When you break up, do you keep wearing the ring, stash it away or pawn it?

[Alexa808]

Just wondered what other women do/did. When my engagement fell apart my ex insisted I kept the ring. (Tosser broke up in an email as I was working abroad but saw him 5 days before announcing we're too different. Twunt.) Anyhoo, I sold the ring and got enough money to take 3 girlfriends with me to Marbella for a weekend. We had a great time and it was the best ending any of my previous relationships ever had.

What did you do? Scratch his car with the stone? Fling it down the loo? ... Tell me your stories.

I threw mine in the bin, with great satisfaction.

harpomarx, it was a jeweller that sold 2nd hand jewerlry

I think it would be cool to take them to a jewellers and get them to make something else instead like a beautiful pendant or a brooch or something. Don't know if jewellers would actually do this but don't see why not.

My engagement ring is back in the box and I've even got the box tied up with the ribbon they gave us in the shop - mind I only got engaged last August so I've got all the doings with it.

I saw x-f the other day and he suggested I might want to wear it on another finger.... but it only fits one finger! I'm not quite ready to do that yet. I'll decide one day (I'm torn between wanting him back and wishing he'd fall down a crack in the earth)

NDTH - if you are religious you could get the ring blessed before you re-use it or cleanse it if you are into new age beliefs . Other that.... not sure really!

orangehead, it was the word 'prawn' that was making me wonder...

oh, never mind.

prawn rings - like Kerry Katona buys at Iceland?

harpomarx:

Suwoo, ring a few jewellers in the yellow pages to see if they take rings back. Loads of those shops (with gorgeous jewellery) in Brighton (might be a bit far from Manchester but thought I'd mention it). Also: the jeweller that made them/sold them might take rings back.

Allnew: I'm impressed, always fantasized about flushing it down but then I thought I'd better get some money out of the coward...

I gathered up jewellry from ex-boyfriends and ex-husband for quite a while and then when I got engaged to now DH I found a jeweller where I could trade it all in and put it toward a nice piece that we designed together. 2nd had jewellry is worth bugger all - you are lucky to get a 3rd of its purchase value.

Suwoo, a jeweller will only give your friend scrap value (bugger all). She'll get the best price on eBay.

I can't take my ring back since it was bought in Germany . We had enough trouble buying it in the first place....

Ebay? Really ninedragons? I'm a massive Ebay user but assumed a jeweller would be best? I'll have a look then, ta. Alexa you are right, Brighton is a bit far . There are lots of posh second hand dealing jewellers in the posh part of town here though. Don't think she's ready yet though

If you want a piece of jewellery remade into something else, there are independent jewellers who will do that kind of thing for you. Otherwise, any good pawnbroker will buy the rings off you (though actually I have a feeling that you will get more money if you pawn the things than sell them - just don't bother going back to collect them). I advise taking them into a pawnbroker, asking what they would buy them for, then saying you'll think about it, go to another pawnbroker asking to pawn them and see who gives you the better offer.

I have never been married (way too clever lucky for that) but was unoficially engaged 3 times at Uni. The 3rd ring was the only one that cost more than 50p and it was a rather nice little silver bit of cod Art Deco which I wore on and off on the other hand for a few years till I got burgled and it went along with a lot of other stuff.

Yeah, the eBay price is generally going to be all the jeweller would be able to get for re-selling it, so she'd just be cutting out the middleman. If she gets an appraisal from a jeweller or pawnbroker she'll know where to set the reserve price. She'll need good photos and ideally a written appraisal (she may have to pay for that, but it's worth it for a serious piece of jewellery).

Bugger about your burglary, mademez. A friend of mine got burgled and they took the few bits and pieces that had belonged to her late mother. Just 9ct rings and things with a resale value of virtually nothing, but to her they were obviously irreplaceable.

i sold my ring kept it for a ong time as really loved it and current dp doesnt want to get married so figured would be only engagement ring i'll ever recieve but seemed such a waste to have such a gorgeous ring tucked away

so sold to lovely lady who saw it and was just what she wanted as she had just got married and lost her engagement ring so was happy someone else would love the ring as much as i did

i loved it more than ex dp he was a cheat a bully so it held bad memories

was very nice though

I have had three engagement rings, two wedding rings and two eternity rings given to me by various partners . I still have my current engagement and wedding rings from DH2.

I gave one of my other engagement rings to my Mum because she liked it and have no clue where the others ended up. I moved around a lot in my twenties due to my above chequered relationship history and somewhere along the way I lost track of them. Sad really because one of was a beautiful sapphire and diamond antique bought in Germany and I have never really seen anything like it since.

My relationship history might seem colourful but I have a cousin who has been engaged 8 times and married three times and she is only 40. I will have to ask her what she did with all of her rings.

Comtesse- was it a christian bauer ring????

My wedding ring is sitting in my jewelry box. If it was worth anything I'd have sold it on ebay. However, it cost about 100 US Dollars on e-weddingbands.com and is scratched up titanium!

Kept for DD not worth much more than £40 I think