We got ours junior year of HS and I wore mine for about 7 years after high school (well after I had graduated college). It was small with a pretty stone, and I still like it a lot. I have all of my grandparents’ and deceased family’s high school rings, too.
Yep. Sitting in my jewelry box for decades. I remember it cost $50. Maybe I should turn it in to the gold-melters for big bucks… Flash forward a few decades and my daughter brought home a brochure for class rings with a truly bewildering array of choices, styles, stones, settings. (Mine came in yellow gold, dark blue stone. Case closed!) She picked out something in white gold for over $300.
This. When my parents asked if I wanted one, I opted for a signet ring instead. I still wear it, 35 years later. Class rings become meaningless in less than 6 months.
Yeah, locked up in my strongbox. I haven’t worn it in a decade. Wouldn’t fit my finger now, anyway.
I’m pretty sure I know where it is, tho I haven’t opened that box in years. I’m sure it wouldn’t fit on my finger. Heck, I can’t even get my wedding band off! (Not that I’ve tried, mind you!) 
What I am sad about is having misplaced my dad’s HS ring, as he graduated from the same HS as me 40 years earlier. But I haven’t seen that one in some time, and am pretty much resigned that it got lost in one of many moves.
I don’t think any of my 3 kids got class rings. I remember discussing it with them, and them being adamant that they did not want them and would never wear them. Which was nice, as they sure were pricey.
On the train to and from work every once in a while I’ll notice some middle aged guy wearing a school ring - which I presume is college or grad school. Always impresses me as somewhat sad, that someone well into adulthood gets some satisfaction out of a reminder of something so remote and (IMO) likely irrelevant to what they are likely doing now.
Actually, I also think that their sentimental value depreciates rapidly (and the one we buy will have no monetary value at all). This thread sprang from a conversation I was having with my daughter about how no one seems to keep their rings very long. However, it’s important to her to have one (in fact, I suspect she’ll be one of those people who get overly attached to it, like MitzeKatze’s stepdaughter).
When I graduated from high school I wanted to get a fancy gold class ring so badly. I think it would have cost about $300-400 but I just didn’t have the money. Fast forward a year after graduation and I was so happy I didn’t have the money at the time to have gotten one. A little inexpensive high school bauble is one thing but the expensive ones seem rather silly to me. I’d feel silly wearing a high school ring at my age.
I lost mine when I was in college. I’m almost certain that it was stolen, because I let someone crash in my dorm room one night and the next day I couldn’t find it (I always took it off and left it on my desk next to my glasses when I went to sleep). A year or so later, I saw the guy again and he was wearing a ring that looked a lot like my high school ring and thought about asking to see it, but decided I didn’t really care that much if it was mine.
My high school ring is in my mom’s jewelry box until I have enough jewelry in my house to make it worth having a jewelry box, probably when I get married. I wore in my junior and senior year of high school and it gave me much entertainment during class. I stopped wearing it when I won CIF and got a ring for that. When I went to College the CIf champ ring went into my mom’s jewelry box as well.
I college we got conference championship rings my junior year and that mattered more to me the college I went to so I never paid for a college ring. I wore it until I graduated college and it now resides in my mom’s jewelry box as well. Although I did pull it out recently to make fun of all of the Aggies I work with who all wear their TAM rings obsessively, it still fit and is a nice ring, I might get it resized and wear it some day because I’m still proud of that football season.
On a necklace chain, with my other necklaces.
I wish I still had mine. It would be fun to wear it to reunions. I can picture it perfectly, but can’t remember the last time I even saw it. No clue what happened to it!
I never bought one because I thought they were super ugly. Also it really wasn’t “the done thing” in my high school, so it never felt like something I even “should” care about.
I don’t remember tossing it so I’m sure it must be somewhere but haven’t a clue to its location and don’t really care at all, either.
I still have it…it’s gold, and I’m thinking about having it melted down into something I would actually wear.
My oldest started shopping for class rings, so I pulled out mine. Hadn’t looked at it in years. It is still pretty good-looking. When I was in H.S., I weighed 165. 17 years later, I’m 215 and it is way small for my finger. It fit on my pinky, but that just made me feel like a mobster. Wife wore it for a couple days and it’s back in the hidey-hole again.
I still have mine. However, class rings at my High School were a little bit more of an event. It was a Catholic Boys school with a big emphasis on tradition and ring day was a major thing. It was a big ceremony with some people getting rings that had been handed down for a few generations. All the rings were the same with the only difference being the type of metal (white gold, gold, gold Lustrium, or white Lustrium). You also could have a real or synthetic ruby, but I don’t know anyone that got a real one. No one cared if you went to prom or things like that, but not to get a ring…it was unthinkable. There were even alumni that helped those who could afford it on their own.
I do. And my college class ring as well. Of the two, I like the looks of my college ring, but I don’t wear either. I *would *like to get a ring similar to my college class ring (but without the college stuff on it), but am too lazy to commission one.
Never got one.
What he said.
Never got a high school one. Still have and wear my college one, but the Brass Rat is distinctive, and lots of alums keep wearing them, so we can identify each other.
Plus, it is a lump of gold bought when gold was $35 an ounce, so it is probably worth a fortune now. Not something I’d want to lose.