Do you still have your school class ring? IF not, what happened to it.
The summer after I graduated from high school, I cut down a large spruce tree for my parents and cut it into manageable pieces with a bow saw. Somehow my high school ring ended up in the pile of branches that resulted, and I never saw it again.
I graduated from college when I was 53 and didn’t feel that a class ring was worth spending money on.
On my finger as I type this.
I always wear it & rarely even take it off, and I don’t know why somebody would spend all the money on a ring and NOT wear it. That seems pointless to me.
My high school class ring is in my jewelry box. Haven’t worn it since freshman year in college, but I like having it as a memento.
Converted to beer money many moons ago in college. I didn’t care for HS at all.
Somewhere? Every once in a while I stumble across the little ring box and go, “Ah, high school.” and then I put it back and go on with my life. I never bothered to get a college class ring. They’re a bit big and bulky as far as jewelry goes. I’m much more of a simple band sort of guy.
I was too poor for such luxuries … and after the novelty wore off for my classmates, it really didn’t matter. Same story with my husband. I think we told our children they could save up to pay for their own rings, and neither one thought it was important enough. No class bling for us Beatas.
I gave my high school ring to a girl and never got it back after breaking up.
I never had one. But if yours is missing you may have left it at the bowling alley. Someone showed me a box full of those things at the lanes when I was a teenager.
I voted ‘I still have it, but I don’t wear it’.
I could have voted ‘I have no idea what happened to it’, but I do have an idea. It’s in a box somewhere. Actually, it may be in a drawer in a small chest in the storage unit. But a cardboard box in side a larger box is just as likely.
It was stolen by a girl I slept with during my freshman year of college. I didn’t care because
(1) I hadn’t wanted a class ring in the first place but was pressured to get one by my father;
(B) the ring my father forced on me was not the ring I would have chosen, but one HE liked;
(Ɣ) I had just had sex …
(iv) with a girl who said outright that she liked me BECAUSE I WAS AN ASSHOLE.
It was the perfect storm for not giving a fuck.
I don’t remember even being given the opportunity to buy a class ring in high school. As for college, I figured, “Why bother?” (In fact, I didn’t pick up my college diploma until something like four years after the fact - and the only reason I did was, I went to the university’s administration building to ask whether my degree was a BS or a BA (Computer Science, Cal-Berkeley - I was under the impression that it was a BA (and it is), but I kept getting the school’s engineering department magazine for some reason), and while I was there, the clerk noticed that I had graduated less than five years before then, which is how long they keep diplomas, and asked me if I wanted mine.)
My high school class ring is in the sock drawer of my dresser. I haven’t worn it since college, except for the periods during which it was in the possession of a couple different girls I was dating/sleeping with. I look at it now as a symbol of more of my parents’ money wasted on something that seemed important to me at the time which I soon realized I didn’t care about. I never bothered to get a college ring; I’m not really a jewelry guy.
My HS class ring fell down the bathroom sink drain years ago. I didn’t try very hard to get it back. Never had a college ring.
In a ring box in my nightstand
I lost mine in 1972 only a few weeks after receiving it. I was going to remove some car parts at a junk yard and put the ring in the pocket of my jeans so that it wouldn’t get scratched up. Later when I reached into the pocket for the ring, it was missing. No holes in the pocket either. I went back to the junk yard, but didn’t find it.
Ironically I lost my original wedding ring the same way, but it was while working on a clothes dryer at home. I never did find that ring either.
We didn’t do those in my school.
I voted have it/don’t wear it, but I do wear it once in a while.
My grandparents bought me a high school ring because they’d bought my sister one. What they did for one grandchild they did for all. Fair is fair.
We got our rings - this is high school, I didn’t get a college ring - at the end of sophomore year. I wore mine regularly until I lost it late in senior year. The good news is that I had lost it in the art room, and the teacher recognized it as mine and got it back to me.
I wore it for a while after that and then parked it in a corner of my jewelry box. I kind of thought that everyone who’d bought one would have more or less the same answer. I have my grandmother’s, my great-aunt’s, and now my mom’s high school class rings because after they stopped wearing them they put them in the bottom of their jewelry boxes and left them there.
I never bought a high school ring - I assume But MIT rings tend to get worn forever, in my experience. Most of the grads I meet have one and wear one. I think the reason is that they are distinctive. The beaver isn’t like the common gem. I was lucky to get mine when gold was $35 an ounce - today they are real expensive and I know a new grad with a silver version.
So I’m the second still wearing it answer.
Best I can figure my HS ring was lost in a small do-it-yourself carwash. Went back to look but couldn’t find it.