What did you do with your wedding rings?

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Husband and I separated in jan 2019 so can apply for a divorce soon (hurray!).
My wedding and engagement ring have been sat in my mums jewellery box ever since and are valued at about 2600 pounds together. I am so unsure what to do with them. A massive part of me would love a nice ring to wear on my middle finger, like eternity style with my sons names engraved inside but frankly I'll never be afford to buy anything for that amount. I wonder if I can sell them to a jewellers or have them made into an item. But then part of me feels bad and I don't know why. I have two sons and I dunno why but I worry they will be upset when they're older that I got rid. But I will never wear them again... surely they wouldn't want to give their future partners these rings.....
I'm rambling i know! I just wondered what you guys did with your jewellery items?
I don't know why I feel guilty around this. My ex walked out on me during pregnancy and put me through hell. I have no romantic feelings to him and no attachment to the rings at all! I've noticed ex wears his ring on his other hand now as it was bespoke and he really loved it. I would literally never want to wear these rings again! I suppose I am worried of upsetting anyone by moving on 🙈

Great idea to see if a jeweller could turn the two rings into one that you would like to wear.

Sold mine for scrap gold. £30. Worth it.

I threw my wedding ring in the skip when I was clearing the house. I could have cashed in the gold but that symbolic gesture was far more important than the cash.

Packed them up with the rest of his stuff and let him have them back.

My mum kept her wedding ring because she didn't know what else to do with it. When my grandma (paternal) died she left me her gold engagement ring and I now wear that plus my mum's old wedding ring (my rings were white gold and my grandma's is yellow gold so needed a new wedding band). Often wonder if it's a weird thing to have done but I have their wedding photos too because neither of them wanted them and I quite like having the history even though it didn't work out conventionally!

I sold mine to one of those cash for gold type places for £45 and took the kids out for pizza.

Do whatever you want with them OP. If that means taking them to a jeweller and having them melted down and reset into a piece of jewellery of your own design, do it!

I have mine, thinking of taking the stones out and selling the gold then using the stones to create something else, not sure what, perhaps a new engagement ring

Gave my engagement ring to my daughter who wears it all the time on her middle finger right hand.

Wedding ring sits in jewellery box. My children can fight over it when I am dead

Aww thanks everyone! If I had a daughter then maybe I would pass them on but I dunno I feel weird about giving them to my sons and them giving it to their partners... I suppose I'd rather pass on something that means something to me! Isn't it crazy how low in value the gold is!! I wonder if I would get more going into a jewellers! They are beautiful rings but they make me angry 🙈

What somethings valued at for insurance purposes and what it’s sale value are are two different things.

Make sure you know what it’s actually worth before considering your next steps. Take to a jeweller or pawn shop (preferably a few) and ask how much they’d buy them from you for. That’s it’s worth.

Then you’ll know.

Is there more than one diamond in them? You could split the ring up and give each of your children a diamond in due course to make into a pendant or ring or whatever? It’s not cheap though. About £800 here. Each.

Or keep and make into a pendant and earrings for yourself?

Or leave just now and see how you feel on five years time once you’re over that bastard and everything’s good.

Sold mine to a pawn shop and went on holiday!

Sell them. Get as much as you can for them and treat yourself to something lovely

Mine were quite expensive so I sold them. The wedding ring had been bought with money I inherited from my grandfather anyway. I didn't get as much as they were worth but I got about a grand and went on holiday with it!

I left mine behind. No need for them and no attachment to them.

I've no idea what he did with them.

I had the three diamonds from my engagement ring made into 3 separate stacking rings to represent my three DCs, I wear them on my other hand. I love them as they can be worn together but are very much separate, like my DCs. If they chose they can all have one of the rings when they are older

My engagement, wedding and eternity rings were valued and insured for £5k. I sold them to a jeweller's for scrap value. £120. Bought a shelf unit with the proceeds. Far more practical!

My parents divorced, I’ve ended up with their rings. They have now sat in a box doing nothing for 30 years so far …I spoke to my siblings and said what about I melt them together and create something for each of us - nope. Honestly don’t understand why not!

Sell them go have a nice meal :)

sold them. My mom bought my engagement ring, and i sold the wedding ring.

Sold them. I have no regrets about it.

eBay. Got twice as much as I would have for the scrap value, which is all any jeweller would offer me. I think that's pretty typical. I bought a new washing machine with the proceeds.

Keep it for emergency pawing (along with a few other scraps of jewellery)

Pawned them. Mine were very pure gold and heavy so I got a pretty good price for them. The diamond ring not so much. Diamonds don’t have much of a resale value unless you own the kohinoor.

Get them valued OP then decide what to do.

If your sons give them to partners, and then split up, they’re gone.
Sell them, remodel them, or keep them for future grand daughters.

I never saw my mum’s rings, so I assume she sold them. You