Hey, Honey. Watch me change this from an ordinary moment to a cinematic one with a bauble from Kay

[MrScorpio]

Sure, I had to hock the Lexus to get this, but now a soft glow has enveloped the room.

OK, cue the singers:

[Moondog]

1. Being inundated with the

annual, "you're an asshole if you don't go into hock buying jewelry for your woman this year" ads, are you?

[MrScorpio]

3. I really can't stand watching TV this time of year

Especially, when I try to watch football games

[Moondog]

5. Yep. It's been that way down here (FL) for a couple of weeks now .... n/t

[WCGreen]

19. But every Kiss begins with K....

[Blue_In_AK]

6. A lot of women, myself included,

really don't like jewelry, especially not of the "jewel" kind. Give me a nice hand-made hippie necklace if you're going to give me anything.

[MrScorpio]

8. My wife always tells me that her favorite gift from me EVER was a toaster oven

She loves that thing.

I could have never gotten that kind of cred from an expensive bauble.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. One of my favorite gifts

was the Dyson Animal vacuum cleaner. :)

[Moondog]

12. Glad to hear there are still some like you left ....

:)

[Quantess]

14. Real diamonds make me nervous.

Wearing cubic zirconia gives me a carefree feeling, because I know that I don't have to worry about losing them. And I do-- lose my jewelry all the time-- especially earrings.

Costume jewelry or casual jewelry is the only way to go, for most occasions.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. I want to surround you with the strength of my love

But, you know, the restraining order...


The Kay Jewelers ads are a bit much.

[DesertFlower]

9. here in arizona we have Jared -- a high end

jewelry store. the commercials are nauseating, i.e., the woman gets a fancy piece of jewelry and when she shows her friends she says "he went to jared".

[MrScorpio]

11. Oh, yeah

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9142929

[Bolo Boffin]

16. I see the Jared ads too

They've got to pump those kinds of ads, because otherwise a diamond is just a sparkly rock.

[Johnny Noshoes]

18. Don't you just love the Jared ad

where the GPS computer in the guy's car pulls a HAL on him because "she" wants to see what he bought. Then at the end of the ad the bauble is hanging on the GPS screen --- :banghead:

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Every kiss begins with Kay

Also: every fuck ends with Kay.

--d!
This Kay sure gets around!

[DesertFlower]

7. in 1967 i bought my husband a

diamond pinky ring (small diamond) from kay jewelers. i bought it on credit. two months later we separated. i handed him the payment book and said if you want the ring you pay for it. lol.

[arcadian]

10. You've been smoking a lot of weed today haven't you?

:D

[Bozita]

13. They just moved the Jared thread to the lounge

[DavidDvorkin]

15. I hate those commercials

And the Jared ones. We get both in Colorado, and they're equally revolting.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

17. PSA for men who fall for these

This is why I don't do Xmas. OMFG, if someone gave me most of the jewelry they picture in those commercials, it would piss me off 'til the end of time. I mean. . . a normal diamond something, maybe, but those pathetic pendants designed by morons with no design sense? Gee, honey. . . you spent how much on this? My, it's really too special to wear all the time. I'll just keep it locked up for safekeeping, k?

Really, if you want to impress a woman, you don't have to spend a fortune. You just have to do something that shows you really thought about what she means to you. Something handmade would impress me more than overpriced crap you bought because someone on the teevee saved you the effort of really thinking. Oh, and don't forget the foot massage and volunteering to help with chores without being asked.



Don't even get me started on the crappy celebrity stuff. Jane Seymour should be ashamed to whore herself for that weird shit she doodled in kindergarten. I understand the home shopping channels are full of that crap, too. I peeked once, but ran into Marie Osmond selling dolls and it creeped me out too much to go back. :P

[Berry Cool]

20. My favorite male comment on jewelry advertising came one time

when Keith Olbermann was joining Dan Patrick on his radio show, and it was some time of year--I don't remember when--when Dan had an advertiser selling jewelry to guys, so he had to do a little pitch to the listeners about buying the woman in your life a "Journey Diamond Necklace."

KO asked "What's a 'Journey Diamond Necklace'? A necklace endorsed by the rock group Journey?"

Of course, if you watch these ads, you know that a "Journey Diamond Necklace" is essentially a way to get men who've already bought the engagement ring--or hell, those who never did--to cough up (more) bucks for diamonds. It's a chain with a pendant made of a curving series of graduated diamonds from small to large. The idea is that it represents the "journey of your relationship" and how your love for your woman has grown the more you've been together. Oh, :puke:

Personally, I preferred KO's assumption. It's endorsed by Journey. Free cassette tape of "Don't Stop Believin'" with every purchase!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. IT's a racket and a monopoly.

DeBeers has a monopoly and brainwashes people to think they have to buy crappy diamonds. I used to sell retail crapola that wasn't too far from lumps of coal, they had lots of black spots.

The markup is tremendous. Real quality jewelers don't sell that crap. Please see my post about buying jewelry in the Jared thread. That place is a real ripoff too.

I have shiny rocks but they are so much higher quality than the department store crap it's not even funny. I have two rings with Asscher cut diamonds (look up "Asscher cut") and an Asscher cut emerald. They cost a goddamn fortune, even at wholesale, but hubby was willing to spend that much.

Any diamond that is square or rectangular must be of good quality because the parallel facets show the flaws more clearly.

(I have 2 GIA diplomas - Diamond Grading and Colored Stone grading).