To throw diamond ring away

[sweetpopcorn86]

I'm wondering...what did you do with your wedding/engagement ring after divorce?

@Chasingsquirrels My mum had my Dad's wedding ring melted down and made into pendants for me, her and my sister.

Sell it, OP. Even if you only get peanuts for it, that's money you can treat yourself with.

Sell it and send yourself on a nice holiday would be my advice. Look at it as the end of a chapter and the start of a beautiful new one!

Mine are ready for my (adult) son to take and possibly remodel and fashion into a new engagement ring for when he proposes.
I like the idea of it being used for something special in his life as although the marriage failed, I was in love when I married and he was created out of love.

@MrsSkylerWhite

Yes, YA.

Completely understand why you want to be shot of it.

Please remember though that someone far less privileged than you excavated what you are wanting to discard (you must be if you’re seriously considering throwing it away). It’s also a finite resource, needed for all sorts of engineering applications.

Please, sell it and donate to an appropriate charity, perhaps one based in DRifCongo, Botswana or Sierra Leone. (There are larger producers but their people are not so ill-treated in pursuit).

Sorry if I sound pious. Just one of my personal bug bares. Too many privileged people have no idea of the history of what they parade.

All of this. It is a non renewable resource, brought up from the ground in likely horrendous working conditions. If you sell it you can have money, if you donate it will give someone a better life. Binning it to landfill makes the whole thing end in nothing.

I loved my engagement ring as I picked it myself, and my ex and I paid for it together, so I held onto it for my daughter when she turns 18. It was only £795 new so not worth selling. I've also kept my wedding ring for her but that was only £100 new so she can do whatever it she wants with that!

Kept the diamond engagement and eternity (🙄) rings. Melted down the wedding ring with other bits of old gold and spent the money on cocktails in Mexico. 🍸

DH thought I’d keep it for our daughter, but it was pretty ordinary and I’d always wanted a pair of diamond earrings. The jeweller who made them for me sold the platinum and took the proceeds off the price of her work. I wear them a lot!

Why an earth would you throw money away.

If there is real hate there then sell it and donate the money to a charity you know your ex would hate.

After my mum remarried, she got both old wedding bands melted down into bar pendants for my brother and I. That was 30odd years ago now so not sure how much it would cost these days.

My sister gave me hers. It's pretty and she didn't want it wasted.

@sweetpopcorn86

I'm wondering...what did you do with your wedding/engagement ring after divorce?

I didn't have an engagement ring as XH was a tightarse. My wedding ring was also dirt cheap (from a novelty shop), but I have kept it and DD can have it at some point. XH is a complete shit, but I did think I loved him once, and our lovely DC were the result of that bad decision. I only have one DD, so she's the obvious recipient. She can choose what to do with it in due course.

Sell it and spend the money. If you don't want to do that give the ring to your local charity shop.

Sold them to a jeweler, no doubt for recycling.

They weren't of huge value when purchased, DD is of an Amazonian build like her dad so they wouldn't have fitted her and not her taste anyway. My wedding ring had to be cut off in any case.

I used the proceeds towards buying wallpaper and paint for my new home.

I gave my first engagement ring, with DH’s first wedding ring, to a charity shop.

Left them behind, I didn't want them.

After I had children my ring was too small. Exh got annoyed with me not wearing it so eventually I got him to have it widened. I still didn't wear it much, though.

When we divorced I decided to give it back to him in its original box. As I was polishing it up, it broke: he'd had it widened on the cheap with some kind of plastic, and the plastic part fell out.
I gave it back to him broken, felt like a good symbol.

You sell it and have a party on the proceeds obviously 😄

Gave mine to a charity.

Soooo my ex never actually gave me my ring back but he might do when the divorce is finalised....

If so, do you think it would a have a good resale value. Think he bought it for 3k

Don't have a daughter, only son

What @MrsSkylerWhite said

You might not want it for very good reasons but to throw it away seems so wasteful. At least give it to a charity shop so someone else can benefit

Sold it & had a nice night out.

I gave it back to him. Selling it and giving the money to charity is a great idea

Engagement ring - I sold it and the proceeds decorated and furnished the flat I moved into after I ran away from him.