NYTimes article on Engagement Rings and budget

[MarionC]

Read this and posted it in the "supply and demand thread".
It just about breaks my heart when I'm in a jewelry store and see a young couple trying to come to grips with spending a whole lot on a merely average diamond. Maybe we should become lurkers outside B&M's to get the word out about PS.

Most jewelers have my photo plastered to their wall like the FBI Most Wanted list. They don't want me anywhere near their customers.

Another keyboard ruined... when will I learn to stop taking swigs of coffee while reading PS?

Amy you crack me up, but I do recall seeing your picture posted right next to mine the last time I walked into Tiffany & Co

Oh, they probably have us labeled "shoot to kill". I'm certain that's what's on my photo, anyway!

Ah ... I think we have unearthed a glorious sub-culture of PS's here today.
Someone should start a thread...

 

[msop04]

I'm single and I wear my diamond on my left hand so I don't scratch the shift knob on my 6-speed.
I hope everyone is impressed by the commitment I've made to my car.

I commend you, Jimmianne! LOL

 

[WinkHPD]

Read this and posted it in the "supply and demand thread".
It just about breaks my heart when I'm in a jewelry store and see a young couple trying to come to grips with spending a whole lot on a merely average diamond. Maybe we should become lurkers outside B&M's to get the word out about PS.

Most jewelers have my photo plastered to their wall like the FBI Most Wanted list. They don't want me anywhere near their customers.

LOL, that is only because most jewelers do not have their "poop" together the way they should. (And will once you have properly trained them...)

Wink

 

[WinkHPD]

Read this and posted it in the "supply and demand thread".
It just about breaks my heart when I'm in a jewelry store and see a young couple trying to come to grips with spending a whole lot on a merely average diamond. Maybe we should become lurkers outside B&M's to get the word out about PS.

Most jewelers have my photo plastered to their wall like the FBI Most Wanted list. They don't want me anywhere near their customers.

Another keyboard ruined... when will I learn to stop taking swigs of coffee while reading PS?

Amy you crack me up, but I do recall seeing your picture posted right next to mine the last time I walked into Tiffany & Co

Frankly Todd, after reading your last couple of articles on Tiffany & Co, I am not at all surprised you moved to Mexico, it is safer there...

Wink

 

[ame]

Read this and posted it in the "supply and demand thread".
It just about breaks my heart when I'm in a jewelry store and see a young couple trying to come to grips with spending a whole lot on a merely average diamond. Maybe we should become lurkers outside B&M's to get the word out about PS.

Most jewelers have my photo plastered to their wall like the FBI Most Wanted list. They don't want me anywhere near their customers.

LOL, that is only because most jewelers do not have their "poop" together the way they should. (And will once you have properly trained them...)

Wink

They never seem to let me get that far...

Read this and posted it in the "supply and demand thread".
It just about breaks my heart when I'm in a jewelry store and see a young couple trying to come to grips with spending a whole lot on a merely average diamond. Maybe we should become lurkers outside B&M's to get the word out about PS.

Most jewelers have my photo plastered to their wall like the FBI Most Wanted list. They don't want me anywhere near their customers.

Another keyboard ruined... when will I learn to stop taking swigs of coffee while reading PS?

Amy you crack me up, but I do recall seeing your picture posted right next to mine the last time I walked into Tiffany & Co

Frankly Todd, after reading your last couple of articles on Tiffany & Co, I am not at all surprised you moved to Mexico, it is safer there...

Wink

HAHAHA!

 

[distracts]

Do friends and family contribute to that? Hells yeah! But I don't think it's the sort of thing we can condemn out of hand, when half the people out there seem to praise women's rings by saying things along the lines of "he must love you a lot!"

UGH WHAT IS THAT. Seriously. People say this to me ALL THE TIME, and like half of the time I'm wearing a colored stone ring that isn't my e-ring. And then they are confused when I say it's something I picked out and bought for myself with my own money thanks, and my husband does love me a lot but this ring in no way is a reflection of that. What is wrong with "very pretty ring you have there"???

I'm single and I wear my diamond on my left hand so I don't scratch the shift knob on my 6-speed.
I hope everyone is impressed by the commitment I've made to my car.