How many of us burned a couple of hundred dollars for a high school ring?

I wanted one so badly but my single dad said Don’t worry, in a few months you won’t care about it. He was right

Companies taking advantage of teenage peer pressure.

I got one, my mom made it sound like a really big deal and how important it was that I get it. Idk, it’s kinda stupid, and I have it in some bin somewhere and when I randomly find it rummaging through things. it’s kinda nostalgic and a funny silly thought like “what was the point” but kinda in a fun way. but yeah I’ve never worn or used the thing.

My parents wisely told me they weren’t paying for it and I would have to pay. $300 in 1993! I said ‘No Way’ and many friends did(or their parents did). As predicted wore it that summer been in storage ever since. Smartest thing I ever did. Thanks mom and dad!

I went to a Catholic school, and we were required to purchase one (and it had to be from this specific manufacturer/vendor, and it had to be either silver or white gold and have a blue stone, because those were our school colors, although it could be any style we wanted), and there was a ceremony involving a blessing from the bishop. It was A Thing.

I got a silver one with a blue gem on the top. One side has a big peace sign (☮️). The other side reads: “KNOWLEDGE IS POWER”. Still have it 15 years later haha. I was stoned as hell when I designed it

still have mine as well as my one from college, and at a school not many people bothered getting them from. A relative made a big deal of the people they saw with their school rings so I guess it just stuck after hearing it for so many years.

I did a bit of research into them, seems like military schools and schools in the south have a big tradition with the rings (Citadel, Texas A&M, Clemson) but up here in the Northeast it isn’t as big of a deal with only a few like Providence College, Norwich, and MIT having some history with a ceremony and custom styles for the school.

I don’t think any of the high schoolers get them now, or at least they didn’t at the schools where parents I know sent their kids who graduated recently. Doesn’t even sound like the companies even come into the schools anymore to do fittings and instead it’s all done online.

My family was not doing well financially when I was in high school and my dad literally had a heart attack my sophomore year. It wasn’t time to spend money on non-essentials. I did not get a class ring. I also did not get an expensive high school jacket or senior photos.

My parents gifted me a nice ring when I graduated college- not a school ring just a nice one.

I sold mine about two years after high school

Mine is at the bottom of a river from canoeing in 1994. Oh well.

I begged my single mom for my ring but she didn’t have the money. My older sister was working at the time and she bought it for me. I only wanted it because I played volleyball and wanted “volleyball” on my ring even though I quit after one season. I don’t even remember if I ever wore it.. I still have the ring, in my drawer, somewhere. 🥴

High school (which I wore for maybe six months) and college (which I wore for years). Both were plain gold signet rings, so more understated than the more traditional rings with a stone. Both still in my jewelry box.

My dad told me this story….back in the 80s after he graduated he was with his gf in a field somewhere, they wound up breaking up so my dads (now ex) girlfriend took his ring and threw it into the field, at night.

It was lost for years till 2000 something when he reconnected with one of his friends from school. Apparently this friend had a HUGE crush on my father, so when she heard what happened she went out into the field and looked for it for HOURS and found it.

She returned it to my dad, and we always made fun of him, saying she kept it on a weird lovers shrine dedicated to him 😅

I had found one in the hall in high school. Was never claimed so I got to keep it. Then in college I sold it to a jeweler. Got about $85 for it in 2007.

I got mine…never wore it really but it made a nice Memento.

Not really my style, too big. I didn’t even dish out the money for prom, it was a rough time in life. I didn’t know one person who bought the ring actually. I remember they had a little stand near our library advertising it.

I didn’t want one. My Dad insisted I had to have one and it had to be a nice one. He spent like 500 dollars on it. I wore it once. 25 years later and I have no idea where it is at.

I lost mine within 4 months 😑

I actually liked my high school ring. Our school animal was an elephant so I had one on one side, and on the other I put a dragon because I love dragons. I had a ruby gem because I love the amulet from The Secret of NIMH, and I had an ‘A’ under the gem because it’s the first letter of my last name. It was a really cool ring, and about the only thing from high school that I miss. I wish I knew what had happened to it as at some point I lost it.

Had to pay for mine myself and wore it proudly for about 4 months.

I have mine. I liked the design and was able to get my birth stone. I wore it for several years, however I always had multiple rings on at the same time (often doubled up as well because I thought lotsa silver added to my punk rocker wannabe look), so it never had that “precious” vibe to it.

I don’t think I would ever wear it by itself. I would feel like a doofus. I’d probably still wear it along with the multiple rings.

Edit: I just looked at an old theatre headshot from when I was about 20. I was wearing the ring, but it was hard to find among the mittful I had on the one hand.

I looked through the catalog obsessively but new better than to ask my parents to pay several hundred on it. Very thankful now

I went to catholic school and the ring was optional. I dunno why I bothered with that thing. I remember getting my varsity letter and being all excited about getting a jacket it never happened though since my senior year was super depressing.

Fuck I hated high school.

I still can’t believe the same company that makes high school rings makes the Super Bowl rings

I’m so god damn glad I never got a class ring for HS or College. Now everytime I see someone wearing them, easy tool indicator. If you’re 5+ years out of school and even think about school anymore, you need to move on bro.