I have been given a few jewelry gifts that were so ugly I wanted to lose them. But, nothing expensive and I have managed to not lose anything so far.

My wedding ring got so loose when I lost weight that it kept falling off. I finally stopped wearing it because I was afraid I would lose it. When my mother wanted to have the diamond my dad gave her made over in to a new ring for me we used the gold in my ring towards that. I now have a beautiful ring that fits.

$70,000. ring. What a waste of money. The near loss could serve as a warning to her about what is important in life. The ring has the potential to save someone’s life, a family’s home, to feed a village for a year, assist in important research, or … need I go on? My message to that woman and women/men like her who adorn their flesh/lives with useless trophies of excess is to consider adorning your spirit by cashing in just one of the symbols of your success and putting toward rescuing someone somewhere.

No! But I’d probable go outta my mind if I flushed it down the toilet.

Was the plumber Joe????

I did lose my wedding ring, but I found it later in my bath robe pocket. I rarely take my wedding ring off. Why would someone spend 70k on a wedding ring?! That seems like such a waste to me. I don’t need a huge ring to prove my commitment or love to my husband. In fact, we got matching bands and paid for our trip to Vegas by hocking my old jewelry. He actually surprised me a year later with a 2ct. diamond solitaire that he bought from a friend of mine for $1500. We already had a house and everything else we needed, and he wanted to splurge a little. It was a nice surprise. I was completely happy with just the band. If he had bought it new, I would have made him take it back. Some people just go crazy with material possessions. It won’t buy love or happiness.

you know… some people just have that much money. the kind where a 70K ring is like a 500$ ring to the majority of the population. for all we know the couple gives a few million a year to charity. how much of what they make should they be required to give away before they aren’t simply frivolous? with that said… I can’t imagine spending that on a ring no matter how much i had. but then.. I like hippie jewlery.

I never lost any thing of value, but mom (who wears rings on ever finger, sometimes two at a time lost a valuable ring that her new husband, let her wear. This ring he had was a 24k with a Ruby and diamonds surrounding it worth about 2600 dollars. Well needless to say she lost it, we thought in the yard. She had her grandkids digging up the yard and using a metal detector for about 4 months. She finally gave up. Then one day my mom went to get the box of cheerios out of the back of the cupboard and was pouring the cereal out into a bowl out came the ring as well. Best breakfast ever.

I worked for a relatively small office once where there were about 5 women total in the company. I had gone on and on about a diamond ring I wanted to buy from a local jewelry store. I had received a decent bonus and decided to spend it on the ring I had coveted. I had it for about a week and wore it everyday. Constantly showing it off to my female coworkers. Everyone raved about the small diamond ring as if it were the Hope Diamond! One morning I was in the ladies room and as I always did, I removed my ring and left it near the sink while I washed my hands. I went back to my desk completely forgetting the ring. About 15 minutes later I realized the ring wasn’t on my hand. I rushed to the ladies room, it wasn’t there. Given that the restroom was private and only accessible to our employees which was comprised of 5 women, I knew whomever had taken it was one of my coworkers. I went around to each one personally and asked if they had found the ring. Everyone said no. I continued to work there years, but my relationship with my female coworkers changed from that day. Someone had looked me in the eye and lied. I learned a valuable lesson about trust from that incident.

One Christmas my mother gave my sister and I matching necklaces. They were from a pair of lavender jade and blue pearl earrings that a friend from Hawaii had given her. I love that necklace, it is a lovely size and the lavender drops in a tear shape with pearls at tip coming down with a leaf. As I said I wore it all the time, well one night I went on a nighttime picnic way up in the hills above our ranch, by a natural artesian spring with a guy that I had a big crush on, he was a swimmer from UCLA. We were far away from city lights so the stars were just beautiful. Well, what can I say, we had a wonderful and satisfying time. Drove all the way home - much of the drive was a bumpy dirt road, said good night, I went to bed and discovered I had lost the necklace. I was crestfallen. I had to go to work the next day so I wouldn’t have time to go look for it. I worried about it all day because my mother had given it to me. I finally got back up to the picnic site as the sun was setting and I didn’t think I would be able to find it when about 2 minutes after I got there the light glinted off of something on the ground, about 10 feet from where we were, and it was my necklace. It wasn’t even that dirty. When I looked at it I noticed the ring on the clasp had worn down because I wore it so much, well needless to say, I replaced the clasp. I haven’t worn it in a long time, but I always enjoy it when I do and it makes me think of the artesian spring.

The value people put on jewelry refects the person and time. Jewelry is not looked at the same by all. Whoever wants to put down large sums of money on a “rock” does because they want to and can. My love affair with jewelry started as a little girl. Years of collecting jewelry it assisted me when needed, and all was taken away by a break-in. Heartbroken I now have a few things that I enjoy wearing. As you get older is nice to have but, it’s not that important anymore. Rock on to the ones who love them, and why not?

I love jewelry but I find anything that costs that kind of money ostentatious and I don’t need it, even if I could afford it I see no earthly reason to pay that kind of money for one item. Some people though just have to “show off” just because they can and I have no time for people like that at all….money or material things don’t make you a better person they can make you a selfish uncaring person. I don’t envy people who have money, I just dislike the way it makes some of them act and treat others who have less as if they are better than them just because they have money.

The most precious thing I ever lost was a moonstone earring. Worhless, in the overall scheme of things, but it was a gift. And I’ll always regret it.