[Sylvanfan]

My wife is a woman who actually admits to liking jewelery. My initial reaction to this used to be, this is dumb and useless. Who needs this stuff? If it wasn't for men needing to buy birthday and christmas gifts there would be no use for this stuff.

I heard a survey from mens health magazine where it said nowadays more women would rather get a plasma HD TV for Chirstmas than a similarly valued piece of Jewellery. Initially you think they've finally adopted logical thinking. The T.V. is much better you use it every day. But than I got thinking, and realized that 5 years from now that T.V. is going to be an outdated piece of junk that you want to toss out your window and replace. It'll basically lose 90% of it's value as a best case scenario. Diamonds and gold on the other hand are a pretty good bet to at least retain their original purchase value. How many things out there can you buy and not have them completely tank in value? Not much as far as I know. If I buy my wife a diamond pendant today, 10 years from now we can probably trade it for the original value. If I buy her a T.V. I bet we won't be able to give it away in 10 years. After thinking about it that way...Jewellery may be a cheesy cop out gift, but long term you really don't lose that much money on it.