Hey, if you buy a wedding ring from K-Mart, you get a free large Icee AND a pretzel WITH cheese dip.

You can't tell me that's not a bargain.

NTTAWWT, but given the number of Farkers who brag about how little they spend on their weddings, why should we be surprised?

Didn't the fat Guy on teen mom buy a 20 dollar engagement ring at Walmart then ask about the return policy

The day a woman agrees to buy her own wedding ring is the day I decide to get married.

She returned it and still is being charged with the possibility of jail/prison? That's bullsh*t.
White trash idiot, and obviously homely if she can't get a man to steal one for her.

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: But those bastards make you pay an extra dime for the cinnamon sugar pretzel!

/Never forget

Hey, you get what you give, man.

If a thin dime is all the difference between cinnamony sugary greatness and... that other stuff, I'll gladly part with that dime.

Listen. I'm a bit of a snob. When I wear my good jewelry, I'm sporting about 10 times what my car worth. I love diamonds and other sparkly things.

That said, a wedding band is plain gold. You really can't f*ck it up. As long as it has the karat you're looking for, who cares if you buy it at a bargain bin?

Engagement rings, on the other hand......

tarheel07: The day a woman agrees to buy her own wedding ring is the day I decide to get married.

You can get a perfectly acceptable "wedding ring" for $40.

We all knew you were a whore; now we know your price.

Third Day Mark: Some of us use layaway still; and Kmart being one of the few places that have it, leaves us with little options.

If you can't afford something shouldn't you be putting it on a credit card with a high interest rate? I thought that is how we roll now?

Headso: If you can't afford something shouldn't you be putting it on a credit card with a high interest rate? I thought that is how we roll now?

Thumbs up. Would smirk again.

Ugh. That journalist should be killed with fire.

tarheel07: The day a woman agrees to buy her own wedding ring is the day I decide to get married.

My husband and I went dutch at Shane Co. We got matching white gold bands online for around $130.

Kelly are you an exotic dancer by chance?

hot like wasabi: Ugh. That journalist should be killed with fire.

My favorite line was "speaking then, as opposed to forever holding her peace." I'd light the match for this one.

TravisBickle62: Kelly are you an exotic dancer by chance?

Nope. Why do you ask?

My wife sold me her grandmother's engagement ring for 2k, to give to her, with the 2k going towards the wedding as her part. So technically i got it for free, since I would have had to shell out the 2k either way. Wedding rings were 1k and $45, I went with a silver one i purchased at a ren faire. she went with something a bit more traditional. But I think had she known how nice the ren faire ones were, she prob would have gone there as well.

No reason.

SwingDancer: My wife sold me her grandmother's engagement ring for 2k, to give to her, with the 2k going towards the wedding as her part. So technically i got it for free, since I would have had to shell out the 2k either way. Wedding rings were 1k and $45, I went with a silver one i purchased at a ren faire. she went with something a bit more traditional. But I think had she known how nice the ren faire ones were, she prob would have gone there as well.

Wait. She had an engagement ring but purchased a wedding band for $1,000? What the holy hell? Wedding bands are CHEAP.

Bah, I forge my own rings.

kellynoel: Listen. I'm a bit of a snob. When I wear my good jewelry, I'm sporting about 10 times what my car worth. I love diamonds and other sparkly things.

That said, a wedding band is plain gold. You really can't f*ck it up. As long as it has the karat you're looking for, who cares if you buy it at a bargain bin?

Engagement rings, on the other hand......

This exactly. I have some pretty nice jewelry,but when I bought my husband his wedding ring I picked it up at Walmart. He wanted a plain gold band, and one plain gold 14k band is the same as another, only at least this one was cheap enough that if it gets broken/farked up (he works in maintenance in the army) I won't think twice about just buying a new one.

/That said, her 10k "bowtie" .5 carat ring sounds like an ugly piece of crap....

ace in your face: /That said, her 10k "bowtie" .5 carat ring sounds like an ugly piece of crap....

My brain still hurts from trying to imagine just how hideous the ring in question is.

kellynoel: SwingDancer: My wife sold me her grandmother's engagement ring for 2k, to give to her, with the 2k going towards the wedding as her part. So technically i got it for free, since I would have had to shell out the 2k either way. Wedding rings were 1k and $45, I went with a silver one i purchased at a ren faire. she went with something a bit more traditional. But I think had she known how nice the ren faire ones were, she prob would have gone there as well.

