[sevenarms]

Originally Posted by Sliver

An expensive ring adds no value to your life experience. Break down how many hours/days/weeks/months of your life it will take to net that $10k including interest if you're not paying with cash. Talk about with your future wife what else could be bought with that money. Say you spent a more sane amount like $1k on the ring and put that other $9k into something more important like a home or an investment, you'll actually be buying more time together in the future. We all have a finite number of working days in our lives. Wasting your money on an over-priced chunk of carbon now will mean you will end up working more days in your life to be exactly where you would be in the future if you spent less now. If you love each other I'd think an important goal would be to spend more time together throughout your lives. Set a pattern of intelligent spending now to achieve that goal rather than blowing your limited time and money on something so silly.

As for the quote above, a nice lunch, a nice car, a nice home, etc. can make your life more enjoyable. A $1000 ring, conversely, serves the same symbolic, aesthetic and functional purpose as a $10,000 ring. Basically your whole point is ridiculous.

I bet you don't give out presents at Christmas because it's a coca-cola marketing scheme.