Divorced and want to sell rings?

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I am thinking about selling my engagement and wedding rings now I'm divorced - is that normal or not?

They will just sit in a drawer otherwise.

I have no desire to pass them on to children ( i find it a bit weird that William gave Kate an engagement ring from a failed marriage- a bad omen thing).

What do others do?

i sold mine once he had cheated on me and left they had no sentimental value whatsoever, were just a reminder of how crap some men can be

Where did people sell theirs? Am wanting to sell mine but am finding that a lot of local jewellers aren’t buying second hand jewellery at the moment.

I have mine in a drawer - I am keeping them to sell if I need emergency money at anytime. Ironically one of them is an Eternity ring - which he bought me 4 years before he ran off with someone else

They have no sentimental value at all. I got rid of all the other jewellery he ever gave me a long time ago (after letting DD choose a few bits she liked) they had absolutely no meaning for me after we split and I would fee a bit uncomfortable wearing them.

So totally normal IMO. Rings from a failed marriage are not something it is appropriate to pass on I don't think - who'd want them ?

You don't get much for second hand jewellery - what about having them melted down and made into a new item?

DD1 has my wedding ring and DD2 has my engagment ring (which she always loved and does wear) whatever they do with them is up to them. I wouldn't have got much if I'd sold them anyway.

I had the engagement ring valued at the antique jeweller we bought it from originally-worth about 1/3 what was paid. If i sold both id go to them.

He said market is low and he had over 1000 rings in stock so unless they had big jewel of value or value in the design it was only materials value at the moment.

I thought about having the made into something else, but i think id still know where they came from and feel a bit ick wearing them.

I sold mine to a pawnbrokers, got the value of the gold for them.

I wasn’t too fussed to be honest, just did not want them around.

i think id still know where they came from and feel a bit ick wearing them.

See, I think rather than look at the bastard things every time I opened a drawer, I'd try to look at it as making something new and better out of a crap situation - lemons/lemonade and all that.

Sold my wedding ring at a jewellers for the value of the metal, which was about £30. Not a lot, but it drew a psychological line and was better than it sitting in a draw for several years.

As the child of divorced parents I would have LOVED to have their rings. Their marriage may not have lasted but it is

a) hurtful to me to think it "failed" when I am the product of it
and
b) they are still both my parents and so I would have sentimental links to their wedding rings (they were not money-valuable).

Unfortunately, they both got rid. Two decades later when all the hurt is gone and they are both remarried and happy, it seems like such a waste of family history that they were not kept.

Sold mine at a pawnbrokers. Got very little for them considering how much they cost but it was good to let them go. Spent the money on nothing really.

My mum kept her wedding and engagement rings and passed them onto me when I got married.
I loved having them as my rings (and DH was happy for me to have them). Although my mum and dads marriage didn't work out, I still came from that marriage and they mean the world to me :)

I tried to sell mine but was only being offered the value of the weight of the gold in every jewellers I went it so it didn't seem worth it.

I did think about throwing them down a live volcano a la Lord of the Rings, but opportunities for that are limited.

I also emailed the owners of a local cavern which has a supposedly "bottomless" pit, and asked if I could throw them down there, but they never replied!

emz1990 I think you just put it so much nicer and simpler than I did...

I sold mine very soon after I spilt with my husband. Only got the cash for gold price but at the time it was quite reasonable and it felt good to do it.

I broke off an engagement and I gave back the ring. ExDP wanted to buy me out of the house we co-owned, but couldn't raise all the cash, so I got bits of furniture as well, plus the bloody ring (which I really didn't want!). Took it to a jeweller, had it polished and cleaned, found out how much it would cost new, and stuck it on ebay (probably not adviseable if your rings are worth thousands!!) Got a very good price and the guy who bought it got a bargain too.

Sold mine with other jewellery exh had given me. Put the money into savings for my dc

I’ve kept them. The marriage may have been white and a gigantic mistake, and the jewellery worth pennies, but I did love him at one point, and I have an amazing little girl from it. She can have them and do what she wants. Keep them as is or I’ll pay for her to have them made into a new ring.

Shite. Even. Damn autocorrect, now I look weird 😂😂

I have kept mine and have been divorced over 5 years now. I did have them valued after the split but knowing how much they cost and what I would get for them (about 10% of original cost ) I just put them in a box and leave them in a draw.

I don't know what I'll do with them eventually, I have a DD so maybe she will want them one day or maybe not but it doesn't bother me to keep them and as pieces of jewellery I still think they are lovely but just not the sentiment behind them sadly!

I sold mine. I got 25% of the valuation price.

I took mine to Hatton Garden and sold there. But I did try to sell to a diamond buying company - if I remember they were based in Birmingham - they sent out a registered and insured envelope. They valued (for them to purchase from me) my rings at exactly the same value as I got in Hatton Garden.

I needed the money to pay towards the divorce bill.

I sold mine for £250 recently. They were worth perhaps 4 times as much, but we split up 10 years ago, and that's the best price I've been offered for them in all that time. I still have my dress too, anyone know where I can get rid of that?!

@1stTimeMama- there are companies who make dresses for babies who pass away from wedding dresses.

First marriage – Still got wedding and engagement rings. Only married for a year over 20 years ago. No dc from the marriage (we were kids ourselves). The wedding ring was simple and cost about £100, my engagement ring however was 18k!! I will keep the wedding ring for sentimental reasons and will one day sell the engagement ring when I need the money. I’ve come close to it many times (nearly sold it to pay for divorce number 2!). I’ll sell it when I can think of something really nice and extravagant to buy with it.

Second marriage – been divorced 7 years, 15 year marriage. Still have both rings plus eternity ring. 2 dc from that marriage. Rings are in my jewellery box, I will keep them for our dd if she wants them. I wouldn’t want to sell them as I wouldn’t get much for them. My eternity ring has my birthstone in it, which is also mine and her dads birthstone, so I hope she will want that ring if not the other two.
Exh number one still has his wedding ring (we are loosely still friends as his best mate married my best mate).

Exh number two sold his and bought a kayak with it.