sillygoosegirl | Feb. 3rd, 2003

So one of the first days Josh was at my house over break, we were at Fred Meyers getting a bathmat and a few other things. We stopped and browsed the jewelry too, because Josh had been bugging me about what kind of ring I might want. For those of you that don't know, Fred Meyers is kind of like Walmart in the northwest, but in my opinion, it's nicer and generally higher quality stuff. The Fred Meyer Jewelers is a much bigger chain. I was really excited to run across them in the Mont Clare mall a while back, because I was hoping that it meant there would be a Fred Meyers nearby. Sadly, there isn't.

Anyhow, we browsed around. My philosophy is that if we get engaged and have engagement rings, they aught to match and they aught to be at least semi-unique. I wouldn't really want to look like I was engaged at all just yet, but when I do, I don't want to look like I'm engaged to just anyone, now do I? So there were lots of rings that I liked and there were lots of rings that Josh liked. The union (where by union, I think I actually mean intersection) of these two sets included exactly one ring. We didn't ask the price on it. I didn't want to even pretend that we were that serious. Anyway, I was looking for a good way to put off my hum reading just now, and there was a serious lack of new email and LJ posts for me to read, so I decided I wanted to know how much the ring was. Suffice it to say that it was only the second cheapest ring in the store that wasn't just a plain band. I guess that they just have to jack up the prices on the ugly rings to get men to buy them by tricking them into thinking that they have no taste and guilt-tripping them into buying expensive rings (and jewelry in general).

I just thought I would share that because I found it amusing.

The second cheepest ring at the Fred Meyer Jewelers...