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I cannot understand why people spend so much on rings. Totally stupid...
1. You spend a lot of money on something almost completely useless.

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1) You are stupid to not understand that many many many men like making their future wives very happy. This is not news. The highlight of a lot of people's lives is the look on their fiancee's face during the proposal, pre or post-kids.

2) Diamonds are more or less forever, and tend to hold their intrinsic value + inflation [not incl any ridic retail markup] and can be passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years. I'm gonna inherit my mother's, grandmother's and great-grandmother's someday, eff all if I know what to do with them, but 2 of them are remarkable works of art/jewelry with craftsmanship and detail that alone would cost $20k or more today, not incl jewels.

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you increase the chances that you will marry a greedy money-hungry bitch.

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So, you date someone for a 2 years, and only when you pull the wedding ring out for a proposal do you suddenly notice:
a) she's greedy, and
b) money-hungry, and
c) a bitch?

Most of us notice that after 1 date - 3mos of dating. I'm gonna guess that you are special.