Comment on Priorities

• BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The idea that you’re “supposed” to spend $X on a ring is absurd. Are you getting engaged to show off your wealth or to commit to a relationship? What does spending excessive amounts of money on a trinket have anything to do with the latter?

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  • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That advice was likely a holdover from the time when wedding rings were essentially insurance for the wife if her husband died suddenly - sell the ring and be able to live for a while on that money while you search for a new husband.

    Now that women are, y’know, allowed to work for a living rather than being forced into homemakers, it makes a lot less sense for the wedding band to be outside of one’s means to purchase.

    I just tell people to buy what looks nice to them and is in budget. My wife has a gold band with some inscribed decorations, and I have a band of silver and inlayed meteorite. They were both under $1000. No need for flawless diamonds, rare stones or precious metals. We’re happy.

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    • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s from a debeers ad

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    • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh wow, that’s actually a really neat fact and explains a lot. TIL!

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think society cares more about the cost of the ring than my partner and me. Outside of joking, I’d spend a lot on a ring for my lover. I mean we both owe the mortgage after we marry right? It all evens out eventually.

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• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you were to adhere to that dumb rule, it’s based on income, not income minus expenses.

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