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A bit of Woo, or someone come up with an explanation...

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mrsbookwormery · 05/08/2021 20:52

NC for this. OK. I am a total believer of fate, but I'm not one who believes in Woo. Well until recently, but this latest thing has freaked me out and I cannot come up with ANY explanation - logical or otherwise. This is the second really weird thing that has happened recently - since my DM died in January.

My DIL and DS moved out from living with us about 6 years ago. I found an earring of hers and put it for safe keeping in a pot on a shelf, about 5 years ago and there it has sat ever since. I am decluttering and found the earring and gave it to her about 2 weeks ago. Conversation went like this:
DIL: 'Oh wow, I'd forgotten I had those earrings'
Me: 'Do you still have the other one?'
DIL: 'Almost certainly, somewhere'.
Thought nothing more of it.
Fast forward to Monday. DH and I had been out for the day and clearing out the car afterwards DH reached into the pocket of his door (passenger) and said 'what is this'? He pulled out the matching earring to the one I gave my DIL two weeks ago.
Now my car is only 1 year old. Neither my DS or DIL have been in it. My DH wouldn't have known about the earrings as he is a man and takes zero notice of anything, and he wasn't around when I gave the first earring to my DIL. The earring in the car was broken and in lots of bits, but all the bits were there.

OK hit me with your explanations to allow me to sleep at night again...

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gardeninggirl68 · 05/08/2021 20:54

er, your DH is perhaps the link here, why would he have her earring .....

ShowOfHands · 05/08/2021 20:55

Both earrings were obviously in your house and one has got attached to a bag/person/clothing/item which was transferred to the car and has fallen into the door pocket.

It's not woo at all! It's a coincidence.

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mrsbookwormery · 05/08/2021 21:55

Nope. I have cleaned the house in the last 6 years, and definitely only one earring - and it wasn't broken. The only people who have sat in my passenger seat is DH and DS, neither of who would have had the earring - which my DIL thought she had - and be able to drop it in the side pocket. I cleared the car out a couple of months ago before it went in for a service, so definitely not there then, and I would definitely have noticed a broken earring, it was lots of bits of dangly shells. That wouldn't have been able to be attached, all the shell bits were loose in the pocket.

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mrsbookwormery · 05/08/2021 21:58

@gardeninggirl68 I see what you are getting at - and it gave me the biggest laugh I've had for ages, no, that really isn't a serious consideration

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ALongHardWinter · 05/08/2021 22:03

I cannot offer any explanation OP,but that certainly is VERY odd.....

JollyHostess · 05/08/2021 22:04

Is there any way it could be the same one that you gave to your DIL? So not the other half of the pair but the original one you found, got caught on something was pulled off someone's jumper or sock and dumped in the side pocket of the car?

LanisHouseLot · 05/08/2021 22:05

Is it her eareing for sure? Maybe somebody else who has been in the car had the same style?

ShowOfHands · 05/08/2021 22:23

I clean my house thoroughly all the time. Every now and then I find something that I'd assumed long gone a very long time before. It happens.

Honestly, if there's some kind of afterlife or supernatural element in your home, it isn't pissing about with your DIL's earring. Unless it's Liberace.

HollyGoLoudly1 · 05/08/2021 22:27

@JollyHostess

I was going to say this too. Have you asked DIL? Does she have the one you gave her?

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 05/08/2021 22:29

My mum lost her engagement ring , she thought at Tescos . Year's later it turned up in the chest freezer, just sat on top of the food. She'd not even had the freezer a year. No idea to this day how it got there

SmallChairs · 05/08/2021 22:29

@JollyHostess

That seems quite possible.

thelegohooverer · 06/08/2021 00:49

I just accept that objects are borrowed into other dimensions and if something is missing I ask for it to be returned, preferably somewhere easy to spot.

I’m not woo but it’s much easier to hold an irrational belief that fits with my experience, than to hurt my head trying to find a logical explanation every time something turns up in an odd place

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mrsbookwormery · 20/08/2021 19:18

@thelegohooverer - yep that is it, I have had a couple of REALLY weird things happen since my DM died in January - I mean, I am really not remotely a believer in woo - but these are things that simply do not have any rational explanation. This earring one is the latest. And all the suggestions were interesting but really simply don't work. My DIL has ever been in my car - and yes, she still has the other one. The second one was in lots of bits. So still woo IMHO :)

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