Mariah said:bags! diamond studs would be nice but i would feel a bit ridiculous wearing much more.
Bjara said:You sound like me. I LOOOVVVE diamonds, they are even my birthstone. I have upgraded my weddding set (not even the original ring anymore) 5 times since I was married 15 years ago. My diamond studs have been upgraded 4 times. I am very pleased with the size that both pieces of jewelry are now....plus DH said absolutely no more upgrading...LOL. I'm thinking maybe at 20 years.
Handbags are my second love as far as material items go.
wellow said:Still diamonds.. Diamonds will increase its values in time.. Sadly bag does not...
bethany said:Sorry to disagree, but there is an even more horrific industry behind diamonds than there is behind counterfeit bags. I don't think you can dis the fake industry and support the diamond one with 3x as much money.
kids locked up in factories? at least they're making money to feed their families. diamond miners rountinely contract HIV in their camps.
know where a lot of diamonds come from? the ********ic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone and the surrounding areas. Entire villages are rampaged, people are mutilated, almost all of the decades of civil conflict that has raged in these countries, killing millions (MILLIONS) of people is the direct result of the artificially-inflated diamond market. These wars are fought by children, they recruit 10-year-olds and give them big guns (purchased from middle eastern terror groups for the diamonds), make them their sex slaves, make them kill, have them killed.
The whole civilized world has been absolutely brainwashed by De Beers marketing. A little googling on the topic of the illicit diamond trade should give you a lot to think about.
scarlett_2005 said:Thank you for bringing this up Bethany! The diamond industry is horrible. Last year I had A professor from Sierra Leone and he told us some horrific stories. The part that really upset me was, he told us people lose limbs working for diamonds(this dosn't happen by accident). Def very sad :cry:
bethany said:Sorry to disagree, but there is an even more horrific industry behind diamonds than there is behind counterfeit bags. I don't think you can dis the fake industry and support the diamond one with 3x as much money.
kids locked up in factories? at least they're making money to feed their families. diamond miners rountinely contract HIV in their camps.
know where a lot of diamonds come from? the ********ic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone and the surrounding areas. Entire villages are rampaged, people are mutilated, almost all of the decades of civil conflict that has raged in these countries, killing millions (MILLIONS) of people is the direct result of the artificially-inflated diamond market. These wars are fought by children, they recruit 10-year-olds and give them big guns (purchased from middle eastern terror groups for the diamonds), make them their sex slaves, make them kill, have them killed.
The whole civilized world has been absolutely brainwashed by De Beers marketing. A little googling on the topic of the illicit diamond trade should give you a lot to think about.