fluffynurse
Rough_Rock
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Hello!
If you''ve made it this far, perhaps you can be of assistance to me!...
I am going shopping on the weekend to look at appliances for our new house (move in in august, yay!), and a tv for the bf (so i kinda jokingly mentioned that if he''s gonna look at big screen tv''s, i should get to look at my drooling equivalent... erings lol, so he was like ok fine sure)... not very romantinc LOL but sometimes u gotta do what u gotta do.
I know absolutely nothing about jewellery! I mean ive been reading and doing some research and have some ideas, but I am a complete noob to the entire process and for some reason the whole process stresses me out (I swear i was less stressed buying the house for some reason!!). ... I kid you not i have never purchased jewellery before.... i own 3 rings, one being from one grandmother, the other one being from the other grandmother, and the 3rd being a wedding band that my dad had purchased for someone (who was not my mother!!) back in the 1970''s LOL that i''ll sometimes wear on my right hand... oh i also own 2 necklaces that were gifts and one pair of earings that i nearly lost at work last week!! (found the missing earing on the hospital floor 2 minutes before the end of my shift yay!!!) ... oh and i also inherited a bracelet that my father purchased for my mother, but she didn''t like it!! I always thought it was mean to tell ur spouse u dont like something, i think its a really nice bracelet lol... and its fun to explain why your bracelet has the letter "G" on it, even though your name does not start with the letter G, or end in the letter G, or have a G in it Lol...
But i digress, as i tend to do... but anyway, you get the picture....
I kid you not i have stepped foot into a real jewellery store perhaps 2-3 times in my entire life!!... A few months ago, we did go into a couple of jewellery stores and didn''t really get far beyond looking at 1 or 2 rings and having my finger sized Lol... (which i no longer remember LOL). I actually broke out into a sweat!!! I look forward to having a ring, but the process really stresses me out..
I just imagine the sales people being pushy or maybe more likely snobby... I have read stories about people saying they didnt get respect because of the way they are dressed ??? pff, i''m the type that would wear jogging pants to go shopping but im fighting hard the urge to do so... !
Anyway, we thought we would start off at the local mall just to try on stuff in person to get an idea of likes and dislikes, and also a baseline comparison for price, etc... How do you approach these people... ? I really suck at social pointless banter and tend to be too blunt for my own good LOL ANd i''m definitely not the haggling type but i hear a lot of comments to that effect as well?? ... one last detail im extremely cheap LOL (i mean, im not poor or anything, just prefer to put the money elsewhere, im thinking .25- 0.4 center stone... the only part that makes me uncomfortable is the sales person reaction... because i remmember trying on a ring a few months ago that i thought was nice, and being like "hmm its nice but a little more than i would like to spend"... so the lady was like "oh, umm, we can set a diamond that will fit your umm , budget"... from that point on she immediately treated me like i wasn''t serious and it all kinda fell apart from there and i was like f%^k it ...lol... i sure dont want to go through that again... but im thinking after doing it a couple of times at a couple of stores perhaps it''ll get easier?...
Another odd question, is it common to ask for like say a substitution? I wouldn''t go as far as to call it custom design, but I would like to find a ring model that has a few little side stones and instead of them being all white diamonds, have a couple of them be brown diamonds and/or saphires.... ? I presume the person at the store will judge me for wanting a ring with blue and brown in it, but that being said, is it something that can commonly be done at like a mall jewellery store?
And last but not least, if any of you are in the Montreal area, where have you gone and had positive experiences? (weither it be in a mall, or an independently owned place, etc.)... or can u do those kind of substitutions on the web... because i''ve seen nice rings and settings online, but none with blue AND brown in them... ?
Thanks, from one fluffy and erratic nursey
If you''ve made it this far, perhaps you can be of assistance to me!...
I am going shopping on the weekend to look at appliances for our new house (move in in august, yay!), and a tv for the bf (so i kinda jokingly mentioned that if he''s gonna look at big screen tv''s, i should get to look at my drooling equivalent... erings lol, so he was like ok fine sure)... not very romantinc LOL but sometimes u gotta do what u gotta do.
I know absolutely nothing about jewellery! I mean ive been reading and doing some research and have some ideas, but I am a complete noob to the entire process and for some reason the whole process stresses me out (I swear i was less stressed buying the house for some reason!!). ... I kid you not i have never purchased jewellery before.... i own 3 rings, one being from one grandmother, the other one being from the other grandmother, and the 3rd being a wedding band that my dad had purchased for someone (who was not my mother!!) back in the 1970''s LOL that i''ll sometimes wear on my right hand... oh i also own 2 necklaces that were gifts and one pair of earings that i nearly lost at work last week!! (found the missing earing on the hospital floor 2 minutes before the end of my shift yay!!!) ... oh and i also inherited a bracelet that my father purchased for my mother, but she didn''t like it!! I always thought it was mean to tell ur spouse u dont like something, i think its a really nice bracelet lol... and its fun to explain why your bracelet has the letter "G" on it, even though your name does not start with the letter G, or end in the letter G, or have a G in it Lol...
But i digress, as i tend to do... but anyway, you get the picture....
I kid you not i have stepped foot into a real jewellery store perhaps 2-3 times in my entire life!!... A few months ago, we did go into a couple of jewellery stores and didn''t really get far beyond looking at 1 or 2 rings and having my finger sized Lol... (which i no longer remember LOL). I actually broke out into a sweat!!! I look forward to having a ring, but the process really stresses me out..
I just imagine the sales people being pushy or maybe more likely snobby... I have read stories about people saying they didnt get respect because of the way they are dressed ??? pff, i''m the type that would wear jogging pants to go shopping but im fighting hard the urge to do so... !
Anyway, we thought we would start off at the local mall just to try on stuff in person to get an idea of likes and dislikes, and also a baseline comparison for price, etc... How do you approach these people... ? I really suck at social pointless banter and tend to be too blunt for my own good LOL ANd i''m definitely not the haggling type but i hear a lot of comments to that effect as well?? ... one last detail im extremely cheap LOL (i mean, im not poor or anything, just prefer to put the money elsewhere, im thinking .25- 0.4 center stone... the only part that makes me uncomfortable is the sales person reaction... because i remmember trying on a ring a few months ago that i thought was nice, and being like "hmm its nice but a little more than i would like to spend"... so the lady was like "oh, umm, we can set a diamond that will fit your umm , budget"... from that point on she immediately treated me like i wasn''t serious and it all kinda fell apart from there and i was like f%^k it ...lol... i sure dont want to go through that again... but im thinking after doing it a couple of times at a couple of stores perhaps it''ll get easier?...
Another odd question, is it common to ask for like say a substitution? I wouldn''t go as far as to call it custom design, but I would like to find a ring model that has a few little side stones and instead of them being all white diamonds, have a couple of them be brown diamonds and/or saphires.... ? I presume the person at the store will judge me for wanting a ring with blue and brown in it, but that being said, is it something that can commonly be done at like a mall jewellery store?
And last but not least, if any of you are in the Montreal area, where have you gone and had positive experiences?
(weither it be in a mall, or an independently owned place, etc.)... or can u do those kind of substitutions on the web... because i''ve seen nice rings and settings online, but none with blue AND brown in them... ?Thanks, from one fluffy and erratic nursey
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