Did you buy a high school class ring? (Or did your parents buy you one)

[pstokely]

What did you do with it after high school? My parents bought me the cheapest ring available. I lost it and don't really care since it wasn't worth anything. The Josten reps really push them, they even sell community college rings, who buys a community college ring?

[Kali]

1. hell no

I was NOT into the rah rah shit.

[struggle4progress]

47. +

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I did buy one. It's put away in my jewelry box, and I never wear it...

I don't remember if I ever wore it. I did want it at the time.

[csziggy]

5. Same here - my parents insisted I would want it 'for the memories'

I didn't and I don't.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I don't remember how my parents felt about it.

It was my thing.

[elleng]

3. Yes, bought one;

was on the ring selection committee! Don't know where mine is, but still have my boyfriend's! Probably won't return it to him at our reunion in September!

[Aristus]

4. I bought one my sophomore year.

$100. I paid for it myself from money I earned delivering newspapers.

I wore it a couple of times. Haven't seen it in years...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. No but I have two class rings from further adventures.

But I have two: One from college and one from law school.

[murielm99]

8. Yes.

I still have it, and I wore it to my 45th class reunion. It still fits.

[av8rdave]

9. I bought one...

I wound up graduating from a different high school (I don't blame anyone - my Dad had to make a career decision. Had he made the alternative choice, the results would have been awful.)

The class ring ended up going to a girlfriend. I never got it back, but in all fairness I never asked for it back. She was (is) a wonderful person, but us trying to make a life together most likely wouldn't have turned out well.

In retrospect, I'm glad I gave her the ring, and I'm glad she never returned it. I hope that, every now and then when she runs across it, it reminds her of how I felt, but also reminds her of why our lives are probably better for the way things turned out.

'nuff said.

[Denninmi]

10. Nope.

Not into that kind of memorabilia. And I agree with the op, they're just poor quality overpriced junk for the most part. And I don't wear jewelry of any kind. I don't even wear a watch anymore, my cell phone serves that function.

My class was the very last from my school, they closed it and consolidated three schools into two the next academic year. They used the building for about a decade for adult ed. Then sold it, and it was torn down to make a shopping center. When that happened, they sold memorial bricks. I've got one of those, more practical than a ring, it's on my bookcase and holds down papers from time to time.

[HopeHoops]

11. Yes. It's too clunky to wear, but I did for a while.

[Iggo]

12. I went to four high schools...

..and by the second one I think I was already over the school spirit thing, and definitely immune to the pushers of rings and annuals.

[hobbit709]

13. I bought one and lost it within two weeks.

[Bertha Venation]

14. I bought one

and I loved it. I wore it in my first year of college. For a time, anyway. I gave it to my girlfriend, even though she didn't wear it (Baptist college). She kept it for years after we broke up, until I finally told her "god dammit, send me my ring back!!" She did.

I didn't wear it. I just wanted it as a memento of high school. Edison Chargers, class of '81.

[aikoaiko]

15. No, but then my identity wasn't wrapped up in my school and I thought they were a bit ugly.

But some people really like their schools and want to keep that connection.

There's no reason to be classist about community colleges. There are a lot of community colleges providing better liberal arts educations than 4 year schools.

[Remmah2]

16. Couldn't afford one.

So neither.

I passed on my college rings too.

Only worthwhile ring I ever purchased was an engagemet ring. Original wearer is still wearing it.

[ohiosmith]

17. Nope! The last year of high school I completed was grade nine. I was expelled in grade 10.

Not only did I not get a ring, my photo was not in the grade 10 year book because I refused to cut my hair.

[cyberswede]

18. I bought one...

It's kinda ugly. The only cool thing about it is that my actual signature is etched inside, so I can see how I signed my name when I was 17.

[pipi_k]

19. Gone, gone, gone

My mom bought me my HS (Class of 1970) ring, which I wore even after graduation, and which I lost in 1978 on a hayride while tossing hay around with others in the group.

It flew off my finger and landed who knows where. Maybe by now someone with a metal detector has found it, or maybe 100 years from now someone will find it, look in the old yearbook, and identify its previous owner using my engraved initials as a clue.

[Phentex]

20. My mom gave me hers. I have one from college I can still wear...

it doesn't look like a class ring and I just like it. My mom had really interesting ones from high school and college and I wear those sometimes as well.
I'm passing them on to my younger nieces.

[davidpdx]

21. I didn't get one for HS, nor undergraduate college

I thought about it for when I got my master's. I don't like jewelry much, so it seemed like a waste of money. I will be getting my doctorate in business DBA in about two years and probably won't buy one.

I did get a plaque when I graduated with my MBA that has a picture of me being given my diploma by our dean. That seemed to be a better investment then the ring.

[LWolf]

22. No.

I didn't even show up for graduation. I stopped by the office on day in August to pick up my diploma.

[geardaddy]

23. No way.

[bigwillq]

24. I bought one, well my parents bought it for me

I wore it for awhile, and I know I have no idea where it is.

[Archae]

25. I only have ONE bit of memorabilia from my school days.

The tassel from my graduation.

