OTB women... Are precious rocks important to you?

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I have a nice engagement ring/wedding band, and it's platinum because I hate gold. I don't wear any other expensive jewelry. I would like a ruby ring because it's my birthstone, and a piece that combines my kids' birthstones.

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You sound like a sensible lady with simple but elegant tastes. I like that.

In my experience with the females, it's not the rock but what the rock represents. I am very frugal (read: cheap) and have given some low end jewelry to the ladies (sterling silver is my metal of preference) and their reaction typically reflected the state of our relationship.

If she's a gold digger then they're important to her

Not important at all. I hate yellow gold. I don't mind silver, platinum and white gold but what I have I rarely wear.

I don't wear a lot of jewelery to begin with and I prefer nice costume jewelery instead. More unique and less expensive.

Eh, it didn't put me in the best light, I suppose, but my situation isn't typical. I'm in my mid-30's, been divorced once and widowed once. I have three children and I support myself and my family, but I'm absolutely not interested in marrying someone who would add to the drain on my finances instead of help it. I think money is a bigger deal to me now because I have children and can't afford to make a foolish mistake that would cause them to suffer. Somehow, rings and jewelry figure in to that philosophy.

I think younger women without the baggage are much less likely to be concerned about the financial repercussions of marrying someone on their way up instead of someone who has already arrived. I know my first time around, I didn't care about the size of the ring, I loved him madly and was thrilled that he asked me to marry him.

I love the IDEA of expensive and fancy jewelry but if it came down to choosing to spend that kind of coin on a nice new car or Bama season tickets - I'd forgo the jewelry.

I am the anomaly here - I love yellow gold.

I have a 2 carat Tiffany solitaire engagement ring and it is surrounded by two diamond and sapphire eternity bands on either side as wedding bands.

Had them 19 years now and never plan to "upgrade" or any bullshite. The diamond was my husband's grandmother's that he had reset or he would have never been able to give me such a nice diamond when we were seniors in college.

I have a pair of 2 carat diamond earrings my dad gave me for high school graduation over 20 years ago - still wear them every damn day. See no need to replace.

The only other piece of fine jewelry I have, I recently bought in Mexico. A tanzanite and diamond ring. I am 41 years old and I think that's the first piece of expensive jewelry that I bought that I had no real need for. Plus, I got a steal on it in Cozumel.

I think I love costume and fashion jewelry more - it's cheap and on trend but when I get tired of it, I don't feel guilty not wearing it any longer.

OH NO JOKE on men's watches!!

Check out some threads on that topic over on the OT.

FFS, some of those things cost as much as a car and those fools have multiples of them.

At least most women I know - even the really materialistic ones - only have one engagement ring. And then when they want bigger, they trade up. They don't keep the old one.

There. SOME men are more stupid and greedy about their jewelry than SOME women.

I've never been a watch dude, but I thought about it recently.

What's popular right now?

I have no clue.

But go over to the OT and start a thread asking broke to tell you about watches.

Dude knows his shite.