# How many rings? \[on your fingers\] **URL:** \ **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:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/21 "2011-11-21T17:19:57Z")
One (my wedding band). I’ve had times when I’ve worn a ring on my right hand, as well. I had a college class ring, which I loved, but which I lost, and never replaced. I’ve worn a claddagh ring on that finger for a while, as well as various inexpensive Irish knotwork rings, but never anything for any length of time. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/22 "2011-11-21T17:22:33Z")
Three. Wedding band and engagement ring on my left ring finger, pretty emerald ring gifted from my kids on the right ring finger. My hands feel weird without them, and weird if I add anything more. And I considered starting this very thread, for the same reason! ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/23 "2011-11-21T17:24:55Z")
Lots and lots and lots 🙂 I don’t wear any other jewellery because everything else bothers me. At least rings just stay put, no flapping etc. A special one is gold with a little diamond that was a special gift from my grandfather not long before he died. All his daughters, DILs, granddaughters etc got one and he’d had them designed specially for us, so it’s really very special. Then a big bright jade ring that belonged to my great grandmother (my Gingo), it’s really pretty. Those two are really super special, the rest are usually from places I’ve visited or they have some other significance. One looks like lapis lazuli, but it’s actually way more awesome: it’s made of a piece if Chinese china and it comes from a shipwreck off the coast of Kenia. It was a chinese ship full of pottery that was wrecked off the coast of a small village in the (IIRC) the 16th century. You can see it from the surface on some days, and the locals free dive for small pieces of china, which they make into all sorts of decorative things. When I showed my grandmother and told her the awesome story, she said: “never mind dear, you could just tell people it’s lapis lazuli, nobody would know”! Clear cut case of “whoosh”. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/24 "2011-11-21T17:37:24Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > One\*. And no bells on my toes. But I still have music wherever I goes. Do you have elephants to ride upon? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/25 "2011-11-21T17:39:17Z")
None. I don’t like wearing rings or any kind of jewelry. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/26 "2011-11-21T17:55:39Z")
I always wear my wedding ring, which is a nice gold design (just like [this](http://www.davidvirtue.com/product_images/g/591/6Lbig__77727_zoom.jpg) but without the antiquing). I almost always wear at least one other decorative ring; sometimes two others, if I have two that kind of go together and fit different fingers and are comfortable. I have a lot of very cheap but nice-looking silver jewelry with art glass or semi-precious stones. I usually wear vaguely matching ring(s), earrings, and pendant to work. I enjoy the shiny. My son, 17 months, inspects whatever I’m wearing every morning in great detail. If I’m not going to work but am dressed, I usually end up wearing my favorite rings, which are both man-made opal inlay. They are especially sparkly and colorful, and bonus: they are completely flat and close to the finger, and never catch on things. They were made by two totally different makers but play well with each other. This link won’t last for more than a few weeks, but [here’s one of them](http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLASSIC-WIDE-WHITE-INLAID-FIRE-OPAL-RING-Ladies-6-/120658533514). ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/27 "2011-11-21T18:02:23Z")
One, my titanium band wedding ring, which I got specifically to stop a closing bulkhead from entombing me in a sinking research vessel (ala Ed Harris in _The Abyss_). They say married people live longer and I think this is a big part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/28 "2011-11-21T18:16:40Z")
Wedding ring on my left ring finger and a little silver band I bought for myself when I was 17 on my right ring finger. I used to wear my great grandmother’s opal ring but I’m REALLY terrible about anything with a stone in it, they catch on everything. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/29 "2011-11-21T18:22:41Z")
> [@RoniaBorkason](#): > > One ring per hand - on ring fingers only. I was raised to think that anything more was gaudy. This. Well, kinda - I wasn’t raised to think that anything more was gaudy, I just do. However, I do bend my own rules - I wear 2 rings on the ring finger of my left hand, one on my right. On my left are my engagement and wedding ring, stacked. My engagement ring is basically a marquis-cut solitaire, the wedding band is a simple gold band the same width as the engagement ring. My aunt wears a ton of rings, like 3 or 4 on each hand, and I don’t care for the look at all. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/30 "2011-11-21T18:43:17Z")
Male, recently married. I’ve never worn rings before, but I wear my wedding ring now. After a little over two months, there is a mark where the ring sits. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/31 "2011-11-21T18:45:03Z")
It varies by the day. I take off my rings, usually when I get home, and put on a new selection in the morning. It can vary from two to four. I need to get more that actually fit when my hands aren’t swollen (I tend to buy them at RenFaire, which is hot, and even first thing in the morning my hands are swollen up. I lost one the day that I bought it last year.) My mom wears at least six rings and doesn’t take them off. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/32 "2011-11-21T18:46:49Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > - my [Iron Ring](http://www.ironring.ca/background.php)on my right hand little finger My brother’s got one too. I think that is an awesome tradition. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/33 "2011-11-21T19:09:15Z")
Engagement ring (diamonds in yellow gold on a platinum band) and plain platinum wedding ring (stacked, wedding ring nearest heart) on the ring finger of my left hand, and the ring my parents got for my 21st birthday present (a blue topaz in a yellow gold setting on a silver band) on the middle finger of my right hand. I also wear the diamond and gold stud earrings my husband gave me on our daughter’s birth. I have my marriage at my left hand, my parents at my right and my child at the centre…I quite like the symbolism of that. Subsequent children will require necklaces or more ear piercings! Occasionally I’ll wear different earrings to match a necklace, or swap my topaz ring for a different one, to better go with an outfit, but I quickly go back to my default jewelry position. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/34 "2011-11-21T19:14:50Z")
Wedding ring. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/35 "2011-11-21T19:28:14Z")
Zero. I can’t stand wearing any kind of jewelry next to my skin, so no rings, wristwatches, chains, nothing. I carry a pocketwatch in my pocket. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/36 "2011-11-21T19:28:56Z")
Two. “Engagement” and honor society (normally - it’s being sized right now). Engagement is in quotes because my real engagement ring has been battered and bruised over the 10 years I’ve been wearing it and I was staring to worry about its ability to survive until I actually get married. My mom gave me a very nice garnet (birthstone) and diamond ring so I put my real engagement ring in a safe place and replaced it with my birthstone from mother ring. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/37 "2011-11-21T19:31:21Z")
I think it’s great that Canadian engineers wear the iron ring, so you can tell right away that they’re an engineer. 🙂 I wear three usually - my wedding band and engagement ring on my ring finger, left hand, and a plain silver band on my right middle finger. It doesn’t have any particular significance; I just like a ring on that finger (I wouldn’t wear rings on either of my ring fingers if it wasn’t for tradition - I have the crooked ring fingers that are a genetic heritage in my family). ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/38 "2011-11-21T19:59:34Z")
Left hand: Wedding ring & engagement ring on the ring finger, silver Eye Of Horus ring on the middle finger (Gift from an ex, he bought it while stationed in Singapore and it’s too awesome not to wear.) Right hand: Garnet on the middle finger, Bastokian ring (from back when I used to play FFXI) on the ring finger. Total: 5 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/39 "2011-11-21T20:03:52Z")
Zero. I find them super uncomfortable as a rule. If I ever get engaged/married, I’ll either wear the ring on a chain around my neck or not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-rings-on-your-fingers/603650/40 "2011-11-21T20:13:54Z")
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