Nothing is made of bronze anymore. This normally isn't an issue, but when your wife takes the seventh anniversary gift theme (copper) very seriously*, it's risky to do just flowers and chocolates on the eighth.

* She says she was memeing, but I couldn't take the chance.

Lots of stuff has a bronze-colored finish; doorknobs, bathroom fixtures, lamps. But that's just paint, I wasn't looking to send the message, "our love has a thin veneer that chromatically resembles the qualities of bronze".

Idea: bronze is a metal. Jewelery is made of metal. Wives sometimes like jewelry.

I searched a variety of brick and mortar jewelers. The results can best be described by what Dani at age two would have said (shouted): "None rings! None bracelets! None earrings! None necklaces! NONE TO BE FOUND!"

If I had to guess, since bronze is just copper and tin, it's too inexpensive to be worth the while of any jewelry designer. So understandably there was no shortage of results for "bronze" jewelry on Etsy and Amazon. But like with the bronze finish options mentioned above, I also wasn't looking to send the message, "our love is like a Temu accessory, cheap and sussy".

Even the metal supply store had very few bronze options.

At this point I was leaning toward hitting IMS for a bronze ingot. People like ingots, right? I had only been leaning toward jewelry because that seemed like the most likely bronze product. That said, for the rare nights that Jes and I go out, we can bring a stronger jewelry game than bronze. On the other hand, any bronze anniversary gift symbolically bears the hefty and calculable expense of having to be married to me for eight years.


Eventually, a plain vanilla web search pointed me to a shop in Oregon that carried a simple bronze necklace made by some place in Italy (or designed in Italy and made elsewhere). The website even listed the metal composition.


First, the necklace shipped the same day I ordered it and included a nice handwritten thank you note. It was a nice change from, say, my $1000 Home Depot order that last month fell off the truck and into a black hole. Second, while I was writing this a knife steel comparitor page popped up on HN, it's kind of neat. Finally, the experience made me feel for the guy in that iron greentext ͥ :

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