What did you do with your engagement/wedding rings?

[bitterexwife]

I still wear my wedding ring as it’s just a plain band, so I wear it on my right hand. My engagement ring though I think is very obviously an engagement ring, and I don’t know what to do with it!

No daughters to pass it onto, can’t afford to donate it, don’t want to sell it.
Worried about turning it into a necklace incase chain snaps and I lose it. Also concerned about it sitting in my jewellery box incase I ever get burgled!

it’s just a single princess cut diamond on plain platinum band.

Mine were cheap. Sold them and had a night out with my best mate!!

Perhaps one day I can sell it and split the money between my sons savings accounts - won’t be a lot each though

I hang onto mine and recently gave them to our daughter now she's an adult. They weren't worth much but had been very special to me for a long time and I couldn't think of a better home for them than with the lovely daughter from that marriage.

They’re sitting in my jewellery box. I’ve no idea what I’ll do with them really. I’m not fussed about keeping them and turning them into something else. Hmm, dunno!

I sold my engagement ring and I chucked my wedding ring into the sea.

Sold them both. Got a fraction of what they actually cost (I bought my own wedding ring)…..bought a beautiful tea pot with some of the money and gave a bunch of ££ to a homeless man I saw on the way home from the jewellers

Get a jeweller to turn it into a pendant or re-set it in a different ring? A jeweller turned my grandma’s dated engagement ring into really pretty earstuds for me.

Perhaps I should get the engagement ring valued and then go from there. It may be worth next to nothing, and then I have to think…. Do I WANT to keep it for sentimental reasons? The divorce isn’t my choice at all.

I put mine in the bin outside ASDA one day, while o was shopping I had a ‘WTF am I wearing these’ moment so binned them on the way out. It was a week or so after I told him to leave.

@northteawow! Did you ever regret that?

I didn’t have an engagement ring, but I gave my wedding ring to my DD when she was an adult. She has had it made into a lovely ring. She sees it as a memento of a time when her parents loved each other enough to choose to have a child (her) together.

They’re in my jewellery box and I’ll give them to my daughter. She can decide what she wants to do with them. They aren’t worth anything but obviously have huge sentimental value.

My wedding ring is still somewhere in my house, not sure where…

I tried to sell my engagement ring. It was only when I took it to the jewellers that they told me it was fake and they offered me a tenner for it.

I burst into tears. It was a mixture of me being really emotional because it was such a stressful time, seeing the ring as a symbol of my marriage which was an absolute sham, and being desperate for the cash because he’d cleared out the joint account and I had no money to buy shopping for the DCs. I really should have known.

Same here! I sold them at a cash converters type place and got about £80. This was back in 2001.

I’m like you. Sold them for a fraction of their cost and bought two items that would give me everyday use - expensive straighteners and expensive electric toothbrush! Still think I made exactly the right choice!

I never had an engagement ring. I threw my wedding ring into a fast-flowing mountain river.

Gave my engagement ring to my late teens dd , and she lost it . My wedding ring I sold to one of those we buy gold places alongside other unwanted jewellery .
Think it made ( altogether about £150 - £200 ish ) then spent it on a haircut and a few books & cafe visits .

Threw my wedding ring in the lake. Kissed it bye first.

Sold them.

My sister wears my engagement ring as a normal ring. My wedding ring was really cheap so is just sitting on a drawer somewhere at my parents' house.

No not at all, I haven’t given it a second thought in over 25 years.

I stopped wearing my engagement ring as honestly it is too embarrassing. We got married young, neither of us had much money and he proposed with a tiny ring. It was fine at the time but now we have both done well with our careers and move in different (much more affluent) social circles. Might sound shallow but I got fed up of feeling self conscious when colleagues and friends with massive rocks were looking at my ring with pity.

I suggested "upgrading" my engagement ring to a bigger one more befitting our current circumstances. Even offered to pay for it myself. But OH wouldn't have it, said the original ring should be special and not replaced. I get where he is coming from but the alternative is it stays in the drawer, I will never wear it again as it is just a bit pathetic 😔

I sold mine so I could pay the mortgage.

Sold them, glad to see the back of them.