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Do you take off your jewellery when you get home? Your wedding rings?

Aziraphale

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This is related to Elly's thread about lefties and which hand they put their jewellery on. I'm all for decorating both sides, but the minute I walk in the door, IT ALL COMES OFF. Bracelets, rings, watch, big earrings if I'm wearing them -- even my wedding rings.

I don't see anyone else doing this, though. I've been watching other people and they seem to at least leave their wedding rings on all the time. My own mom hasn't taken off her wedding ring since she got married forty-odd years ago. Am I the lone freak in this regard?

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Tanya

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I am not married so no wedding rings here, but I also tend to take every piece of jewelry off of when I come home. I wear a watch every day, and the first thing I do when I come home is take it off.

nicoleb

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My wedding ring never comes off (well except the times it's fallen off...i really need to get it downsized ^^;) because i'm rather absent minded and i don't want to risk losing it.

Anonymous

I leave my watch and wedding set on all the time. If my earrings/bracelets are heavy, they come off right away. Stud earrings sometimes stay on until I'm in bed, but then I take them off and leave them on the night stand. (Once I had them in my hand, and was thinking about taking some aspirin. I popped them in my mouth and luckily felt the little posts on my tongue before I bolted them down with a glass of water!)

velvetychocolate

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I can't say I've mistakenly "taken" my earrings in place of aspirin (Ack Claire!!), but I do take earrings and jewellery off (except wedding band and engagement ring) before bed. I never take my wedding ring set off at all, unless I'm making homemade meatloaf or meatballs. And the deal is that my husband gets down on his knee and proposes to me all over again. My giant, over-exuberant black lab doggie also gets into the act, and sits down next to my husband, all googly-eyes and wagging during the "proposal". When I say "yes", the three of us (husband, doggie and me) have a group hug.

Silly, eh?

If my husband takes his wedding band off (rare, but sometimes for a particularly messy car repair job or what have you) - we do the same thing, except I'm the one on bended knee.

The deal is that we don't put our own wedding rings back on ourselves - the other has to propose all over again.

Kelley

The minute I walk in the door I head straight to my closet and take off all of my jewelry, first thing. Including my wedding rings and even before I take my shoes off. No reason other than I don't feel I'm home and ready to kick back until I have the fancy stuff off

bella

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me me me! My accessories (including wedding ring and watch) are like my shoes. I take them off first thing I enter my apartment and I put them on last thing before wearing my shoes to leave the apartment.

lyn*

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It all comes off the instant I get in the door - my jewellery tree and closet is right by the door

Vicki

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Oh, I've got to check the lefty thread, because I'm a lefty, too! Yay! Ring stays on, but the watch comes off at bedtime. ^_^

p.s. I wear my watch on the right wrist.

Sarah A

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I am a take it off gal too. And I often forget to put the wedding ring back on in the morning too... Or even set it someplace in the house and lose it for two weeks on the edge of a bookcase or something. Luckily DH understands

anne

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I keep my wedding and engagement rings on for everything except when I need to mix or knead things.
Any necklaces tend to come off straight away, but short ones often stay for a few days, or at least to bedtime.

I have found that one of my pairs of earrings is so comfortable and versatile that I just wear them day and night. Other pairs either annoy or get sore, so come off pretty fast (I mostly only wear them when they are gifts and when the giver is around)

My watch I take off to wash dishes, shower and go to bed. And it comes off a lot because the catch isn't strong. In fact I am not sure where it is right now!

suburbiana

I take my wedding rings off when I get home since I often work with my hands and I don't like to have things stuck to them.

Victoria

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I usually take my jewelry off when I get home except my wedding ring, watch and couple of silver bagles I always wear. I actually feel weird when I am not wearing any jewelry, like something is missing

Aida

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I only take off those things when I change into loungewear/PJs, but I leave my wedding ring on until I go to bed. Then it goes off until I'm out of the shower the next morning

EDIT: Actually there is one bit of jewelry I don't take out. I have my ears pierced twice, and the top set usually has diamond studs in it (I change them out occasionally). Those I leave in all the time. If I've worn different earrings for the day, the studs go back in at night.

Anonymous

Yes I do. I immediately change to loungewear once I get home and all jewelery comes off. I also cannot sleep with any jewelery on. That's why I don't travel with my engagement ring. I'd be too freaked out to leave it behind.

krishnidoux

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Me too. When I come home I usually "unload" from all that is too much, and often even my clothes (but I wear lounging clothes!). Sometimes I try to keep it all, but I do too many physical chores in the home.

Yesterday I saw a very good documentary filmed in rural China. A field worker weaved her way in muddy roads, digging, pulling plants with her worn out hands, slaving over a large bowl in what seemed like a crowded hallway that turned out to be her "kitchen". Here she was again, in the field, ploughing... yet she wore golden earrings and ornaments in her hair, a cute printed shirt popped from under her battered cardi.

So I was surprised that she was comfortable doing such physical and hard work with accessories on but it's all relative I guess.

Ana

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Yep, I take most of my jewelry off when I get home. I don't take my wedding ring off in public because I'm absentminded and I don't want to lose it. But do take it off when I get home and put it on a little holder I have.

