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Your engagement ring or your cell phone?

P: 3/3/2009 1:38:59 PM
TravelingGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,340 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2004	Silly question, but some friends of mine had a tough time with it. Say I'll pay you for one of them. Same amount. Once you give it up, you can never have one again, ever. You'd have to borrow someone's cell to make a call, or god forbid, find a PAY PHONE. And of course, you could have a land line at home. Which would you give up, your engagement ring, or your cell phone? I'm embarrassed to say, I think I'd give up my engagement ring. There's too many situations in the future with my daughter where I think I'll need a cell phone. _______________________ Travel quote of the week: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Posted: 3/3/2009 1:38:59 PM

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P: 3/3/2009 1:49:29 PM
ladypirate Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,569 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 7/30/2007	Cell phone, hands down. I don't use it that much anyhow and I have a land line, so I don't think I'd miss it. - Hot chocolate butterflies dance through my heart and tell me you're the one. Come take a sip of this so I can look into your beautiful eyes and say, "Ouch! I spilled some on my lap, burning my leg, but I don't mind. I'm with you."
Posted: 3/3/2009 1:49:29 PM

P: 3/3/2009 1:52:01 PM
Cleopatra Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,000 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 8/8/2007	errrgggg....i'd love to get rid of my cell phone - then I can have a peaceful night at home without any interruptions EVERY night! I won't be tied to work, and plus, I prefer email for communication I would never give up my ring
Posted: 3/3/2009 1:52:01 PM

P: 3/3/2009 1:53:52 PM
Hudson_Hawk Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,550 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2006	Cell phone. So many people have them these days that in the event of an emergency I can use a stranger's or FIs. That's Mrs. Hudson_Hawk to you... Over and out.
Posted: 3/3/2009 1:53:52 PM

P: 3/3/2009 1:55:10 PM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,254 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	no contest, cell phone. Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be... - Stephanie M Thorn
Posted: 3/3/2009 1:55:10 PM

