Atlantic article on how DeBeers invented the entire "tradition" less than 100 years ago. Sheeple.

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Jun 27, 2020
9:09:34am

ColoSpgs All-American

Atlantic article on how DeBeers invented the entire "tradition" less than 100 years ago. Sheeple.

We Buy Engagement Rings Because a Diamond Company Wanted Us To

In the 1930s, few Americans proposed with the precious stone. Then everything changed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/

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Author

Time

POLL: Engagement Rings

conetah

6/27/20 8:38am

In the running for dumbest part of our culture

Gustav

6/27/20 8:43am

Most women disagree.

conetah

6/27/20 8:45am

^^^THIS^^^

BlooCoog

6/27/20 8:46am

It's part of our culture because most people agree to it

Gustav

6/27/20 8:49am

My sister had a FB post with tons of comments about wedding rings

KingDave

6/27/20 8:52am

There was a poll on our singles FB page

conetah

6/27/20 8:58am

5-10k? Yikes. Red flags!

KingDave

6/27/20 9:08am

RE: Most women disagree.

JEblue

6/27/20 8:54am

My wife is like that too; bless her soul

BlooCoog

6/27/20 8:55am

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East1999

6/27/20 9:29am

Big ole fake CZ here.

cougfanz

6/27/20 8:44am

Does she know?

conetah

6/27/20 8:46am

Yea. She’s kind of vain and kind of not I guess.

cougfanz

6/27/20 8:48am

They always know

KingDave

6/27/20 8:48am

Diamonds are a girls best friend. Makes sense.

conetah

6/27/20 8:52am

My wife now wears her moms ring since she passed away.

dadofkhec

6/27/20 10:51am

Cost me three months salary

RC Vikings

6/27/20 8:46am

And adjusted for inflation?

conetah

6/27/20 8:47am

RE: Cost me three months salary

Mike Honcho

6/27/20 9:08am

I got a nice ring with a CZ for $800 (adjusted for inflation), and for our 10th anniversary I bought

KingDave

6/27/20 8:47am

I spent a few grand on my wife’s. Definitely not worth it.

Duke Silver

6/27/20 8:48am

Agreed. My fiancée insists on spending multiple hundreds on my ring. I’d rather have a $40 tungsten one. It looks better

yaxcoug

6/27/20 9:10am

Yup. Love my tungsten ring. $20 on amazon

LaserCoug

6/27/20 9:46am

My wife knows someone who insisted her boyfriend give her a $10K ring. It was so

mwcoug

6/27/20 8:52am

If a girl insists on getting a $10k ring, you don’t marry that girl.

Duke Silver

6/27/20 8:53am

Shocker...now some other poor guy is getting a master’s in high maintenance

BlooCoog

6/27/20 8:58am

Where's the zero option? HCBW would have reconsidered if I had wasted money on an engagement ring.

ColoSpgs

6/27/20 8:53am

Sounds like you’ve got yourself a dude

conetah

6/27/20 9:08am

These answers are skewed lower because Mormons generally get married so young and broke.

TCuz

6/27/20 9:02am

I wish everyone would get married broke

2FarGone

6/27/20 9:26am

Isn’t doing an engagement and wedding ring a thing for some people?

Pepe

6/27/20 9:27am

Pretty normal. I bought my wife an engagement ring and then a wedding band.

TCuz

6/27/20 9:30am

Atlantic article on how DeBeers invented the entire "tradition" less than 100 years ago. Sheeple.

ColoSpgs

6/27/20 9:09am

Um, $17.50. Why no such option?

6/27/20 9:36am

A practice that preys on the lower half of society. Needs to go

valleus

6/27/20 10:13am

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