Elly

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I get pretty used to taking jewelry off--- I used to work with my hands around power tools, and couldn't wear anything (I'd sometimes wear a watch with a plastic band, depending on the task)---- now the type of work I do limits what I can wear when I have to do certain tasks. As a rule though, a watch and low-profile wedding band is the limit to jewelry that is below the chest-- earrings and shorter necklaces aren't a problem. Sometimes the watch and ring has to come off too, other times I could wear a long dangly necklace and leather cuff so long as I'm prepared to take it off if something comes up.

Everything comes off if I'm really cooking, cleaning, yard work, painting, using pastels, ect.

I probably sound really silly, but the first thing I do when I come home is wash my hands and then sanitize all the things I touch a lot when I've been out (phone, ect). I try to keep the germs outside of my home, so I don't have to worry so much about touching things like my face when I'm at home, or touching various handles and surfaces while doing food prep, ect (because of my cruddy immune system). My watch and other daily jewelry I wear on my hands and wrists can all be submerged and it gets a good scrub with my hands. Rings and bracelets I occasionally wear with soft stones or leather, ect usually comes off at this point. So do necklaces that are dangly or that slide around that I was touching all day and will probably continue to touch without thinking about it.

I do occasionally like the people I live with to see me in real clothing and in jewelry (since I have a lot of gifts and I like the givers to see them worn!). Hence, earrings and my watch stay on till I'm in PJs or bed for the night or until I shower. I have one pair of studs that I often shower and sleep in.

My medical alert jewelry stays on all the time, although I do alternate back and forth between a pendant and a bracelet or two.

When I was engaged I was always taking the ring off because I found it uncomfortable, easy to get dirty, and hard to clean. Former FI didn't like that much . . . . probably doesn't say good things about me!

Echo

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My wedding set, diamond stud earrings and gold bracelet stay on almost 24/7. I do take them all off and clean them at least once a week, and I remove them if I am doing something hazardous to them. Necklaces or a watch or RHR or anything else comes off immediately when I walk in the door, but those three things stay on almost constantly, and I get a shock of panic whenever I notice one of them is not on - sometimes even when I am holding them and cleaning them!

Suz

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This is a fascinating thread to me!!

I never take my wedding band off.

I do not have an engagement band or ring. My mother gave me hers, and perhaps if i had been in the habit of taking it off more regularly it would have lasted longer. The diamond fell out of the 60 year old setting one night this winter - lost forever. I am still saddened by this.

I wear my watch most of the time; tend to take it off before bed.

Earrings stay on until bedtime. I will leave small hoops and studs in overnight.

I rarely wear necklaces or bracelets. When I do, they come off when it is time to put on loungewear.

If accessories are the type to "bother" me and make me want to take them off when I walk in the door, then they are probably more accessory than I can handle.

Diana

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I take off all my jewelry except my two rings and watch when I get home. The rings (including my engagement ring) and watch come off when I take a shower before bed. I cannot sleep with them on because I end up with scratches on my face from the diamond ring!

christieanne

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I take off all my jewelry except earrings. I wear my diamond studs 95% of time and they are screw backs and stay on all the time.

I never took my wedding set off until I broke my hand (4 places and dislocated two fingers) and now it swells (4 years later) at end of day so it feels better to take off rings. DH is ok with it. My engagement ring was his mom's and i have two bands - one is the original and one is a vintage band I got for tenth anniversary.

Scarlet

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I take everything off before bed, including my wedding ring. I put it on again when leaving the house. I often take my rings off when cooking or washing dishes. Drives my mother crazy to this day

Nadya

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All my jewelry comes off except my wedding rings and the two "extra" diamond studs in my right ear. Yes, I'm so 80s!

Aziraphale

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Well look at that -- I'm not alone after all! Lots of quick-to-ditch-jewellery types out there.

And I just realized that I was mistaken. I don't take everything off when I get home. I forgot about my "other" earrings -- the collection of little silver hoops that live in all but the bottom holes. I never take those out. I don't think I've changed them in years. It's not like they're in the way or I can even feel them there. They're like tattoos -- you sort of forget you have them.

ETA: Claire, your comment about how you nearly drank your earrings made me snort with laughter.

ManidipaM

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Typically larger or heavier earrings come off at home; necklaces and bracelets likewise. I sometimes keep rings on and smaller earrings too, right up to bedtime.

My wedding ring is really a placeholder for the real delicate engagement and wedding rings I originally had, but it usually stays on except when I'm washing up or getting into food prep (I get my hands in food a lot for mixing and rubbing and tossing) --- largely because it's just a tad loose and slips off when wet. It therefore comes off for showers and baths as well.

Louise

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I leave everything on till bed time then the whole lot comes off and is put away in my jewellery cabinet for safe keeping till the following day x

citygirldc

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Wedding ring and earrings stay on all the time. I'm sure my wedding and engagement ring need a good cleaning though.

Janet

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I often take off all my jewelry when I get home... Except for my wedding and engagement rings, which I take off when I get ready for bed. And if I'm wearing stud earrings, which I usually am these days, they stay on until bedtime too.

Anonymous

All jewelry except wedding band comes off at bedtime. I do take off my diamond engagement ring; just not the gold wedding band that goes with it. I also take off my diamond engagement ring and wristwatch when washing dishes or doing other chores that involve water and/or cleaning products.

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