How to mind an engagement ring

[BWrose]

The Mr popped the question recently. I don't generally wear jewellery in my day to day life but I want to wear this. It's a silver ring. How is an engagement ring minded? Do people take a ring off when washing hands? Etc

Some people do, lots don’t. I’m a jeweller and I never take mine off, except to clean it every now and again. What a lot of people don’t do, that they should, is get the setting check over by a jeweller every 3 to 5 years. Most times they will be fine (no charge), but sometime the claws/setting moves or wears away, particularly on 18ct gold and thinner settings, and the stones get loose and eventually fall out.

I leave mine on all the time except cleaning.

I take mine off and forget about it for like a month

Not sure what you mean by minding a ring.
I never used to take my rings off for washing my hands,only if I was doing messy jobs. But then again,I didn't have an engagement ring (my choice)

I never take it off, just give it a good clean with fairy liquid and a baby toothbrush every now and then.

Well I have to take mine off for work but otherwise I wear it. Unless I’m baking or something. My wedding ring stays on.

Mine stays on when I wash my hands. I take it off when I run (my fingers swell) or when I swim cos I worry about losing it.

I take both my wedding and engagement rings off for bed, showering and sometimes cleaning. I am very much in the minority amongst my friends who have been wearing theirs since the day they went on!!

I never take mine off. Or any of my rings.

Unless it’s loose the more you remove it the higher the risk of losing it.

I don’t wear mine in the house. Since I got married I mostly just wear my wedding ring and keep my engagement ring for special occasions. My rings are diamond set though, so would get wrecked if I wore them constantly. A plain band would stand up much better to constant wear.

My rings all contain stones (engagement, wedding & eternity) and I take them off at night, when showering, excercising or when cooking/baking in a way which messes up my hands.

I wear all 3 the rest of the time.

It’s a funny one because I know a lot of people who never take them off (and I do mean never), and I know plenty others who wear their wedding rings but not their engagement rings on a daily basis.

I guess I’m somewhere in the middle in that I do wear them every day and they are normal wear to me, but I also protect them by not wearing them in certain situations.

I am not a big jewellery wearer either I should say.

I clean them periodically with gentle liquid soap or fairy liquid and I get them professionally cleaned and the settings checked once a year at the jewellers where they were all bought.

I take mine off if I make pastry but apart from that always stays on

Oh and I’ve been married 18 years and never lost or misplaced them yet.

I only take my rings off when baking/cooking if I'm mixing with my hands, other than that they stay on. I send them off for a good polish once a year though as they do get quite grubby! DH however takes his wedding band off for work as he does a lot of heavy lifting and it kept getting bashed out of shape.

Mine comes off when handling raw mince and for one week a year I wear my husband's ring (Which he never wears) while both rings are replated and checked because they live a hard life. Different strokes though.

I really only wear mine if I’m going out the house. I didn’t wear them for nearly a year while pregnant and just after due to fluid retention. I also have a silver cubic zirconia set for work as I don’t want damage the real things (police officer).

I wear my husband's ring because my finger feels weird without a ring, not out of some need to constantly advertise my marital status by the way.

I never take any of my jewellery off. But then I'm a big jewellery person and I couldn't be without it.

I put my on 13 years ago and have taken it off maybe 4 or 5 times since. These were only to clean it or to let my DD take a look. I only clean it if it gets properly painty of yucky. I put my wedding ring on 12 years ago and again have very very rarely removed it.

Some people do take them on and off more but if I took them off i'd lose them!!!!

After 27 years mine won't come off 😁. It's welded to the shape of my finger. Seems to have survived ok

Is it actually made from silver or another metal that’s silver coloured like white gold or platinum? It matters because they’re different levels of hardness and need different care/will wear differently. You also need to make sure your wedding ring is the same metal so one doesn’t wear the other down.

I’ve also never heard of ‘minding’ a ring, though I got what you meant. Where are you from that that’s a turn of phrase, I’m curious?

When it fits (sodding fat pregnancy fingers) I never take it off, unless I'm cleaning the ring itself or handling raw meat. I have a little ring holder in the kitchen for that.

Mine (plain gold wedding ring, Princess Di style engagement ring) stay on all the time. The only times I haven’t worn them were during my c sections to have my children.

Just do what feels comfortable. I love my ring but don't wear it every day simply because I never wore rings regularly before, and I take it off before bed because I seem to swell in the middle of the night before shrinking again in the morning, so have woken up 'feeling' the ring on my finger which I didn't like.

Some days I feel like wearing it and some days I don't; absolutely unrelated to how I feel about the ring or the husband!