Jewellery

As for women on cruise buying pricy jewellery for themselves, it might not be my taste but why not, so long as they can afford it? Would it be OK/ unsurprising if their partner bought it? Surely everyone on this thread accepts that many women work nowadays and some may earn more than their husband. Some posts seem to hark back to a different time, almost pre-feminism.

I never buy jewellery myself, DH has been more than generous over the years. DD designed and had made for me a necklace for my 60th birthday, it is lovely to have a unique piece of jewellery.

Now I LOVE silver jewellery and especially Silver & Amethyst.
I have a collection òf silver bracelets.which I wear on each wrist day and night....I've gone off wearing a watch for some time.
As I've been somewhat housebound for a couple of years I now buy Silver and Amethyst jewellery online. I've found a very good website for Gemstone jewellery and very good website for Sterling Silver chain jewellery. So when I'm fed up or bored I have a mooch on both. I've learned what I like so have a good search for something I haven't got in my collection. Fortunately I have all girls to pass them on to !

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I have to come clean here and say that I am a total jewellery=holic! I have at least 40 really good rings, 13 bracelets, at least twenty gorgeous necklaces and pendants and lots of loose gemstones. No earrings - I have never liked the idea of pierced ears (or pierced anything!!!)The TV jewellery channels have me enslaved! And I buy them purely because I am the only one who knows what I really like!! Just some of my "hoard" !!!

I have a silver pendant, made from an old desert spoon, hammered flat and carved with moon gazing hares. I love it, and get many compliments on it.......cost a ruinous amount, paid for it myself and hope that one of my grand daughters will wear it in years to come.

Sometimes, even if it is a struggle to afford something, it is worth it just to befriend yourself.

I love semi precious stones and silver.I wear a chunky amber necklace with a silver head most days and a bracelet which my daughter made.She always makes something special for my birthday and D2 gives me lovely antique brooches.I made a charm bracelet,using bits of jewellery from their teenage years.
A silver necklace inherited from my mum is always worn on her birthday.
A photograh of myself at 8yrs old has me wearing shorts and a beaded necklace.
As a child I loved to sift through grans button tin....I have always been a magpie.
I love the way Berber women are piled high with jewellery.

If I had lots of money,I would buy a diamond,Art Deco cocktail watch,but that will never happen.

No, if I couldn't afford something (and it wasn't an essential), I'd stick to window-shopping (after the shops were closed.

Not any more. I used to buy bits of silver but as I never really wear jewellery anymore I don't waste my meagre income on it. A new pair of jeans would be far more useful!!

I don't think I would buy myself 'good' jewellery from our normal income, but on the occasions when I've received a small legacy I've felt entitled to buy myself something 'from' the person who has thought of me.
Once it was a diamond pendant, but I've also bought an unusual bookcase and a garden seat.
They all give me pleasure and I think of the people whose money has provided them.
In the weeks before our Ruby Wedding I saw an unusual diamond and Ruby ring on the second hand counter in John Lewis. It was only £200 so I bought it on MrA's behalf.
He was delighted to be relieved of that particular chore

My husband buys me a piece of jewellery at Xmas or birthdays but it's not wildly expensive don't want to ungreatful but it's always a lovely piece. My daughter had some gold jewellery from the 80's which she never wore anymore not things that we bought I add. She took them to a jewellers and they gave her a good price for them and she bought herself a lovely Tiffany bracelet.

I met a nice lady on holiday once who told me that she'd sold all the various bits and pieces of jewellery that she'd accumulated over the years and bought herself one fabulous piece. (A necklace of massive pearls like gobstoppers! )

I must be really odd, have no interest in jewellery aside from sometimes buying charity shop earrings. I wear my grandmother's wedding ring and own no gold, diamonds or pearls. Just as well as DH has never bought me anything more romantic than a DIY wallpapering sponge.

Why not? Why wait for others to buy it for you? Life's too short and if it'll bring you pleasure then buy it and wear it (as long as you're not going into serious debt to purchase it mind)! Don't have regrets I say

I occcasionally buy myself costume jewellery and also Wiccan pendants and paraphernalia, but the last piece I bought cost me a whole pound for 3 pairs of earrings - before that a pendant 80p postage free. I don't wear jewellery except to keep holes in ears open or for ritual work. MIL buys quite expensive jewellery which we'll probably inherit eventually, but will almost certainly never be worn because not my sort of stuff and no other girls to inherit. Will probably be sold in due course.

