Jili
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Post by Jili on Jul 26, 2015 20:51:58 GMT
This just happened and I need to tell someone. One evening a few nights before Christmas I was making cookies and drinking wine in my kitchen. Once I cleaned up, I went into my room to get ready for bed. I took my rings off to put them on the little dish I have on my dresser, and I dropped one of my rings. I knew that I dropped it so I hit the floor looking for it-- kind of a challenge in our frieze carpet. My dd was with me so she helped too, and my dh joined us. We searched for a long time under the dresser and the little table we have there, under the bed--everywhere. Could not find it. At this point we wondered whether I had even had it on in the first place. I was convinced that I did, as it isn't a loose fitting ring. But we couldn't find it. We even searched through the garbage. We searched the next day and for days afterward when I pretty much gave up thinking that I would ever see it again. I just wore my small diamond band solo for the next 7 months. We'd talked about filing an insurance claim but we just never got around to doing it. So today, dh is in our room watching TV. he's sitting on the edge of the bed and he notices something glinting underneath my half of our dresser. He stoops down and lo and behold, it's my ring. 7 months later. I cannot even believe it. I can't believe we missed it because we searched very thoroughly. I guess it's just lucky that our under-furniture vacuuming is rather half-ass. I'm feeling good right now.
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tuesdaysgone
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Jun 26, 2014 18:26:03 GMT
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Jul 26, 2015 20:54:39 GMT
What a nice happy ending! Good for you.
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Post by Woobster on Jul 26, 2015 20:55:37 GMT
Wow... I'm glad you found it! And from one half-ass vacuumed to another... I applaud you!
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mimima
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Post by mimima on Jul 26, 2015 21:12:02 GMT
So happy for you! Yay
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valleyview
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Jun 27, 2014 18:41:26 GMT
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Post by valleyview on Jul 26, 2015 21:15:16 GMT
Great news!
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Post by gramasue on Jul 26, 2015 21:16:21 GMT
You found your ring AND hit 1000 posts! I'd say that's a good day.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jul 26, 2015 21:18:37 GMT
What a relief! I have a similar, but not as happy ending story. My mom lost her diamond while baking Christmas cookies one year. She told everyone we passed them out to to bite carefully! In the end we never found it, but my dad ended up replacing the diamond with a larger one on their next anniversary. So maybe there was a happy ending!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 26, 2015 21:21:55 GMT
I know you must be so happy to have it back!
My father lost his college ring when I was just a toddler. TWO moves later, I was playing on the couch and flipping upside down like children do... when my hand slipped in the deep back crease and I pulled out his ring!
Found jewelry stories are always heartwarming.
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Post by femalebusiness on Jul 26, 2015 21:22:23 GMT
That must have made your day. I did the same thing and lost my wedding ring. Knew where it dropped and never found it again.
A friend lost her diamond tennis bracelet. A few years later she pulled out her umbrella, opened it over her head and her bracelet dropped out.
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Post by hosschick on Jul 26, 2015 21:27:05 GMT
That's awesome! I understand the excitement; I had my stone fall out one day while I was doing hay, so I'd been to three different farms, inside three different vehicles, traveled about sixty miles in the process, and had gloves off & on who knows how many times, and whaddya know? There was a tiny glimmer on the floor of vehicle number two that just so happened to be my diamond!
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Post by KikiPea on Jul 26, 2015 21:28:00 GMT
Yay!!! So glad you found it. I understand the feeling of finding something really important.
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Post by liya on Jul 26, 2015 21:31:19 GMT
Yay for good news!
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Post by scrappysurfer on Jul 26, 2015 21:41:03 GMT
Great news!! This is why I don't vacuum under furniture lol.
I have lost many precious pieces of jewelry and never found them. I'm glad you found yours.
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Jun 27, 2014 20:37:34 GMT
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Post by purplebee on Jul 26, 2015 21:42:33 GMT
How exciting and how unexpected! That's good news.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Jul 26, 2015 22:06:08 GMT
Great news! I still have the little birthstone ring that my grandmother bought me when I was a little girl, maybe when I was 4. When I was 8, my teacher asked my class if anyone had lost anything, did NOT say ring, don't even think she said jewelry, just had we lost anything.
For some reason, I got to thinking, I don't remember seeing my ring since I wore it to school a few days before. I tentatively raised my hand and said I might have lost my ring. It is an odd design so it was easy to describe and of course, tell the color of the stone. I STILL have it. Sometimes it freaks me out how I still have it, I lost it on the playground, a kid found it and turned it in. I didn't even realize I'd lost it BUT something made me think of it and raise my hand EVEN THOUGH it was not said to be a lost ring...
The other was losing the stone out of my engagement ring. I searched my house for over 2 hours. I'd given up, called my then H at work. Walked up to the recliner to sit down and saw a glint, the diamond was sitting on top of a carpet strand, just waiting for me.
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eleezybeth
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Post by eleezybeth on Jul 26, 2015 22:08:13 GMT
That's awesome!
