Do you take your wedding/engagement rings off?

In My Humble Opinion
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Mine come off at night to avoid accidentally maiming my husband in my sleep. They also come off when I cook meat, put on lotion, lift weights or run for more than an hour. And I sometimes forget to put them on during the weekend because I don’t follow the same waking and getting ready routine I do on work days. Eventually, my left hand will start to feel naked and I’ll put them back on.

My husband always forgets his - he’ll take them off to help me cook or to eat, and it’ll stay on the counter for several days, even weeks, until he remembers to put it on again.

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I would only take mine off while gardening or cooking with dough, meatloaf… But then I kept having to get them sized because of weight fluctuations, so I just stopped wearing them. I’ll put them on when getting dressed up to go somewhere if I remember.

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Married just shy of 5 years.

Mrs. Cliffy and I take ours off when we go to bed, and on weekends if we wake up and lounge around the house for a few hours before showering and going out, we might not wear them then, either, but we wear them whenever we leave the house, and I don’t think either of us has forgotten them more than once. We also remove them to do the dishes.

–Cliffy

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When my spouse bought my engagement/wedding set, the jeweler told us that wearing it to bed would wear the prongs down quicker, so he (spouse, not jeweler) bought me a simple gold band to wear to sleep and during other activities that would not be good for the diamonds & prongs - sporting activities, housework, traveling in certain sections of downtown Portland, etc. I like having the choice between just a gold band or the bling. But I always wear a ring on that finger, except when I’m putting my hands into something goopy.

One thing I’ll never, ever do again is put a ring on the sink while I wash my hands. I’ve lost 2 nice rings that way. Not from them going down the drain, but from me forgetting I put them there and leaving, then coming back and finding them gone (probably taken).

25

I only take them off to clean them. My husband has never taken his off. While I’d love to say it was out of sentimentality, it’s more likely that he never thought about it.

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Do you know the dental floss trick for getting tight rings off your fingers?

27

Mine stay on my finger unless I’m kneading dough or cleaning them. I lost a prong from my original engagement ring, and the jeweller took six months and the threat of legal action to fix their original ‘fix’ - after that, I just kept it on. Then early this year, I somehow put a giant chip in the center stone. We (the jeweller) replaced the ring and it’s too big since I’ve lost weight, so my wedding band is on the outside of my engagement ring; the new ring is worth twice what the old one was, so I’m not taking any chance on losing it.

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Don’t have a wedding ring quite yet, but we’ve been engaged for almost a year and the only time I take it off is when I do dishes because I’m afraid of losing it down the sink, and when it’s going to get goopy. I imagine this will also be the case when I also have a wedding band.

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My band is on my hand nearly 24/7.

It’s a rare event that I take it off to dry underneath (more so in winter), and I take it off for very cold-weather activities where gloves are going to come off & go on repeatedly. (My hands swell/shrink with heat/cold more than I’d have thought possible.)

It also might come off for a cleaning.

when my ring was resized this last summer, I felt very strange without it on, and often broke into panic thinking it had fallen off or I forgot it somewhere.

-butler

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Sorry that happened, YaWanna. I lost a bracelet that way, in high school.

Then years later, I took my wedding rings off at the sink and they got knocked down the drain! Heart in mouth, I haltingly broke this news to my husband, who was watching a Very Important basketball game on TV. He calmly got the proper tools, quickly retrieved my rings from the pipe under the sink, and managed to miss very little of the basketball game. Good thing no water had been running.

I’ve been married 23 years, and rarely wear the engagement ring.
I wear my wedding ring with my grandmother’s guard rings.
I take my rings off at night, because I shower at night and always goop myself up with lotion.
Needless to say, I no longer take them off at the sink.

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When we got married (it’ll be 20 years in February), I just had a wedding band – no engagment ring. I’ve worn that band day-and-night ever since. I only take it off to clean it – and that’s not very often since it’s just a plain white gold band and doesn’t get very dirty unless I’ve been painting or something. For our 10th anniversary, my husband bought me a diamond ring (we call it my engagement ring for lack of a better term) to wear with my wedding band. He designed it himself and it’s very pretty – marquise-cut diamond in the middle, with my birthstone and his (opal and ruby) to one side, and the kid’s birthstones (ruby and alexandrite) to the other. But it drives me mad – I’m so not a jewelry person, I fidget with it constantly, catch the center stone on stuff – I’m just constantly aware of it. So I only wear it when I’m going “out,” by “out” I mean somewhere fairly formal and dressed up, not just to the grocery store. If we go out to dinner, or I’m going out to meet a client, or something like that, I try to remember to put it on. Kevin has also given me some other nice jewelry that I rarely wear – gold chains and earrings from the Middle East, a beautiful green tourmaline ring and earrings from Brazil – I’m just not into jewelry, I guess. He used to talk about buying me an anniversary ring (one of those with diamonds all around) or a tennis bracelet for our 20th, but I think he’s given up on the idea, since I so rarely wear the stuff I already have. Fine with me, I’d rather have my car reuplostered!

