Material Girls

 

1. This material girl would like (in this order):

   1) pay off the mortgage
   2) a car of my own
   3) a computer that works better/faster (we lost internet for 2 days - again)
   4) a vacation (a weekend in a hotel would be nice) - a cruise to Alaska best
   5) no phone what-so-ever in my house, ever again. . .(probably never possible, but I dream)

   Fantasy
   1) pay off all the bills
   2) walks/fountain/new flower beds in back yard/sealed for life deck & gazebo
   3) family to stop asking me to get more involved (while at the same time saying I’m too involved in war/politics issues) DUH!
   4) find two certain family members without paying some shyster ‘investigation’ biz a fortune to accomplish nothing (been there, done that more than once).

   Posted by wardmama4       08/02/2006  at  12:27 PM  



2. A TV over a ring? 

   The real purpose of the engagement ring was so that the girl could sell it if the guy backed out on her (to pay expenses she incurred for the wedding).  The girl is supposed to return it if she breaks it off.  It was a kind of insurance policy after the narriage in case of financial distress, a kind of upfront investment.

   My husband was beginning his Ph.D. dissertation when we got married, so my engagement ring is an opal (his birthstone), beautiful but much less expensive than a diamond of equal size.  I’d love to have a big diamond someday because, as my sisters above listed, it would signify that other debts have already been statisfied.

   Maybe for the 25th anniversary?

   Posted by goddessoftheclassroom       08/02/2006  at  06:15 PM  



3. Like lots of smart guys, when I got engaged I did quite a bit of research into diamonds. Not so much that I’d call myself a professional expert, but certainly head and shoulders above the average consumer or retailer. 95% of the stones you find are overpriced junk. Sorry, but its true. Cut, cut, and then cut are the real 3Cs. Look up Greg Holloway and the studies he and his Russian friends did. They’ve turned the diamond industry on its head, so much so that there is a new cut rating system in place, and the quality of today’s good cuts is better than anything that’s ever been.

   So, naturally, once I found a superb stone - on the internet no less - for a great price, it now looks like synthetic diamonds are set to slaughter the whole industry. These are the real thing, actual diamonds grown under tremendous heat and pressure, not the fake CZ stones of 5 yeras ago. Grown stones are actually far better than mined ones, and cost about 8% as much. But to protect it’s assets the industry won’t allow them to be called the D-word.

   Then there’s that whole blood-stone issue, and the cartel thing. Both of those will annoy the heck out of you.

   PS - I’d go with the plasma TV myself, but I’ll wait for the price to come down some more.

   Posted by Drew458       08/02/2006  at  06:17 PM  



4. Perhaps that is why electronics doesn’t thrill me - I can’t live without my computer but if my husband can’t fix it - I do without (the internet, wasn’t us - it was them). I’ve told him over and over again, if he would just charge $5 for each ‘hey, my computer is doing this . . .’ he’s taken care of - we’d have no mortgage, two cars and life would be good. I admit that I don’t have a clue as to how the darn things work - my mind is so far out in left field - it is a lost cause.  Not too impressed with the ‘latest’ tv we got - certainly won’t move up to plasma unless someone gives it to us.

   Posted by wardmama4       08/03/2006  at  01:32 PM  

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