{"id":7476,"date":"2018-10-10T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2023-07-01T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T15:13:01","slug":"dont-spit-shine-your-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/dont-spit-shine-your-jewelry\/","title":{"rendered":"DON&#8217;T SPIT-SHINE YOUR JEWELRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dont-Spit-Shine-Your-Rings.gif\" alt=\"Cleaning Your Rings With Spit\" title=\"Cleaning Your Rings With Spit\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7477\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time again. Time for the <strong>jewelry cleaning and inspection<\/strong> (Unless you own your own <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2pLCgTB\">jewelry ultrasonic cleaner<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\nPeople come into the store to get their jewelry checked and cleaned all the time.<\/p>\n<p><h2>No problem.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>I&#8217;m more than happy to clean it<\/strong>. After all, nothing&#8217;s better than clean, sparkling diamonds. <strong>Right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>But&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\nThis is what people do when they come into the store: <\/p>\n<p><h2>They take their rings off by licking their fingers.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThey spit all around their rings so they&#8217;ll <strong>slip off easily with saliva<\/strong>. And, I&#8217;ve seen some people go so far as to actually <strong>stick their ENTIRE finger in their mouth<\/strong> to sop it up. The rings gets <strong>globby and wet<\/strong>, then the customer hands me the sloppy mess&#8230; on my palm&#8230; <strong>like I want to touch them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>So here&#8217;s a funny little secret between you and me&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>THAT&#8217;S GROSS!!!<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>Stop it!<\/strong> It&#8217;s disgusting! Don&#8217;t lick your fingers to get your rings off, then hand them to me. <strong>What are you thinking? <\/strong>You&#8217;re handing me your jewelry covered in <strong>thick saliva<\/strong>, pieces of lunch, and <strong>God knows what else<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><h2>It&#8217;s not polite. Not at all!<\/h2>\n<p>\nPlus the fact that the rings are already packed full of dirt, grime, build-up and whatever other horror your hands have been in (and now that grime <strong>is in your mouth<\/strong>). Then you set your lovely little saliva coated rings and jewelry <strong>into the palm of my hand<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>YUMMM!<\/h2>\n<p>\nAnd one thing that&#8217;s <strong>even worse<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>Puss filled earrings!<\/h2>\n<p>\nYou pull them out with a string of puss and <strong>white chunks of goo<\/strong>, and lay them on my skin as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>All the time thinking&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>&#8220;He won&#8217;t care that my earrings are full of muck!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\nThink about it. What would you do if I brought you back your <strong>perfectly-cleaned-jewelry<\/strong>, and right before I put them in your hand, <strong>I licked them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HA! <\/strong>You&#8217;d probably <strong>pull your hand back right?<\/strong> You&#8217;d be disgusted! <strong>It&#8217;s gross!<\/strong> But when it&#8217;s on the other foot, <strong>you don&#8217;t care.<\/strong> So please, please, please don&#8217;t lick your fingers!!!<strong> I don&#8217;t want to hold your spit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>Here&#8217;s my advice:<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>Use windex or lotion to get your rings off.<\/strong> Not spit!<\/p>\n<p>\nWindex is awesome because it doesn&#8217;t leave any more greasy junk all over the jewelry. It&#8217;s such a simple thing, but <strong>think before you do it<\/strong>. And since you only clean your rings once a month (or year) anyway, <strong>I&#8217;m surprised you would even WANT to lick them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nWould you wear your underwear a month in a row <strong>without cleaning them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>No!<\/h2>\n<p>\nSo clean your jewelry once a week and it will keep the dirt and debris down.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd make sure you <strong>clean those EARRINGS too!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\nClean them, clean them often, and <strong>your gems and diamonds will thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(And so will I.)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2pLCgTB\">Get your ultrasonic cleaner HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Cheers! :P<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It&#8217;s that time again. Time for the jewelry cleaning and inspection (Unless you own your own jewelry ultrasonic cleaner). People come into the store to get their jewelry checked and cleaned all the time. No <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/dont-spit-shine-your-jewelry\/\" title=\"DON&#8217;T SPIT-SHINE YOUR JEWELRY\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jewelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}