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What do people usually do with their wedding rings after they get divorced?  Do I keep it?  Do I sell it?  Do I melt it down, and turn it in to a bullet?  I don't really care what happens to mine, but my ex just posted online wanting advice on where to sell/pawn her rings and it made me wonder what most people do with their old rings?

Sell it.  You don't need extra reminders around.

well if ex's are amicable, find a young couple that is down on the cash flow and help them out.

I'd be afraid of jinxing them...  That and not too many guys have a size 7 ring finger...

I kept mine. I figured I paid for it, screw it I'll keep it. It's in a drawer somewhere. It might take me days to even find it. But I damn sure didn't keep it for sentimental reasons! I do like the idea of the bullet. [thumbsup] But I'd be worried of what I might do with it! [laugh] [evil] If mine had cost as much as hers I would for sure cash it in! [beer]

Sold mine for the weight of the metal.
Got about 10% back from what I originally paid for it 14 years earlier.
+1 for the bullet idea though

Plenty of options
- Sell it outright
- Consign it (mostly the same as above)
- Find someone in need and give it away (that removes the jinx you know)
- Pitch it off a bridge while riding your bike over it.
- Save it for metal for a future bauble.
- melt it into something new now.

I should add that I actually donated mine to charity but it was not worth a lot and I didn't need the cash.

For some stupid reason, I still have mine.  Probably worth very little and I definitely wouldn't want to jinx some guy with mine.  Out of sight, out of mind.  Will likely dispose of it before I get hitched again.

Same here. Now that I'm reminded of it, I might try to incorporate the thing into some kind of smithing/sculpture project... The biggest problem is that it's far enough in the past that I don't think I could summon up the requisite artistic angst to do justice to a used wedding ring in art.  ;D

+1

How cursed is the ring? If it's serious, high-grade shit, might I suggest gifting it to the Taliban?  ;D

expand it into a cockring size or something

I can't believe I'm not the only one who had this flash in their mind.  [laugh]

Or maybe not.

???
Really??!?
If it's jinxed, I would think the *last* thing you'd want to turn it into is a cockring...

 [laugh]

Well played!  [beer]

 [laugh] [laugh]  true, could wind up with a cornucopia of STDs and a performance problem all in one failed shot

You just have better "discretionary filters" than I do   :)

glue it to the bottom of the toilet bowl

i have 1 mate who is a jeweller

another that went through a nasty divorce

the wedding ring was remade into a prince albert ring  [laugh]

I really really REALLY like the bullet idea!
I pawned mine and got about half what I paid for it 16 years ago.
I took the money and started the sleeve tattoo that the ex hated when I brought the idea of it up years ago.  [laugh]

I went titanium with my ring, but there's not enough to do anything meaningful with it. Would probably hand it back to my aunt (a jeweler) and swap for a size that would fit another finger.

+1 on the bullet idea, but if you never shoot it, its just going to be a trinket that sits around. And if you do shoot it, it better be worth it.

If it were me, I'd probably just sell the thing.

Oh I'll make that bullet count  [evil]

Outmake the beast with two backsingstanding idea!! [clap] My current wife would complain so maybe I should nail mine to a tree at the farm. Kind of like a target. I like to pee outside when I'm in the country. [thumbsup] [laugh] So many good ideas, so little time.

Sell it.

Give $x to every one on the board.  ;D

Seriously...  Sell it.

After M2 left me, and returned the rings, bigger one at very high velocity, I sold them.  Paid for my first year(+) of law school.

I think my ex should have to give her rings back... after all, I paid for them.  Why should she get to sell them and then profit off of this?

I'll probably end up selling it or throwing it away... I like the idea of tossing it into the river.  The toilet bowl idea is awesome, but I think I'll take my revenge on my ex by living a good life and by being much happier than she'll ever be.  I really liked the bullet idea, but there would only be one instance that I would shoot it, and that would lead to further complications.

I'll see how much I get offered for it, and if it's not worth my time, I'll just chuck it... maybe I'll throw it over my shoulder at the next cage that decides to tailgate me.

Since the rings are in her possession and they were given to her walk away and get on with your life.  Yeah, she did break the contract, but over the years the rings will be of little consequence.  Just my $.02

back when I was happily married, I had a buddy of mine who had gotten divorced and cut his ring into bits and had it packed into a 3 inch shell for his 12 guage with some flechette type shrapnel and put a pic of his ex on a sporting clay and sent both off into the cosmos of forever-gone-land....

More good ideas. [thumbsup]

From experience...

the court will rule it was a gift and you should get on with things.

Only an engagement ring. But...

Bought overseas. After we ended the engagement, we sold it, I got what I paid for it, paid back the engagement photos gift from my mom, and we split the profit. Each made a couple hundred off the deal.