# How many rings? \[on your fingers\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 21, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650 "2011-11-21T15:34:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/1 "2011-11-21T15:34:24Z")
[Inspiring thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=632009) which confounded my expectations and is about a different kind of ring.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/2 "2011-11-21T16:09:50Z")
Zero or one. I’m a bit haphazard about wearing my wedding ring. (I used to wear it all the time until one occasion where my finger swelled up and it started cutting off the circulation).
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### Author:  [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/3 "2011-11-21T16:10:25Z")
none. i use my hands too much.
back when i was engaged and wore the e-ring, i managed to scar up the top of my ring finger. there is still a visible half-inch white scar mark right where the ring rested even after a year and a half of \*\*not \*\*wearing it. i was always bashing that thing into something.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/4 "2011-11-21T16:16:59Z")
Two. Engagement and wedding rings.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/5 "2011-11-21T16:19:20Z")
One…wedding ring. That’s it for the fingers.
-XT
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### Author:  [@Lor213](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lor213)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/6 "2011-11-21T16:21:55Z")
I used to have a favorite ring but it only fit on the left ring finger. I was told it was confusing people or people were wondering if i was engaged, so I stopped wearing it. I care for my bed-bound grandpa these days so i don’t really have the need to be wearing rings away.
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### Author:  [@Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Obvious)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/7 "2011-11-21T16:27:59Z")
I don’t wear any, but I do own one that my sister and mom gave to me for my 18th birthday. I use my hands to much and handle to many corrosive materials to wear one. It’d be damaged in no time.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/8 "2011-11-21T16:30:17Z")
One. It is a ring my mother passed on to me after she died. It’s just a plain gold band, but very beautiful.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/9 "2011-11-21T16:38:31Z")
Usually zero. I wear my college ring only on rare occasion because the thing weights a ton.
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### Author:  [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/10 "2011-11-21T16:43:20Z")
Male. Not engaged or married. Genuinely doesn’t understand the concept of jewellery (it seems a bit too caveman/ooh shiny metal to me).
So none.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/11 "2011-11-21T16:47:51Z")
I wish I could wear rings–I inherited some really lovely ones–but they \*bother \*me. Several hours and I curse and yank it off and shove it in my handbag.
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### Author:  [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/12 "2011-11-21T16:54:57Z")
Only one, my wedding ring. Only ring I own, didn’t even get graduation rings because I don’t like wearing jewelry.
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/13 "2011-11-21T16:55:50Z")
Left hand:
Four. Engagement and wedding ring, ring my son gave me, another ring my son gave me.
Right hand:
Three. Mother and son ring I got from an ex, my son’s ring, and a ring my son gave me.
So four and three makes - seven.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/14 "2011-11-21T16:56:15Z")
One now (I just got engaged!) Previously, every so often I’d wear one. I haven’t worn my college ring in a while because it’s got a chip in it, but it’s traditional for graduates of my school to wear them till death do you part with the alumnae annual fund.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/15 "2011-11-21T17:03:26Z")
Two - wedding ring left, signet ring right.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/16 "2011-11-21T17:04:39Z")
One\*. And no bells on my toes. But I still have music wherever I goes.
\*Wedding ring, of course.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/17 "2011-11-21T17:05:28Z")
Four:
- engagement and wedding rings on left hand ring finger
- another pretty ring that had belonged to my great-grandmother on my right hand ring finger
- my [Iron Ring](http://www.ironring.ca/background.php)on my right hand little finger
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/18 "2011-11-21T17:06:36Z")
Wedding ring & class ring.
Unless I’m doing something manual (gardening), messy (eating BBQ ribs), or hazardous (power tools). Then zero.
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### Author:  [@RoniaBorkason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoniaBorkason)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/19 "2011-11-21T17:07:48Z")
One ring per hand - on ring fingers only. I was raised to think that anything more was gaudy.
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### Author:  [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/20 "2011-11-21T17:13:31Z")
Two. Wedding band and engagement ring on the traditional left hand ring finger.
As soon as I get my great-grandmother’s ring resized, I’ll be wearing it on my right index finger.
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