Divorcées – What did you do with your engagement ring and wedding band?

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1. I saved my wedding set for 25 years and gave them to my son for when he proposed. … And then his wife lost them at a swimming pool. 🤬

2. Sold them, I don’t want that worthless reminder near me, I went to india lol

3. My oldest daughter asked me to keep them. So I’m keeping them for her and when she’s older if she wants to take them with her or whatever, she can do that.

4. Sold them

5. Pawned it cause I never want to see the cursed thing again

6. I threw my wedding band into the sea. I did not have an engagement ring.

7. I didn’t have an engagement ring. My ex gave me his wedding band (well, threw it at my head after I told him I was leaving him.) I sold both bands.

8. Pawn shop

9. Paid off a load of student loans

10. Resale doesn’t pay well, so I found a local jeweler who could remove the stones and I designed a new ring for myself. I love it!

11. They were family heirlooms so I used them for my next wedding sounds odd but the meaning of the ring ment nothing with first husband it means everything with my current and true love.

12. Never had an engagement ring, but I sold both mine and his wedding ring to a store that bought gold, got a nice sum for them and he didn’t get a dime.

13. [removed]

14. Put it up for a while and tell all the bad feelings had passed. Then I used it for a right hand ring. It kind of looks like a cocktail run anyway

15. When we told his mom we decided to get married, she drove up to offer her wedding ring. His dad, who had died 10 years earlier, was a rare metals machinist and had made it for her when they got married. I returned it to her when we got divorced. We didn’t do engagement rings.

16. In my safe because it’s an antique that I picked and mostly bought and I love it

17. My sister kept wearing hers, but on the other hand, because she got remarried.

18. I gave them as a gift to friends of mine who were getting married and having trouble affording the rings they wanted so they could either sell them or reset the stones into their own settings if they wanted to do so.

19. I’m an idiot, I gave both weddings rings (my first one, and my “upgraded” one) back to my ex. I should have kept it, but I was so distraught with the realization that those things never meant love or partnership, but that “I belonged to him and was his property.”

20. Sold it after 8 years of being divorced. Half of money I donated, half spent to buy a new earrings.

21. Gave it back. I didn’t have an engagement ring, but I gave the wedding band back.

22. My wife is still my best friend and I still have fondness for my custom wedding band, so I just wear it on my right hand now.

23. I gave both back to him, I assume he sold them. Probably helped pay for his next wife’s rings.

24. Pawned them for substantially less monies than originally paid. It was like cashing out of my marriage, 150 bucks for 11yrs and 2 kids. Thanks for comin out.

25. Tossed em straight in the trash on my way out

26. I only have the one ring and it’s in my safe, along with the diamond earrings he gave me on our 20th anniversary. If either of my children ever decide to get married and they want the pieces, that’s where they’ll go. Otherwise they can sell them when I’m dead, I guess

27. I’m still holding on to it. But I will sell it eventually.

28. I kept mine hidden away for a while. The week that the divorce came through, I felt able to pawn the wedding rings. I only got scrap value for them, so no trip to India for me. It felt incredible cathartic, and I’m pleased that I waited until I was ready. The original cost of them would have been long haul flights but there’s very little re-sale value for second hand wedding rings, for some reason…

    My engagement ring I kept, and still wear sometimes on a different finger. It’s hands-down the fanciest piece of jewellery I’ve ever owned and I still love the unusual design. It feels like a bit of a dirty secret when I wear it, as nobody in my life now would know it was my old engagement ring, and that’s fine with me.

29. Still have them. Want to sell. Rings just don’t maintain much value no matter how much you spend on them. Such bad investments.

30. Gave it back to my ex, though in hindsight I wish I kept it and sold it off. Pretty sure he sold it for the money.

31. Sold them and bought a motorbike 🤣

32. Made earrings and necklace. They live in my safe deposit box. He actually asked for the ring back after 25 years of marriage.

33. My wedding band belonged to my late father, and it was gifted to me by my mother for my wedding. I still have it, and plan to use it if I ever get married again. Her ring I put inside a plastic ball and put it inside one of those 25c prize machines. Which is more than it deserves honestly.

34. asked my kids if they wanted me to keep them. they said no. kept them in a box for a while, then sold to a jeweler for grocery money after a few years.

35. I made a necklace with the side stones and gave the bands to my sister in law to use for her own wedding!

36. Sold the gold, kept the rock. Used the rock in a new ring. (I had paid for it myself in the first place, so…)

37. [removed]

38. I never received an engagement ring as we put that money towards a house. The wedding band I still have cuz I’m a sad loser. I wear it when I travel to keep away the hoards of admirers. Lol. I mean weird pervs who hit on old women.

39. I had my Solitaire reset into a necklace for my daughter for her high school graduation. I traded in the gold bands toward the new setting and a chain.