Ben by Daniel Shelton for July 28, 2020

Original ring is a 10.5…it is in the jewelry box…depending upon water retention and the season I have an 11, an 11.5 and a 12 to fill in for the original. My wife calls the large size ones my ‘stunt doubles’.

As I said yesterday, Hubby and I have very ornate rings. When he asked about getting his resized the jeweler wanted more for that than we originally paid for both of them.

It cost less for new rings (in the right sizes) than it would have costed to have them resized. Jeweller’s can be sharks. :P. So, hubby and I opted to leave our original wedding bands alone and buy very nice look-alike rings in stainless steel instead. My knuckles have gotten rather large due to arthritis (I’ve had to get a new ring twice now), and hubby had the same issue as Ben. :)

If you look closely, you see that Ben is not wearing it now.

Took mine off the day I jumped off a truck and was dangling in the air cause the ring caught.

I smushed mine once and had to have it cut off and it cracked once so had it put back together. Both times, I took it to the original jeweler who made the rings and he fixed it for $100 each time. Plus he redid the initials inside and enlarged it. I’d say that it paid off having someone making the rings in the first place.

I took mine off yesterday to work on the deck, put it back on as soon as I finished. I surprised my wife with a larger size ring when she took off the original late in her pregnancy. She now wears both, along with her engagement ring.

When first married, I would take my wedding band off nightly and whenever I was doing physical work that could have damaged my ring. Now I rarely put it on since I don’t go out to work and my wife knows I’m married and I know I’m married. My father-in-law didn’t wear his band because he almost lost a finger at work when the band got caught when he was jumping off something. My father never had a band, but he knew he was married without it for over fifty years.

While working in an open pit mine I spent a shift as an “oiler” cleaning up a drill rig. At the end of the shift, I lathered my hands with Go-Jo wiped them dry with a paper towel and threw the towel down a blast hole. That was the last of my wedding ring as it must have come off during the cleaning. It seems it was also a sign as my 12-year marriage ended the next year.

That’s not the only thing getting resized, as Liv is pointing out.

I’m rather disgusted that he doesn’t take the ring off every time he washes his hands.

I always take my wedding ring off when I get home; I can’t wear it 24/7. It’s the original, and it was just a little snug when I got it. After a few years I started wearing it on my pinkie; then it took a few years for my wife to notice I was doing that.As for the wife, she’s on ring #3 (or is it #4? I’ve lost track). Yeah, she’s lost a few along the way, and I’ve always replaced them. Isn’t really a great expense when you amortize it over 35 years.

When we were getting married husband wanted fancy wedding rings. I wanted a plain thin gold band – we got fancy rings. For our first anniversary I got the plain ring I wanted. I wore it for years – took it off when I came in the house and husband did the same thing. Now neither of us wears our rings (or basically any jewelry other than watches and I only wear my watch when we go out – battery died and will not replace it until we will be going out again, why waste the battery).

I was in my little jewelry box about 8 years ago and found a gold wedding band with faceted sides. I showed it to my husband as I tried to figure out when we bought it – had to be during one of my fatter periods, it was a big size. Then it hit me – it was my father’s ring, mom must have given it to me when he died. Husband would not even try it on to see if it fit. (Despite my family being Jewish I also have the St Christopher medal from dad’s car, which he got from his father who drove a cab for awhile and a customer had given it to him.)