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Unlike me, my daughter has sub zero interest in jewellery.
I was 8 when I saved for a year doing extra chores to buy a horseshoe shape ring with a tiny tiny ruby in it. It cost me $13. I bought my first diamond ring at 14. Again, I saved and saved did extra chores like no tomorrow and bought it at auction for $120, a fortune to me at the time. Of course I still have both rings.
My 16 year old daughter has her first formal coming up. She also has zero interest in fashion and makeup etc.
Her dress she found online $50 and her shoes $25 (and here I am ready to run off to a designer and go “create something magnificent!!!). We won’t be doing hair either, she shaved her head completely for “Shave for a Cancer cure” and it’s barely a Pixie cut length (she raised $5,000 btw).
She looks lovely in her dress, Sapphire blue.
Then she said it...... I THINK I NEED SOME JEWELLERY !
Her friends are wearing stacking rings in silver with CZ or similar - do I have anything like that. “It can’t have cost more than $20” she says.
I smile and hand her a fine white metal band ring studded all the way around with little crystals.
Perfect she says, “how much did it cost you when you bought it.”
$12 I say and that’s no lie.
It’s not my fault that the secondhand shop I bought it from thought it was junk costume jewellery. Once the solid gunk on the inside was cleaned out It was actually an antique platinum eternity ring with diamonds all the way around. I knew it wasn’t cheap base metal, I could just see the remains of the floral design on the edges and it’s weight told me it wasn’t just junk metal.
I’m converting her to the “bright and shiny side” sssshhhhhhh
I was 8 when I saved for a year doing extra chores to buy a horseshoe shape ring with a tiny tiny ruby in it. It cost me $13. I bought my first diamond ring at 14. Again, I saved and saved did extra chores like no tomorrow and bought it at auction for $120, a fortune to me at the time. Of course I still have both rings.
My 16 year old daughter has her first formal coming up. She also has zero interest in fashion and makeup etc.
Her dress she found online $50 and her shoes $25 (and here I am ready to run off to a designer and go “create something magnificent!!!). We won’t be doing hair either, she shaved her head completely for “Shave for a Cancer cure” and it’s barely a Pixie cut length (she raised $5,000 btw).
She looks lovely in her dress, Sapphire blue.
Then she said it...... I THINK I NEED SOME JEWELLERY !
Her friends are wearing stacking rings in silver with CZ or similar - do I have anything like that. “It can’t have cost more than $20” she says.
I smile and hand her a fine white metal band ring studded all the way around with little crystals.
Perfect she says, “how much did it cost you when you bought it.”
$12 I say and that’s no lie.
It’s not my fault that the secondhand shop I bought it from thought it was junk costume jewellery. Once the solid gunk on the inside was cleaned out It was actually an antique platinum eternity ring with diamonds all the way around. I knew it wasn’t cheap base metal, I could just see the remains of the floral design on the edges and it’s weight told me it wasn’t just junk metal.
I’m converting her to the “bright and shiny side” sssshhhhhhh
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