Have I gone mad?

[agapitor]

When I first joined PS it was to do some research on my 10yr ering upgrade. Thanks to PS I purchased my beautiful diamond from BGD and am waiting for a local jeweler to finish the custom setting. I waited A LONG time for my upgrade and honestly thought that once I get it, I'd get the jewelry bug/obsession out of me. I don't own a lot of jewelry aside from my ering, my MIL gave me some studs and I'll reset my old ering diamond into a solitaire pendant. But now that I'm just waiting for my ring I STILL can't stop looking for new projects. I've now determined that I'll get the BGD sapphire & diamond eternity ring hopefully for Christmas and find myself saving up for a Jeff White sapphire (2 -3ct) set in a Leon Mege setting.

Out of nowhere, I bid on a really cheap 4 ct sapphire on EBay that I don't really know what to do with. I'd like to set it on something kind of as a trial until I get the Jeff White/Leon one in a year or two. Any thoughts on what I should do with it? Also, have any of you fallen in the same boat where you've just gone jewelry crazy after your first purchase. How have you curbed this habit?

I apologize if I've posted this is in the wrong forum.. if I have moderator.. please feel free to move it accordingly.

 

[VapidLapid]

Not enough information to correlate your jewelry interests with your madness. You may be mad. The jewelry neither proves, nor disproves this.

 

[JewelFreak]

It's a disease that only gets worse, Agapitor, no cure & no vaccination available. You know it's really got you when you look at your jewelry you loved before PS & think, "Hmmm....wonder how much this will bring on eBay? Then I can get that beautiful (fill in the blank) from (fill in irresistable gem seller)." I can honestly say it takes me more & more effort to keep the train from rolling right off the rails!

--- Laurie

 

[agapitor]

It's a disease that only gets worse, Agapitor, no cure & no vaccination available. You know it's really got you when you look at your jewelry you loved before PS & think, "Hmmm....wonder how much this will bring on eBay? Then I can get that beautiful (fill in the blank) from (fill in irresistable gem seller)." I can honestly say it takes me more & more effort to keep the train from rolling right off the rails!

--- Laurie

thanks Laurie.. well at least I know at the early stages since this thought has not crossed my mind. Here's hoping it will take many years before I get there

 

[iLander]

Madness always starts slowly . . . LOL

I've figured out how to "cure" it; run low on play money! Then you will start to scheme . . . and plot . . .

 

[LD]

I'm afraid it's terminal.

The only cure is bankruptcy.

Welcome to blingaholics. It's a colourful place to be!

 

[Arkteia]

There is cure, and people may have noticed that I have been posting less lately, and it does not have to do with money, but do you really want to know it?

 

[agapitor]

There is cure, and people may have noticed that I have been posting less lately, and it does not have to do with money, but do you really want to know it?

Yes please!! I think I'm on the brink but may still be salvageable? Is it a bad sign if I dreamed hubby bought me a Leon Mege for absolutely no reason. The dream was so vivid I think I may have been smiling while sleeping.