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(couldn’t resist a little Lord of the Rings reference)
Mrs. Bell Pepper’s most recent post about ring holders really got me thinking…. How often do you take off your engagement/wedding ring?
I eat, sleep, shower, swim, cook, and craft with my engagement ring. In fact, the only time I take off my ring is to get it cleaned or when I’m making meatballs (for which I use my hands, and I’m afraid to get meat bacteria all stuck up in my ring).
On the other hand, my sister never sleeps or showers with her engagement ring on. She waits until she’s walking out the door to work to slip it back on after a whole night of being ring-less. I can’t do this because I’m afraid I’d forget it all the time, and my left ring finger just feels naked without it!
So where do you ladies fall in this spectrum? Do you take your ring off for specific activities or leave it on all the time?
I take my own when I shower/sleep/cook/go to the gym — I have ring holders next to my bed and in the kitchen.
I take mine off to sleep, shower, and wash my hands (and also during Ukrainian dance rehearsals and performances!)
I am one to take off my rings when I wash the dishes, shower, clean my hand, sleep. My fingers are the type that swell up at night, so I get annoyed by my rings and have to take them off….
but like you, I feel naked when I dont have my rings on…
and unfortunately Ive been feeling extremely naked and sad, because I lost my enagement ring… 
I was sooo upset for weeks. And no - i havent found it. So believe me when I say that my wedding ring… I will crazy glue it to my finger (well not really…but you get the idea)
I’m in the middle somewhere. I don’t sleep in it (learned that lesson after poking my poor fiance in the eye!) I don’t shower in it (it gets caught on my hair.) And I too don’t make meatballs wearing it. 
But I put it back on the second I’m awake or done with those activities.
Mine comes off only for showering and cooking. I really need to get a special spot to put it for those times though!
I take mine off when I brush my teeth and get ready for bed - and leave it on a little doggy-shaped ring holder next to my bathroom sink. I put it back on as I leave for work.
My rings don’t match up very well, and so they scratch easily when I wear them too much. (one is white gold, one platinum)- otherwise I’d wear it 24 hours a day.
hehe. I wrote a post on the same topic not long ago …
(http://tiffanyandcolin.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-wear-my-sunglasses-at-night.html)
I take mine off anytime anything “bad” could happen to it - meaning I don’t sleep, shower, clean, or cook with it on. I just like to keep it clean - I also clean it at least once a month. (yup, I’m a crazy.)
Like you, I take mine off for cooking. No sense in getting e.coli or whatnot all in there. And I take it off when I’m lotioning, since it’s got engravings that could get all gunky. Otherwise, it never comes off!
I take it off when I get home. I don’t like to cook, do dishes, shower, work out with them on. I have a pave-like setting with alot of little nooks and crannies for dirt and crud to seep into!
I have a very high setting, so I don’t wear mine to sleep for fear of scratching. I generally put it on after my shower, and since mine is white gold - my jeweler said that chlorine is horrible for jewelry, so I don’t swim in it either.
I keep mine on 24/7. I have taken it off a couple times when it was professionally cleaned, but it went right back on. And I have a sonic cleaner at home (gift from Mom) and use that a couple times a month, but otherwise, it doesn’t leave my finger. It’s a part of me now, I hate when it’s not on me.
I take mine off for showering, doing dishes, cooking, and running outside. I leave it on when I’m at the gym, though. I can’t imagine sleeping without it, though - I think I would wake up in the middle of the night wondering where it was!
My ring is the first thing I take off when I get home and the last thing I put on when I head out the door. I’m allergic to it so the less I wear it the less I break out!
I just wrote a post on that myself…I’ve been shopping for a ring holder as I fall into the “take it off semi-regularly” category.
My rings come off the moment I get home and don’t get put back on until I walk out the door again.
i also take mine off when i’m home, and i put it in a small bowl on my night stand. i would never leave the house without it, but my fingers swell at night and i feel uncomfortable. i tried to sleep with it on one night… and it didn’t work!
Even though the entire thing is plantinum, I’m still terrified of having one of the four prongs break/bend and loosing my center diamond after a horror story I heard from the jeweler. So call me paranoid, but I take it off doing anything that could bump it.
I have it on all the time. The only time I take it off is to clean it or if I know I’m going to do some heavy damage to it like playing sports or when I was doing weight training.
I take mine off a lot (playing in the garden, cooking with meat, sleep, shower, doing almost anything dirty with my hands). I also take off my mala beads for these activities and my ring is always with my beads either on my hand or with my beads tied around it so it is big and cumbersome and easy to find anywhere.
Ohmigawd, Kelly!! That is my most horrible fear. I’m one of the “take it off as soon as I get home” crowd and I’m deathly afraid that I’ll lose it. I used to put it in my pants pocket until one day I forgot it was in there and it went through the entire wash cycle! It came out none the worse for wear (thank goodness!) and since then I make sure to put it in my jewelry box.
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Mrs. Chickadee, Peoria, IL Age and Occupation: 22, Freelance Advertising Fiance's Age and Occupation: 22, Mechanical Engineer Engagement Date: February 10, 2007 Wedding Date: June, 2008 Blogging Since: September 13, 2006 Venue: Methodist Church/Country Club About Me: My parents always said I should wait until graduating college before getting married…Mr. Chickadee and I finally graduated this past spring and we didn’t waste any time getting straight down to business. It’s been four long years, but the wedding planning is finally underway!
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