32

My wedding ring/engagement ring are from my grandmother; they used to be hers. So, no, they do not come off of my hands unless I’m doing something that’s likely to damage it, or if they’re being cleaned. Losing them would be too much.

My husband takes his off to sleep, and when he’s doing something like working on the car. But, then again, his isn’t heirloom; I have a genuinely mortal fear of losing mine.

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They come off?

34

Dave has just informed me that he never takes his ring off. I never noticed before.

35

When we were first married we had identical plain gold bands. Less than three months later I was cleaning a bunch of salmon to salt for the winter. After we cleaned up and ran the debris up to the dump, I noticed that my ring was missing. A search proved futile, and the consenses was that the fish slime had claimed my ring, and I was not going to go back up to the dump and argue with the bears over a bit of gold.

Five years later, we decided we wanted to upgrade our rings. I bought my husband a beautiful channel band inset with gold nuggets, and a mariners cross to match. (he’s a fisherman) He bought me the prettiest Black Hills Gold set.

That same year we went (with our children) to visit my parents who were living in Hawaii. I decided not to go to the beach one day, so my mom and husband took the kidlets. I do not know why my husband wore his jewelry to the beach, but he did. He did take them off while swimming, but as they were packing to leave our son was knocked over by a wave, my husband dropped the load he was packing to the car and “rescued” our son. (no danger, just a small scare) However, he dropped his jewelry on the beach, and even though we headed back out to look, it was gone.

I have to take rings off both at night and when I shower, because I have ridiculously long hair, and it’s a pain to have it get tangled in the setting. Not too long ago, a couple or three months, I was going to shower, so off the rings came and onto the shelf. Now, I am a bit forgetful, and it was the next day before I realized that my rings were gone. A very thorough search of both the bath and bed rooms resulted in nothing, so all I can presume is that they were knocked into the bathroom trash and discarded into the dumpster, which had already been emptied.

I doubt that we will either of us be getting new rings any time soon. :frowning:

36

I only take mine off when handling something goopy (like in the kitchen), and hubby only takes his off when playing bass or for kitchen stuff. The rest of the time our rings are on.

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I keep my wedding ring on all the time, except, as others have said, while in the kitchen doing something goopy, especially if I’m working with raw meat. I hate to think I’m not getting into all the little grooves of the design - I tend to put my hands - fingers, knuckles, nails, all - near my mouth a lot (not necessarily in my mouth, but if I’m sitting in “Thinker” pose, my ring brushes my lips). That freaks me out a little bit.

My engagement ring, again, I used to wear it at all times except goopy kitchen work - cooking, cleaning, etc, and also to clean it. However, I don’t wear it as often anymore, because I wore it in the shower one day, and when I was drying off, I looked in horror - like a missing tooth, one of the ten little diamonds that make up the band was missing!! :eek: First, I cried. Then, I suddenly realised our drain was slow and sluggish… the shower water was draining very slowly. So I put the stopper in and began to scour the bottom of the tub carefully for that one little diamond. Eventually, my fingers touched something small and hard, and thank Og for my long fingernails, I managed to slide it up the side of the slippery tub and deposit it in my hand. We had it fixed, but ever since then, I only wear it if we’re going out somewhere, like a fancy restuarant, a long trip, visiting someone, or business matters. And of course on special occasions. I rarely put it on if we’re just going to the grocery store or to Target or something.

So wedding ring - always on. Engagement ring - not as often.

My husband takes his off at night before bed, and also if he has to do any filthy work. He’s not used to wearing jewellery of any kind, but he’s very proud to be my husband - I’m not saying that to brag, he’s just a big family man, and I think it’s one of those things he always saw his father have, and he loved his mother so dearly and lost her so early, and so it is a big symbol for him. Marriage and love and family and all that kind of thing. Me, I wear it because I’d fidget to death without it. :wink: I’ve worn rings for… criminy. Since before I can remember. They’re ballast. If I wasn’t wearing one I think I’d just float away.

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I keep it by my wallet and watch.

It’s only on when I leave the house… kind of like my pants.

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Nevah!

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Anyone got pictures of their engagement ring? I love pretty sparkly things. Maybe I’ll start another thread on this so as not to hijack. Check MPSIMS!