I spent a year going around the world [mainly by public transport] when I was 25, and bought an opal from an Australian opal mine.
Later I took silversmithing classes and set it as a pendant.
I wore it quite a lot, as it was symbolic of my journey and new skills, but recently I discovered ebay and have bought myself lots of very sparkly costume jewellery - which I wear all the time as I worried too much about breaking or losing my "real jewellery".
I have given every piece of real jewellery to my dd and the weight of responsibility has gone.
[I take care to select "diamond" sizes which are realsitic, and so many people have commented enviously on one particular 'platinum and diamond' ring set, which I smile about as the set cost me about £6 on ebay including p&p.]

I still have a pair of cultured pearl stud earrings that I got with Green Shield Stamps in the very early 70's?.

Much as I adore jewellery, I am now aiming higher, so:
Bugger the jewellery
What I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, want is an E Type Jag in British Racing Green, and wire wheels.
Well, I can dream.?.

I often buy myself bits and pieces. I do have a lot, now. I should cull the costume jewellery really - stuff bought in Primarni and worn just a few times - and stick to the good items.
I have some lovely pieces that were bought on holiday in the UK, things to bring me memories.
A amber and silver treble clef pendant bought direct from the designer in Skipton or Helmsley.
A silver chain from Cornwall, a silver Rennie Mackintosh pendant from Glasgow, and an unusual ceramic brooch bought from the designer in Angus nearly thirty years ago.

On my last day at work teaching in a nearby tourist town some years ago, I bought myself some lovely silver and garnet earrings as a permanent memory of that job and the place.
My family often buy me pieces too, hence the need to thin out. That's a job to go on the To Do list. Decision made!

I have sold some ugly inherited and broken gold pieces. I got enough to buy two gold charm bracelets for my GDs. and each year they get a charm.

I enjoy doing this and will not mind if they keep them or eventually trade them in for something else!

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I have treated myself in the past to jewelry but that was when I was working. I am a bit more hesitant these days, but still enjoy looking in jewellery store windows. If I saw something I really liked that wasn't wildly expensive, then I probably would buy it.

I hardly wear jewelry these days - but now I have granddaughters that just love poking through my jewellery boxes asking me questions about all the pieces and wearing them. When they come to Granma's on a rainy day it's a great pastime for them!

I have spent some time with nose pressed against jewellers windows in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. I like necklaces and rings and have some valuable and quite a selection of purely dress jewellery.

Cheapest (probably) and best loved though is one of my grandmother's pretty necklaces which I remember trying on as a child. Grandma told me she bought it at a fair and it cost 6d. I love it and often get complimented when I wear it.

I have lots of jewellery but nothing worth very much. I just love to look at it at re-organise it. I have lots from my mum as well when she died (especially glam brooches). However as I have grown older I hardly ever wear jewellery except my wedding and engagement ring. I feel silly really because I like to see others in jewellery but it somehow annoys me round my wrist or neck. My latest acquisition confession, is a short plastic necklace with varying shades of purple beads which cost me 10p from a car boot sale. I wear it all the time, sleep in it, bath and shower in it and don't even know that I have it on until I look in the mirror and think "that looks nice"!! If I lost it I wouldn't mind at all but if I lost an expensive necklace I would be devastated.

I had a beautiful sapphire and diamond s ring which belonged to my husband's mother, she died before we married. I wore it for decades and loved it. Unfortunately a month ago I lost it. So sad. Hope it will turn up.
So miss wearing it, so bought a similar ring from Debenhams 70% off price, was originally £15! Could not afford to replace my ring.
Still hoping it will be found.

Winifred01 I hope it turns up.

Losing jewellery, particularly with a sentimental attachment can be very upsetting. Although I have diamond ear studs, they stay in the safe and I wear the cubic zirconia ones. Silly isn't it!

Thanks for your kind words. The sad thing is,I had decided to give the ring to my grandsons girl friend when they marry so as to keep it in the family and name.
So sad.