I hated my school, detested most of my classmates, and couldn't stand a lot of the underclassmen.

I was just plain overjoyed to get OUT of that little school.
(As you can guess, I've never been to a reunion either.)

[woodsprite]

26. Parents bought it for me since my brother had one.

My parents bought me a Josten's metal one (looks like burnished pewter). It was a girls but still really clunky. I picked absolutely awful colors. School colors were black/gold. I didn't want to use my birthstone (clear, totally colorless), so I went with a topaz color. Looked HORRIBLE set in pewter, so I only wore it a few times, but I do still have it. I have my hubby's from the same school and it's f'in HUGE! I think he only wore his during graduation then gave it to me. I didn't even wear it on a chain - just stuck it in my jewelry box.

Fast forward to my daughter who graduated from the same school 2 yrs ago. She picked her birthstone (emerald color) set in a white gold look metal, selected a small thin girls style with an engraving of a violin on one side of the stone and an artists palette on the other side. Her's is meaningful, pretty, and she wears it, so both daughter and parents are happy

[femmocrat]

27. Yes. Kids actually used to do that!

I also have college ring -- never wore it. I think they are both in the safe deposit box.

[NRaleighLiberal]

28. yes...my parents. Lost it when drunk throwing a snowball a few years later!

[yellowcanine]

29. No I did not. Biggest ripoff this side of whole life insurance, imo.

As were the class jackets.

[AngryOldDem]

32. LOL.

Wore my class jacket maybe ONCE.

[AnneD]

30. I was the oldest of four....

And the first and only to graduate from HS (others got GED).I chose not to go to the prom and not to get a ring for practical reasons.

Yeara later, when I graduated from my Nursing Program, Mom insisted on buying me my gold Nursing Pin and would not take no for an answer. It is in my jewelry box, and I wear it on special occasions. I was a single mom and dirt poor when I graduated. It was the hardest thing I ever did. I know Mom was/ is so proud that I hung in and made it.

[AngryOldDem]

31. My folks did.

I wanted one because I thought it was cool. The band, though, cracked, and would sometimes pinch my finger.

I believe it's now in a jewelry box somewhere.

I did not get a college class ring, though, because by that time I had realized what a waste of money they really are.

[bikebloke]

34. Bought one

Wore it my senior year, then took it off. It's been bouncing around in boxes over the decades. Recently, someone from my high school class sent out a call asking if anyone had theirs. Some people wanted to have their lost rings re-made (why?). So I dug my ring out and made some photos of it.

Can't get it on my finger any more. But then I continued growing after high school.

[petronius]

35. Yes, and I lost it in less than a year

I'm actually still kinda pissed about the loss, although I wouldn't care a jot about the ring if I still had it now...

[Bucky]

36. Another "no". Just wasn't interested.

Didn't buy a college ring, either. I wish now I'd gotten a UST tattoo, however.

[TrogL]

37. fuck no

Don't get me started.

[becca da bakkah]

38. Yes, I Did, and I Wore it All The Time....

...for about a year after high school graduation. Until I was watching a parade one day, and some pervert standing behind me in the crowd, tried to put his hand up my skirt! I pushed him away. That must have been when he pulled the ring off my finger. Asshole! I doubt if he got more than $3 for the gold....in 1967!

[Mad_Dem_X]

39. My parents bought me one.

I was never a ring person. It's somewhere in my jewelry box now.

[Quantess]

40. Neither.

That was nice of your parents, though.

I can never have rings because I generally lose them. I have one ring that I care about. The only reason I still have it is because I am middle aged and FINALLY have figured out how not to lose things.

[HeiressofBickworth]

41. Parents bought it for me.

I wore it senior year and for a while after that. I think I wore it to a couple of reunions. It currently is in my jewelry box. I think that it might fit my pinkie finger -- none of the others. As school rings go, I liked it. Gold with black and a very roman-column type of setting. My daughter never wanted a school ring; I don't know if my granddaughter will be getting one (she will be a senior this year). I even had a class pin. Two pins joined by a small chain. On one pin were the initials of the school and at the other end of the chain, the year of graduation. I think I wore that until my boyfriend (later my first husband) who was in the Air Force gave me an Air Force pin. I think I got over the symbolism thing -- I now don't even wear t-shirts that have logos on them.

[RobinA]

42. Parents Bought It

I wore it all the time, I loved it. Hated high school, but I loved the ring. I'd still wear it it I wouldn't look like a 54 year old ass in a high school ring. Bought one for my Masters because I did the Masters just for me. I didn't get the school color, I got my favorite color. It's too small, or I'd probably wear it. I consider the Masters an accomplishment, even though no one else does. Most people seem to think I never finished it, I have no idea why. End of tangent.

[madinmaryland]

43. No and No.

[Still Blue in PDX]

44. Nope - my parents were amazingly frugal.

I didn't even know class rings existed.

[hunter]

45. I didn't even sit for class pictures.

For the two years of high school I attended I'm in the yearbooks' not pictured list.
And those two years were hell.

Class ring? You've got to be kidding.

[sakabatou]

46. No

I don't even think we had a ring.

[ellisonz]

48. Heck no. n/t