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Take on a second job to fulfill your civic duty to De Beers.
This reminds me of the constant ads I see now for different things to "help you with your side hustle"... It's so depressing to think that having 2 or 3 jobs at once is now just considered a normal part of daily life and worse yet we have a cutesy name to try and make it sound fun
For most of my life if someone told me they had a gig, I would assume they were in a band playing at a local venue. Now it means they're a part time delivery or cab driver...
We talked about side hustles at work and I was the only one on the team without one. Most of my colleagues do Uber Eats or Uber.
My wife was upset that the ring I bought was too expensive.
You've picked up a gem. Don't lose her
I was married and opted out of rings also. waste of money. jewelry uncomfortable anyway. I don't want anything around my fingers, neck, or my wrists, no.
Also I get extremely angry when men buy me flowers. What a waste of money. They're overpriced and they're going to die.
Let's spend our money on skydiving and traveling and adventures.
Yup, we didn't bother with rings either. I wanted to retire but needed health insurance, so we decided to finally get married after being together for 22 years. We kept it as minimal as we could. No ceremony (in Pennsylvania you can self-unite thanks to the Quakers), no rings, no name change, no fuss. Nothing changed which is exactly what we wanted!
LPT: Silicone rings are superior in every way if you use your hands at all for anything. I have never taken mine off. Meanwhile I just fidgeted all day with the fancy one. So uncomfortable.
Plus the good ones go for like $20. The cheap ones are like $8 for pack of 5.
De Beers has spent a lot of money to make them not the first thing you think about.
I tried silicone rings and didn’t like the feeling. I just put the ring on a carabiner when I work and put it back on when done.
Never thought of a carabineer. I've seen them as necklaces. I liked mine as a necklace.
The good thing of the carabiner is you can take it on/off much faster is of you forgot to remove it it’s just a few seconds instead of fumbling with a necklace.
It's a tricky word to spell, I do need to write that word from time to time, and I always have to consult a source to get it right
carabiner
I have a handful of silicone rings and I hate them all.
I do a lot of work with my hands and silicone rings are the only ones I can wear at work. But it's the first thing I take off when I get home.
They just don't slide the same.
Hijacking this reply to talk about estate jewelry! It has a better history, it's probably more well-made, it's often more beautiful, and it's cheaper. Plus, you're recycling!
Mmm conflict diamonds
My friend, who comes from a pretty wealthy family, was all excited when he told me that he spent like 15 grand on his wife's engagement ring.
I also love hearing ads from a local jeweler that keeps shitting on lab grown diamonds, because he sells natural diamonds, and is most likely losing money. He was like "Lab grown diamonds don't hold their value, but natural ones do! In order to "prove" this I'll give you a lab grown diamond if you buy a natural one! "
"I'd like to refund this natural diamond and keep the lab grown one.
What do you mean no? You are the one who told me natural diamonds hold their value."
Not sure if we've seen the same ad, but my local jeweler who does the same thing calls natural diamonds "earth-born". Makes me want to vomit.
Gimme that blood diamond, make it extra bloody.
We're so close to Bloodborne diamonds.
At least it's a step up from bloodborne illnesses. Step down from Bloodborne the game though.
Surely there's some lab process where you could take actual blood and process it into a shiny bauble.
I could see that as a romantic gesture.
You can made lab diamonds from blood. Diamonds are just carbon and almost everything thing has carbon. You can right now get your dead relatives' ashes made into a diamond. It would probably take a while to be able safely get enough of your own blood to make a diamond though. But that would make it more romantic, right?
The most toxic girl from your highschool showed this to her boyfriend.
This is why my wife and I got matching tattoos. I have a tattoo of her butt on my butt and she has mine on hers. Its cute to us but big enough that it would be very off putting to others if either of us tried to cheat. It also cost pretty much nothing because she's a tattoo artist.
I highly recommend anyone looking to marry to work with their partner to find your own personalized symbol. It will cost less and bring you closer together.
Did she tattoo her own butt? Hahahahahaha
Nah but a coworker did it for free so all it cost us was the ink.
That's awesome.
Does your tattoo of her butt also include the tattoo of your butt on her butt? And vice versa?
"But diamonds are forever, don't you want to show your partner how your love for them is forever too?"
No they fucking aren't, heat one and hit it with a jet of oxygen and it'll burn like any other chunk of carbon.
Not getting one. And even if I did, would buy man-made. They are a fraction of the cost and no normie or person off the street can or will be able to tell the difference. And, you do not support the ridiculous players in the industry.
Got lucky that significant other could quite easily care less for diamonds.
Fun fact: Israel is the world's Mecca for diamond Jewellers and must diamond cutting is done there or off there via business partnerships. It is not a stretch to say that if you want to support the Palestinian cause, then do not buy diamonds the usual way. Go figure how these things work.
That, and the fact that diamond "rarity" itself is a scam deliberately perpetuated by the players in the market to keep prices high. The stuff is just carbon, and even in its diamond form the Earth's crust is just chock-a-block full of it.
I’ve never ever heard that Israel was the diamond capital of the world. Pretty sure it’s Antwerp.
Source: https://www.beldiamond.com/blogs/news/why-is-antwerp-the-diamond-capital-of-the-world
I know a guy who used to be in this situation. He'd spent all his money and even loan money to take his dates to weekend getaways. He'd come around my place on Tuesdays to Thursdays to bum food, because he couldn't afford it.
It eventually resulted in a marriage, a child, a house, a divorce, joint custody, depression and single life in the 50s.
I'm not going to preach. This is the circle of life. Starts with a lie, dies alone. What more could you want.
Point is: Everyone is trying to impress their potential partner. Nobody wants to marry the slob on the coach that we all really are.
While I think that taking a loan to get piece of metal is a stupid idea, I can't really see any reason to blame someone for taking the opportunity if it makes a difference to them.
If you need to bankrupt yourself to declare and validate your love, it probably isn't genuine love. The right person would be happy just being with you. Yea a ring is nice, but if it is ring or food on the table food wins every time in my book.
I mean, I'm thinking about buying one, but.... Not a diamond. The SO doesn't care for them and bluntly, neither of us enjoy the thought of thousands of dollars spent on a ring that serves no purpose other than to advertise that you have an agreement for affection with another person.
I've even been thinking of picking up some side work (and skip has been one that I've considered) to afford it. Though my cost would be significantly less than the debeers version.
Stupid ad all around.
When we got engaged my wife and I agreed to get a cheaper ring with a synthetic stone in it, which in our opinion was much more sparkly than the diamonds in the case next to it and cost a damn sight less. We decided it was much more important to spend what money we had on actual things that matter, like a house.
A rock is just a rock. An object. It's the sentiment that counts, and if you're involved with somebody who places more value on the monetary cost of the rock versus the sentiment behind it, what you have for yourself there is a problem. Fuck all that noise.
As for me, I got one those tungsten carbide bands. It is likely -- nay, inevitable -- that I would destroy a silver/gold/platinum/whatever ring in short order.
And then I bought that bitch a motorcycle. Bitches love motorcycles.
The worst part is it's a grub hub ad, but it doesn't say grub hub anywhere on the screen except for the logo. They're hoping to get na extra click out of you, which won't meaningfully affect their throughput, but it's the metric that some poor software dev needs to optimize for a promotion.
