I can't choose! Both are equally horrible!!!

Well, for me the choice is easy.

I always print my pictures out, every week or two, so if I lost my hard drive on my computer, it wouldn't be a big deal. Plus, I have my favorite ones uploaded on Myspace and Photobucket.

Even if I didn't have them saved anywhere else or printed out, I'd still rather lose the photos than my engagement ring. My ring is my most prized, sentimental possession. I'd be beyond devastated if I lost it. I can't even fathom it.

The engagement ring is not a big deal to me.

I'm not engaged yet but like EmaLove I always upload my fave pixs to Flickr or Photobucket and I print them daily so I guess I would rather lose my ring.

I chose the pictures. The ring is just a material posession, true...but it does symbolize the future. If I were to suddenly "lose" my ring, then I would have a feeling that perhaps there was a reason not to marry him. Like a bad omen or something. I dunno...go figure, haven't had any coffee. @_@

I would rather lose the ring than all my memories -- To me the commitment from my S/O is a bigger deal than a ring.

Although if my harddrive were to crash right now most all of my pictures are backed up. And I don't have a ring yet so! ... lol I guess I can't really chose one way or another.

Oh man, I dont know. Both would suck majorly, but if I had to choose, I think I would rather lose my ring. I have probably thousands of pictures on my computer and just as many songs, not to mention video games that I have spent a ton of time trying to beat (yeah Im a total nerd, so what?) I know a ring is supposed to be sentimental and what not, but it can be easily replaced, and I would hope to have some pictures of him and I to show our grandkids, because I know how cool it was to be able to see pictures of my grandparents in their hayday.

This is easy for me. I would rather lose my hard drive (and I have) than my ring.

My engagement ring is from a high-end designer, and it's my dream ring. Sentimentally and monetarily, it's worth a lot.

I lost my hard drive (my computer was stolen), and it sucked, but now so many people have facebook and whatnot, most pictures are already up on the internet anyway. i think it'd be worse to lose an engagement ring.

Lost memories are worse. A lost engagement ring means it's high time to go shopping for a new one

I'm not a big picture person, I have a bunch on my computer but I don't tend to look at them all that often. I don't need photos to be my memory. However, my engagement ring is a priceless (sentamentily) gift from my husband, so I would be pretty upset if I lost it. But neither would be the end of the world.

I hate rings--diamond rings especially, so losing pictures (& everything else on my computer) is much worse.

I have things on my computer but none of it is as important to me. I dont believe in engagement rings but if I had one it means I lose a very valuable expensive object. So that would be worse to me.

a ring can be insured, memories can't.

My entire life is on my computer. I do love my engagement ring, but it is replaceable.

Even though my fiance went to great lengths to find an engagement right that he loved and I would too, I think I would rather deal with his freak-out over loosing it than loosing all my pictures and documents. I love photography, so printing the thousands of photos that I have is not practical, plus I'm a writer so I've got tons of documents that can't be replaced. So even though my ring means the world to me, it could be replaced. My work can't. But now that you mention it, I think it's time for another backup, just in case!

I'm marrying a computer guy so I can't imagine that he wouldn't be able to get my stuff back for me and even if he couldn't I'm not that big on pictures and I don't keep much on our computer that I don't have copies of anyway. I owuld hate to lose my engagement ring because even if i take it off to put lotion on in the morning and forget it at home I feel naked all day and I keep touching my finger where it should be. That would drive me crazy and I could never have the same ring even if it was the same design again

You can't buy memories back but you can always buy another engagement ring.

I don't care if I lose whatever is on my laptop. If anything, it would make me feel free! Plus, every year I go through my photo albums on iPhoto and just delete stuff. I hate clutter and don't feel the need to look over old photos. Same goes for old documents and other old files I haven't looked at in over 6 months.

Engagement ring on the other hand...I know it can be replaced, but that just sucks. Plus your fiance will think you're a dingbat not worthy of expensive things.

I'd rather lose my ring- it's insured.

I like the way thegiraffe thinks!

