Stone in your class ring?

[live4christp1]

School color. I already had a birthstone ring.

 

[Olaf]

I'd be interested in hearing whether any of you still wear your class rings? IMHO a big waste of money. I didn't wear mine after I left high school. Didn't buy a college ring. DH wears his college ring, but it's from the AF Academy and the ring is a really big deal to them.

 

[jnykly]

I didn't get a class ring. I chose to have another ring designed since I knew I wouldn't wear the class ring after I graduated. I chose a Topaz (not my birthstone or class color) and diamond ring b/c I liked the color. And I still wear it on some occasions.

This is her special time, so I would let her choose.

 

[SC Minnie]

For HS we didn't have a choice. If you ordered it through the school it HAD to be blue- our school color.

I haven't worn my HS class ring since graduating. I do still wear my college class ring- graduated in '92. It is all gold and is very subtle.

 

[AmazingGrace]

I didn't have a class ring, but I did get an Air Force ring with a blue stone. I wore that thing for years.

 

[Aimeedyan]

Mine was a pretty clearish diamondy looking one, because it sparkled the most! No reasoning other than that.

 

[HeShootsHeScores]

Scores wife here. I picked the October birthstone (pink). My birthstone is peridot (pale green) and when I was younger, I hated it!!!! My school colors were purple and white. I am not a fan of purple, either. So, I went w/my favorite color.

I never bought a college ring.

I think that your child should get the ring and stone of her choice. She's the one who has to wear it. She should be happy w/the stone that she picks regardless of whether it has a meaning or not. My guess is that she'll prob. stop wearing it in her sophmore year of college, anyway!

 

[Macca1111]

I'm currently having a discussion with oldest DD about the stone that goes in the class ring. She came home with the paperwork yesterday and was really excited about it so she went to the website last night to design the ring.
The stone she picked out is neither her birthstone nor her class/school color.

Personally, I don't know anyone who just picked a random color for their class ring stone but she really doesn't like her birthstone (Emerald) or her school color (Red/Ruby). She has her heart set on the Aquamarine stone which is just a little odd to me as it has no reasoning behind it, LOL.

Obviously, it is her choice but I'm curious as to what inspired other people to make their choice...please share!

This sounds exactly like me...except I didn't want emerald because you couldn't get the nifty design behind with it (stupid fake colored emerald). I got the light blue stone because blue is my favorite color and I could get a treble clef behind the stone. I loved it and wore it for my three years of high school, so don't think it's too strange of her! If that's what she wants, she'll probably continue to enjoy it.

 

[Disneydonnam]

I lucked out and got my school color which is also my birthstone saphire

 

[bumbershoot]

Maybe for you they were, but it certainly wasn't a waste of money for me. I loved my ring and wore it every single day...until my high school boyfriend lost it.

FWIW, things I have lost retain far greater value to me than things I've held onto "just because". I had a key from HS that meant, hmm, something, and I lost it at a frat party freshman year of college. I still think about it (though right now I can't for the life of me remember what it was all about), whereas if I hadn't lost it, I would probably think about getting rid of it, but keep it just because I should. So it's possible you have greater interest in it simply because it was lost.

For a CLASS RING, I don't see why anyone would choose anything other than the school colors. It's a symbol of your school.

If you want to choose your birthstone or your favorite color, why not go with any old ring that you like? It'll cost considerably less.

That's the way it was done at my school. That's what Jostens told us!

I think it was Jostens for college, too, and no one really cared, but I liked the green anyway, so going with a school color (yellow or green) was fine. But like I mentioned before, the school changed their colors a few years back (going back to their original colors from the 30s, they said), and they are now red and grey (sigh, like WSU, yuck) so even if I still wore it the color would be meaningless!

 

[maelstrom]

My school ring is white gold and has an aquamarine in it. It's of the traditional style, and only slightly smaller because I'm female (not as small as some traditional style ladies class rings I have seen; it looks huge on my tiny finger). One side has our mascot, a bear, and the other side has a megaphone and pom-poms (I was a cheerleader, obviously).

My birthstone is garnet, which I do not like. My school colours were royal blue and white, and I don't know anyone who got a sapphire because it was our school colour. My dad went to the same high school as I did, and his ring has a ruby, his birthstone.

Now for the fun part... I got my class ring and my varsity jacket my sophomore year (yes, I had a varsity letter my sophomore year)... and then at the end of the year I dropped out of school and homeschooled via a correspondence school (graduated a year early, too). My mom was a little annoyed that she spent that money on a ring and jacket for that high school with that graduation year on it.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

For a CLASS RING, I don't see why anyone would choose anything other than the school colors. It's a symbol of your school.

If you want to choose your birthstone or your favorite color, why not go with any old ring that you like? It'll cost considerably less.

All the class rings I've seen have the schools initials imprinted into one side, and the graduation year on the other. That's enough to symbolize my school, IMO.

 

[skuttle]

I picked my school color (purple). Never wore it again after I graduated.