I lost mine in a glove at the end of winter... didn't tell DH because this was the second time I'd lost it. Next time I wore my glove it was a eureka moment and I was busted... LOL! Thankfully he knows me well.
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Post by tincin on Jul 26, 2015 22:43:01 GMT
Have him keep an eye out for my wedding ring would you? I have pretty much come to the conclusion that one of the men I hired to do work around my house slipped into my jewelry box and stole it. It was there for the longest time and then it wasn't.
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Post by GamGam on Jul 26, 2015 23:07:04 GMT
I am sooo happy for you. Thanks for sharing your good news. It's interesting how rings turn up months later sometimes. Dh lost his wedding band, and had to replace it. So glad you don't have to do that.
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Post by brina on Jul 26, 2015 23:33:30 GMT
what a nice surprise. Enjoy having your ring back
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Post by jemali on Jul 26, 2015 23:38:00 GMT
My mom noticed the stone was using from her ring after she had been stripping wallpaper one day. She found it in her good silverware drawer a few months later.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 27, 2015 1:39:53 GMT
I lost a diamond earring to a hungry corgi. It was "found" three days later. Since they were my mom's earrings, I treasure them more than most things I own. The jeweler took both earrings and cleaned them for me. I had those suckers hidden under my nightstand lamp. Yay for found jewelry.
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lesley
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Post by lesley on Jul 27, 2015 1:48:22 GMT
I'm very happy for you! My engagement, wedding and eternity rings were stolen in a break-in when we were on holiday. With the insurance money, I bought two beautiful diamond rings from Costco. The next time we went on holiday, I hid them in a very safe place in the house. Needless to say, I forgot where that was. It was 20 months later before I found them again!
Next time I do that, I'm going to send myself an email stating where the hiding place is!
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Post by caro on Jul 27, 2015 2:09:30 GMT
My mother lost her right hand diamond ring my dad gave her. It had a diamond ring guard around it. My dad passed away in 2011 and she was so sad to lose it last year.
She found it in the crisper drawer of the frig about 6 months later. She was thrilled.
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Post by Chips on Jul 27, 2015 2:14:43 GMT
That is really great news!
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 27, 2015 3:03:15 GMT
I'm very happy for you! My engagement, wedding and eternity rings were stolen in a break-in when we were on holiday. With the insurance money, I bought two beautiful diamond rings from Costco. The next time we went on holiday, I hid them in a very safe place in the house. Needless to say, I forgot where that was. It was 20 months later before I found them again! Next time I do that, I'm going to send myself an email stating where the hiding place is! I tell someone else in the house where I am putting my stuff so it can still be found. I don't think my family actually listens to me though.
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Jili
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Post by Jili on Jul 27, 2015 3:06:41 GMT
Thanks, everyone. I appreciate all of the similar stories you've shared. I'm very excited and tonight I keep looking at my rings like I'm a newlywed. I still cannot believe it. The ring was more or less in the spot where I would have expected it to fall when I dropped it. All four of us were searching on our hands and knees for it, using flashlights. After 7 months, I figured it was gone for good. It is truly amazing.
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Post by meridon on Jul 27, 2015 3:07:23 GMT
Yay! So glad you found it! DH lost his wedding ring for about 6 months and we found it when we were moving out after we sold that house. It was under the refrigerator! The only thing we can figure is that he had left it on the dresser or bathroom counter or something and one of the cats decided it was a new toy.
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 27, 2015 3:14:33 GMT
That is awesome. I'm glad you found it.
I lost the diamond out of my engagement/wedding ring one time bowling. I hit one of the balls in the ball return with the back of my hand and my ring hit the ball. It bent the tongs and the diamond goes flying out. I thought it was gown forever. But a friend of mine had a flashlight and we looked for it for the longest time and we thought it was done. so we decided to start bowling again. As I was getting ready to bowl out of the corner of my eye I saw something glistening and there sat the diamond in the middle of the lane where you walk to through the ball. A couple weeks later I took the ring and the diamond to our jeweler and thought the diamond was going to be damaged but it wasn't. it was perfectly intact. Thank god.
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Post by Jennifer C on Jul 27, 2015 3:39:29 GMT
Great! So good for you.
I lost my wedding ring after I had my first baby. My fingers didn't swell, but got a little bigger and made my ring hard to get off, but not tight. I got used to not worrying about it while washing hands or cleaning etc.
I know I had it on when I went to my Mom's house because she told me to be careful with handling the baby so my ring didn't scratch. So I turned it around so the stones weren't on top.
When snapped my dd in the car and making her comfortable, I noticed no ring. My Mom looked everywhere, even moved furniture. We couldn't find it.
Fast forward 5 years. We were there for Thanksgiving with all the family and it caught my cousin's eye in the back corner of the fireplace. How he was looking there, who knows. I was so happy that I was literally jumping up and down.
The only problem was my dh surprised me with a 10 year new ring that was almost, very close to my original wedding ring. He said if only my Mom had had everyone over earlier.
Jennifer
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Post by oldcrow on Jul 27, 2015 3:53:45 GMT
How wonderful for you.
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