Wait. She had an engagement ring but purchased a wedding band for $1,000? What the holy hell? Wedding bands are CHEAP.

That depends on whether or not it was a plain band or those ones with the sparkly bits into which the engagement ring is set.

Meh, the husband didn't buy me an engagement ring. Or propose. Did get a nice wedding band with lots of sparklies, but it's pointless to drop a lot of cash. Why not go on a nice vacation or buy some cool shiat for the house. Women + Weddings = Crazy

kellynoel: SwingDancer: My wife sold me her grandmother's engagement ring for 2k, to give to her, with the 2k going towards the wedding as her part. So technically i got it for free, since I would have had to shell out the 2k either way. Wedding rings were 1k and $45, I went with a silver one i purchased at a ren faire. she went with something a bit more traditional. But I think had she known how nice the ren faire ones were, she prob would have gone there as well.

Wait. She had an engagement ring but purchased a wedding band for $1,000? What the holy hell? Wedding bands are CHEAP.

I'll bet hers has diamonds in it. Factor.

Sarcastica75: lolololololol

I CACKLED


kellynoel: You can get a perfectly acceptable "wedding ring" for $40.

Onion rings cost much, MUCH less.

I'm just strategizin'. Don't mind me.

hot like wasabi: That depends on whether or not it was a plain band or those ones with the sparkly bits into which the engagement ring is set.

Meh, the husband didn't buy me an engagement ring. Or propose. Did get a nice wedding band with lots of sparklies, but it's pointless to drop a lot of cash. Why not go on a nice vacation or buy some cool shiat for the house. Women + Weddings = Crazy

I agree with you that people get crazy about their weddings. I'm the courthouse and tiny dinner party type, myself.

ace in your face: I'll bet hers has diamonds in it. Factor.

I can't imagine being able to buy an ornate ring that looks good with an old engagement ring like that. Yuck.

Ummm...if you meet your future spouse at K-Mart, your favorite restaurant is Dairy Queen, you think of going to the dollar theater (do they still have those?) is a "night on the town" I don't see why you wouldn't buy your wedding ring at K-Mart.

At least it's not Wal-Mart.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Onion rings cost much, MUCH less.

I'm just strategizin'. Don't mind me.

They hurt less when you poop them out, too.

Happy Hours: (do they still have those?)

There are at least two here. A year or so ago, I read an article in the paper about a rash of people catching scabies from the seats.

/See what I did there?

kellynoel: They hurt less when you poop them out, too.

That, and ACTUAL rings don't have breading.

Breading ALWAYS wins out.


CygnusDarius: Bah, I forge my own rings.

In the fires of Mount Doom?

even Kmart would have been beyond my means when i was courting my woman, my lover. it was 1973 and we were university students, majoring in the humanities. we were poor but so in love. as she lay recumbent in an open meadow one day, i spied a slender twig on the ground next to her foot. i picked it up and wove it into a celtic knot. i then asked for her hand in marriage.
she adored the twig/ring. and even though some 30 odd years later i have offered to replace it with a platinum reproduction of the twig ring...she refuses. she's been wearing it proudly, lo all these years. what a gal.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Breading ALWAYS wins out.

How could I have forgotten about the breading?

kellynoel: hot like wasabi: That depends on whether or not it was a plain band or those ones with the sparkly bits into which the engagement ring is set.

Meh, the husband didn't buy me an engagement ring. Or propose. Did get a nice wedding band with lots of sparklies, but it's pointless to drop a lot of cash. Why not go on a nice vacation or buy some cool shiat for the house. Women + Weddings = Crazy

I agree with you that people get crazy about their weddings. I'm the courthouse and tiny dinner party type, myself.

Dinner party? Hell, you went all out. We got married at the courthouse, bought dinner for the three friends that attended at The Melting Pot, then scampered back to a hotel room. Still married 5 years later and ::gasp:: I still genuinely like my husband.

Those biatches that are so concerned about having the wedding of their dreams (and in this case, concerned enough to actually steal a ring from farking K-mart) should focus a little bit more and why they're getting married in the first place.

devildog123: I don't see anything wrong with buying a wedding/engagement band at Wal-mart/K-Mart. My wife got a family heirloom ring, but before I decided to go with that, I looked around for a ring. To be honest, unless you're going for something custom made or buying at someplace like Tiffany's, all those rings are made by the same companies. The ring you get from the cases in your local jewelry store is pretty much the same one you can buy at K-mart, just more expensive.

