class rings

I got one for high school and regretted spending the money as I stopped wearing it after a very short amount of time - even before graduation.

I got a ring, which the principal of my school gently put on my penis at a special ceremony when I was a junior. Yes, I went to Catholic school.

I didn't get one, but I have my grandmother's from 1931.

Never had even the slightest trace of "school spirit" so skipped buying both the ring and yearbook. I knew I'd never see any of those people again after graduation.

I bought one for college because I worked very hard to be admitted to the school I graduated from, and even harder to make it through, and I was proud of the school and education I got. (Sigh, the silliness of youth!). This was early 90s; preppy shit was more of a thing. I stopped wearing it soon after graduation. I feel bad about that, as it was a white-gold Jostens and expensive. Not incidentally, I always feel a twinge of pity for anyone over 35 who still wears a class ring. It just seems, well, sad.

I got one in High School at my mother’s insistence and wore it for approximately 3 minutes. I absolutely didn’t want it and I didn’t want her spending any money on It but she was insistent. I just remember it was a real struggle coming to a compromise. She wanted a gold ring thinking I would cherish it. I wanted a cheaper silver ring knowing it would go in a box, I’d never wear it, and would probably lose it. I’m not sure how, but we settled on white gold and I still refused to wear it.

We had the same fight over my senior yearbook. I didn’t order one and when she found out, the next year she bought a leftover one from my high school for me. I think it’s at her and my fathers house. I don’t know if I ever even opened it.

I didn’t have a bad high school experience but I only took 2 or 3 classes a semester, each with only 2-5 other people and I went to take college classes the rest of the day. I got to school at 7:20 am and was out by 10:30 at the latest.

I just felt absolutely no convection to my high school or any sentimentality about it.

It was a tedious chose I had to endure until I had enough credits to graduate and start college full time (which was actually in my junior year, but I still did a senior year. Two independent study classes I was in all by myself and one physics class with a few other students).

R6 Sounds like mom was vicariously living through you.

No, I didn't get a class ring for high school or college.

I took part in graduation for HS & when I got my bachelor's degree, but not my graduate degree.

I never had any class so i passed on the ring.

Jesus. An obsessive Meghan Markle hater even goes to the trouble of infesting a thread about fucking school rings.

I’ve worn mine maybe 10 times. Off the top of my head for senior photos, at graduation and my reunion.

I didn't get a class ring. I got a senior key necklace. I wore that in the few months before graduation.

R7, well my mom was a teacher. And she also was always one year behind my sister and I in every school we went to. She never wanted to be in the same school at the same time we were, but she taught at both our jr hjgh and high schools.

So it mattered to her as a teacher, I think.

It didn’t matter to me at all. I wish I had been a little more comprising in retrospect because it was important to her even if it wasn’t to me. But I don’t think it was a living vicariously thing. I think it just mattered to her as an educator.

I got a high school and a college ring, both graduation gifts from my parents. I stopped wearing the high school ring when I went to college. I still wear my college ring. I get a lot of compliments on it, which I find odd.

I got a high school ring when I was a sophomore. It was stolen from my locker and got it replaced. I stopped wearing it right after I graduated.

I would wear it now except for the fact that I lost it decades ago,

R10 ahhh the sewage squad has entered.

Got the high school ring (Jostens gold with a chunk of Noxema-blue glass in it), wore it my senior year and then never again. I still have it, though. It was popular for the girls in my high school to wear their boyfriend's ring on a chain necklace with the ring band wrapped in fuzzy mohair yarn. No, I have no idea why. It looked they were wearing a one-eyed Tribble around their necks.

I was in high school in the early 00s, there was a girl who wore her deceased uncle's class ring on a chain necklace.

I never did. It pissed off my mother.

I gave mine to my little brother.

He sold it.

Jerk.

[quote] I never did. It pissed off my mother.

Same here. Mom loved her high school time and went to the reunions and such. She and her high school best friend remained in communication until the friend's death. Mom could never wrap her mind around how much I disliked those three years and rejected any mementos from them.

R6, It WAS a tedious chose.

Another thing I should’ve listened to my parents about. I bought one in high school, and like they said, never wore it.

Weird thing is that I never bought a college class ring, but lately have been wishing I had one… 30 years after I graduated.

Don’t like rings on men so it was a no-brainer for me.

I badly wanted one in high-school but I was too poor to afford it

even cock rings, r25?

I lost it as soon as I went to college

r24, you do know that Jostens will re-create one for you from any year, with any degree, from any school, you may have to send them a transcript from your school, but they will indeed do it; they did it for me. Of course, they don't do this for free.

R24 so will Gold Lance; at slightly better pricing

If you’re going to college, why a high school ring?

I didn't get the class ring, or the yearbook. Even at 17, I knew I'd never want to be reminded of that hellhole.

I'm 62 now, and have never been back. I was right.

I got a class ring and lost it when I was in college.

I graduated from HS almost 53 years ago. I do still have my HS & college rings. I wore each ring only until graduation. Once I was gone from school I took them off and never put either on again. I got a very nice diamond lapel pin after finishing grad school, and I did wear it for several years on one particular jacket. Now they're all tucked away in a my safe. Haven't looked at them in probably 30 years.

No. I left high school early for college. "School spirit" was for me a ridiculous symbol of small town/small mind thinking, cliques, jostling for popularity, and people too excited about going only where they already were.

I couldn't be bothered with the trappings of high school. It wasn't that the time doesn't there was terrible, but more a case of impatience to discover the better things that were ahead in life: new places, new situations, new people, new opportunities.

My mother wanted me to come back from college to attend a high school graduation ceremony. She wanted me to have a school ring, year books, a flammable polyester cap and gown. I didn't have any of those things. She was always about the trappings of things, mistaking them for substance.

[quote] well my mom was a teacher. And she also was always one year behind my sister and I in every school we went to.

Clearly she didn’t pass on her love of the English language to you, R13.

Oh, dear.

I always felt like this was a southern/east coast thing. Being from California I never knew any guy who wore either.

I had a high school ring - wore it in high school but I can't remember how long I wore it after that. I still have it.

Especially in high school, for many of us, getting one seemed like a big deal at the moment. We do a lot of silly things when we're young.