wearing a ring that I bought when I was 18 years old. It's simple and classy and I've been wearing it for the past six and a half years. I'm certainly not tired of it. It cost me $18 in Canadian currency. I'm not saying that you shouldn't spend more than $20 on a ring. I'm just saying you don't have to spend what you don't have to get what everyone else makes you think you should have.
I think that spending large amounts of money on a ring when any couple is starting out their marriage is about the most ridiculous, stupid, and materialistic thing you can do.
So I found this gorgeous ring on the Tiffany's Web site, and looked at it about every day for the first two weeks daltonboy and I were dating. Then I went to New York and went to Tiffany's and saw the actual ring, that cost about $60,000. Also, the Tiffany's people weren't that nice to me because I wasn't wearing rich clothes. That's when I realized that spending a lot of money on jewelry is stupid, ridiculous, and materialistic.
So I came home, went to another Web site (www.weddingringknockoffs.com or something), and found a ring almost just like the Tiffany's one, only it was cubic zirconia. Daltonboy ordered it for like $250, and we rode off into the sunset. It's pretty, sparkly, and no one can ever tell it's fake. Even if they did, I wouldn't care. I usually just tell people when they compliment me, because I don't want them to think I'm stupid and materialistic.
Also, I resized the ring I had worn in my previous marriage and gave it to daltonboy (it looks like the ring from LOTR). I asked him first, and he didn't care, and it originally cost twice what my cz ring cost, so I got over the bad vibes and gave it to him.
Now he's always talking to guys who are getting engaged and trying to sell them on the beauties of cz. They get all excited, and then they go home and talk to their stupid, ridiculous, materialistic girlfriends, and come back all dejected. "She said there's no way she'll marry me if she has to wear a FAKE diamond on her finger. So I guess we're back to the original plan of going $20,000 in debt. But it was a good idea, dude."
Oh, and as far as "wearing it forever" goes, I've noticed that most old ladies don't wear their rings anyway. Their hands have gotten too fat/knuckles are too swollen. So that argument doesn't hold water at all. Sorry.
So that's my story. Sorry it's not really that good. I didn't really think you would obey me and post on this, but thanks for letting me share my opinions.
I guess I'll throw my two cents in as a man. I think there is a problem going on with the insistance on getting a BIG diamond. To me, a gift of jewlery has to say something, both about the person recieving it, and the person giving it. This obsesion with size seems to be a case of one-uping the Jones. I'd much prefer to give my wife a down payment on a house instead of a big impersonal rock. I got my fiance a specially made ring, (I designed it myself), with a flawless, F color, 1/4 carat for $600. It's beautiful, wearable (an aspect stressed by my mother), and has the classic elegance that fits my wife perfectly. I'm not against spending money to make sure you get quality work. (I figure less jewlery, higher quality for my wife). Don't spend money to just get what everyone else is getting.
I remember this one time when I was little and my dad had a ring and then I ate a sandwich, but it wasn't pastrami on rye like I wanted, but it tasted JUST LIKE IT and then John Kerry walked up to me at the carwash and gave me a bottle of Heinz ketchup WITHOUT EVEN SPEAKING, which, in my experience was just the thing I would want him to do.
I am NOT a Kerry hater, but that got me thinking--What are paperclips made of? If they are made of zinc, could you grind them up and use them for sunscreen or is that a whole different kind of zinc because, you know, sunscreen is important, but only if you go out in the sun--by the way, does the sun seem extra hot lately when you go outside, because it does to me--I have really sensitive skin and one time...that's when the doctor said the rash doesn't look that bad.
Random post, man. Very random.
Okay, Coop, I'm rill sorry I ever suggested that you post about this. I was mostly kidding anyway, but if you find that you are becoming ostracized from the blog community (or the community at large), feel free to blame me. Or you could just delete this whole thing. There's a pretty good chance that a couple of people haven't read any of it yet.
I believe in your powers, and will stand by whatever decision you make.
Daltongirl, my friend, if I were clever enough to have thought of something on my own to blog about, this wouldn't be an issue.
Thanks for believing in my powers though. I should have a superhero name now that others believe in my abilities.
Coop, I and all the other right-thinking people completely agree with you. I would rather have a pretty CZ ring than some expensive thing to be paying off the for the next however many years.
And those people who talk about how the ring is an expression of love and a really really expensive ring shows that your fiance loves you a really really lot have been fed crack by DeBeers.
The point of a ring is to provide a woman with a monetarily vauable object as both evidence of the seriousness the man's intentions, and to provide some insurance for the woman against the loss of her husband. (Whether due to divorce, adandonment, or death). Gold and diamonds are the safest repositors of value.
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Lady Steed and I spent roughly $50 on both our rings.
Worship us.
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