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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Bulky_Sound602 on 2025-10-29 13:34:27+00:00.

So a few friends and I signed up for this little clay workshop just for fun. I was feeling a bit extra that day and decided to wear my engagement ring mostly because I hadn’t seen these friends in a while and yeah I kinda wanted to show it off a little. At first everything seemed fine, we were laughing, chatting, shaping bowls or whatever and It didn’t even cross my mind how bad it could be until halfway through when I noticed clay packed into every tiny corner of my ring. I tried wiping it off with a towel then rinsed it under the sink, which somehow made it worse it went from sparkly to this dull gray mess in seconds. When I got home, I panicked and tried to clean it with a soft brush but the shine just wouldn’t come back. Took it to a jeweler the next day and he basically had to give it a full spa treatment. It came out looking brand new again but my wallet did not recover as fast. Guess I learned the hard way that showing off and sculpting don’t mix.

TL;DR: Wore my engagement ring to a clay class, ruined the shine, spent a ton fixing it.