it's all relative innit
the value doesn't matter, it's how much time and thought they've put into choosing something that they thought you'd like.

however, if you know they earn a fortune and they have spent pennies, that will not bode well for future happiness. same if they earn a povvo salary but have spent money on a ring instead of a deposit for a house or a car or something sensible.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:26, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

I wouldn't be comfortable wearing something of that value though
even when I went engagement ring shopping with my best mate, all the ones I liked were under a grand.
(berk, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:29, Reply)

Good girl.
Cheap date.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:30, Reply)

Cheap date and easily pleased
are not the same thing.
(berk, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:34, Reply)

It's the little things in life that matters.........
Ohhhhh... by the way have you met Battered
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:36, Reply)

Is he a dwarf or something?
I seem to have missed out on this piss take, meh.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:37, Reply)

I never mentioned overcompensating once

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:39, Reply)

Yes
he's taller than I am.
(berk, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:38, Reply)

cheap!
ummm, £1000 still sounds like a fuckload to me. There are better things to spend £1000 on. Cameras for example
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:39, Reply)

Wine.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:41, Reply)

3 months' salary innit?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:45, Reply)

I thought that was just a myth propagated by jewellery companies
trying to screw more money out of people? It's supposed to be about the emotion and intent behind it, not the size of the rock. If I met someone I genuinely thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, he could propose with an onion ring and it wouldn't matter.
/hippy
(berk, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:48, Reply)

i think de beers started the myth
in theory i agree with you. in flippancy, i am obliged to point out that nobody with any brains would want to spend the rest of their lives with a twit who couldn't even afford a decent ring, so it's academic...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:54, Reply)

'Decent' is relative, though

(berk, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 16:58, Reply)

*waves*
I give poverty a bad name
( Kroney, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 17:06, Reply)

BON JOVI'S LESS SUCCESSFUL OLOLOLOLOLOL

( Kroney, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 17:06, Reply)

money is that important to you?
I wouldn't want a waster (again) but being broke doesn't necessarily mean a waster
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 17:11, Reply)

i was joking
but i kind of agree. it has nothing to do with family money or what they earn now. it has everything to do with drive, brains, ambition and being hard-working.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 17:12, Reply)

phew

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 17:13, Reply)