Antique Wedding Ring, Which wedding band?
How does that save money? I can get two large bottles of juice for the price of
one gallon of milk. So,that doubles the amount of liquids I get for the same
price.
Also, if you just drink water and milk, you will just need to eat more fruit.
And buying fruit is more expensive than drinking fruit juice.
If you want to save money on your food bill, you'll shop smart, and stock up.
ObFrugal:
Don't expect thrift stores and the Goodwill to be cheaper than local
antique shops. I found a gilt mirror yesterday at my local antique shop
for $50 (they took $40) and the one at Goodwill was $100, no bargaining. I
live in the Bay Area and rarely if ever find deals anymore at the local
Goodwills, even after the huge fraud case last year.
I went with 18K actually. Not much more expensive for a nice little gold
band, and the color is much better! I have a smooth surface band, so it
does show some scratching and nicks, but I haven't been able to do anything
that bends it too terribly. You can get it cleaned and polished up a bit
every so often and it looks fine. My husband also works in a lab, and
doesn't have any problem (he did tend to take it off sometimes when he
worked in chemical production, but he would have taken off any rings, as the
electrical hazard was pretty high AND getting chemicals under the ring can
cause pretty severe chemical burns before you can get it off and clean the
skin!).
I have an 18K band on my engagement ring as well, which is fairly thin and
delicate, and it hasn't given me any trouble. I got the idea from some of
the foreign born students working in the same lab with me. They generally
wear gold as pure as you can get it and still make jewelry from it (I'd
guess 22K?) and that stuff IS pretty darn soft. But it looks REAL pretty.
So when I went shopping for "the ring" I went with 18 K stuff.