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I didn’t even consider getting one, but my mother insisted on buying one. It’s in my wife’s jewelry safe in a pile of scrap gold. It’s next to the wedding ring my wife insisted on buying for me. They’ve finally learned that I don’t wear jewelry.

I never had a class ring and didn’t want one. Mom and dad wanted me to get one and they would’ve bought it for me but I told them that they’d be wasting their money since I wouldn’t wear it. In my opinion the class rings from our school were by Josten’s jewelers iirc and they were generally big, gaudy and mostly fake...plus, as a man, I wasn’t into jewelry. I proudly wear my wedding band and will until the day I die but that’s the only jewelry I wear. No piercings or pinky rings for me thanks.

I have been thinking about wearing my grandpa’s WWII dog tag. He and I were real close. He was my best friend and I miss him deeply so I thought I’d take his dog tag out and maybe wear it somehow.

I never had a high school class ring either because I had gotten a class ring when I got out of eighth grade at a catholic grammar school and then realized that I wasn't into jewelry. Still have that eighth grade class ring around someplace but I can't even recall ever wearing it.

Too expensive.

I sold mine!

My wife found mine in my Moms jewelry box while sorting out her
things after she passed, still had the receipt in box $46.95. Jostens
Class of 1961, what a waste I never wore it. Still do not wear any
jewelry.

I still have both. My girl friend wore my high school ring for a year or so. I wore my college ring for about 10 yers but don't any more. I even forgot to wear it to my college reunions.

No service rings? I'd think some Marines would have had one?

my old man graduated HS in 1936. he said his dad gave him a choice of either a class ring or a shotgun. we still have the shotgun.

Still have my first wedding band. It's not a band anymore as my uncle cut it off with a pair of side cutters. It was pulled into a teardrop shape when it tried to pull my finger off. Happened getting out of a tree stand in the dark, turned loose at the last step and even with a glove on the ring hung up on a screw in step. Lucky my feet hit the ground about the same time. Pulled the ring up to the joint tearing the skin and meat at the same time. I won't going to the ER on a Sat night but my first wife wasn't having any of that so I got it sewed up, 10 stiches, you could see the tendons. Took forever to heal up, the ER dude screwed up the seamstress work bad. My regular doc just jerked the stitches out and said keep it clean.

Never wore the HS ring, one of my buddies got his between a wrench and a hot wire working on a tractor starter without pulling the ground. Got a wicked burn.

The vast majority of military people work around some sort of machinery, very strong chance of tearing off a finger if you make the wrong move. Most military units have strict rules about wearing rings etc around the machinery, on the flight line, or around electrical stuff. The military rings I remember in the PX were kinda cheap anyway.

I never got a class ring, they were $15.00 and I didn't want to spend perfectly good beer money on a trinket.

I do, however, have my Mother's ring, same high school as myself, class of 1925, perfect condition in the original box.