I’ve always taken my rings (engagement and wedding) off at bedtime, or when showering. Or if I’m doing housework or something that will lead to them getting grungy. I will occasionally forget to put them on before going out of the house in the morning, though, and those days, I’m going batso within an hour, attempting to fidget with absent rings and panicking over “losing” them.
If I’m washing hands, I usually take 'em off afterward for a few minutes to let things dry out.
The rest of the time, they’re on fulltime (gotta have something to fidget with; in fact years ago when I outgrew my rings while pregnant, I had to buy a spare in a larger size).
I hardly ever wear mine and neither does my husband. He doesn’t like wearing jewelry and in my previous job I didn’t wear mine to work because they’d get all goobered up. I just never got into the habit of wearing them regularly.
Maybe once every month or less. If I’m doing something with cooking that will goop up the ring, want to clean it, or it’s irritating me for some reason (hands swelling, etc.), I will, but not otherwise, typically. I don’t leave them on so often for any particular reason other than I don’t have a particular set spot where I’d leave removed rings, and so I know I’d misplace them within minutes if I took them off more often.
I wear three rings: sculpted gold wedding band, engagement ring (an anniversary band), and a little emerald/diamond ring that was a gift from Mr. S. They come off on my weight training days at the gym (so they don’t dig into my fingers under my gloves) and when I’m doing anything truly grungy. Otherwise I wear them 24/7.
I take mine off at night, and if I’m doing something where it might get beaten up/dirty/hurt my hand or the work. Sometimes I’ll take it off to play sports.
I wouldn’t want to leave it on full timer. Among other things, our wedding rings are Puzzle Rings, and I want to “work it” evbery now and then to be sure it will come apart neatly and cleanly, and so I’ll remember the trick to assembling it.
Mine comes off for showering and occasionally when working on something where the ring becomes a hazard (eletricity, engines, etc.). I’d guesstimate that they’re on my finger over 95% of the time.
I’ve been married for over 20 years, and I wear my wedding band and engagement ring ALL the time. I have a diamond eternity band that I wear all the time, also. I never take them off. Not even for surgery. I threw a fit about it, so they covered them with tape. NO ONE gets my rings until I’m cold and dead!
Hubby wore his wedding band all the time, too. Never, ever took it off…until he got a particularly nasty staph infection and his fingers swelled up so much, we had to have it cut off in the ER. We’ve not gotten around to getting it repaired yet, but after that incident, he’s not to anxious to put it back on, for fear of something like that happening again, I think. I don’t blame him. The ER folks were all coming in to see how blue/purple his finger was. They mentioned to us how they had never witnessed a finger quite like the shape his was in at the time. It was numb, then it started hurting. A lot. They could barely get the ring cutter thing to do the job.
I had never worn any jewellery until I got married, and for the first several months, I hated wearing my ring. So I would take it off at night and put it on my computer desk. Then one day, it disappeared. We turned the place inside out and could not find it. I didn’t have a ring for months. Then one day, on the way to the kitchen, I spied something sparkling out of the corner of my eye. I looked down and there was my ring, wedged between the bottom bookshelf and the wall. Our cat had found it, and put it there. He used to play this game where he’d pick something up, drop it behind the bookshelf, then try to bat it out with his paw from underneath. The day he decided to play with my ring, it got stuck there. It’s been on my finger 24/7 ever since.
My wife used to take hers off, too, and put them on her watchband, which she would leave on the living room end table. And then one night, someone broke into our apartment while we were sleeping, and stole a bunch of stuff, including the watch and both her engagement and wedding rings. We had to buy her a new set, and she’s had them on 24/7 since, as well.
The wife and I take ours off when necessary, but not as a rule. We both like wearing rings, so that isn’t a problem. We just don’t want to have to clean stuffing or dough off of them, that’s all.
I take my band off when gardening, working on the car, kneading dough – any time it’s a potential hazard or will get ooky. Otherwise, it’s always on. I haven’t worn my engagement ring at all in . … uhm . . . 8 or 9 years. Maybe 10.
Only when it’ll get goopy (as in cooking or such). Sometimes, not even then. My mom always told me that the best place for your rings were on your fingers - that way, you don’t lose them. So that’s where they are, always.
Mine come off at night and if I am doing anything messy. Occasionally I forget (usually on the weekend) to put them one. My husband never forgets, so we make jokes about me being out with a married man.
I take mine off to shower, and they go right back on when I’m done. Other than that, they never come off, even when I’m cooking. I have no problem sleeping in them* or working in them, so it’s not a bother.
E.
*I did bash myself in the face once during a nightmare, left a big scratch down my cheek from the diamond in my engagement ring, but that’s only happened once in the 2 years that I’ve worn it, so I think I’m okay.
I wear my engagement ring most of the time, but have no problem taking it off if I’m worried about losing it or getting it dirty. The last time I took it off was to carve pumpkins.
I take mine off a couple of times a day, to put lotion on. And I take them off when doing something goopy, cooking-wise, but that’s usually about it. The occasional cleaning, or the even more infrequent sports-playing.
Hubby takes his off for lotion, too, and for hang & focus or strike at the theatre. His hands get pretty beat up there, and they swell. So he usually ends up leaving them off for a couple of days afterward. I tease him about having a date or something.
