Diamonds Are Bullshit
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Diamonds Are Bullshit
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#3Logically and financially, sure... but try telling your fiancée-to-be that.
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#4It's linked within the article, but it's worth pointing out that "Have you ever tried to sell a diamond"[1] is very much worth your time, and has been discussed here many times.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283
1: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
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#5Logically and financially, sure... but try telling your fiancée-to-be that.
Try sending her this article. I'd rather be single than marry someone who has so much more emotion than logic. To put it another way: If the ring is more important to the woman than I am, then she's not marrying me, she's marrying the ring. It's a huge red flag to me.
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Anecdotally my fiancé specifically did not want an expensive ring and very much did not want a diamond. We're also trying to have the most cost effective wedding we can. We'd rather spend the money on a trip or a down payment on a house than on the wedding.
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#7Logically and financially, sure... but try telling your fiancée-to-be that.
Try sending her this article. I'd rather be single than marry someone who has so much more emotion than logic. To put it another way: If the ring is more important to the woman than I am, then she's not marrying me, she's marrying the ring. It's a huge red flag to me.
I sent my GF the article :-D
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#8Gah! The writer needs to read this:
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Anecdotally my fiancé specifically did not want an expensive ring and very much did not want a diamond. We're also trying to have the most cost effective wedding we can. We'd rather spend the money on a trip or a down payment on a house than on the wedding.
(I didn't realize someone would reply. Here's my deleted post:)
Are young couples foregoing the rest of the expensive ceremony along with avoiding the ring? Could the price of wedding and engagement rings be one cause of the declining marital rate in the US? What happened to the price of engagement rings over the past 10 years? How well does it mirror the prices of houses in the US?