Utterly Meaningless

I wore my class ring for a few weeks after receiving it. But its bulk made it uncomfortable to wear. For the past 25 years or so, my class ring has been stored in a little box of scrap gold that I intend to melt down and make into something interesting when I take a jewelry-making class some day in the distant future. Looking back, I wish I’d spent the money renting a sailboat on a fine day for sailing.

From the UK:

Lol…Class ring? Just made me realise, yet again, what vastly different worlds we still inhabit, despite the apparently common language.

Class ring? On first reading, I hazarded a guess that it was some sort of Masonic connection with one’s old class mates or home schooling fraternity. I got there in the end, but still cannot quite picture what these actual rings would look like. So much for globalised (with a “s”) culture.

They’re not exactly pretty.

Why not a class ring AND a digital camera?

Rites of passage may seem silly to us now but they are important to some teens as they were to us “way back when”.

Actually, yes, I do know exactly where mine is! I wore it for many years, and the stone cracked, so I stopped wearing it. I loved it! I am not a jewelry person, but I wore it on one hand and my wedding rings on the other.

I agree with whoever said not to pooh-pooh traditions – IF it is something our kid is interested in, why not?

I wasn’t pooh-poohing tradition. I only meant to point out that if the rings are meant to help preserve “high school” memories, there are probably more permanent ways.

And, heck, if money is no object, buy the kids the ring and a Nikon D70s. Only $900 at Wolf Camera. Lens not included, of course.

Mine is upstairs on top of my dresser, in a box. I actually got a nice-looking one, no stone. I don’t wear it because it doesn’t fit any longer. 😉

I’m not sure hwy I got one, as high school was not a good experience for me, but I do remember it seemed important at the time.

For home-ed kids, it would be pretty pointless, I think.

Lost mine in France within a year of getting it (hanging arm out the car window on a country road; tried looking for it for well nigh an hour; futile).

Bought another one to hide the fact from my mother, who had purchased the first one. Lost that one too. Can’t even remember how now.

re: appearance of rings…Oooh..iswym. Think I’d opt for the digital camera, even in the situation of being able to have both!

Haven’t a clue where it is. An alleged boyfriend apparently hocked it.

Good thing I got over _that_ one while I was young!

I’ve still got the camera my dad bought me from around the same time, though; a Konica Auto S-2. It doesn’t work (sticky shutter that’s probably frozen now), but I’ve still got it — and the photos I took with it.

Definitely go with the camera.

I know exactly where my class ring is, and it’s not bad looking. Can I trade it for a D70? Please???

Mine is in the bottom of my wife’s jewelry box. I gave it to her when we were dating in college.

Sold mine when my oldest daughter was 1 and needed to visit the pediatrician. We didn’t have insurance at the time. I don’t miss it, and I’m glad I have the daughter instead.
Funny thing, I think my grandmother paid somewhere around 500 bucks for mine. My wedding ring didn’t cost that much.

Mine is on my right hand ring finger as I type. I got it my junior year, so it’s been there for 21 years (Class of ’85). My left hand sports my wedding set and the wedding set of my deceased grandmother.

For my HS graduation, I received an Apple 2 Plus computer, which my dad still uses to keep his time records at his part-time job. My mom’s friend recommended to them that I have something else, a little more permanent. They gave me an opal ring. Twice, the opal fell out. I didn’t buy a third. The empty ring is in my jewelry box.

Why do I still wear it? I like it. It’s more delicate, not clunky. The sides look like little hearts, one holds “19”, the other holds “85”. I found it on the Jostens site, called Mt Lady Flair. It would cost $310 today. Mine was around $125, in 1983, and I made payments for it in my own name, my first step in establishing good credit.

I never felt compelled to buy a college ring.

I am ultra organized; probably lost a total of 12 items in my entire life…the ring is one of them…. A huge waste of money; just like my college degrees.

The Nikon D70 is a little large and they would probably only take it out for special occasions. I have the Canon Rebel that takes my 35mm canon lenses for planned shoots and carry the coolpix 5700 on a daily basis (it is a little slow). The nikon 8700 is very nice. My spouse prefers the pocket size coolpix.

I got my kids the panasonic gs400 to do both stills and video; they are at a friends house now filming a star wars spoof. They shoot for film festivals is why I didn’t go with the smaller gs200.

Yeah, I’ve got a high school ring and a college ring… but after marriage (and a couple kids) they don’t fit. They’re all sitting together in my jewelry box (including my wedding ring). I need to get all my rings resized — I’m not going back to my pre-kids size.

I’m wearing my class ring. I graduated in 1978. Many people mention it to me, most bringing up a story of how a boyfriend or girlfriend lost or wouldn’t give back their class rings. I love wearing mine.

I’ve told my boys they can choose to have one of the lesser expensive (but costs about what mine did nearly 30 years ago) “class” rings with homeschooling stuff (or whatever they want) on it, or they can have Eagle scout rings when they complete their requirements. Both seem to be leaning toward Eagle rings. Makes sense to me.

I know where mine is! (Jostens Cupid. It has a heart with a tiny diamond inside on each side. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.). I wear it often but not daily. I still love it, though. Like Heidi’s, it is delicate and prettier than most high school rings.

My 15-year high school reunion is coming up, so I’ll be wearing it as I show off pictures of my daughters and explain just what the heck homeschooling is to my Cajun classmates.

waaaay-EEEEE!!

I never got one, except from my college boyfriend (ok, that’s weird, but he sat next to me in homeroom all through high school). Somehow I never got around to giving it back and I think I actually still have it somewhere.

OT: Meep, I was looking at mathematical crochet patterns last night and came upon a LiveJournal “meep” who did some math crochet projects. Zat you? If so… coooooooooool. 🙂

I know where both my high school & college rings are, as well as my hubby’s college ring — they’re all sitting in this beautiful hand-carved wooden box he gave me for my birthday one year not very long after we married! We have a rainbow assortment — my high school ring is ruby, my college ring is emerald & my hubby’s ring is sapphire. My two don’t fit me anymore (after 20 years & 2 babies, why would they?), but my husband’s college ring fits nicely on my right hand. Which is fine, since it doesn’t fit him anymore!

I think mine might be in a small brass box on my dresser, but I have not even opened the box in years.
One thing I do know, it does not fit any more—then again neither does my wedding ring.