Do you remove engagement ring when doing messy work?

Having been in a career where only a wedding ring was allowed at work, I seldom wore my engagement ring. I have both engagement and eternity rings on a ring tree in my bedroom. They are worn when I'm going out and I need to dress up, otherwise that is where they live.

I do take my engagement and eternity rings off when baking gardening etc. They are too precious to get clogged up with all kinds of unpleasant gunge.

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I have a diamond wedding ring and it’s the first thing I take off when I get home. I would never wear it whilst doing housework etc. I’ve always taken my rings off when at home. I can’t understand when people wear rings with stones in them whilst making pastry or bread etc. The stone settings are probably full of gunge so rather unhygienic.

My thoughts exactly.

Keep both on all the time regardless.

Wearing niether at the moment. my engagement ring fell apart and is being remade and my wedding ring had to be cut off and is being made larger so that i can take it off.

When on, I only take them off when needed for medical or other reasons, otherwise I wear them all the time. Mind you I do wear rubber gloves for heavy cleaning and also gradening gloves. Blow the ring, it is my skin that cannot cope with harsh chemicals and gardening.

Wedding ring hasn’t been off my finger since we married. Engagement and other rings with stones aren’t worn around the home or at the beach, always been the same

I have a diamond wedding ring and it’s the first thing I take off when I get home. I would never wear it whilst doing housework etc. I’ve always taken my rings off when at home. I can’t understand when people wear rings with stones in them whilst making pastry or bread etc. The stone settings are probably full of gunge so rather unhygienic.

I love jewellery, but little has sentimental value for me. My first engagement ring was a sapphire and diamonds in yellow gold with a very wide wedding ring. I then decided I preferred white metal, so that called for a new thin wedding band and an emerald and diamond engagement ring. Then we were burgled and a few pieces taken, so I ended up buying a new (expensive) emerald and diamond engagement ring to replace all the others. Fifteen years ago we went on a Nile Cruise and I didn’t want to take the emerald, so I bought a diamond set wedding band which I now wear all the time. (In Egypt our bus was attacked by bandits, so it was a good buy!). I do all jobs wearing that, but I do take my watch off, but that’s another story.

I never wear a ring with stones when doing housework or cooking and certainly would never make pastry with a ring on.
I remove my wedding ring at bedtime as fingers swell during the night and it can cause discomfort. I also remove my wedding ring when cleaning windows indoors, I have a lasting memory of someone I knew losing a finger after catching her ring finger on the catch and falling.

I am not a jewellery person either but never take my wedding ring or engagement ring off!

I don’t often wear my rings when I am at home and sometimes forget to put them on when we go out. DH always remarks on it saying “ oh are we not married today ?” Seeing as he has never worn a wedding ring , I take no notice. Certainly I would take my engagement ring off for making pastry or would need cleaning afterwards.

For about 30 years I never took off my wedding ring but had to have it cut off when my hand became swollen after an accident. Nothing dreadful happened we are still married after nearly 48 years.

I take all my rings, except my wedding band, off when doing messy jobs around the house and garden even if I'm wearing gloves.
I also take them off when using hand cream or cosmetics.
I was advised to do it by a friend who was a jeweller and who made my engagement ring.

She told me that, over time, chemicals and debris can build up in and around the stones which dull the appearance and also could potentially damage the settings, risking the loss of the gemstones.
I do clean them from time to time by immersing them overnight in gin. It's interesting to see the gunk that comes out, most of which, I imagine is my dead skin cells!

Yes engagement ring on first thing in the morning and removed for messy like gardening even though I wear gloves.

Never take any of my rings off . Never lost any stones . It helps having a jeweller as a husband so he can retip if need be though .

I wear my wedding, engagement and eternity rings all the time along with a marcasite ring that has great sentimental value.

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Married, never worn an engagement, wedding or eternity ring. It's enough that I know I'm married, not an indicator to others, plus I get occlusion dermatitis under rings.

I'm bad, I never remove them and confess to having lost a diamond from my engagement ring after 35 years. I still wear them all the time.

Me too GG13!
I think we are simpatico Sistas ha!
I know where they are and used to wear them every day. 😁

I wear all of them all the time.

Don’t remove any of them. I probably should because they have got looser.

Oh dear I often have to remember to put on my wedding ring, let alone engagement or eternity ring.

A PAIN to clean

I do, mostly because the fiddly bits get full of gunk and are a patio clean…

I had my engagement and wedding rings enlarged last year as a treat for our golden wedding. (Very expensive.) I hadn't worn them for years but am enjoying wearing them now. I take off the engagement ring when I help cook the senior citizens lunch in the village hall, also something jobs : pastry, making bread etc.