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Post by fredfreddy44 on Jun 16, 2022 16:19:32 GMT
I can't think of anything.
My son's box, I would look for Lemony Lemon. He is a small yellow bear he loved ages 7-11 or so. He just vanished and I know he never left this house but we have never found him either.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jun 16, 2022 16:21:36 GMT
I was given a watch that belonged to my aunt shortly after she passed away. I left that watch in the bathroom at a rest stop during my class trip to Washington DC. I didn’t realize I had left it on the sink until we had been driving for about two hours. I was and still am so upset about it when I think about that watch.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Jun 16, 2022 17:04:07 GMT
My first set of keys with my leather initial. My son’s very first Mickey Mouse, Aka Baby Dah. My son’s Animal Kingdom hat lost at the Grand Canyon.
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Post by papersilly on Jun 16, 2022 17:08:49 GMT
a pearl ring my mom gave me that belonged to her mom. pearl is my birth stone. i lost it in my car. it fell through the floorboards. i was devastated.
on a fluff side, i would hope a diamond tennis bracelet i lost would be in there too. it wasn't an insignificant total weight so the value of the loss still stings a little.
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Post by sharlag on Jun 16, 2022 17:23:47 GMT
My son's mental health.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 16, 2022 17:32:02 GMT
A sweet little soft teddy bear that was half bare due to me plucking it bald as a child. Unfortunately it was lost in a fire years ago. But I've always missed that little bear.
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Post by psoccer on Jun 16, 2022 19:41:10 GMT
Besides my parents and nana...the item I would like back is a multicolored beaded jade and pearl bracelet. It was my aunts and when she passed she was very specific that it should go to me. I wore it everywhere. One day, we toured my sons college campus, and I took my sweater off and it was gone. I’ve been to a jeweler to recreate it but there wasn’t much interest. I found a similar, multi colored jade, but no pearls. I think it meant so much because when I’d see the bracelet I’d think of her. I also lost some pearl earrings that belonged to my mom. I put them in my hand and got in the car, and put them in my lap to put them on when I got to my destination. When I reached for them, they weren’t there.
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Post by questioning on Jun 16, 2022 20:06:19 GMT
I've lost my mom to dementia. Pre-dementia mom is the only thing I want back.  My answer too. The loss before the final loss is still difficult. |
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Post by Lori McMud on Jun 16, 2022 21:10:31 GMT
A set of keys, years ago I walked to the local corner store. When I left my apartment I had my keys in my hand, when I returned I no longer had them. I retraced my steps back to the store and looked everywhere. The store clerk even helped. I never found those keys and to this day I wonder what the heck happened. This happened around 1979. I was able to get another key to my apartment from the manager. I had to have my (then BF) take the ignition out of my car and then take it to a locksmith to have a new key made. Current day- I would love to know where my firestick remote is, those things are so small- I have now lost 2, or should I say my darling Grandkids have lost 2. I just found ours deep in a love seat. It had been missing for a few years and I know I checked there several times. I was looking for the 2 puzzle pieces that are missing from the Coca Cola puzzle DS1 gave us for Christmas. |
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Post by cmhs on Jun 16, 2022 21:49:45 GMT
My virginity.
I lost it to the wrong person.
Material items - DH gave me a watch for our (maybe first?) anniversary and it vanished when the kids were little.
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Post by greendragonlady on Jun 16, 2022 22:02:39 GMT
Photos from my childhood. I don't have any. They had been part of a bunch of stuff that was stored above the garage at my ex's house when we were married. When we split up I took what I could at the time. He said he would hang onto the stuff above the garage until I could get it. He sold the house before I could get my stuff (and didn't tell me he was selling it.) My fault for leaving it there.
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Post by Bobomommy on Jun 16, 2022 22:12:06 GMT
A small coin purse that has some fine jewelry that was my grandmother’s, mother’s, and mine. I “hid” it in a “safe” place 11 years ago and can’t find the safe place.
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Post by brynn on Jun 16, 2022 22:17:35 GMT
People: My dad, who was my person.
Things: The pearl necklace my father gave my mother for their wedding day. It disappeared from my house.
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Post by brynn on Jun 16, 2022 22:27:03 GMT
When I was pregnant with my oldest DD (she is 17 now), I was living on the other side of the planet from my family. I had a strong connection to my grandmother, and was naming my baby after her. My sister filmed out grandmother, sort of like an interview, asking a lot of questions about how she felt about the baby coming, how she felt about the baby having her name and other things. My sister sends me the video in the mail, and while it's in transit my grandmother passes away. And the tape never made it to me. The package containing babyclothes and my grandmothers thoughts on my baby has been lost since. I gave birth five days after she passed. There is nothing I wouldn't give to watch that tape! Even once! This was in 2005, and filmed with a camcorder on a tape, so no copies. She came to me in a dream a few years later, and we've talked, so that gives me some peace 😊 I love watching film from my uncle's 1960 wedding. The "film" has been converted into a few formats, and a little is lost each time. My grandfather died in 1963 at the age of 60 (I was three, so I have some memories.), and it helps his children to see him laughing, dancing and playing the accordion. He worked so hard supporting his large family through the Great Depression and building his farm, that they feel "guilty." There is also a short glimpse of my 31-year-old father. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 23:47:20 GMT
The star blue sapphire ring my father had made for my mother when he was posted to Egypt. It was the only thing if my mothers Inreally wanted. One of my kids friends swiped it. I’m still heart broken over that.
