Thanks, everyone, for the messages and the great suggestions for wedding ring disposal. I’m leaning toward either throwing it in the river or hiding it here in the apartment (behind a radiator grate or something like that) and leaving it behind when we move. Since I lived here with my ex, that also seems fitting…leave the ring as an archaeological artifact of my time here. Let someone find it years down the road and wonder how it came to be there, and who the hell was Victor. (His name is engraved on the inside.) I don’t think I can sell it, because then it would still be out there. Throwing it in the river is appealing for two reasons: 1) Harold and Maude was my very favorite movie for a very long time (if you’ve seen it, you know, I hope, the scene I refer to) and 2) because my ex lost his wedding ring in the ocean and spent the last rocky year of our marriage without a ring on his finger. If his was lost to the ocean, well, why not throw mine in the river to join it? These are my thoughts today, anyway. I’ll decide before we move (hopefully in just another month if all continues to go well).
I managed to squeeze in some knitting time this weekend. Please remind me, next time I mention wanting to make a sweater for my brother or someone of his size, how very many hours are getting sucked down the neck of this one. It seems like I’ve been doing the raglan decreases on this one forever and that neckline never gets any smaller. I’m at the point where I’m totally sick of it and just looking forward to getting it DONE. I treated myself with small breaks on my Manos capelet. I could spend days just sliding Manos between my fingers…such nice stuff to work with. In a couple of inches, I’ll be taking the capelet off the needles for sizing. I’ll take a pic then.
Wedding ring disposal……Melt down the gold into a nugget. Have the stones set in the nugget and make it a necklace. Keep it for hard times or sell it for yarn money.
Posted by: Ruth in Houston
I think both your ideas (leaving behind and throwing in water) are perfect, suitable, and satisfying. It’ll just be deciding which. Proud of you for narrowing it down like that.
How big IS that sweater, anyway? I thought about making my dad one for Xmas, but he’s a pretty large dude, and I can’t bear the thought of the monotony.
Posted by: Rachael
Is there a diamond attached to said ring? If so, keep it for a rainy financial day–or a day when you’d like to have it reset in something fabulous.
Otherwise, burial at sea–flush-a-roo.
Posted by: Leslie/Nake-id Knits
Hello my darling. Just checking in instead of doing my reading, fascinating though it is. 🙂
I really like the river idea, though I was thinking a proper burial in a park somewhere might be good too. Maybe dogs will poop on it repeatedly. hee hee
Posted by: serenata
How appropriate that you will be moving soon, and can REALLY close the doors (hey, for once I can use the word “literally” and mean it) literally on this past phase of your life. Yeah!
I missed the Harold and Maude ref–it’s been too long since I’ve seen the movie. But I like the connection.
I am glad you are treating yourself to the Manos. See, if men wore capelets there wouldn’t be a problem, would there?
Posted by: Em
I’m looking forward to seeing the caplet, since I love Manos but I don’t know what a ‘caplet’ is. Well, there are a couple of caplets in the handful of pills I swallow every morning, but I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to here.
Your ex’s name is inscribed inside the wedding ring? Does it only become visible if you heat it? That might have been a clue, you know…
Posted by: David
Consider selling the ring and giving the money to charity, or sell it and buy some ridulous priced yarn and knitting something for a friend who stood by you through the ordeal…just some thoughts -Nina
Posted by: Nina
Wedding ring disposal……Melt down the gold into a nugget. Have the stones set in the nugget and make it a necklace. Keep it for hard times or sell it for yarn money.
Posted by: Ruth in Houston
I think both your ideas (leaving behind and throwing in water) are perfect, suitable, and satisfying. It’ll just be deciding which. Proud of you for narrowing it down like that.
How big IS that sweater, anyway? I thought about making my dad one for Xmas, but he’s a pretty large dude, and I can’t bear the thought of the monotony.
Posted by: Rachael
Is there a diamond attached to said ring? If so, keep it for a rainy financial day–or a day when you’d like to have it reset in something fabulous.
Otherwise, burial at sea–flush-a-roo.
Posted by: Leslie/Nake-id Knits
Hello my darling. Just checking in instead of doing my reading, fascinating though it is. 🙂
I really like the river idea, though I was thinking a proper burial in a park somewhere might be good too. Maybe dogs will poop on it repeatedly. hee hee
Posted by: serenata
How appropriate that you will be moving soon, and can REALLY close the doors (hey, for once I can use the word “literally” and mean it) literally on this past phase of your life. Yeah!
I missed the Harold and Maude ref–it’s been too long since I’ve seen the movie. But I like the connection.
I am glad you are treating yourself to the Manos. See, if men wore capelets there wouldn’t be a problem, would there?
Posted by: Em
I’m looking forward to seeing the caplet, since I love Manos but I don’t know what a ‘caplet’ is. Well, there are a couple of caplets in the handful of pills I swallow every morning, but I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to here.
Your ex’s name is inscribed inside the wedding ring? Does it only become visible if you heat it? That might have been a clue, you know…
Posted by: David
Consider selling the ring and giving the money to charity, or sell it and buy some ridulous priced yarn and knitting something for a friend who stood by you through the ordeal…just some thoughts -Nina
Posted by: Nina