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Back right-hand pocket.

I helped pick out my engagement ring, and went with a really simple 6-prong solitaire specifically so I could keep it on all the time, even when my hands are in food (which happens every day, as I'm a caterer.) It occasionally gets gunk-y, but I get it cleaned every couple months and it looks great again.

I just wear a plain band - it stays on.

I meant to get a dish like this, but I found that stashing them inside one of the coffee mugs hanging behind the sink works just as well!

Right after my engagement a friend gave me a crystal heart-shaped ring holder by Mikasa. It sits by my kitchen sink.

I am forever taking off my rings when cooking, cleaning, gardening and doing the dishes. I follow this practice even when I am eating finger food or sloppy messy (but tasty) burgers and the like.

Why? Because an aunt who gave me a lovely ring she once wore told me of a lecture she got from a jewel not long after she got the ring. She went in to have the rings cleaned and settings checked to ensure they were still in good order. The jeweler did his job and demanded to know just what the hell she had been doing while wearing her beautiful rings. She gave him a list of tasks she regularly performed. It was the washing of dishes that was causing the greatest damage.

I too have a little wooden odd shaped box with a lid that sits in the cupboard nearest the sink. I also have another box that I keep in my bedside table for my rings at night.

I wear an antique engagement ring from the greatest little store in Portland called Gilt. It sits on a sushi dish whenever I'm cooking or doing the dishes...glad to know others do the same.

I wear rings that don't have any nooks and crannies so I can keep them on at all times.

I have a small glass elephant with an upturned trunk that sits on my counter and my rings go on the trunk.

I'm not married, but I do wear my MIT brass rat. If I need to take it off, I stick it on the carabiner that I keep my keys on.

I"m so grossed out by the thought of the rings that aren't taken off for cooking etc... especially the caterer.

I only take my rings off if I am going to knead dough or something sticky like that. I usually just place them on a small bamboo cutting board where I keep my salt grinder.

I used to wear a plain hematite band, and it never came off, so if my hands got dirtied--or cleaned!--it did too. Because it is just a band, it didn't collect much gunk anyway.

My grandmother has one of the old, porcelain, hand-shaped ring holders where you put your ring on its fingers. Kind of odd, but I always thought it was neat. She keeps it in the window above her kitchen sink.

I've always thought it was odd that television food people wear their rings while messing with food -- I guess they aren't alone. I don't really like the feeling of having gunk between the ring and my finger, and I fear the bacteria lurking in the nooks and crannies.

I have a small limoges dish that I picked up at a flea market, about the size of your sushi plate, to hold my rings. My mother has a brass mouse with a long tail for that purpose, which I've always loved too.

I only take my rings off for: kneading dough and making meatballs. In which case my rings go on the windowsill in the kitchen.

I refuse to put them in my pocket as I've lost rings that way before.

My mother had a small cup hook near the sink (but out of the way enough that there was no chance of it accidentally falling down a sink drain). I've used that and/or a thumb tack on the wall near the sink.

My engagement ring is filagree, it comes off. I usually tie it up in my mala beads and put on a hook when in the kitchen. I have little sushi dishes like this and may place one on my nightstand and one on the kitchen sill.

My wife hates it but I do sometimes take my ring off. I'm afraid of losing it if I put it in my pocket or leave it laying around, even in a bowl, and I've received a good bit of grief for leaving the house without it on. A good friend of mine gave me some great advice and that was to put a small karabiner on my keychain and put the ring on that. The ring isn't going to fall off of the karabiner and I'm certainly not going to leave the house without my keys.

I never wear any jewelry when I am at home. I take off all rings, earrings, and my watch, and put them into a small bowl on my dressing table. I once kept my rings on a ring holder in the kitchen, but a Rube Goldberg disaster broke me of that habit.

i am with SunnyBlue - no rings on in the house. my theory is that the more places there are for me to stash rings, the more likely i am to lose them, misplace them, tip them into the garbage...

in the kitchen it goes on the tail of my fish salt shaker.

I hook mine over the handle of my pepper grinder - it sticks out enough, and I'm in the kitchen anyway!

I take mine off if I know I'm going to get it gross cooking (baking especially) or doing dishes. I have a Murano glass dish my parents got me a few years back in Venice on top my microwave I keep it in. That way if I forget to put it back on after cooking (rushing to eat, I can forget) I know its safe and far away from the sink!

My mom did that for years. I picked up the tradition from her when my sister made me a bowl in high school art class. That one broke, and she made me a new one and gave it to me for this past Christmas. Rings, watches, and earrings wind up going into it. I keep it next to---but not too close to-- the sink. I love to see that other people do this, too!

Scary thought putting them near the kitchen sink! Mine go in another room, living room or bedroom, far away from the madness in the kitchen... The only problem is then figuring out where I left them.

My mother gave me a beautiful kitchen pottery set hand painted with a blue design that included a little dish for rings (with scalloped edges) and a big jar for utensils. I love them. The utensil jar is always next to my stove so my wooden spoons are always handy. And the ring dish currently sits on the windowsill above the sink.

They're beautiful enough that even if they weren't being used I'd like to have them out just to look at them. Useful art. :)

My mother has a mini statue of St. Joseph sitting in the well of the sliding windows over the sink in the kitchen. My rings go around his neck when I'm cooking or cleaning the kitchen.

That is exactly what my mother does!

My mom has done that my whole life. Upon seeing this post, I could practically hear the metal-on-pottery 'clink' of her rings hitting the dish.