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Post by peabay on Jun 16, 2022 23:52:17 GMT
Well, my gut reaction was my parents, but my more practical response is the things my mother's mother left her. My mom's mom died when my mom was 16. Her father always said that her mother's things (jewelry, china, silver etc...) would go to her. He remarried (from all accounts, a hosebeast) and after her father died my mother asked her stepmother for her mother's things. She was told she could have them eventually. I still remember being in the car when my mom went to her house after hearing her step-mother was moving to Florida and asked for her mother's things and her step-mother said "too bad; they're mine and I'm keeping them." My mom came back to the car and cried and cried - first time I'd ever seen her cry. I was probably 9 or 10 years old and I would love to have been able to get those things for my mom.
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Post by lisae on Jun 16, 2022 23:58:18 GMT
My father's jewelry. There wasn't that much but he didn't have a lot of possessions. It was willed to me but I hated to take it away from Mother right after he died. I brought home his watch but left the other items including his wedding ring. I saw it one other time and foolishly didn't bring it home then either. At some point it disappeared. I have always assumed Mother put it up somewhere and didn't remember where. I figured I'd find it when cleaning out her house but never did. None of her jewelry was missing except for a pair of earrings that also went missing about a year before she died. I can't imagine anyone broke in and only took those items when she had other earrings out on her dresser that were more valuable than the ones she lost.
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Post by carhoch on Jun 17, 2022 1:33:31 GMT
A ring that belong to my mom , it was a gift she got for her 18 birthday . I borrow it and lost it .
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Post by pixiechick on Jun 17, 2022 2:17:57 GMT
Hugs to everyone feeling the loss of their loved ones.
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Post by Zee on Jun 17, 2022 2:44:06 GMT
My virginity. I lost it to the wrong person. Material items - DH gave me a watch for our (maybe first?) anniversary and it vanished when the kids were little. Oh, I'm sure most of us have let someone into our vagina who we probably shouldn't have. But I don't care about virginity like it's some sort of special gift. That feels like Purity Culture. |
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Jun 17, 2022 3:00:45 GMT
* DD#1's baby pictures and keepsake clothing (christening gown, baby shoes, favorite blanket, etc.) - exDH lost them in storage
* the diamond cocktail ring my parents gave me for my college graduation, and the opal ring they gave me for my 16th birthday
* all my Mom's cookbooks that were accidentally put into a yard sale when she passed (the "keep" and "sell" boxes got mixed up somehow)
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Post by Anita on Jun 17, 2022 3:11:36 GMT
A stuffed cat my great-grandmother gave me the day I was born. It was lost in a move decades ago, and I still miss it.
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Post by Legacy Girl on Jun 17, 2022 3:42:00 GMT
Two letters -- one written to DH and me, the other to DD -- by someone dear to us. I was sorting through papers a couple of years ago, and the only thing I can figure is that I got my "keep" and "pitch" piles confused somewhere in the midst of sorting. I've never recovered them, and it's still heartbreaking to me.
Less importantly, a silver pin made by a jewelry artist. It was a silver/pewter SUV/car with a gold Christmas tree on top. It was made long before the market became over-saturated with that image, and the image has always held precious memories for me since my family has joined friends to go to the Christmas tree farms and haul our trees home for so many years. I have a couple of pins my DD has bought me since then to try to replace the one that was lost (I suspect I sent it to the dry cleaner as it was pinned to a wool jacket). I love her heart in trying to replace it, but unfortunately, they're just not the same.
Oh, and for DH, his mother's recipes. She died suddenly and unexpectedly by suicide while he was in college. His dad had moved and remarried within a year. None of his mother's things remained, but it's the recipes and the memories of her cooking that he misses the most.
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Post by gar on Jun 17, 2022 7:44:18 GMT
My mother’s wedding ring. It ‘disappeared’ when she died. It was either at her care home or the funeral place 🙁
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Post by peasapie on Jun 17, 2022 10:51:28 GMT
while I was thinking about my answer, I was wondering what others would say 🤔 If someone gave you a box that contained everything you ever lost in life, what is the first thing you would look for? I wonder if the poster had read the book--or seen the movie--The Christmas Pig. It is a J.K. Rowling book about a boy who was transported in a dream (or magically?) to The Land of the Lost, where all things ever left behind still reside. I’ve never heard of it…but now I want to read it. |
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Post by peasapie on Jun 17, 2022 10:58:24 GMT
My virginity. I lost it to the wrong person. Material items - DH gave me a watch for our (maybe first?) anniversary and it vanished when the kids were little. Oh, I'm sure most of us have let someone into our vagina who we probably shouldn't have. But I don't care about virginity like it's some sort of special gift. That feels like Purity Culture. But she does care. For many of us, the first time was memorable and special. Mine was, and I’m glad I have that memory. I wish I had the 18 dated Christmas ornaments I collected for my son. My SIL accidentally tossed them while holding for me in her attic. Also I lost five years of digital photos that I hadn’t backed up on my computer, with some memorable moments. Lesson learned. |
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Post by Zee on Jun 17, 2022 11:02:55 GMT
Oh, I'm sure most of us have let someone into our vagina who we probably shouldn't have. But I don't care about virginity like it's some sort of special gift. That feels like Purity Culture. But she does care. For many of us, the first time was memorable and special. Mine was, and I’m glad I have that memory. I wish I had the 18 dated Christmas ornaments I collected for my son. My SIL accidentally tossed them while holding for me in her attic. Also I lost five years of digital photos that I hadn’t backed up on my computer, with some memorable moments. Lesson learned. Ok? Just sharing my thoughts ma'am. Like many of us here do. |
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Post by bklyngal62 on Jun 17, 2022 11:05:48 GMT
I don't have any items I would want back but I would give anything to be able to see my son once again.
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