A ring is cheaper than vet bills.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Yeah, I’d agree. I have 3, and they’re little love bugs. But man, the vet bills can be a hard pill.
Normalize not buying useless $2000 USD pieces of junk that starved children in Congo had to dig with bare hands, just to marry your soul mate.
❌ proposing by giving the person a ring
❌ proposing by giving the person a pet
✅ proposing to be the person's pet
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Especially as diamond rings are costly to purchase, but have relatively low resale value.
Buying her a diamond ring only shows you have money to burn.
I bought my wife's engagement and wedding ring at a pawn shop. Fuck the superstitious bullshit. Probably saved $5k
Buy resold maybe?
That is going to be one very very rough pet passing in 1-2 decades
the jewelry is the least important thing about being married.
I think my spouse and I spent... $80 total on our rings. Seemed like a waste of money to both of us.
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22 years of marriage here. Never bought, given, or worn a diamond in my life.
Marriage rings are a marketing campaign created to sell you a piece of carbon that is so "rare" they put them on $12 drill bit sets.
Yep. Yep. Different quality stones. Gotcha. Interested in buying a bridge by chance?
Carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the galaxy. Silicon is twice as rare, so maybe spend 6 month’s salary on a quartz ring instead? Either that, or save up for a down payment on a house. Nah, who needs a place to live when you can have a hunk of mineral, right?
If I’m spending 6 months salary on silicon, it better at least run Doom.
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Why would it matter if you can't afford jewelry to get married? If this were at a time where the husband is expected to be the sole earner, that could be a problem. But this is 2026. He's working, she's working, and getting married will not change that.
If anything, his and her individual financial burden will decrease by getting married by combining their finances and sharing bills, if they aren't spending stupid money on diamond rings, big weddings, exotic honeymoons, etc. They'll share a home, utilities, online subscriptions, etc. That will save them both money. If they can afford to live individually without luxuries, they can more easily afford to live together, maybe with the occasional luxury.
Stupid take.
Thank you.
Marriage is simultaneously promoted because it saves money due to sharing expenses and often (but not always) tax benefits, but also people don't have enough money to get married. Wut?
The ring and wedding itself might be expensive, but they are also optional.
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At first glance I honestly thought she looked horrified because he was interrupting her on the toilet.
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Smart. Easier to say 'no' to a shiny rock, hard to say it to a kitten.
She could say no, but she won't. Because of the implication.
"We both know that this cat only lives if you say yes"?
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That he can't afford it is a stupid assumption imo, this looks like a deliberate choice. Being responsible for raising and taking care of a kitten together is a much bigger commitment than wearing a ring.
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A little data point on the whole marriage thing... I and my life partner have been together for 20 y, will be 21 in September. We never got married and we don't have any rings. I keep hearing that a lot of marriages these days don't last this long.
We do informally call each other "my wife", but still, no formal marriage was ever done.
The only reason marriages lasted longer back in the day was because women were essentially indirectly forced to be with men. The whole bank account thing in the US is a really good example of how screwed women were. There were a lot of very long marriages that were deeply unhappy.
Nowadays, women get at least some amount of freedom to choose their partners and hundreds/thousands of years of men not having to actually be good people has meant that many of us are lonely and blame the women for having some standards. Good communication and mutual respect go a long way and those are the marriages that last these days.
* my partner and I
Too bad they have to divorce when the cat dies.
Just put the cat in a box with a radioactive substances. Scroedinger's marriage.
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noo but they didn't pay a significant amount of money to the diamond industry!!
Won't anyone think of the slave owners?
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Guarantee you that cat will cost more in the first year than a ring from a fancy jewelry store
Cost? Yes.
But WORTH! Also YES!!! 🐈
You severely underestimate the cost of jewelry. And every cost also multiplies by 400% if you put the word "wedding" in front of it.
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