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    What should a ring cost?

    Posts: 10,968 Member
    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    NEW YORK—Maintaining that the jewelry was absolutely essential in communicating trust and commitment to your partner, matrimony experts confirmed Tuesday that an adequate engagement ring should cost at least three diamond miners’ lives.

    https://www.theonion.com/wedding-experts-say-engagement-ring-should-cost-at-leas-1834915832

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    • Posts: 1,871 Member
      Rings are merely symbolic imo. Therefore, don't spend more than you want to and can afford. A great engagement ring isn't going to make a relationship any better or even worse.
    • Posts: 19,588 MFP Moderator
      NorthCascades wrote: »
      NEW YORK—Maintaining that the jewelry was absolutely essential in communicating trust and commitment to your partner

      Abusers often beat their partner, then "make up for it" with jewelry, so I am calling BS on that bit.

      IMO there is a cap on rings, once you hit a certain price range they are too big, gaudy, and obnoxious to wear if you do anything besides sit on a throne all day. 1.5 diamond miner's lives is about right for me.
    • Posts: 917 Member
      Hi everyone, this article is from THE ONION, a very popular SATIRE website

      :)
    • Posts: 19,588 MFP Moderator
      samtarlyonadiet wrote: »
      Hi everyone, this article is from THE ONION, a very popular SATIRE website

      :)

      but we are still supposed to chit chat about it, correct?
    • Posts: 3,344 Member
      I thought this was about onion rings, I'm out
    • Posts: 917 Member
      4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
      show previous quotes

      but we are still supposed to chit chat about it, correct?

      I'm the most sarcastic person ever so I love a good chit chat about deaths for diamonds
    • Posts: 1,466 Member
      Reckoner67 wrote: »
      I thought this was about onion rings, I'm out

      Oh I could go for some onion rings and chipotle sauce right now.
    • Posts: 1,466 Member
      samtarlyonadiet wrote: »
      show previous quotes

      I'm the most sarcastic person ever so I love a good chit chat about deaths for diamonds

      That movie blood diamond was pretty good
    • Posts: 11,788 Member
      I guess we can apply this to any thing that is manufactured abroad. However, it's not going to stop, people in the U.S. will not work for lower wages, so the businessman is going to send his production to places like China, India and Africa, so they can boost their profits.
    • Posts: 567 Member
      It should be more of a sentimental thing than a material thing...
      You don't want one that's going to break or turn your finger green, but nobody needs a $4,000 ring. Like, come on.
      My engagement ring? My fiance asked my parents for their blessing. My mother asked him what he planned on doing for a ring, and he said, "I haven't figured that out yet, I just know I want to marry her."
      So my mom went and got the very ring that my dad proposed to her with, over twenty years ago. I wouldn't care what it looked like. Its the sentimental value. Its an heirloom. But the most important part of it is the person that comes with it.
    • Posts: 36 Member
      PAFC84 wrote: »
      Rings are merely symbolic imo. Therefore, don't spend more than you want to and can afford. A great engagement ring isn't going to make a relationship any better or even worse.

      Married 29 years. This.
    • Posts: 779 Member
      My ring is plain and small, but I also love it. We were starting a life.... what do I need a $4,000 ring for? This way I can never take it off and it doesn't get in the way.
    • Posts: 2,207 Member
      Marriage is a trap! Don't do it!!
    • Posts: 2,542 Member
      The Ring costs about $200 (other doorbells are available)
    • Posts: 3,344 Member
      A ring costs substantially less in cash than it does in other areas
    • Posts: 1,049 Member
      I would be P*SSED if my soon to be husband wasted thousands of dollars on a piece of freaken jewelry.
    • Posts: 917 Member
      If you liked it

      Then

      You should have put a ring on it

      Oh oh oh
    • Posts: 994 Member
      It's obvious how big the engagement ring is, correlates to how much your so loves you, and how successful the marriage will be. *eye roll with a little barf in my mouth *
    • Posts: 917 Member
      The bigger the rock, the bigger the clock
    • Posts: 155 Member
      I wouldnt pay more than 9.99 for a calamari appetizer.
    • Posts: 994 Member
      samtarlyonadiet wrote: »
      The bigger the rock, the bigger the clock
      *giggles*
    • Posts: 928 Member
      Reckoner67 wrote: »
      I thought this was about onion rings, I'm out

      The only kind of ring which truly matters.
    • Posts: 246 Member
      I would just use froot loops....just stay away from milk.
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