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amy_dub

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So after joining this forum I''ve become much more aware of people''s jewelry (especially their Erings). I work Retail at a pet supply store (a higher end one in a more expensive part of Knoxville) so we have a lot of people who spend crazy amounts on their pets (myself included.. haha). I mostly run a cash register so I see a lot of peoples'' hands. Mostly on the women who are 40+ I see just simple solitaires... and on the younger crowd, I see all kinds of fancy stuff. I have seen a few "oh wow.. what was she thinking?" rings.. but those are few & far between.

Of course being a college student it seems everyone around me is getting engaged so i''m constantly checking people''s fingers. Which comes to the point of my post, there''s this girl that got engaged to a guy she hasn''t been dating long (she started dating him almost immediately after breaking up with her boyfriend of 2 years) and I''ve wanted to see her ring. She sat down beside me the other day in the computer lab and i kept glancing over to try to catch a glimpse of her ring. Well, I think she thought i was staring at her because she like gave me this weird look... so i immediately ignored her and stopped looking her way.. she probably thinks i''m a stalker now..
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So, are the rest of you LIW somewhat obessed with checking out people''s bling? Is this normal for a very anxious LIW? Please tell me i''m not a freak.. lol
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Not a freak at all!! I was actually in the grocery store the other day and saw a woman that caught my eye. She must have been at least 6''3", and very slender and beautiful. Wondering how tall her bf would have to be...lol ... I noticed her bling, so she was obviously married. I must have done 3 loops around the produce section just to get a good glimpse of her pear solitare! It was beutiful! So, not you are not alone.... I find myself looking more now than ever!
 
I totally know what you mean about the bling obessesion. I am always checking out peoples' rings now, and I really enjoy looking at jewelry! I'm already engaged and I'm still obssessed. Probably always will be.

"Of course being a college student it seems everyone around me is getting engaged "

That's so weird. Maybe it's geography, but NOBODY I knew in college got engaged. Not one soul. Nobody was married. No one engaged. Nobody talked about engagements or rings or weddings AT ALL. No one was even thinking about engagement or rings or weddings. Mostly people were thinking about college. And grad school. And careers. And travel. So this is so interesting to me... It MUST be a geographical difference? Or? I know the average age of marriage is older in my country than in the US, but even within the US, is there a difference in different areas? Do these girls who get engaged in college go on to grad school or to have careers or do they mostly stay home? It just must be so hard to coordinate at that point!
 
Independent G- the same line caught my attention as well and I live in the US (NY specifically) and I went to college in another region (Midwest) and none of my friends in college got engaged (only one got engaged shortly after graduating). We were all focused on our careers/applying to grad school (though admittedly I had a dual focus on my career and my boyfriend at that time
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I knew 3 people who got engaged in College, we all thought they were nuts, and they are all now divorced. We were all interested in our careers, travelling and getting on the property ladder. Not that we didn''t ''think'' about marriage - but in an abstract, future kind of way.

Since FI and I got engaged in December, 7 of our friends have as well. All of us are mid-30''s and first marriages.

Average marriage age in the UK is now 31 for women and 34 for men.

That said, I have always been bling obsessed and I positively oggle women on the tubes e-rings. I''m sure they all think I''m a mugger!
 
I''m already married, but I''m still obsessed with looking at other people''s (as well as my own!) bling! When I went to the DMV to change my name one my license a few weeks ago I couldn''t stop staring at the ring the woman behind the counter was wearing. It was sooo pretty! And it looked like her stone had some blue fluoresence. Even more recently, DH and I went to the pet store to look at cats up for adoption from the rescue that shows there and I almost grabbed the hand of the woman who brough a cat out to us so I could get a better look at her ring
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. When we were safely in the booth with the cat I asked DH if he''d seen her ring. It looked like it was a princess turned 45 degrees, which is what I''d originally wanted for my e-ring. He hadn''t noticed. Not surprising. Lol.
 
Here''s an interesting chart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_at_first_marriage

It shows the average at FIRST marriage... which is much lower in the United States than in most other highly economically developed countries.

It would be interested to see whether participation in the workforce is correlated with later age of first marriage... anyone know?

OK, taking my nerd hat off now.
 
Don''t feel weird....I do the same.....I''m a little obsessed......what''s funny is that he has become obsessed as well. Now I catch him telling me "did you see her ring?" It''s kind of cute....As women this is what we do. I think there is something inside of us that makes us do this.. I do catch myself doing it now, more than ever!
 
FI went through a bling obsessed period too, although it seems to have fallen off a bit. He still notices SERIOUS bling though! Like the lady we saw yesterday with 5 or 6 blinding high quality carats on her hand. WHOA THERE! You could take out an EYE with that thing if you weren''t careful!
 
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