I was happy to see that they sell diamonds by themselves at the store I had walked into when I was on vacation. My grandmother gave me quite a few gold ring settings but told me that when times got tough, she used to take them into the local jeweler and sell the diamonds out of them. She would have them replaced with cubic zirconium and my grandfather would never know the difference. I loved all the settings, but did not want any cubic zirconium on my finger. I talked with the owner of the we sell diamonds store and he told me to just send him the rings and he would make them look fabulous and then send them back to me.

I got home from my vacation and pulled all the fake diamond rings from my jewelry box. My husband saw what I was doing and asked if things were so bad that we had to sell diamond jewelry or what. I explained that I had bought some diamonds to replace the fake ones in theses and had to send them off to be exchanged. I also had to let him know that if things were that bad off, sell diamond jewelry to make it would come after sell golf clubs, so he will know if we ever need to “make it” by selling things we own.