What did you do with the ring after divorce?

[Nogoodwithgoodbyes]

I’m separated and on the road to divorce; so thinking about the rings is a distraction from all the ‘big stuff.’

What did you do with your wedding & engagement rings after you separated/got divorced? I quite like mine now but I don’t want to wear them as I’d like to meet someone new someday.

I have kept mine in the box with a thought that my children may want them (or the gold and diamond to be made into something they do want).

If I divorced DH I’d still wear the ring. It’s pretty! Any meaning you assign to it beyond that is all in your head.

Got my engagement ring re-sized to wear on my right hand. But I have only worn it once or twice, I have just got used to not wearing them. Just have them in a box now and will pass on to my daughter or sister or whoever wants them.
I still like them.

Had them cut off by a fabulous fireman!! And sold them for scrap, spent the money on wine 🍷

I offered engagement ring to dd as knew I would never wear again and 18c gold and 1/2 c diamond. She turned it down as yellow gold. I have to my niece who had always liked it. My 18 c gold wedding ring I threw in the sea from top of cliff where cheating rat had proposed time. It made me feel a bit better after divorce was finalised.

I've still got mine but planning to sell them. I know they won't be worth much. Probably put the money in my savings as the divorce has depleted them.

Sold mine, he wasn't paying anything towards the children so it bought us £30 of food in Iceland to feed us.

I threw it in the kitchen bin when I decided my marriage was over. We lived in a country that was recycling mad (think 8/9 different bins) and he used to always “check” I had put items in the correct bin so he found it and fished it out. No idea why as it was worthless (he bought me it when he was a skint student (no precious metals or stones).

Mine are in my jewellery box. I don’t miss the husband but I miss wearing my ring. Am wondering if I can get it resized for the other hand..

Mine are in the bottom of a bag. Keep meaning to give the cheap engagement ring to a charity shop and post the other one back to him just to put the willies up him.

DH's ex still wears hers, which I find rather odd. Don't think she's hankering after getting back with him or anything. Maybe she just wants to look as if she's married. Bit odd though. It's definitely the ring he gave her

Mine are in a bag or a box or a drawer somewhere. I didnt actually know I still had them until DP found them lol.

My engagement ring was 17 quid from h Samuel in the sale and its chipped. My wedding ring was part of a 2 for 30 deal with 10% off for buying both together.

So I'm not gonna get anything for them. We didnt have children either so again no point in having them.

When I grew up the wire "cord" to our kitchen fan had a gold band twisted into it at the end as a sort of "pull".

It was years later I found it was my mother's wedding ring from her first marriage!

I sold mine to pay the mortgage one month when exh was playing silly buggers with maintenance payments. I sold a 1 carat flawless diamond for $1500. That was the best offer I could get, but hey it paid the mortgage that month. I threw in the gold wedding band just to get it out my house

Pawn shops needed the money to feed ys

My DF had his melted down and turned into a charm for me which was nice

Trashed them with a hammer and a pair of pliers then put the remains down the drain, shame as I may have got a few quid for them but I was mad, also burnt the wedding dress in my Parent's garden and singed Dad's grass he was not amused but I enjoyed erasing any reminder of the fecker I was married to

Oh aye, I left my wedding dress when I moved out and I think he binned it.

I threw my wedding ring into the sea (melodramatic I know). I gave my engagement ring to one daughter and eternity ring to the other

I had the diamonds from my engagement ring made into a pendant and earrings for my daughter's 21st. I still have my wedding ring, which I'll offer to her when she gets married (or civil partnered, whatever). It was my gran's wedding ring and I never dishonoured it.

Threw my wedding ring in the river of the home town I had stupidly left in order to marry him.

Actually chucked mine in the bin!

They are worth nothing, cheap white gold- but my intention is to have them melted down and made into a different ring and give them to our daughter as a gift on her 16th birthday.

I sold mine a year later, when I was ready. I then treated myself to new nails, hair, makeup, perfume and underwear and a few bottles for my first date with my now husband. The rest went on treating my kids.

Wow! Amazing answers!

For those of you who sold them, where did you sell them? Any recommendations?