I’ll only accept coffee if it comes in this cup:

Apparently in Texas you do not have to identify yourself to the police unless you are under arrest. So if they arrested her for not identifying herself, they got the law backwards.

It’s 100% the blue diamonds making up that cost, not the center stone.

Less than 2 ct?! Pffffff

It’s the Tiffany element. Designer jewelry in good condition with all the paperwork can be resold much more easily than generic stuff.

I used to work for GIA and though I was not a diamond grader, I am still a qualified gemologist. There’s an awful lot of misperceptions about reselling diamonds, including some things in that article.

We have a rider on our homeowner’s insurance to cover my ring. It’s based on the appraisal value, which is waaaaaay more than he actually paid (family connections for the win!), but it’s only about $80 a year extra. Totally worth it for me.