P: 3/3/2009 1:57:39 PM
TravelingGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,340 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2004	Date: 3/3/2009 1:53:52 PM Author: Hudson_Hawk Cell phone. So many people have them these days that in the event of an emergency I can use a stranger's or FIs. I'd have to start carrying an address book again...I don't know anyone's phone numbers anymore... _______________________ Travel quote of the week: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Posted: 3/3/2009 1:57:39 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:06:39 PM
Bia Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,336 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 3/28/2008	Cell phone. Between email, office phone, and landlines, I don't really need it. Plus, I hate my cell phone, it annoys me beyond belief. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it Salvador Dali
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:06:39 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:07:56 PM
sba771 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 623 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 6/1/2008	cell phone. Since I moved we went a month with no phones of any kind or internet and now I do have a cell but can only use it to call FI, it is kind of liberating in a way.
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:07:56 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:12:15 PM
grapegravity Cut Rock Total Posts: 450 Last Post: 10/15/2009 Member Since: 11/25/2003	cell... since I'm rotating on 3 cells, one less won't hurt... Got rock?
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:12:15 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:12:41 PM
puffy Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,201 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 11/21/2006	wow, it seems so many are so quick about giving up their cell phones. i'm not sure if i can do it THAT easily. i mean all the numbers to people i know are stored in it, i basically keep everything in my cell phone. if i give up my engagement ring, i still have RHRs right? i really want to say i'd give up me cell phone, but not really sure that i can. no cell phone for the rest of my life?!?!?!
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:12:41 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:13:44 PM
TravelingGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,340 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2004	This is interesting! I initially said cell phone. I don't need to touch base with anyone on a daily basis other than my mom and TGuy. But I use it for so many things because I travel for work... - I use it instead of hotel room phones. I do have a calling card number for work (which I have never used so I don't know where it is) but a lot of my customers have caller ID and won't pick up if it's a number they don't recognize. - I use it as soon as I get in a cab to call TGuy. You can never be too safe in a cab. - I can't imagine not being accessible to my mom when I am away from home on a business trip, just in case she has questions regarding my daughter. - I have had customers cancel meetings while I am EN ROUTE, so it saved me time and I didn't have to drive 2 hours. If I didn't travel so much, I think it would be much easier to say I'd give up the cell. But I chose function over form. _______________________ Travel quote of the week: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:13:44 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:14:50 PM
Phoenix Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,029 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 10/5/2006	Definitely cell phone. I was one of the last ones amongst my family and friends to get one. I resisted the idea for years!! Don't even use it often these days. It stays on the silent mode practically all the time. My friends are always complaining that I never answer their calls, and am too slow to respond to SMS's. My replies to them have always been: "What did you do before cell phones were invented? Besides, if people want to get hold of me that badly or people that I want to get in touch with, there're always emails and landlines!"! I've always said that people'd have to come pry my e-ring off my cold dead hand before they can take it away from me!! BUT, if we had a child or children, my answer might be entirely different.
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:14:50 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:15:25 PM
orbaya Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,045 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2004	Probably my ering. I don't wear my original anymore now that I have my 5 stone. I'd just get other sparklies to wear on my wedding finger! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. ~Mae West
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:15:25 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:17:22 PM
pennquaker09 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,487 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2007	If I had an Ering, I would give it up. I would have to go to Promises in Malibu for my texting addiction. Sephora is the mothership! - diamondfan Leasing any car is not a smart thing, but leasing a Mercedes is flat out stupid.
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:17:22 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:17:30 PM
coatimundi_org Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,312 Last Post: 6/7/2009 Member Since: 12/9/2007	Come on T-Gar! I can't answer this question! I have an iphone! Coati, G.G.
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:17:30 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:19:24 PM
TravelingGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,340 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2004	Date: 3/3/2009 2:17:30 PM Author: coatimundi Come on T-Gar! I can't answer this question! I have an iphone! Ooh...iPhone or JM ring. Hm. That one IS tough. _______________________ Travel quote of the week: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:19:24 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:21:39 PM
NewEnglandLady Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,157 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 7/27/2007	I use my cell phone maybe twice a week at most? My hubby got rid of his six months ago and I'm seriously considering doing the same. While I have no real use for my e-ring and it sits in its little box every day, I'd still keep it over a cell phone in a heart beat. I'm trying to think of something I'd give up before I gave up my e-ring, but I really can't think of anything...
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:21:39 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:31:29 PM
Maisie Ideal Rock Total Posts: 7,769 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/30/2006	I use my cell phone a lot. I have a Blackberry and email from it. I love being able to keep in touch no matter where I am. However, I would rather give the phone up than my ring!
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:31:29 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:32:07 PM
HollyS Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,101 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 7/18/2007	GULP I have to choose? I would give up the e-ring only if I had a fabulous wedding band. _____________________________ "I cannot live without books." - Thomas Jefferson
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:32:07 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:39:06 PM
musey Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,167 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 9/30/2006	I'd give up my ring very sadly, but I would. I cannot operate in my career (which is very important to me) without my cell, and I wouldn't feel as safe/secure without having a method of communication with me at all times. I could keep my wedding band, right? Because I lurve it! That would be a tougher decision for me than the e-ring.
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:39:06 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:39:40 PM
tlh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,065 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/31/2008	Cell phone. Friends will let you borrow their phone... but not their ring. "I like smiling. Smiling's my favorite!" Will Ferrell ~ Elf
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:39:40 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:41:44 PM
Sabine Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,883 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 8/16/2007	This is interesting, I'm surprised how many people are choosing cell phone. I'm one of those people who BARELY uses their cell phone, but at the same time, I don't even have a land line. But the comfort of having it in case I need it (in the car when I get lost and don't have directions and didn't bring the gps, if someone I'm meeting doesn't show up, if I have car trouble), I don't think I could give that up.
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:41:44 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:42:04 PM
hoofbeats95 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 891 Last Post: 10/8/2009 Member Since: 11/23/2008	I'd give up the ring. Besides my addiction to being connected, I feel safe with my cell phone at times. Dark parking lots . . . a friend of mine was raped after someone got in her car in the Wal-Mart parking lot. No way in hell would I give up my phone. EVER!
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:42:04 PM

