I just journaled about this last week. After 10 months I took them both to a pawn shop and sold them. Got more than I thought I would and then took my daughter out for a nice dinner with some of the cash haha. I think it helped me a bit getting rid of them, I was sick of seeing that ring box knowing both of our rings were in there.

Hemp!...the rings..
Never really thought about them that much.
Mine was gone a long time ago.
When I worked as a heavey equipment operator ( Bull dozers/ earth
moving machines) I worked doing that for 12 1/2 years when I came
home from Vietnam.......anyway it was to dangerous to wear rings.
So mine would go on only when we went out. Don't know where it is now.
NOW, her rings....well maybe three or four years before she left
( maybe longer ???). . She had her ring remade. The diamond was set in a different
band with some other diamonds. At the time, I thought nothing of
It. Now, looking back...that was a sign. Who would change something
Like that with so much meaning......love attached to it.....unless you lost
Your feeling of love..........Just thinking.....I remember when we bought
It.....( tears..tears).... that was ..like 48 ..49 year ago.......life was fun then.....
I better stop now...I can see it's getting to me. And I can see that its going
to lead me to more tears and a dark place...
Have a good night.....Timemam

He didn't buy a ring for me. I picked it out and we made payments. Over time the stones were falling out even after getting it repaired and checked so I put it away. He got me a band which I wore until I appeared before the judge who signed off on the divorce decree. The EX didn't show up. When I got into the car I put it in my purse and put on another ring so I wouldn't feel weird not having something there. Over time I quit wearing that too. I sold the band for the gold. The wedding ring could pass for a cocktail ring, so put it in my safe to give to our daughter.

I sold the wedding bands and any jewelry he gave me. But I kept the engagement ring. He wanted them back, but the law said it was a gift and therefore they were mine. I took my wedding band off when I found out that he was in complete agreement with his mother. I never wore it again.

I had to have three of them cut off my finger -- the original set and the wide band he had given me for our 10th anniversary. After pondering what to do with them for awhile, I sold them and donated the proceeds to Days End Horse Rescue -- an organization that I really believe in which the now-X always thought was stupid!

One creative and amusing thing to do with unwanted wedding rings can be found by googling "Wedding Ring Coffin" It made me chuckle, for sure.

Using a "previously owned ring" for a future fiancée is not a bad idea! Or have the diamond mounded in an entirely new ring. I tell you why. Since my divorce, I would never again buy a diamond at over the counter full costs!!! I've come to learn pawn shops often pays a fraction and even a jeweler /broker re-sale of a diamond is at wholesale prices. Unless you have a high quality certified diamond over 1 karat, it might bring a bit more if a broker has a buyer on standby. It is unlikely you will receive nearly the actual cost you had paid over the counter [and most divorce lawyers will make that claim during the asset division].

I was married to the ex for 27 years; which is more time than some criminals get sentenced for murder so I served my time (without parole) and I earned those rings. I guess it's proper etiquette to give back the engagement ring to the person who gave it to you, but no way in hell that was happening!! He was the one that cheated so screw him. He didn't ask for it back but I would've laughed at him if he did.

I've read about a few different ideas: There is a place that sells ring coffins and you can have the dates your marriage began and ended inscribed on it but I wasn't going to bother 'paying my respects' to my dead marriage because I wasn't going to honor it or him that way.

I've read that some people will take it on a cruise when they get remarried and pitch it into the ocean.

Most re-sell it but you often get pennies on the dollar.

Some people have them melted down and re-fashioned into a new piece of jewelry but I suspect that mostly women do that.

I read about a guy who sold his and took his new girlfriend out to dinner with the proceeds. That sounds like a decent idea. Or a woman who used her monies to buy breast implants after her ex cheated on her. I thought that was a good one too-although you'd have to have a pretty expensive ring to pull that off!

I like the idea of selling it and treating yourself to something nice or having it re-fashioned.

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i'd like to stick it ...

The ex never wore a ring. He is an electrician and most of them don't wear rings. If he wasn

Sorry, on my phone again.... If he wasn't wearing a ring I wasn't either. I'm allergic to something in the gold. My fingers would turn black or green under a ring. My fingers would swell in the MS heat and rings were always to tight or falling off.

I didn'need a ring to remind me to be faithful. Apparently the ex had no intentions of honoring our marriage vows. He did buy me a pretty wedding band a few years into our marriage. I couldn't wear it and put it away.

I ended up selling it along with some earrings and a few things the ex didn't take with him. I put the money in savings to help pay off the farm mortgage.

Mine are just sitting in a jewelry box. It doesn't matter how badly it ended, to me they symbolize all the love and happiness that came before the divorce. I'm not sure what to do with them.

I gave mine back with a note how meaningless they were since he broke the vows that they represented. Wasn't worth any value but I put the burden back on him. This past Christmas he gave his band to out son and my ring he made into a necklace with the 1/16 of carat diamon dangling in Mondale for our daughter. Nice gesture I'm sure he was cleaning house and will be asking OW soon to marry. I was horrified when I she came home from Christmas wearing it. It was like the ring in lord of the rings. I couldn't stop staring at it. I was really hurt by it and took it way to personal. Just another realization he has totally moved on.

Interesting stories, different ideas and feelings what to do
with the old wedding rings...
It got me thinking that the meaning involved with everyone's
wedding ring.....the ring that was put on your finger ..in front
of God.....in (most of us ) in a church.. I'm starting to think that you
Can never take away that blessing.... I think that however you change that
ring.... wherever it goes. . To whom ever. That it will carry with it
the (Cry..cry ) the love that it once represented in your marriage.
That can never be removed from it.
I know that im going to get a lot of responses here that are going to
disagree , buf thats ok !!! Like o said: im just thonking about this.
If i would have her diamond ( 1 krt) gold ring......i would
throw it in the ocean. To lay there endlessly....forever .
One Christmas, long ago.........I had a custom gold diamond stick
Pin made for her. Gold pin with gold leaves on the top and in the
Middle was this beautiful diamond. It was a one of a kind.....
I gusse that to would go into the ocean, if I had my way.
I know that she(x) had her wedding engagement ring redone
into a cocktail ring.....a couple years before she left. But I wonder
what she did with the stick pin.......I'm going to have to ask her.
OK my lady friends here........be easy me please....I'm just one
of those stupid centamental men type.. Ha-Ha......
I cried a little bit writing what I did. How can I not have a tear
Remembering the day I put "that ring" on her finger... many....
many years ago...only know to have it all end so ugly... what
a shame.......OK..... that's it... had my tear jerker for the day ....lol.
Timeman

I still have mine but am planning on selling them I don't care what I get for them-they are tainted to me so I don't want to get a necklace made or hand them down.

I plan to have my diamond from the engagement ring reset into another ring with my two kids' birthstones. I think it will make a very pretty ring and be very meaningful to me.