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.

I've still got my engagement ring, as well as my late DM's first one (my parents were divorced) and I really have no idea what to do with them - no children.

My ex and I both still wear our wedding rings, but on different fingers. We aren't actually divorced though, just separated for over 20 years!

Yes, it does sound shallow. I'm team DH with this one (and yes, I also have a tiny engagement ring and if my ex and I were still together would wear it with pride - and I also seem to have nicer colleagues and friends, who I doubt even look at other people's rings, let alone judge)

How did you sell them? Local jewellers and pawn brokers offered a figure but all said they’d be worth four times as much to sell privately - but how? Have bad experiences of eBay etc and heard too many horror stories of high value items being scammed. Would love to see but feel stupid not knowing how.

I sold mine and put the money towards a holiday for me and the kids.

I guess it depends how much you hate your ex! Not divorced here, but if I was, I would offer them to my daughter as a symbol of the marriage which created her.
Or have them melted down and made into something new for me, to celebrate the birth of this new phase of my life.

Sold the lot - took our son to Mexico on the proceeds!

We had the most wonderful time!

@Sidebend I don’t hate him, but I don’t overly like him most of the time either. Just feels a waste to do nothing with it.

@sunnydayswim I agree, no clue on how to sell either.

Does anyone know if you pay for valuations?
I have the receipt from the diamond purchase.

So far, I’m liking the idea of selling it, which is new, as always thought I’d change it into something. Perhaps use money for a holiday as PPs have suggested, or too up the money and buy a used watch. I feel less like I’d lose a watch than a dainty necklace. I’d also wear a watch everyday - never take my current one off.

Mine went out with the cat litter!

😂😂 via the insides of the cat!?

No i liked the cat! 🤣🤣🤣

It’s not the ring that’s pathetic

I have a beautiful huge grey diamond unique and vintage engagement ring from my ex husband. It is beautiful I adore it and love it - large grey diamond square cut totally unique. I love the ring and will gift it to my daughter. I have a platinum wedding band worth a fraction of the engagement ring and my grandmother’s engagement ring too so I expect that is worth a fair bit. The children can have them at any point. My daughter loves my old engagement ring and she is welcome to it and I hope it brings her happiness.

DH and I didn’t do an engagement ring.

I put them somewhere safe… have not been able to find them for the last 3 years

Sold my wedding ring to one of those 'we buy gold' places in a shopping centre as i passed by.
Sold my engagement ring on eBay for almost half its value (I'd paid for half of it anyway so just about got my money back).

I got mine remade into other items.
my engagement centre stone is now a diamond pendant and the rest is a chunky ring. It did cost me a fair bit to do but I had no one to leave it to. Selling was an option but I wouldn’t have got much for it and I really like nice jewellery so I treated myself

Sold the wedding ring to a "cash for gold" place, gave the engagement ring to a downtrodden, possibly DV victim wife of my cousin and told her to sell it when she really needed some money. She fled with the child shortly after and we never heard from her again....I hope the ring helped them.

I loved (and still love) my engagement ring, so I kept it and still wear it. It’s a beautiful design, and the jeweler who made it is such a sweet kind person … so even beyond my former relationship, the ring itself has good memories in it.

I’m not as fond of the wedding ring, and have considered selling it, but I paused after getting it valued, as i wouldn’t get much for it.

Me and DH traded in first time wedding rings towards second time wedding rings. Probably quite unsentimental 🤣

Sold mine (got £6k for ER and £600 for WR) I needed the money for solicitors 😂 if they were worth less I probably would have kept for my daughter

The diamond in my Ring was worth a lot so I swapped it for another piece of jewellery. I still have the wedding ring and I’ve kept that for my daughter and will give it to her soon.

You don't sound ready to decide yet OP. Why not put it in a safe place for a couple of years tgen see how you feel?But mmake a note of the safe place!

I don’t get why you would keep them and pass them down - I’d consider them bad luck TBH and sell them. Why would your kids want a reminder of their parents failed marriage

My unpleasant fiancé demanded an engagement ring from me. Apparently I shouldn't have been getting all the jewellery. He chose a ring that was double the price of mine. He received a cheap 'shut (him) up' band.

Needless to say, I didn't have a wedding ring to dispose of. He showed his true colours after getting engaged. He made a big deal about getting my ring back and tried to dramatically return his to me. I told him to keep the cheap piece of tat as it was as worthless as the relationship had been.

Bullet dodged 😁

Sold them and bought a round at the pub to celebrate (grand total of £45 for both)

I sold every bit of jewellery my ex bought me as when I put them on I thought of him and I didn’t want to think about him anymore. I took them to a local jewellers and they gave me a good price for them. Can’t remember what I did with the money 🙄