High School Ring....Non Valk

[DIGGER]

How many of you still have your High School Graduation Ring?

My folks paid for my ring and told me not to let any girlfriend wear it on a chain around her neck  as she would lose it.    On a summer trip to Galveston my date begged me to let her wear my ring on her nevklace chain and I allowed it .  We went swimming and first big wave she got upended and list my ring.  Parents were right and I was stupid.    I didnt have my ring but a couple months.   

How about some of you’alls stories?

[Valker]

I pawned mine shortly after I graduated. IIRC I bought three pairs of jeans with that money.

[scooperhsd]

I have no idea what happened to mine, but I know THAT didn't happen... 

[f6john]

My high school sweetheart wore mine but as as all good things they come to an end and she gave it back. I still have it somewhere and I’ll keep it for nostalgia reasons.

[Oss]

cool question.

Yes I have it, but it don't fit

Think I was only 150lbs when I got it now I am trying to get under 230 (again)

[JimBob]

Mine is sitting safely in my dresser drawer.

[cookiedough]

Mine is sitting safely in my dresser drawer.

diddo!

NO idea why I got one in high school, but still have it never really wore it ever. It was either that or a class jacket, was my choice, could not get both.

did not care for my colors for a jacket being baby blue and white for schools colors.

[Willow]

I was seventeen and home on boot leave.  I was hanging with two college girls and had each of their high school rings on my little fingers.  I went into the restroom to wash my hands and left them on the sink.  Went hack when I realized what I had done but someone else had already found treasure.

About fifteen years later I had married a young woman ten years younger than I.  We were on a canoe trip and I was wearing her ring on my pinkie.  It came off my wet finger and went to the bottom of the river if a fish didn't eat it on the way down.

I still have mine somewhere.  No one wanted it.  

[Jess from VA]

I got no HS (or college rings).  I wore wedding rings (at someone's insistence), but almost no other jewelry.  (I bought a few things in Turk gold, but I don't wear them).  One of which is a really cool 22kt rose gold cobra snake coiled around the finger multiple times with his ruby eyed head resting on top.  And a 68 gram curb wrist chain in 18kt yellow gold (decent substitute gold knuckles).  It's all safe queen stuff now.  I should sell it.  

Now at one time I had three pull chain lights, and I used my HS, undergrad, and law school hat tassels for pulls.

I have a few nice watches, and almost never wear them either.  

And NO freeking ear rings.

Now my wife has enough of this stuff to open a small shop.   It looks good on her.    

[Tx Bohemian]

Got my ring the summer after my Junior year.
Before school started my Senior yr I took a W/E trip to Beaumont (Tx) to help a cousin build a backyard fence and later went water skiing in one of the bayous there.

Got back home and realized I did not have the ring (wasn't much on jewelry wearing so it was new to me).  Cousin said she looked through the house but couldn't find it, figured I lost it in the bayou.

So, I only had it for a couple of months and did not have it all through my senior year.
Then towards the end of the year I took a career/college day to Waco to check out TSTI and when I got back I dumped out my bag and low and behold my ring fell out!! Same bag I used on the Beaumont trip. It had a "support" board in the bottom and evidently the ring slipped under that and was hidden from me.

Fast forward a few years and after my first marriage to the "gold-digging" wife (term used loosely) I realized I did not have it anymore, figured she hocked it (along with a few other items of mine)!

So, after this long story, I have no idea where it is.

[0leman]

Still have my high school ring, though wore it enough that it broke.  Hard on things on my hands.  Did get a college athletic ring my senior year, wore it a  year or so when I went out, then put it away.    When got married had a band that I wore for many years,  it did get a bit squished out of round.  When my DW started having issues with enlarging joints we both put our rings away.   I can't put my wedding band on anymore.   

So yes do still have High School ring, in  drawer along with couple others.

[Gryphon Rider]

Although they were available to purchase, high school rings were not really a thing here.  I suspect they're even less popular now.  I wasn't tempted, and I think only one or two of my friends bought them.  Maybe it was because most of the students at my school were bused in from less wealthy communities.

