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High school rings

This week.

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Within the last year, but not this week.

1 votes

One to five years after graduation.

2 votes

Within a year of graduation.

3 votes

Got one but never wore it.

2 votes

Never got one.

16 votes

Benjamin Grimm Sep 13 2012 02:56 PM

When was the last time you wore your high school ring?

themetfairy Sep 13 2012 02:57 PM Re: High school rings

I wear it on occasion - I like the stone.

Mets – Willets Point Sep 13 2012 03:06 PM Re: High school rings

I don't even know if my high school offered a ring. I had no interest in getting a college ring. My only jewelry is my wedding ring.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 13 2012 03:25 PM Re: High school rings

Me too. I don't do bling at all.

cooby Sep 13 2012 03:30 PM Re: High school rings

Mine's pretty; it has a purple stone. I used to wear it. But I outgrew it long ago.

themetfairy Sep 13 2012 04:25 PM Re: High school rings

cooby wrote: Mine's pretty; it has a purple stone. I used to wear it. But I outgrew it long ago. Resize it!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 13 2012 04:27 PM Re: High school rings

/Flips bare middle finger at Jostens rep, figuratively speaking

Edgy MD Sep 13 2012 05:29 PM Re: High school rings

I was never a member of a high school ring, no matter what the cops say.

MFS62 Sep 13 2012 05:58 PM Re: High school rings

No high school ring, because I knew I was going to college, so, why bother? I do wear my college ring all the time. The day I picked it up was the day I first asked my wife out on a date. So I wear it to remember that day 47 years ago, not college. Later

Kong76 Sep 13 2012 07:14 PM Re: High school rings

Got ours early junior year and wore it until graduation. It was cool, it had a new decade on it. 1980.

Fman99 Sep 13 2012 07:18 PM Re: High school rings

Lost mine before graduation.

RealityChuck Sep 13 2012 07:43 PM Re: High school rings

Never got a high school ring. I do have my college ring, but I don't wear it, since it seems to have shrunk over time.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 13 2012 08:02 PM Re: High school rings

I got the cheapest one they sold, mostly to keep a certain young lady happy. It's been in one junk drawer or another for 28 years.

Ashie62 Sep 13 2012 09:02 PM Re: High school rings

Dont remember high school.

metsmarathon Sep 14 2012 06:28 AM Re: High school rings

i never really imagined myself as the high school ring wearing kind of guy. too big and clunky for my delicate fingers.

HahnSolo Sep 14 2012 06:46 AM Re: High school rings

My ex-girlfriend is the last known possessor of my high school ring. We broke up 26 years ago. I suspect she's gotten rid of it by now.

Swan Swan H Sep 14 2012 07:08 AM Re: High school rings

One-to-five years after graduation, which certainly qualifies it as an antique.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 14 2012 07:50 AM Re: High school rings

Here's what prompted this: My son came home from school yesterday (he's in 10th grade) with the brochures and order forms from the ring company. They had had a school assembly, and they were told that the school "spent a lot of money on these packets" so they need to go home and "have a serious talk" with their parents about the school rings. Here's how our "serious talk" went: "Do you want a school ring?" "No." "Okay then! End of serious talk!" Leafing through the brochure, I see that most rings cost between $300 and $500. There are cheaper alternatives (I think the lowest price was $179) and you can also crank up the price with customization, and by upgrading the quality of the gold and in any number of other ways. I haven't given high school rings any thought at all since I declined to get one thirty something years ago. (I knew I'd never wear it.) But now that they came to my attention yesterday, it's obvious that the school gets a cut from the ring company for delivering all that business, and that's how they justify having an assembly and the "serious talk" lecture. (I suppose the serious part of the discussion is about financing the purchase?) I told my daughter, who is in sixth grade, that if she's going to want a $500 school ring, she needs to start thinking about how she's going to pay for it. She says it doesn't matter; she's not going to want one.

HahnSolo Sep 14 2012 07:56 AM Re: High school rings

A ring for a 10th grader? Really? "Look, everybody! It's my sophomore year ring!"

Benjamin Grimm Sep 14 2012 08:14 AM Re: High school rings

I think they're just getting a jump on the graduation rings. I don't think it's a "sophomore ring".

Ceetar Sep 16 2012 12:00 PM Re: High school rings

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think they're just getting a jump on the graduation rings. I don't think it's a "sophomore ring". right, they're trying to offset the "I'll never wear it crowd" by suggesting they wear it during HS. I didn't get one. Got a college one, wore it until I got married. I liked it, enjoyed having a ring. This one's nice too though, although about 1/10th the weight. (titanium versus gold)

themetfairy Sep 18 2012 08:51 AM Re: High school rings

I'm wearing mine today -

cooby Nov 15 2012 02:50 PM Re: High school rings

That is pretty! Is that stone purple? Mine is purple, which is my birthstone but just happened to be one of my school colors, so I was happy. Anyway, question for you all. I found my father in law's HS ring in A BOX OF MILDEWED JUNK OF MY DAUGHTER'S IN OUR BASEMENT IN A CONTAINER WITH A LEAKY BATTERY. Isn't that sweet? I actually thought it was MY dad's until I saw the initials in it. They graduated together. Needless to say the battery acid did a little bit of a number on it. Any suggestions? PS I know she didn't do it on purpose.

Vic Sage Nov 15 2012 03:03 PM Re: High school rings

I wear a wedding ring because my wife sort of requires it. other than that, i did not THEN, nor do i NOW, wear any other form of jewelry (except a watch, sometimes, if you want to count a utilitarian device like that as ornamentation). so buying a ring, in HS or college, didn't make much sense for me. still doesn't.

themetfairy Nov 15 2012 07:47 PM Re: High school rings

It's more pink than purple. I opted for my birthstone (mine was my high school's first graduating class, and we weren't really into school colors at that point). Sorry about the battery acid - I don't have an answer for that one!