Girlfriend breaks up with boyfriend after he bought her a $10K ring without consulting her: ‘I have ALWAYS said I hate diamonds.’

Which one of them was in the wrong here?  When I was younger, I thought every engagement ring was bought by a partner who was trying their best but ultimately didn’t know exactly what their partner wanted. I thought every guy was just winging it with a proposal, hoping that she wouldn’t say no to …
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Older sister pressures younger sister to give her the $10K inheritance their parents left her for her education so that the older sister can pay her bills: ‘It’s what mom and dad would’ve wanted.’

She also got an inheritance, but that wasn’t enough for her.  Inheritance is one of those things that is not frequently discussed in polite society, and for good reasons. It’s kind of a morbid reality that fortunate young people can come into a great sum of money after the passing of their grandparents or parents. …
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Mom buys daughter ring from astrologer for good luck in her college entrance exams, gets mad when she has an allergic reaction: ‘I was the problem, and the ring was rejecting me’

The problem with having superstitions is that there is rarely any concrete evidence to prove them. While people are within their rights to believe things that others don’t, it has to be expected that they may face some opposition to this, and that there might be times when their faith in these concepts will be …
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Karen demands lifeguard find her lost bracelet at bottom of the pool, calls ‘this generation’ lazy because he couldn’t find it: ‘We tell people not to wear jewelry in the pool’

Lifeguarding is such a strange job when you really think about it. Water parks, beaches, and community pools around the world put the lives of their patrons in the hands of bored athletic teenagers, making $12 an hour if they’re lucky. It’s honestly a miracle that there aren’t more drownings at pools, given how undertrained, …
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‘Your DIL is quite the entitled gold (or emerald) digger’: Bratty fiancé demands mother in law’s expensive ring

Jewelry, throughout history, has held untold significance. Think of the hope diamond or the heart of the ocean. Decades-long epics have been launched from their shiny depths! Something about certain rocks’ glittering glow brings out the magpie in all of us. People go crazy over pretty shiny things. Jewelry can also hold special meaning for …
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People Ponder What Rich People Fantasize

What would you do with limitless money? Imagine, one day you decide to buy a Powerball ticket on a whim, don’t think much of it, and then wake up to find out you’ve won the jackpot. You now have more money than you could possibly comprehend. What’s the first thing you’d do? What’s your greatest …
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People Ponder What Rich People Fantasize About

What would you do with limitless money? Imagine, one day you decide to buy a Powerball ticket on a whim, don’t think much of it, and then wake up to find out you’ve won the jackpot. You now have more money than you could possibly comprehend. What’s the first thing you’d do? What’s your greatest …
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Piercing Memes For Everyone With a Masochistic Need for More Body Holes

If you had told people in the 1950s that one day it would become common for individuals to stick metal in random parts of their faces and bodies in the name of self expression, most of them would probably be horrified. Indeed, there are still plenty out there today who feel iffy about the fact …
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Wholesome Stories of Metal Detector Finds With Lots of Happy Endings

As a kid I’d often visit the beach with my grandparents, just to peacefully watch the waves crash for an hour or so, and maybe look for sea glass or rocks that I’d later find were only pretty when wet from the sea water. On these trips we’d often see a man or woman slowly …
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