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[quote=Anonymous]It depends on the person.

I know my wife (we just celebrated our 20th anniversary) and putting a lot of money into something like a ring, would have been anathema for her.  She wears very little jewelry to begin with and she prefers money for stability (like housing), experiences (like travel/vacation) and for security (like retirement, savings, college).  When we got engaged, we went on a cruise together.  I went to the jewelry store and bought a $500 engagement ring that could be traded in for a more expensive ring.  I gave her the ring on the trip for the proposal.  We came home and went shopping together and she found the ring she wanted which only turned out to be about $800, a smallish princess cut diamond engagement ring.  She looked at the larger rings and admired them, but said she could not imagine wearing rings that large on a daily basis.  My mother has given my wife some of her large and expensive jewelry (since my mother doesn't wear them much anymore, she has been giving pieces to my sister, my sister-in-law, my wife and my nieces) and my wife admires the expensive jewelry and will wear them for big events, but otherwise, we keep them locked up and she doesn't wear them.

So, you need to know your partner a bit to determine what works best for you.  Now, 20 years in, we are much happier having spent that money on other things when we were younger and had less to go around.[/quote]

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