On our honeymoon, I nearly lost my wedding ring when it slipped off in a swimming pool, so when we got back I had it re-sized smaller.  Over the following years it has shrunk on its own, and I would have great difficulty getting it off today.  I've probably had it off only five or six times after my first year of marriage, if even that many times.  I should have it cut off and re-sized larger.

[Wizzard]

I still have mine

[Steve K (IA)]

I still have mine.  Went to a small school.  15 boys and 15 girls in my class.  Had a small...maybe 3 girls on a committee decided on the design that everyone would have to go with.  I didn't like it and went to a jeweler and special ordered one I liked.  Glad I did. 

[msb]

Although they were available to purchase, high school rings were not really a thing here.  I suspect they're even less popular now.  I wasn't tempted, and I think only one or two of my friends bought them.  Maybe it was because most of the students at my school were bused in from less wealthy communities.

On our honeymoon, I nearly lost my wedding ring when it slipped off in a swimming pool, so when we got back I had it re-sized smaller.  Over the following years it has shrunk on its own, and I would have great difficulty getting it off today.  I've probably had it off only five or six times after my first year of marriage, if even that many times.  I should have it cut off and re-sized larger.

Ditto...don't recall high school graduation rings being a thing here at all...but then I didn't really take anything about high school in the early 70's too seriously
When I got married I told my bride that I don't wear jewelry so if she wanted a double ring ceremony to make sure she didn't waste money on a ring for me. She spent $20 on a chepo from a pawn shop which I took off the morning after our marriage, and it sits in her dresser drawer to this day...37 years later. 2 years ago for our 35th anniversary she bought me a custom-made Silver ring, playing on my passion for fly-fishing. I guess I've mellowed...next week will mark 2 years that I've actually worn a ring

[J.Mencalice]

Got two.  Lost the original about 9 months after receiving it and bought another one.  Someone found it a couple of years later at a beach, turned it into my high school (thank you) and they contacted me.
It used to mean something years ago to have a ring when graduating from high school back in the 50's and 60's.
They are in the drawer with some good memories for those past times.

[Jess from VA]

Both my wives insisted I wear a ring (band).  I was not an adultery risk, but they wanted all women to know I was taken. So I relented.  I suppose it was better than a MARRIED tattoo on my forehead.  I didn't wear them in the steel mills, I sort of needed my fingers.

I wasn't a babe magnet anyway, not that a few opportunities didn't come along over the years.  A little harmless flirting was as far as my aldultering would allow.  

And, my 2d wife would have gutted me like a deer, after running me over in the car and shooting me.  (I was always attracted to highly motivated women  )

[carolinarider09]

How many of you still have your High School Graduation Ring?

My folks paid for my ring and told me not to let any girlfriend wear it on a chain around her neck  as she would lose it.    On a summer trip to Galveston my date begged me to let her wear my ring on her nevklace chain and I allowed it .  We went swimming and first big wave she got upended and list my ring.  Parents were right and I was stupid.    I didnt have my ring but a couple months.   

How about some of you’alls stories?

Thats almost exactly how I lost mine except we were swimming in a lake near the college I was attending (1967 I think) and she took it off because it was loose on her finger and put it down the top of her bathing suit.  It did not survive the swim.

[msb]

Both my wives insisted I wear a ring (band). 

So I relented.

And, my 2d wife would have gutted me like a deer, after running me over in the car and shooting me.  

mmm...just an assumption on my part Jess... these are probably the reasons you WERE married twice

[Big Rig]

I once found one while digging as a child (in the 70's) in the sand on a beach in Florida. I showed my parents and they were able to find the high school and mailed it back. Trying to teach me and my brothers and sisters a lesson on being good kids...My parents bought a box of candies and wrote a fake Thank You card to me that I shared with my brothers and sisters.

I did not find out about the Thank you and candy until just before my mother passed away 3 years ago. She said we should have kept it....

