I can't imagine my SA spending thousands on a ring just because it is the done thing. Unless we were both extremely wealthy I would feel like she had just wasted a huge amount of money. The people who are laughing all the way to the bank are the jewelers with your money.
When did love become how much you spent on someone?
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02-07-2015, 08:14 AM #1
My mind is blown at the tradition of wedding rings..
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02-07-2015, 08:20 AM #2
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02-07-2015, 08:22 AM #3
Theres a video on youtube about a jeweler back in the 50s who came up with the whole scam. They posted billboards everywhere saying you didnt love your gf if you didnt buy her a diamond ring. Its considered the greatest advertising campaign in history.
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02-07-2015, 08:27 AM #4
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02-07-2015, 08:58 AM #5
There are a lot of retarded traditions that we could do without brah, that is how we progress. And Christmas is stupid because it is a requirement to spend money. If there wasn't a stigma surrounding how good the gifts we get each other are, then I wouldn't have a problem with it. Valentines is another retarded tradition, and they all share one thing in common in that they were created by marketeers to extract your money.
It's a good video brah.
Strong this. I can't believe married women aren't the target of more muggings lol
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02-07-2015, 09:26 AM #15
A lot of the traditions associated with marriage, really bother me. Not the commitment to one person, but that it's more likely to cause stress on a perfectly normal relationship that would have lasted without the marriage, otherwise.
The whole 3 months worth of pay for the ring is a bit much...and on top of that you're footing a wedding as well. Families chip in money for it but the huge cost for a traditional setting still puts you in the hole. So now you're down 3 months pay and possibly another 10 or 20+grand but now you're supposed to start your life with the silverware and crockpots everyone gave you. So to the average person, a marriage is having a nice party an expensive piece of ********* and the shared financial burden that will ripple out for a few years afterwards.
I completely understand the romance and symbolism but to the average person, it's not logical or viable and the current divorce rate and dramatic fallout of failed marriages, backs that point up. I don't need a piece of paper, a rock and a priest to tell me who I'm committed to. I think I can make that decision on my own.
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********* = the general term for rings, necklaces, bracelets etc. Not sure why that's censored.The Jerk store called, they're running out of you!
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02-07-2015, 09:42 AM #16
Unfortunately for the vast majority of women it is about how much you spend. How would your wife react had you bought a 500 dollar ring? She would immediately compare it to her friend's rings. Women are like this. My gf flips out every Valentines day because I don't make a big deal out of it. She only cares when she see's what her friends did on Valentines day and immediately compares.
Which you would have sweet memories on. A ring is just a big chunk of change on her finger.
Strong all of this.
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02-07-2015, 09:50 AM #17
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02-07-2015, 09:54 AM #18
Your mind will be blown again when you realize this entire "tradition" is nothing more than an orchestrated campaign by De Beers
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/fa...pagewanted=all
Last year, Americans spent almost $7 billion on the rings. But in 1938, when a De Beers representative wrote to N. W. Ayer to inquire whether “the use of propaganda in various forms” might boost the sale of diamonds in the United States, their popularity had been on a downward trend, in part because of the Depression.
N.W. Ayer conducted extensive surveys of consumer attitudes and found that most Americans thought diamonds were a luxury for the ultra-wealthy. Women wanted their men to spend money on “a washing machine, or a new car, anything but an engagement ring,” Ms. Gerety said in 1988. “It was considered just absolutely money down the drain.”
Still, the agency set an ambitious goal: “to create a situation where almost every person pledging marriage feels compelled to acquire a diamond engagement ring.”
And the idea that you need to spend X months salary or whatever also originated in their ads
In the 1980s, the agency introduced a series of ads setting a new arbitrary but authoritative-seeming benchmark: “Isn’t two months’ salary a small price to pay for something that lasts forever?”
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02-07-2015, 09:57 AM #19
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02-07-2015, 10:06 AM #23
200 to 300 dollars is not poverty in my opinion. But then again I am not a big jewelry fanatic and I don't like diamonds.
Not a liar. I want to wear something nice looking but also something that wouldn't be devastating if I were to lose it. And I don't like the way diamonds look.**Stuttering Crew**
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