P: 3/3/2009 2:52:57 PM
MC Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,866 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 2/8/2003	I'd absolutely give up my engagement ring. The reason is because with having two kids, if there was an emergency, I'd want to be informed of that right away! When my son was in kindergarten, he fell and cut his head and an ambulance was sent in. Imagine them not being able to get ahold of me! Like was stated, there are always RHRs!
Posted: 3/3/2009 2:52:57 PM

P: 3/3/2009 3:13:58 PM
allycat0303 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,928 Last Post: 11/15/2009 Member Since: 11/19/2004	Ring. Oh my gosh, I went 1 month without a cell phone (when I lost it and refused to get pay for another one). I was so lost. My baby couldn't call me at work and I count on hearing from him. I walked for 20 minutes in the COLD searching for a phone booth (and it was COLD) and I was once waiting at the wrong place, but my fiancé couldn't call me. It was like missing a lifeline.
Posted: 3/3/2009 3:13:58 PM

P: 3/3/2009 3:15:29 PM
*DeeJay** Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,491 Last Post: 9/23/2009 Member Since: 3/26/2006	Not only my e-ring but every other piece of jewelry I own too. Dee LURRRRRVES her crackberry!
Posted: 3/3/2009 3:15:29 PM

P: 3/3/2009 3:20:52 PM
Tacori E-ring Ideal Rock Total Posts: 16,101 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	I think I would give up my engagement ring I get so much anxiety driving without my cell phone (rarely happens). For me it is like a security blanket knowing if I am in trouble or something happens I can call someone ASAP.
Posted: 3/3/2009 3:20:52 PM

P: 3/3/2009 4:20:37 PM
Definitely, Maybe Ideal Rock Total Posts: 581 Last Post: 5/6/2009 Member Since: 1/12/2009	I don't have an e-ring... yet, but I would definitely give it up if I did. I don't like the interruptions in the middle of the night and the cell phone can be a bit annoying, but I do LOVE having it anywhere I am in case of emergancies. You never know when you may need it and I can't think of a time when your e-ring would be able to save yours or anothers life. :)
Posted: 3/3/2009 4:20:37 PM

P: 3/3/2009 4:25:42 PM
purrfectpear Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,705 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 3/31/2008	Give up the cell phone easily. The entire world was working just dandy sans portable phones pre-1980's We had kids, jobs, got directions, ordered pizza, etc. all without a cell tower. "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal
Posted: 3/3/2009 4:25:42 PM

P: 3/3/2009 4:30:26 PM
purrfectpear Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,705 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 3/31/2008	Date: 3/3/2009 2:42:04 PM Author: hoofbeats95 I'd give up the ring. Besides my addiction to being connected, I feel safe with my cell phone at times. Dark parking lots . . . a friend of mine was raped after someone got in her car in the Wal-Mart parking lot. No way in hell would I give up my phone. EVER! Just curious but exactly how would a cell phone have prevented that? Let's say you're on the phone with a friend. Friend hears you gasp and realizes you're in trouble. Friend hangs up and calls 911, and even gives them the location of where you are. Do you really think the cops are going to arrive in time to prevent what only takes about 3 minutes? For those of you who are somehow feeling safe because you have cell phones, stop and think. I don't want anyone deluding themselves into a false sense of security. Generally it only means you won't have to walk to a pay phone to report what has already happened. "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal
Posted: 3/3/2009 4:30:26 PM

P: 3/3/2009 4:30:36 PM
elledizzy5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,887 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 4/25/2008	It'd have to be my cell phone I give up, because my e-ring is an heirloom, and it means a lot to me. If the diamond was not an heirloom, I'd rather have the cell phone. I can live without jewelry, and the cell phone provides such a sense of security. It's nice knowing that if something happens during travel, I can make a quick call and be safe. ~ Let all the people of the world say what they please I alone know what I do ~
Posted: 3/3/2009 4:30:36 PM

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