Sharon, I think you should wear those rings, at least the ones you like the best. It doesn't matter about how much character <> your hands have. As for the number of rings, I know what you mean. I've got a bunch of jewelry I never wear and I've told my husband not to bother buying me more. How many rings can a person wear?? I have two rings I wear every day, my diamond wedding ring and my birthstone (alexandrite) ring. I like the way they look and they're both special to me because I got them from my husband. So, the rest of the jewelry is just sitting there, never worn. I guess I should give them to my daughters. I have enough stuff keeping me busy that I don't take the time to think, 'now what ring do I want to wear today?' lol I do hav ea friend who keeps a bunch of rings in her purse and she changes which ones she's wearing pretty often, and it easy because they're with her. But, keeping them in her purse seems a bit foolish, safety-wise. Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> Reply-To: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BSChat] Jewelry Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:14:35 -0400 Jewelry is like a lot of other possessions that eventually becomes just burdensome. My brother is in the jewelry business, so decades worth of gifts of jewels to my mother and to me have become a real problem. What in the world should I do with that stuff? I quit wearing all those rings when my hands stopped looking like a young person's. Broken fingernails and callouses from gardening, scratches and small scars....adorn those hands with emeralds? I don't think so! Sharon IBSSG ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com