Who wears a wedding ring

Been wearing mine for the last 54 years. Virtually impossible to get off since I tore ligaments in my ring finger playing basketball when I was much younger.
 
I'm a Bad Widow. This week I brought some jewelry odds and ends to a place that buys precious metals and included our platinum wedding bands. I don't wear mine (although, as mentioned earlier, I keep and wear my engagement ring, which doesn't look like one). I figured this is the kind of jewelry people keep in the family but no one wears, just because it was important to someone a generation or more ago. The proceeds went into my grandchildren's UGTMA accounts.

Interesting thing I learned- platinum was more valuable than gold for decades. That's no longer true. Gold is up over $3,000 pre ounce and platinum is a bit under $90. They told me it's because platinum used to be in more demand because it's needed for catalytic converters but with the proliferation of electric vehicles the demand has decreased.
 
I don’t think I could take mine off if I wanted to. It’s molded to my finger. It’s kind an industrial design with rough cut diamonds so the longer I wear it, the more patina it has gotten. My wife actually has three different wedding rings we have bought or had made over the years and she switches those out as she desires.
 
28 years the wring has been on my hand and I couldn't take it off even if I wanted to. It's stuck.
 
I wore one when I was married. I would wear one again if I was married again. Maybe I'm holding on to old traditions, but the institution still means something to me.
 
Not since I watch a video of man getting his skin with meat pulled off his finger because his ring caught in a tool.
 
Haven't been able to stand a ring on my finger since I was a kid. I wore it for a while after we got married but it's been in the drawer for at least the last 30 years.

DW suggested I wear it in my nose so all the other women would know I'm taken. :)
 
I never wore one because of the work I do. My wife don't either. We have been married for almost 55 years.
 
And that's why I wear a silicone band, except for church or special occasions.

Since we are on the topic of degloving of fingers, I would also remind people to rip out their hoodie drawstrings. And put your hair up in a bun or cut it off if it is long. IMHO, these things are more of a risk to life than a finger ring. You may want to take off the nose ring too. The earring is fine, it will just rip through your lobe.

Drawstrings are the devil when it comes to power tools. I have shared elsewhere on this forum that my cousin died in an accident from a drawstring. Power tools pulled to the neck area never end well.
 
No wedding ring for 33 years now. Rings are a no-no at some factory jobs, around presses or other machinery with moving parts. But yeah, anything dangly, whether jewelry, hair, or drawstrings…

No jewelry involved, but one night while running a bender, I found a “loophole” in the safety features. There were handcuffs attached to cables, which would jerk tour hands away from the machine when you activated the cycle via a foot pedal. Un order to keep up with the speed of parts coming down the conveyor, you would keep some pressure against the cables, so that as soon as the cycle was complete, you could immediately grab the finished piece with one hand, while prepping another piece for load. Unfortunately for my middle finger, one of the clamps opened a tad late, pinching my finger between the clamp and an air-powered cylinder. Didn’t hurt until the mechanic moved the clamp. Then the throbbing began in earnest. The emergency room doc implemented the “redhot paperclip maneuver”, essentially using it to burn a hole through my fingernail to relieve the pressure. Fun times!

My right middle finger is still wider than the left one…
 
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HFWR said:
No wedding ring for 33 years now. Rings are a no-no at some factory jobs, around presses or other machinery with moving parts. But yeah, anything dangly, whether jewelry, hair, or drawstrings…

No jewelry involved, but one night while running a bender, I found a “loophole” in the safety features. There were handcuffs attached to cables, which would jerk tour hands away from the machine when you activated the cycle via a foot pedal. Un order to keep up with the speed of parts coming down the conveyor, you would keep some pressure against the cables, so that as soon as the cycle was complete, you could immediately grab the finished piece with one hand, while prepping another piece for load. Unfortunately for my middle finger, one of the clamps opened a tad late, pinching my finger between the clamp and an air-powered cylinder. Didn’t hurt until the mechanic moved the clamp. Then the throbbing began in earnest. The emergency room doc implemented the “redhot paperclip maneuver”, essentially using it to burn a hole through my fingernail to relieve the pressure. Fun times!

My right middle finger is still wider than the left one…
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During my "safety c@reer" I had to watch videos of how people managed to defeat the safety devices on the machines they were operating. Some pretty gross stuff.

Glad you came through your incident with only a small reminder.

My dad had the best excuse for not wearing a wedding ring. He had no fingers on that hand after a losing battle with a train. Long story.
 
