AIBU to leave my wedding rings at home for holiday?

If your rings are at risk of slipping off, they’re the wrong size.

I never take mine off, although I might take my engagement ring off if I were to go somewhere dodgy, but I don’t really plan on doing that.

I wear my eternity and promise rings and leave wedding and engagement rings at home. The former 2 are plain, thin bands that fit quite tightly. They the least 2 sentimental and easiest to replace. The latter 2 have diamonds and aren't easily replaced and would be sorely missed!

If I know I'm in a dodgy area I flip my biggest stone ring around so it can't be seen! I wouldn't wear fakes though, after hearing a story of a woman having her finger partially cut off and degloved for just a cubic zirconia ring.

I never take mine off because I have no reason to?

They fit me nicely, they're not uncomfortable and it's just easier to leave them on. I've been married five years next month and mine have been on since our wedding day.

DH doesn't wear his ring as he works in a messy/practical job and it would be too dangerous. His is in a jewellery box upstairs.

I would suggest that your rings are too expensive if you feel uneasy about wearing them all the time?

I wear my wedding ring all the time. It’s a plain band and fits pretty securely, so I’m not worried about it. But I leave my engagement ring at home, hidden. It’s too precious to me to risk, and if it was lost or stolen we’d never find a true like-for-like replacement, and it does feel a bit risky to either wear it on the beach and in the sea, or leave it in a safe or buried in a drawer. I wear my proposal ring instead- it’s cz rather than diamond, but still very pretty and obviously has the sentimental value. Plus my husband proposed while we were on holiday, so it feels appropriate.

Unless your rings don’t fit you properly AND are uninsured, I think YABU and overreacting 😶

I take mine off for some holidays and leave them at home.

A lot of my holidays involve boats, and wearing rings whilst messing around with ropes and anchor chains is not my idea of safe. I have absolutely no desire to deglove my finger... They are also a bit loose as I've lost weight since I got married and I can't enjoy swimming when I can feel them sliding around.

I wear a silicone one when I don't have my real ones on so I know I took them off on purpose and swapped them over, otherwise I look at my naked finger and panic that I've lost them!

I just wear mine all the time. the very action of taking them on and off regularly increases the risk of them being lost or stolen.

Have them cleaned once a year to keep the sparkle.

One of my relatives had their wedding and engagement rings stolen on holiday when they had taken them off. I don’t wear one anyway, but this would put me off tbh.

It sounds like these are places where tourists are at increased risk of violent robberies, which is the truth. Stop trying to take offence where none is meant or are you suggesting someone should merrily prance round Johannesburg decked out in diamonds?

I leave my engagement ring in the hotel safe if I'm going to be at the pool / beach, but do wear my wedding ring for swimming, however thinking about it maybe I might start leaving my engagement ring at home full stop - the stone came from a ring that was my grandmother's (and in turn had been passed down to her) so I would be devastated to lose it. And whilst my wedding ring is plain maybe I'll get a very cheap band and just start wearing that on holiday as I wouldn't want to lose the 'actual' wedding ring.

Mine has been on my finger since I got married. Same with my engagement ring.

I wear mine all the time because otherwise I'd lose it. Is as simple as that.

Yeah this seems a bit weird to me. Can you not cope with people not knowing you're married?

I feel like a load has fallen from me since no longer wearing a wedding ring!

My fingers swell in the heat so I end up taking my rings off after the first day or so anyway, so this year I just left them at home. I also damaged my engagement ring so badly on holiday one year that the jeweller advised me against wearing it daily when I had it repaired so that also makes me super cautious with my other jewellery.

Twice while on holiday I have seen posters offering rewards for found engagement/wedding rings so I think it's really sensible not to take them actually.

There’s no harm in swapping them for fakes. I was going to suggest putting them onto a longish chain (necklace) so you’d feel they were safer but that would just get you dragged into farm machinery.

My fakes are silver, no green fingers here!

I always take fakes on holiday. I can't stand putting sun tan lotion on wearing rings and I'd probably lose them if I kept taking them on and off. So I leave the fakes in the hotel room during the day and put them on of an evening. I like wearing jewellery and would feel strange not having something in their place.

I also take my rings off every night before bed and if I put hand cream on!

The fake ring is a bit weird... wouldn't your finger just go green?🤣

I have a wedding ring, engagement ring, an internity ring and a big fancy, sapphire art deco ring.

I don't wear them all at once, or even on the same fingers all the time.

I'm going camping later and just wearing my plain yellow gold wedding band. Currently on my right hand but sometimes it goes on my left hand if one or more of the other rings come out!

As someone who never wears a wedding ring I am puzzled about this.

People who never take them off - what do you think will happen if you do?
Is it just so that you can say "I've never taken them off" or do you think something bad will happen?
Those who wear fake ones - why? Do you think people judge you if you are not wearing a ring? Do you judge others?

My ring is far safer on my finger then if I take it off. Reading that a pp puts hers in a rolled up sock on her hotel room nearly made me hyperventilate 😂

I can't put anything down without losing it. And 'safe places' are the worst!