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What Did You Do With Presents From Your Exes?

I was getting ready this morning, and I happened to grab a pair of earings from my jewlery box that were given to me by an ex-bf.  I haven't worn them in awhile, and they went with what I was wearing, so I figured, why not, and wore them.  I got rid of some things that were presents from exes when B and I moved in together 4 years ago, but anything I liked (especially jewlery), I kept.  Anyone else? 
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  • When Kyle and I broke up for 6 months back in '03, I continued to wear the jewelry that he had gotten for me. He has great taste in jewelry so I wasn't about to get rid of it. I wore a necklace from him out on a date with another guy who complimented me on it. I didn't think anything about it but didn't tell the guy who it was from.

    As far as gifts that I received pre-Kyle, most of them were pretty tacky things that a high school guy would pick out. I had them all in a box at my mom's house. When she had a fire most of the stuff that I had stored there was severely smoke damaged. It gave me a great excuse to rid myself of it all. 

  • I still have some of it. I was robbed in Dec 2009 so any of the jewelry is gone. Not that it was fantastic anyway. I still have my Red Wing jersey. Real CCM jerseys are expensive and I wasn't about to let that go.
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  • For now it's all still sitting in my jewelry box, but I keep meaning to trade the gold stuff in for cash.  It's all yellow gold anyway, and I just don't care to wear any of it anymore.
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    I still have some of it. I was robbed in Dec 2009 so any of the jewelry is gone. Not that it was fantastic anyway. I still have my Red Wing jersey. Real CCM jerseys are expensive and I wasn't about to let that go.

    Yeah, I definitely would've kept that, too. Go Wings (sorry, playoffs start today)! ;)

    I think I may have a few books floating around that were given to me by exes; I'm not a huge jewelry fan, so the stuff that was given to me over time has just kind of disappeared like most of my jewelry tends to. I admit that I stopped wearing the jewelry after it ended, though. In one case, I gave stuff back.

     

     

  • I think I still have everything.  I didn't feel that any of the jewelery was overly sentimental, and it was nice stuff so I never got rid of it.  TBH, I don't even know if I could identify those particular items (although I know exactly what DH has bought for me).  I may also have some clothes that I still wear off and on.  I didn't even think about getting rid of stuff, since a lot of it was practical.
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  • Mine is an odd situation.  You will see why this is one of the MANY reasons why he was an ex. I still have all the jewelry he gave me. He had great taste and would go buy jewelry on a credit card.  Well guess who ended up paying off those credit cards.  ME!  So no way was I getting rid of the jewelry, or giving it back. Ultimately I paid for most of it anyway.  He probably paid for about 25% of the total bills. I have a birthstone ring he purchased that I wear every day. The only time I took it off was on the wedding day. I did not think it was appropriate to wear it for that.
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  • I only had 2 serious bf's before I met DH. One of them accidentally killed himself so I kept the bracelet he gave me but I never wear it. I have it tucked away with all the other jewelry I never wear. And the other guy didn't give me anything, but he stole all my clothes when we split. 
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    I only had 2 serious bf's before I met DH. One of them accidentally killed himself so I kept the bracelet he gave me but I never wear it. I have it tucked away with all the other jewelry I never wear. And the other guy didn't give me anything, but he stole all my clothes when we split

    What the heck? Why did he take all your clothes?

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    imageDonnaKatherine:
    I only had 2 serious bf's before I met DH. One of them accidentally killed himself so I kept the bracelet he gave me but I never wear it. I have it tucked away with all the other jewelry I never wear. And the other guy didn't give me anything, but he stole all my clothes when we split

    What the heck? Why did he take all your clothes?

    Dunno. He's about 200 pounds heavier than me so it's not like he's wearing them....I hope. I never heard from him after we split up so I'm not really sure what happened to my clothes. At least I got away with all my shoes.  

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  • I sold my engagement ring from exH to an old coworker. I loved the ring, it was a custom setup, so I wanted someone to enjoy it. I used the money to go to Vegas with DH :)

     I have a few other things from exH and a birthstone ring from my HS love, but it's yellow gold and I haven't worn it in over 10 years. I've thought about popping all the stones out and having something made with them, but have never gotten around to it.

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  • I still have most things. DH and I agree to have one box of mementos and the rest just got tossed as we've cleaned and moved and such. The jewelry I have always wanted to sell, but it's mostly really nice stuff, so it's hard to part with it. The problem is that DH knows where most of it came from, and he's not a fan of me wearing it. I think it's silly, but whatever.
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  • I don't have a lot of significant gifts from the exH.  I still have the antique china cabinet he got me for our 15th anniversary (4 months before he left).  I keep it because I like it, and don't really associate it with him.  I pawned my wedding rings a long time ago.  I moved 600 miles after the divorce, so there's no association with my house.  I would probably get rid of something that had an uncomfortable connection, but there really isn't anything like that around anymore.
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  • Most of the stuff from my exes I got rid off. The rest (cards, letters, etc) are in a shoebox in the attic.

    I will say that I sold a couple pieces of jewelry from an ex, and got a pretty decent amount of money for it.

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    imageeeeeva:

    imageDonnaKatherine:
    I only had 2 serious bf's before I met DH. One of them accidentally killed himself so I kept the bracelet he gave me but I never wear it. I have it tucked away with all the other jewelry I never wear. And the other guy didn't give me anything, but he stole all my clothes when we split

    What the heck? Why did he take all your clothes?

    Dunno. He's about 200 pounds heavier than me so it's not like he's wearing them....I hope. I never heard from him after we split up so I'm not really sure what happened to my clothes. At least I got away with all my shoes.  

    And how does one go about accidentally killing himself?! Of course you don't have to answer if you don't want to.

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    imageDonnaKatherine:
    imageeeeeva:

    imageDonnaKatherine:
    I only had 2 serious bf's before I met DH. One of them accidentally killed himself so I kept the bracelet he gave me but I never wear it. I have it tucked away with all the other jewelry I never wear. And the other guy didn't give me anything, but he stole all my clothes when we split

    What the heck? Why did he take all your clothes?

    Dunno. He's about 200 pounds heavier than me so it's not like he's wearing them....I hope. I never heard from him after we split up so I'm not really sure what happened to my clothes. At least I got away with all my shoes.  

    And how does one go about accidentally killing himself?! Of course you don't have to answer if you don't want to.

    It really was an accident. Him and his dad were out in the field shooting coyotes, he went to pull the shot gun out from behind the seat and it fired. It's pretty graphic so I won't go into detail but STARS air lifted him but he only lived for about 20 minutes.   

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  • Oh gosh! Sorry to hear that. There was actually a story in our local news today about a guy that shot and killed himself by accident at a gun range.
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  • And another good reason I will never have a loaded (or working) gun in my house. It happened 6 years ago last month and I still wonder why there was a loaded gun with no safety on sitting in the back seat of his truck. 
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  • I only got jewellery from maybe 2 exes.  One was a cute pair of earings but they got all bent and I threw them out a few years ago.  The other was charm for a necklace which I still have.  But now that I'm thinking of it, I could sell it!  I never wear it. 

    Letters and everything else have been thrown out.

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