Promise rings?

When I was a kid at school, back when dinosaurs still walked the land, we used to give each other promise rings as a sign that we would be friends forever. They were usually made out of ring pulls from cans of drink!!

As a new stage before engagement? About as pointless as those childhood promises!

At first I thought they were to do with saving your virginity for someone. Then I thought I had them mixed up with purity rings. But having googled, they do sometimes symbolise that. I think they're more for younger people who are perceivced by their parents etc as too young to get engaged.

I've always thought of them as an American high school type thing to do. I'm sure I saw it in some American tv shows or films when I was younger.

Seems pointless though.

About a month before we got engages, H2B bought me a Welsh love spoon. He is Welsh and we had gone to Wales to visit his family. The history of the Welsh love spoon is a promise of marriage, so when he gave it to me, I did say to him, you know what this means, right? He just grinned and said all in good time. So, I guess it's the Welsh version of a promise ring!

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Funnily enough, literally just finished watching TOWIE, tevo'd yesterday, and one of the dudes gave a ring.

I paused the show and was just ranting to husband about how ridiculous it was, since he said something along the lines of "I know you're worried about my commitment and where our relationship is going". It just made me think that surely that's only going to consolidate those thoughts for her, rather than ease them. Now she knows you don't want to get engaged.

Hmmm. Odd.

This is what I thought..I remember something in Sweet Valley High about promise rings! lol

Ah I loved SVH when I was a kid!

See that's quite lovely.

I do think that some shlebs do it for a bit of extra publicity, but I think most of them do it because they know they won't stay together long enough to get married.

Unless you're Cheryl Cole! Three months, BOOM.

That is really sweet. I understand the young thing as well. That seems sweet too. And appropriate. I just don't get the others. A promise ring party? wtf? Let's hope paperchase don't see it or there will be cards to send soon too.

And schlebs is officially my new favourite word.

I was confused for a moment there cos out of context I thought it was a misspelling of schlep. It isn't.