What did you do with your engagement / wedding rings after divorce

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Mine weren't particularly expensive. Just wondering what to do with them as definitely don't want to keep. Are they worth selling? What did you do with yours?

Though I remember a friend of my mother years ago taking her old engagement ring to sell and discovering something about it not being genuine, either the gems or that it was gold plated .

I gave mine to my brother to sell when he had a bit of a financial crises. I was glad something good came of them.

Sold them for £250 and had a night out on the money.

Binned mine wouldn't want remodeled that's still a piece of a past I don't want and neither did I want the money lol

Never married but engaged twice. Kept the expensive engagement ring (god knows why it just sits in its box most of the time) and got a cheaper, nice ring which I just sold on. It was nice enough but couldn’t be bothered to get it remodelled.

My DM was engaged once and I think she gave her 1950s diamond and Ruby ring back to her fiancé as she broke it off. First husband no idea where that ring went, he cheated on her. My DF her second DH she kept and then sold both his and her wedding rings when she needed the money, had never had engagement rings with other two, first husband they got married on a whim and similar with second husband the same month or month after I was born.

I have them in a safe place. My dc can have them if they like when older. If I am ever desperate to pay the bills or buy food I would sell them.

Not divorced, but an ex and I called off our wedding fairly last minute. I liked the ring, it was also quite expensive, so I kept wearing it, when I then became engaged to my now husband I wore it on my ring finger and kept it as my wedding ring.

Sold them to a cash for gold type place, and bought a games machine (wasn't allowed anything fun when I was married). 😆

What does wearing it on the right hand mean?
I want to keep mine, the diamond is too pretty. 😁

I didn’t want to keep but wanted some good to come from my wedding ring. I took to a cash for gold place and then immediately walked the cash (£27, I think. This was 2011) to the nearest Oxfam shop and gave it as a donation. Still feel v comfortable with this decision.

Mine are both Tiffany’s. Do you reckon Tiffany would buy them back pre-loved?

Thinking of redesigning mine into an “I am enough” ring

Some 15 years later, I still have mine tucked away with some other unwanted jewellery, including some hideous stuff I inherited from my mum. I think of it as a bit of insurance policy - might be helpful in an apocalypse or will sell in an regency situation!

I checked that my daughter did not want to keep them, she didn't so I sold mine along with my late mothers rings ( second marriage ,and they held no sentimental value to me)
No regrets.

Where have people sold their rings? In person or a postal type place?

Sold mine and paid for an oil delivery.

It doesn’t “mean” anything as far as I know. Surely a ring is only an engagement ring if you wear it on your left ring finger. I wear it like a wear any ring I love.

Unless it has a very large, good-quality stone, you won't recoup anything like the original price if you sell. Do you have children? You could have them remodelled into a piece for them, e.g. a pendant.

Lots of people wear their engagement and wedding ring on their right hand.

Do they really @Simonjt? That’s news to me. I don’t really care. I love the ring, still enjoy wearing it and if some random choses to think I might be engaged because I’m wearing a ring, any ring, on the third finger if either hand, I don’t really care either. Good grief.

Im wearing a band on the third finger if my right hand now as well. No fucks to give.

I very dramatically threw mine into a canal 😶

Still have them, but never worn. Might sell them on now. It's been a while!

I threw mine into the pond in Dulwich park.

I continued to wear them.

I've kept them for DD if she ever wants them. Don't think they'd be worth even the scrap value if I'm honest.