Divorced ladies What did you do with your rings?

[bonquiqui]

Berbles post reminded me about this.  I still have mine in a box, and I really don't know that I will ever get rid of them.  I am certainly not going to wear them, but I don't know that I can part with them.  Maybe it's a waste, I don't know.  What did you do with yours?  

[Deleted]

I had a friend who bought a matching diamond and had hers made into earrings.

[wowhead]

I had the stone made into a pendant and sold the gold. It will eventually be passed down to my cousin's daughter.

[joshlyman]

I still have mine in a Jewelry box. Not sure what I am going to do with them yet.

[toepick]

I still have mine. I would get a fraction if the value if I sell it, so I'm just hanging on to it. I figure one day I'll make a decision (it's been 5 years!)

[BlackCanary]

For some stupid reason I gave it back to exH. And I had his wedding ring, which I sold back to the jewelers.

Seriously though, what the hell was I thinking?! Giving it back like that...oh well.

[trafficgirl]

Mine's hanging out in my jewelry box. Similar to toepick I figure I wouldn't get very much by selling it and I don't really want to pay to have it made into earrings or a pendant. It's been three years for me and I'm still haven't decided what to do with it in the end. Maybe if diamond prices go up...

[cleo29]

Not exactly the same, but my sister and I took my mom's engagement ring and had a pendant made from the stones. She took the wedding bands and had them melted down and then made into new rings for my sister and me.

So, I would have them made into something new.

[TheSeaward]

sold them on craigslist for pennies on the dollar for what he paid and felt good about it

[glitzyglow]

Sold my engagement ring to a local jeweler and paid off my car with the money. My wedding ring isn't worth much, so I might just try my hand at Craig's List.

[papie]

Not divorced but I actually had a wedding band and engagement ring from XFI (traditional Greek engagement, you just switch hands when you get married). I had the stone set into a pendant and gave it to a friend. I threw the wedding band out the window.

[Deleted]

Keeping them for DD.

[smashley]

They weren't worth much, but I sold them, the tennis bracelet that was my wedding gift from XH, and a necklace he had given me to a local jeweler. Then I used the money and bought myself a green amethyst ring.

[balletofangels]

Not exactly the same, but DH found his XW's e-ring in a heater when he was prepping their house for sale. He pawned it and used the money for divorce bills.

[penelope]

I sold it the first year we were divorced. It wasn't worth much, but I did buy my kids' Christmas gifts with the money.

I have a ring (not an e-ring, but a very pretty sapphire/diamond setting) from an ex from about 15 years ago. When I got engaged to ex-h I secretly gave it to my mom to hold for me, because he wanted me to get rid of it. I haven't seen it since, but I just couldn't part with it. I still wouldn't.

[smashley]

Also, the money I got was only worth a portion of what XH paid for any of that jewelry. I laughed to myself the whole time because after we were divorced he had the balls to tell me that I had better not sell that bracelet, and if I didn't want it, to give it to him because he spent a lot of money on it. Fuckface.

[speckledfrog]

Sept 30, 2013 17:32:43 GMT -5 frkls said:

dh's xw pawned hers...but not until after telling dsd that she would save it and give it to her when she got old enough. did that sound hateful? lol.

Biotch. 

My mom gave me her wedding and engagement ring a couple years ago.  It's small amethysts and teeny diamonds.  I don't know what I am going to do with it, but I do like having it.

[Deleted]

I sold it at a local jeweler and used it for bills. I was a newly single mom and not getting any help at the time.

[luvvy]

It is sitting in my jewelry box. I don't know what to do with it. I paid for it so I hate to sell it for a couple hundred bucks.

[zoidberg]

I sold mine when the price of gold went way up. Cha-Ching!

[Kit]

I still have mine. Before the divorce was final XH told ke we should sell thebring and split the profits. It appraised at $10k. I laughed at him.

It is sitting in my jewelry box right now. I'm married again but not ready to sell it.

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[lsea0323]

Sold them. I had no emotional connection to them whatsoever and I needed the money.

[styme46]

I kept mine. Eventually I will take the stones out and make a necklace and earrings for dd.

[msgeeksout]

I have a box in the closet where I dumped all my crap from my first wedding including my wedding dress (which I made). The rings are in there. I have no idea what to do with them, no kids and now I am remarried. Not worth much.

[Jillaroo]

I had two. The first, a smaller 1ct one I sold a few months ago to some lady who was getting a divorce and wanted a new ring that wasn't from her ex.
The 3 ct wedding set I still have. If like to sell, but people around here are cheap. So I'll just hang onto it. I have thought about asking exH if he'd like to buy it off me.

Both rings were from the same exH. I'd gotten a bigger engagement ring/ wedding set about halfway through the engagement.

[melindafelinda]

Sold.

[aliciar6]

traded them in on a wedding band when I got remarried

[thebamker]

I'll give it to my daughter.

[acr]

I have a feeling I'll end up selling the platinum from the wedding band & keeping the diamond (which was my mom's). The wedding band was my grandmother's, so I'll keep that around for someone else, I imagine.

[catwithspots]

Ugly engagement ring from ExFi....Held onto the ring for several years, then I brought it back to the jewler that created the ring and reallocated the buy-back price toward my current custom wedding band.