Tink2002
05-17-2009, 10:21 PM
I have a large pounded-silver ring that I always wear on my left middle finger - I really NEVER have taken it off since I got it the Christmas before last. It isn't the most expensive piece of jewelry I own (enough though), but my mom and grandmother both have the same one that they wear daily so it's important to me.
Well.... I was cleaning my oven tonight (which, can I just say, is the most miserable disgusting chore ever... two hours later and I still need to make another go in the morning and it still probably won't meet my standards...). I wore some gloves the entire time, not thinking to take my ring off underneath. After I cleaned up the ransacked grubby kitchen and went to wash my hands, I noticed that my normally shiny silver ring has a coppery gold splotchy look to it. I washed it with soap and hot water and nothing happened.
Did I ruin it with some sort of chemical reaction from the oven cleaners THROUGH the gloves? Do you think that I could use cleaner for when things get tarnished to fix it? I don't have the money to replace it right now and I"m SOOOO upset at myself. :(
Well.... I was cleaning my oven tonight (which, can I just say, is the most miserable disgusting chore ever... two hours later and I still need to make another go in the morning and it still probably won't meet my standards...). I wore some gloves the entire time, not thinking to take my ring off underneath. After I cleaned up the ransacked grubby kitchen and went to wash my hands, I noticed that my normally shiny silver ring has a coppery gold splotchy look to it. I washed it with soap and hot water and nothing happened.
Did I ruin it with some sort of chemical reaction from the oven cleaners THROUGH the gloves? Do you think that I could use cleaner for when things get tarnished to fix it? I don't have the money to replace it right now and I"m SOOOO upset at myself. :(