I still have mine and just a month ago, my son received his as a Sophomore in high school.

[cookiedough]

what is it with us on here and loosing rings in water weather pool or river/lake/ocean?

I got married early 20s and 1 month afterwards went swimming in Lake Michigan beach.  First dive into the waves and swoosh,  wedding ring went flying off in the cold water.  Kept diving for over 1 hour trying to find the darn thing and never did.  Ended up buying another one ONE SIZE smaller and now same ring some 25 years later have had to UPSIZE that same ring one size bigger yet again.   Age does not usually make me get smaller in size/weight.....

At least it will NEVER come off again swimming in water pretty darn tight some 80lbs. heavier now.

[RainMaker]

Never had a high school or a college class ring.  Could not afford them - I worked to buy my own clothes, etc. so that was a luxury item.  Year later,  got an alumni ring for college that I still have and wear infrequently.  My wedding band is very seldom taken off but it's not a problem to remove since I've been on my diet.

[shortleg]

    Maybe I am wearing my heart on my sleeve,  but I have mine
in a small box with a picture of me and my girlfriend  at the time.
    I was going back and  forth between Maryland and Long Island NY
after high school and planned to gett married  but she was killed in  a
auto accident  while I was in Maryland.
   Hurt for quite a while.

[Oldfishguy]

I wore the high school ring for about a week; they always seem to be big bulky things.  Growing up on a farm and working on and around machinery a few family members gringed at the ring.  It seems every year or so someone we knew was getting caught in a power takeoff or some other machinery with tragic results.  I took the ring off shortly and put it away, and there it sits today. 

It was a waste of money.

[0leman]

The college jock ring I got as a senior was given to me by the athletic department.  Wouldn't have bought it.  High school ring came out of my pocket, made the money for it by working. 

Wedding ring cost me the most money, think it was well worth it after of 48 years together.

[DGS65]

I got a high school ring I did wear it for a short while then my girlfriend put it on a necklace after a year or so that got old and I went off to college have thought about the ring since I would have to ask my wife what she did with it but chances are it's in my nightstand.   Yes I married my high school sweetheart!  It's  been over 30 of marriage and we have been together for over 37 years no regrets at least not yet

[DIGGER]

I got a high school ring I did wear it for a short while then my girlfriend put it on a necklace after a year or so that got old and I went off to college have thought about the ring since I would have to ask my wife what she did with it but chances are it's in my nightstand.   Yes I married my high school sweetheart!  It's  been over 30 of marriage and we have been together for over 37 years no regrets at least not yet

Congrats on the 37 yrs.....don't see those high numbers much anymore.     When bad times hit divorce is the new answer.    We been married 45 yrs and have had some great times.....and some really bad times.   We stuck it out and worked thru those times.   Even at times I felt I wanted a divorce I knew she was the only woman I would ever want in my life.    Hang in there.....seems married times are getting better and better as time goes on.  Think I'm closer to her now than ever.  She's a good woman......and keeps trying to get me to go buy a new motorcycle.......I just cant.....love the bike I got.

[Rams]

Lost my ring my freshman year of college football.    Stupid me left it in my locker while at practice believing it would be safe.   Yeah the locker was locked with a cheap combination lock.   

But, as a senior in high school was practicing throwing the javelin and skewered a ladies high school ring on one of my throws.    It had been on that field for about thirty years.    I gave it to the school admin who in turn discovered who it belonged to.  I got a nice thank you letter from the daughter of the lady that lost it.  She had died of injuries from a car crash a few years earlier the same week I stuck it.    Her daughter was very grateful.


Rams

[Bighead]

Mine is still here somewhere size12 and wont come close to going over the 2nd knuckle anymore same with wedding ring havent worn either in 30 yrs ( because they dont fit)

[97BLKVALK]

My class ring made it through high school Class of 84 and a few years into college, then was given to my girlfriend in spring of "88 as "Charm" for her necklace...lol   Never to be seen again.

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Michael