TuffaloDeac10
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I mean it in the "you're just throwing money away" counterpoint. When you die, it's still a valuable asset to pass on to your children, you can use jewelry as collateral to secure a loan if needed at some point, etc In other words, there's a lot of worse things in the world to spend a chunk of change on than jewelry.
And of course it's consumption. It's a relatively new concept (diamond rings for engagement really aren't started becoming popular in America in the late '20s and '30s) that people feel "forced" into doing by tradition. So look at it sensibly, like all of marriage and it's related trappings.
OK cool. I thought that's what you might have meant. I definitely agree that it could be valuable as something to pass down; TeacherFianceeDeac's ring has my great-grandmother's diamond. I am just super nitty about slinging the i-word around.