7 Reasons Why Smart Women Buy This Birthstone Necklace on Black Friday
By Laura BennettLast Updated
My mom raised four of us on one paycheck, and she never once paid full price for anything she loved. Her rule was simple: "You don't buy what's on sale. You wait until what you want is on sale."
I didn't listen. I paid full price for this birthstone necklace last spring, and she has not let me forget it.
She had her own weakness, though. For thirty years, her peace of mind was a rose quartz on the kitchen windowsill. It was pretty. It also stayed on the windowsill every day she walked out into a hard week, but she was right about the rule.
So when the same necklace went Buy 1, Get 1 Free for Black Friday, I called her and I ordered the same day. Here are the 7 reasons I'd tell any woman to do the same.
Reason #1:
One Order, and Your Black Friday Is Done
Let's be honest: your inbox this week is a sale nobody asked for.
What's in there right now:
40% off something you've never wanted
A blender, because it's "a steal"
A free gift if you spend $100 first
"Last chance," for the third time this week
The one thing you actually want, still at full price
And every year you buy something just because it was cheap, and by January you can't remember what it was.
This deal ends that completely.
One order. Two necklaces. No code, and no fifty open tabs. It isn't a small discount. It's a whole second necklace.
My mom figured this out decades ago. She never bought something because it was cheap. She bought what she wanted, on the day it went on sale.
Reason #2:
The Second One Is Free (You'll Notice at Checkout)
You know the move. You find something you really want, you look at the price, and you close the tab.
What the same money got me last spring:
One necklace
One box
Nothing for my sister
A very long phone call from my mom
Right now this birthstone necklace is Buy 1, Get 1 Free for Black Friday, so you pay for one and the second costs you nothing.
You wanted it, and now it's on sale, which is all my mom ever meant by "You don't buy what's on sale. You wait until what you want is on sale."
Reason #3:
It Does Way More Than It Looks
One of the biggest myths about a necklace this size: "It's too small to do anything for me."
Wrong.
What stopped reaching me on one ordinary Tuesday:
My manager's mood before 9 a.m.
A coworker's cutting remark
The bill I'd forgotten about
My mother-in-law's phone call
The list that used to wake me at 3 a.m.
Everyone's bad day, handed to me at dinner
And there was still some of me left for the evening.
The heart in the middle is my birthstone, the stone of my month, set inside a Celtic knot drawn in one unbroken line. It absorbs my stress before it ever reaches me, and with no opening in that line, other people's negativity has no way in.
"i've had my necklace a few days now and i feel calmer." Susan K., verified customer
If you like numbers: about an inch tall, a little less across. For scale, picture a plastic bottle cap. Small, not weak.
Reason #4:
It Goes to Work, and It Comes Home
Here's the loop nobody tells you about.
Most Black Friday buys stay home. So do crystals. But the hard part of your day happens somewhere else: at work, in the car, at your sister-in-law's table.
This one you fasten in the morning, and it goes where the day goes.
No digging through a drawer. No going back for the stone you forgot. No leaving it "for tomorrow."
Then it comes home at night, it rests on the dresser, and the next morning it goes right back on.
That loop is the whole product.
Reason #5:
It's Actually Pretty (Rose Quartz Never Left the Windowsill)
My mom's rose quartz was a nice stone, but it looked like what it was: a rock on a windowsill.
Sage and candles are worse. Nobody takes those to Sunday lunch.
This necklace is the version of this idea I actually wanted to wear:
An open silver knot you can see right through
A crystal that goes from near black to almost turquoise in daylight
A little heart in the color of my own month
It looks like it was chosen for me.
The first week I had it, my daughter asked where it was from. Thirty years of rose quartz and nobody ever asked my mom that.
Reason #6:
All You Need Is a Birth Month
Wrong sizes happen. Wrong colors happen. "Final sale, no returns" happens.
A ring needs a size. A sweater needs a guess.
This necklace needs one thing: a birth month. The chain adjusts from 17.7 to 19.7 inches, and the heart is the color of that month, so it fits, and there's nothing to get wrong, which my mom would have loved back when she spent her Saturdays in return lines.
Reason #7:
When It's Not Around Your Neck, It's Around Hers
The second surprise is how many people you think of once you have a free one to give.
Who came to mind in my first five minutes:
My sister, who hasn't sounded like herself since spring
My daughter, the week she starts the new job
A friend who just lost her husband
My mom, still trusting a windowsill
You order from your couch, and it leaves within 1-2 business days. Try that at the mall on Black Friday.
My Personal Results: Months In, Still Around My Neck
I've now had mine through:
Monday meetings, every week
My mother-in-law's summer visit
A long August at work
Two family dinners that should have gone badly
Current condition: still around my neck, still doing its job.
The silver came through months of daily wear, because I take it off for the shower and at night. The heart is as bright as the day I unpacked it. And my husband has stopped asking me what's wrong, which, honestly, is the part I still can't believe.
The Buy 1, Get 1 FREE Deal (How My Mom Finally Retired the Rose Quartz)
Here's what I did the day the deal went live:
Necklace #1:
for my sister, in the stone of her month, because of the year she's had.
Necklace #2:
FREE: for my mom. Her rose quartz had officially done its last day on the windowsill.
I dropped hers off that weekend. Two days later she called. All she said was: "Well. It took thirty years, but somebody in this family finally bought on the right day."
Click Buy 1, Get 1 Free, pick your two birthstones, and they come in the same order.
