I would hazard to wager that most women have at least one or two pieces of jewelry left over from past fizzled relationships - be it a wedding ring still shoved in a dresser drawer post divorce, or that “Tiffany” necklace that turned out to be as true as the boy that gave it to you. These days, new websites are popping up that allow women (and men) to turn that break-up jewelry into cash when, as one site put it, “You don’t want it, but he can’t have it back.”
Many people feel awkward walking into a pawn shop and hocking what was once a treasured item. Not to mention, pawn prices are frequently not anywhere near as high as one would hope. The sites give the broken hearted not just a place to sell their jewelry for closer-to-market prices, but also in some cases has the cathartic benefit of allowing the seller to tell his or her story. One such site, www.exboyfriendjewelry.com actually requires those listing items for sale to include the breakup story in their listing.
It’s not just “regular” gals selling their jewelry either! Celebrity exes like Jennifer Lopez and Ellen Barkin reportedly have had their breakup gems sold at auction. For those of us who don’t quite have enough of a collection to merit our own auction, or even for folks looking for a good deal on slightly used jewelry, these websites might be worth a look.
If you are going through your own break up, just a reminder – under Texas Family Law, anything that you receive as a GIFT or owned PRIOR TO the marriage (and engagement rings tend to fall into both categories) will fall under the definition of separate property. Separate property is NOT subject to being divided up by a divorce court.
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Video of the original Nightline story can be found here: http://abcnews.go.com/nightline. Text of the story can be found here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/lead-celebrities-ordinary-women-sell-break-bling/story?id=14307992
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