Let's say you are a down to earth kind of girl who wears simple jewelry, nothing anything fancy and you inherit this huge $15,000 diamond wedding and engagement ring.

What do you do with it?

Wear it anyways?

Put it in a safety deposit box until your daughter is grown and see if she wants it?

Wait a few years and sell it?

Give it to someone else in the family who likes fancy things .. but who you worry might just sell it themselves in which case they'd get the $15,000 and you'd have nothing.

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I would attempt to sell it.

I am so senitmenal about things, that I would keep it!

I have some of those ugly orange dollies type things, that my grandmother made back in the 60's. I don't use them but they are in a box in the attic.

Unless of course I got it from a "wicked old aunt" then I would sell that sucker

I would put it in a safety deposit box for your children when they are older. I'm not a big jewelry person but would have loved a wedding ring set of my Grandmothers when i got married.

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I did inherit my mother's wedding ring. It is in a safety deposit box. Even if I liked it and it was my style I just couldn't bring myself to wear it.

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If it wasn't something I would wear myself, I would save it for future generations. I can't imagine selling a family piece, but that's me. I'm not a sentimental person about a lot of things, but things like jewelry, silver, art etc I think should 'stay in the family'. I've inherited jewelry pieces from Dh's side of the family, as well as my own side of the family. Some are not my taste, but they remind me of the person that gave it to me, so I wear it in honor of them, and I love that.

This is going to happen to me. My MIL has a couple of large diamond rings, and I'm not really a jewelry person. She has already told me that I will be inheriting them because my SIL told MIL that she didn't want them. My MIL has said that what she would like me to do is take one for myself to replace my engagement ring (also a family heirloom, it was DH's grandmother's ring, which I am perfectly happy with), then save my old ring & the other one of hers to give to the boys when they are old enough, to use as engagement rings themselves if they want to. If they don't want them, then we'll save them for future generations. I wouldn't sell them.

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I would never sell it. I would keep it until I was ready to hand it down to someone else in the family.

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I would save it for my daughter. If nothing else, it could pay for her wedding!

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I'd save it. If it's worth $15k it's probably huge, in which case I could always have the stone split for multiple pieces of jewelry if I had more than one child.

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