I'd hate to lose everything on my computer. I have EVERYTHING on there -- speeches I did on speech team in college, papers I wrote, pictures.

You can always buy a new ring. You might have to do a lot of work to make the money to pay for it, but frankly, redoing all those papers would be even more work!

I rather have my hard drive wiped - My engagement ring is my most prized possession and I love it. I don't have that many pics and things I don't have anywhere else, and I have most of my loved music on CDs aswell as on my hard drive.

hard drive wiped I'm not big on photographs...

I always have my pictures online so that wouldn't bother me, but losing my hard drive would be the end of my world because ALL MY DATA from ALL MY EXPERIMENTS reside on my laptop, and that would be like losing 3 years towards my Ph.D. I think I would seriously be suicidal at that point.

Meh, my engagement ring is insured. I would of course be upset, but not nearly as upset/angry as I would be at losing my data. My ring can be replaced a LOT easier than thousands of hours of experiments. A diamond is a diamond and while mine is lovely, I'd rather have my Ph.D. than my 2ct asscher because I value my education so much more than any material object.

I'd rather lose the ring. It's just a piece of jewelry. I HAVE lost my hard drive, and it was horrible.

You aren't actually losing your memories... just the print outs. Why am I thinking Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs and how he had drawn all those pictures from memory so he could have a "view"?

I'd rather lose the computer hard drive. It's happened to me before and while I was incredibly upset, there are only limited types of files you can have stored on your computer anyway.

i'd be REALLY sad about my computer!

Luckily like emalove I have almost all the pictures on my computer also uploaded on photobucket so I wouldn't be all that upset if it happened. Losing an engagement ring though, wow-horrible!!

Ive HAVE lost both- my laptop was stolen and then my husbands hard drive crashed and I had to have my entire wedding set replaced bc the setting was defective.

They both sucked majorly- but my ring is insured, so I can replace that- all of our pictures, except the ones I saved in various places online, ARE gone and never coming back- not to mention the music and college papers and resumes that were on our computers.

I'm CRAZY about backing up my pictures and music, so it's doubtful that would ever happen to me. That'd be horrible!

Memories can never be taken away from you no matter what.

Rings are easy to replace, memories and photos are very hard to replace. No brainer.

Oh my, both are terrible to lose! But I would go with the memories. My computer crashed in my junior year of college & I didn't back up any of the pictures I had! They were all memories from high school & the beginning of college, so I was pretty sad about it. I still have to get around to fixing it hahaha.

Either would suck really bad, but you can replace an engagement ring. Once those photos are gone, they're gone. It happened to me once... all my pictures from the last two and a half years were gone! Heartbreaking!

Memories existed way before digital cameras. I agree with cvandoorn's comment (#19). Too much stuff, and, in my experience, people will take pictures of anything nowadays, no matter how insignificant. My boyfriend, who refuses to delete anything on his computer or get rid of anything in real life, has pictures on his computer from 4 years ago of him sitting on a park bench with people he doesn't even like anymore. Such precious memories!

My hard dive died a couple of months ago, and I had everything from the past 3 or so years on it. It was actually really liberating. I had backed up the most important things, also, so I still had some things that I actually needed. Otherwise, I was fine.

An engagement ring, though, I'd be so pissed.

oh i have lost my hard drive twice and my laptop was also stolen once (but it turned up at a pawn shop!) . definately the worst feeling in the world! i save all my pictures to facebook or photobucket now, but redownloading all my music is horrible. a ring is a ring, and i know its an important ring, but i lose them all the time so i wouldn't be too shocked haha.

My ring is insured. But our camera got stolen on our honeymoon and we will never get that back. I would rather lose the ring.

"has pictures from four years ago..with people he doesnt even like anymore"

This comment made me giggle a little..I dont know why..maybe because I do the same thing. Ive tried to go through and get rid of some of them but I just cant bring myself to do it. I guess I just know that some day when Im old I will probably want to have those pictures stashed away somewhere...(though I guess...printing them out would be the best idea for that, considering by the time im 90 laptops will probably be obsolete)