I don't recommend it for viewing, but if you really have to see what a large rotating machine can do to a person, there is a famous uncensored video out there of a man getting caught in an industrial lathe. They didn't have the safety devices Koolau mentions last post. The man was no more after the incident. Just gone.
 
42 year anniversary this July. Lost my first wedding ring 25 years in at a golf tournament. I always took my ring off when playing golf and threw it in the cup holder in my car. Well, apparently I didn't do that at this particular golf tournament and I never found the ring. I was very disappointed and vowed I'd never wear another one. After about a year, my wife bought me a new wedding band and since I don't play golf anymore due to a freak thumb accident, I've had no reason to take this one off. I am not a big jewelry person. I've never worn a watch of any kind. I wear a religious cross around my neck and my wedding ring. That's it!
 
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I haven't worn a wedding ring (or any sort of ring, wrist watch) for the past 20 years or so. I work with my hands too much. I would get abrasions and infections where the ring dug in. I still keep the ring. My wife stop wearing hers as well. No big deal as we are not "baiting" ourselves for anything new. (Married 45 years).
 
I never got one. When DW decided to keep her own name, it made it easy for me to negotiate not wearing a ring. I've never worn any jewelry. We've been married 37 years and dated 7 years before getting married.
 
Last year I purchased the thinnest, narrowest silicone ring I could find. It is actually a woman's ring. I love it. It is so small and low profile, I have had people ask if it is a tattoo. It does not get in the way, comfortable, and safe.
 
HFWR said:
No wedding ring for 33 years now. Rings are a no-no at some factory jobs, around presses or other machinery with moving parts. But yeah, anything dangly, whether jewelry, hair, or drawstrings…
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Koolau said:
During my "safety c@reer" I had to watch videos of how people managed to defeat the safety devices on the machines they were operating. Some pretty gross stuff.

Glad you came through your incident with only a small reminder.

My dad had the best excuse for not wearing a wedding ring. He had no fingers on that hand after a losing battle with a train. Long story.
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I was not trying to defeat the safety devices. I wore the “cuffs” as required. The cables released when the cycle was complete, but a clamp opened late, which was the machine’s fault, not mine.
 
After the surgery for the dislocation caused by the wedding ring, see above, my finger is weirdly shaped now and just aches sometimes so not even going to bother with a silicone ring either.
 
JoeWras said:
I don't recommend it for viewing, but if you really have to see what a large rotating machine can do to a person, there is a famous uncensored video out there of a man getting caught in an industrial lathe. They didn't have the safety devices Koolau mentions last post. The man was no more after the incident. Just gone.
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The one I recall most showed a man after he had been pulled half way through some sort of a machine. It was very effective at showing my "charges" the downside of defeating safety devices in order to save time.
 
I'm probably only one here with this story, DW had a fall several years ago and broke her ring finger. When it healed she could no longer wear her ring on that finger, so we switched hands and wear our rings on our right hands.
My fav gift last Christmas was a $12 timex watch as my last one finally quit after 15 years. DS picked up on how I was missing my watch and got it for me. Loved that he picked up on such a small thing and got me a new one. Can't see spending lots on a watch but I'm lost without it. :)
 
athena53 said:
I'm a Bad Widow. This week I brought some jewelry odds and ends to a place that buys precious metals and included our platinum wedding bands. I don't wear mine (although, as mentioned earlier, I keep and wear my engagement ring, which doesn't look like one). I figured this is the kind of jewelry people keep in the family but no one wears, just because it was important to someone a generation or more ago. The proceeds went into my grandchildren's UGTMA accounts.

Interesting thing I learned- platinum was more valuable than gold for decades. That's no longer true. Gold is up over $3,000 pre ounce and platinum is a bit under $90. They told me it's because platinum used to be in more demand because it's needed for catalytic converters but with the proliferation of electric vehicles the demand has decreased.
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Platinum price definitely dropped off from its peak, while gold has soared. However, the current platinum price is much higher than $90. It's currently at about $970 per troy ounce.
 
street said:
I would imagine most here and most likely 100% of the Ladys wear a wedding ring. I worked in an industry where it was unsafe to wear ring, watches or any metal button shirt etc.

I personally never have toted one my entire married life. The first year or so I might have worn it on weekends or on special occasions. To this day I have not worn it or have I ever worn a watch.

Do most of you men wear one??
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I wear only a watch, nothing else. I don't like anything hanging.
 
I did electronic repair for years and stopped wearing my wedding ring. Years later when doing different work, I tried the ring and could not get it over my knuckle.
 
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