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To sleep in necklaces?

18 replies

Fucksandflowers · 12/06/2019 22:22

I got some lovely delicate silver chain ones but I can’t really be bothered putting them on and taking them off every day.

My mum always told me as a child that you must never sleep in necklaces in case they get caught in the night and strangle you.

Is this actually true?
Because DH says this is nonsense?

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AtSea1979 · 12/06/2019 22:23

I’ve never strangled myself, I suppose there’s time yet

GlassSuppers · 12/06/2019 22:24

If it's delicate I'd be more worried about catching it and it breaking in the night. I've broken a necklace like that before Sad

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 12/06/2019 22:25

I always have, since I was 10. I've never broken one, strangled myself or died.

WishIwas19again · 12/06/2019 22:27

My mum always said the same!! I've never slept in my jewellery and found myself spouting the same nonsense to my own Dd recently Grin. I'm pretty sure unless it's a long beady necklace that I can understand could get tangled up, everything else should be fine? I would find it uncomfortable though

adaline · 12/06/2019 22:29

I never take any of my jewellery off unless I'm changing it.

MustBeAWeasly · 12/06/2019 22:32

My mum used to say the same thing! I never take my necklaces off though and I haven't been strangled yet 🤞

I don't even see how they've wrap round your neck with enough force to strangle you. Is myth busters still a thing? We need to get them on it.

thisisthetime · 12/06/2019 22:34

I thought it was nonsense but a few years ago my friends mum woke up struggling as her necklace had somehow got caught so she couldn’t untangle it. Her husband had to help her but she said it was really scary.

bridgetreilly · 12/06/2019 22:40

None of the people who strangled themselves and died by doing this will be posting on the thread, of course.

I wouldn't.

Original poster
Fucksandflowers · 12/06/2019 22:45

Yes my lovely anklet snapped like that glasssupers, I never take off my bracelets or anklet (before it broke!) but necklaces I do. And rings because otherwise they slip.

thisisthetime that must have been terrifying!
I will continue taking them off.

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StoneofDestiny · 12/06/2019 22:49

Do the necklaces not get damaged while showering etc?

Youvegotafriendinme · 12/06/2019 22:49

I work in a jewellers and the amount of people that come in with rings/necklaces/bracelets saying they woke up and it had broken in the night is surprising.
I personally take my jewellery off because it’s not comfortable to sleep in but it still surprises me that people would go to bed in a full charm bracelet/multiple necklaces etc and expect it to still be ok

Butteredghost · 12/06/2019 22:56

Caught in the night and strangle you? ConfusedGrin Caught on what? That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. I sleep in necklaces or I'd forget to put them back on the morning.

And I can tell you a lot of people do. I'm a nurse in a hospital and have to help many of the patients take their necklaces off (if they are having an xray, going for surgery, etc). Many of these chains haven't been taken off for years. Some are impossible for the person to remove either because they aren't physically capable of it or the clasp is broken/stuck.

PookieDo · 12/06/2019 22:56

I have a small necklace with a disc on it with an initial
It is my cats intial, she died and I ordered it from Etsy while I was in mourning for her. It’s not my initial or any of my DC so it is in some ways slightly weird 😂

I never take it off
The most annoying thing is that my hair gets caught in it

JollyAndBright · 12/06/2019 23:03

Throughout my teens I had a special necklace that my sister bought me that wore virtually all the time.
After I had DS in my early 20’s DP bought me an opal necklace that I never took off for over 10 years until the loop on the pendant broke and I almost lost it.
He bought me a replacement on an anniversary trip to Venice and I’ve worn this every day since (3 years)

I’m mid 30’s now and I’ve worn a necklace almost every day since my early teens and I’ve never strangled myself or broken a chain.
They do sometimes get tangled in my hair but that’s usually due to sex not sleeping

Vivavivienne · 12/06/2019 23:05

I think my chains would snap before they suffocated me....

BillywigSting · 12/06/2019 23:10

I've snapped one or two delicate necklaces by sleeping in them before now but never strangled myself.

Still I can see how one of those very long dangly ones could cut off blood flow if it got wrapped around you too tightly.

So in answer I wouldn't sleep in a very long or very fine necklace, but a fairly ordinary one is fine. In fact I've been wearing the one I'm wearing right now for about two weeks. I don't even think to take it off in the shower.

riotlady · 12/06/2019 23:20

My mum told me the same thing but I do it all the time now. I have a necklace with my daughters fingerprint on it that I wear all the time (although I do try and remember to take it off in the shower)

ZippyBungleandGeorge · 12/06/2019 23:30

I take all of my jewellery off at night and it's the last thing I put on in the morning, I worked for a jeweller when I was a student and he said product damages jewellery; soap, shampoo, shower gel, perfume, hairspray, deodorant etc. So now I shower, do my hair and make up, get dressed then put my jewellery on. Before bed I take it off, then take off my make up, get changed etc

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