I really dislike any commercial that tries to sell men on their responsibility, to their significant other, in purchasing diamonds.

How else can two months salary last a lifetime? I don't know, perhaps through the purchase of a 50-year CD. If I worked two months, and all I had to show for it was an item with the mass of Chapstick cap, I think I'd probably use my next day's salary to eject an equally sized bullet into my head.