Thanks for pointing that out and ruining the entire experience for everyone else.

basically what you revealed as the truth is that unless you or your fiance is very farking rich you're going to end up with a ring that was mass-produced by children from China.

I once interviewed for an IT job with a major jewelry retailer. It looked like a soulless place to work. And yes, it was run by Jews. I've worked for Jews before and they really aren't any different from anyone else except they take off on certain days when they expect you to show up for work.

billybobtoo: even Kmart would have been beyond my means when i was courting my woman, my lover. it was 1973 and we were university students, majoring in the humanities. we were poor but so in love. as she lay recumbent in an open meadow one day, i spied a slender twig on the ground next to her foot. i picked it up and wove it into a celtic knot. i then asked for her hand in marriage.
she adored the twig/ring. and even though some 30 odd years later i have offered to replace it with a platinum reproduction of the twig ring...she refuses. she's been wearing it proudly, lo all these years. what a gal.

Never mind what I said about the journalist. Kill that ^^ with fire.

/Just vomited.

kellynoel: ace in your face: /That said, her 10k "bowtie" .5 carat ring sounds like an ugly piece of crap....

My brain still hurts from trying to imagine just how hideous the ring in question is.

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_026VA7184901P?prdNo=2&blockNo=2&blockT y pe=G2

hot like wasabi: Dinner party? Hell, you went all out. We got married at the courthouse, bought dinner for the three friends that attended at The Melting Pot, then scampered back to a hotel room. Still married 5 years later and ::gasp:: I still genuinely like my husband.

Those biatches that are so concerned about having the wedding of their dreams (and in this case, concerned enough to actually steal a ring from farking K-mart) should focus a little bit more and why they're getting married in the first place.

Well, I'm not married. But if I get married, it'll be a simple affair. The biggest expense, I expect, will be hiring a photographer to get some evidence that I got all dressed up. (No traditional wedding gown for me, though.)

Now I want fondue.

ace in your face: http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_026VA7184901P?prdNo=2&blockNo=2&blockT y pe=G2

Sweet leaping Jesus.

hot like wasabi: billybobtoo: even Kmart would have been beyond my means when i was courting my woman, my lover. it was 1973 and we were university students, majoring in the humanities. we were poor but so in love. as she lay recumbent in an open meadow one day, i spied a slender twig on the ground next to her foot. i picked it up and wove it into a celtic knot. i then asked for her hand in marriage.
she adored the twig/ring. and even though some 30 odd years later i have offered to replace it with a platinum reproduction of the twig ring...she refuses. she's been wearing it proudly, lo all these years. what a gal.

Never mind what I said about the journalist. Kill that ^^ with fire.

/Just vomited.

HLW is amusingly obtuse.

Wait. If that's really the ring, it's only 400 some odd dollars and she should not be charged with grand theft.

kellynoel: ace in your face: http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_026VA7184901P?prdNo=2&blockNo=2&blockT y pe=G2

Sweet leaping Jesus.

Kinda looks like a bedazzled vajay-jay.

/amiright?

billybobtoo: even Kmart would have been beyond my means when i was courting my woman, my lover. it was 1973 and we were university students, majoring in the humanities. we were poor but so in love. as she lay recumbent in an open meadow one day, i spied a slender twig on the ground next to her foot. i picked it up and wove it into a celtic knot. i then asked for her hand in marriage.
she adored the twig/ring. and even though some 30 odd years later i have offered to replace it with a platinum reproduction of the twig ring...she refuses. she's been wearing it proudly, lo all these years. what a gal.

I'm wearing a $19.95 silver band bought from Wal-Mart as my wedding ring. You can rip it off of my dead finger, otherwise, it stays put.

/could have replaced it a thousand times over by now
//a band of metal on a finger does not make a marriage

billybobtoo: even Kmart would have been beyond my means when i was courting my woman, my lover. it was 1973 and we were university students, majoring in the humanities. we were poor but so in love. as she lay recumbent in an open meadow one day, i spied a slender twig on the ground next to her foot. i picked it up and wove it into a celtic knot. i then asked for her hand in marriage.
she adored the twig/ring. and even though some 30 odd years later i have offered to replace it with a platinum reproduction of the twig ring...she refuses. she's been wearing it proudly, lo all these years. what a gal.

Is this just another example of the simpler purer times that existed in the past or will we romanticize this decade as well in another 40 years?

I would love to go back in time (especially with the knowledge of how the stock market would perform) but I wonder. Would putting up with using leaves for toilet paper make up for what I got in exchange?