Has anyone lost a sentimental item or piece of jewellery?

[Sweetchocolatecandy]

I was having a conversation with my mum earlier and she mentioned a piece of jewellery she had given me on my 18th (a lovely necklace which her mum had given her), which I’ve unfortunately lost. I have moved house a few times so I don’t know I’ve lost it that way but I feel so bad about it. I’m not really a jewellery person at all but I know I should have looked after this particular necklace as it was special. Has this happened to anyone else and if so, how do you stop feeling bad about it?

My engagement ring went missing about 5 years ago, think it got accidentally thrown out as dd, who was 5, had wrapped it in a tissue. But still to this day, when moving a piece of furniture or when the fridge got pulled out for repair, my heart gives a little leap that just maybe I’ll find it.

It’s awful isn’t it. I have cheap, costume jewellery which I’ve managed to keep for years so I’m so mad with myself I’ve lost this piece. Maybe it will turn up one day but I haven’t seen it for years so the chances are slim.

I used to wear an Italian cross, it’s kind of like an upside down cross iyswim.

Anyway 5 years ago I caught the flu and developed sepsis and endocarditis. Was rushed to hospital and they had to cut off my top to be able to have access to treat me properly. I’m guessing that as they cut the top they must have snipped the chain because the cross disappeared..

I am still gutted to this day. We tried to get another one but couldn’t find one anywhere. So I just wear an ordinary gold cross now.

I still harbour this weird feeling that maybe one day it will turn up. Even though I know it won’t.

Beautiful and very precious horseshoe brooch left on a jacket put into the dry cleaners. Realised immediately, went back and was told no - there was no brooch on the jacket. There definitely was. But what could I do? Gutted.

Wedding ring, two houses a go.

It was only a stand in ring for the ceremony so not worth more than £15, but definitely something I'd always want to have with me. Still so gutted, I don't wear my engagement ring now as I worry about losing it.

Yes. After mum died we realised that her eternity ring was nowhere to be found. Dad has bought it for her as a surprise - it was very expensive and absolutely beautiful (he was a lovely man but not they type to even think about going off and buy a sparkly ring).

We suspect that it was a dodgy bastard of a local taxi driver who used to do errands for her who pocketed it (she had mentioned that she needed to have her rings resized because she had lost a lot of weight). We found a receipt for the jewellers but they said that it has been collected (the woman who run the store was at school with my sister and an honest sort and mum couldn’t have physically made it into the store).

Turns out he has thought that she ought to have left him her house (worth about £1m) because he used to ‘run errands’ (which she paid him for) for some reason. She left him some money in her will (she left money for a few people ‘to take a nice holiday’) but he whinged to my brother (as executor he rang him to tell him) that it wasn’t a lot (a couple of grand) and didn’t even even bother the to cash the cheque. Lord preserve me from religious types...

Yes, I’m still pissed of (and miss my mum).

Not lost, but stolen. My grandmother looked after a box of jewellery during the war for some family members. All but one member of the family ended up in the gas chambers. The surviving family member came to England to pick up the jewellery, and gave her the ring to say thank you. My mum gave it to me on my wedding day.

Six years later we were burgled while we were away. Fortunately I had had the ring properly valued by a jewellers and had documentation to prove its value. I didn't particularly like the ring, but it was special to me.

I was given a silly (but cute) little good luck toy for my finals at uni. I kept him for years and years. He used to sit on my windowsill. He got sucked out of the window one night during a storm. I looked all round the neighbourhood for him, hoping I might find him. I even got my kids to help. But no luck.

On a good note, when I was in hospital over Christmas having my last baby, the hospital gave us a Christmas gift for the baby and the little thing reminded me so much of the lost one. So it ended well. I hope some child found the old one and he is being loved now.

@RampantIvy . This made me sad.

I lost a ring that my grandfather bought for my grandmother when he was stationed abroad in WW2. It went to my mum and then to me. I always took it off at night and put it on my dressing table. One day it had gone. I literally pulled my room apart looking for it. I moved house a few years later, I'd vacuumed after the removal men had left, even put that shake and vac stuff all over the carpets so the house had a good going over. I did one last check of all the rooms just before leaving and my ring was sitting there in the middle of my bedroom floor. It hadn't been there before and it wasn't caught up in the vacuum as I'd emptied it dozens of times after the ring was lost.

Not me but mum. Lost the last ring my dad gave her. Carpets pulled up, washing machine taken apart. She was gutted.

18 months later, my aunt pulled put her "funeral" jacket for my grandads funeral and the ring was in the pocket. Mum had obviously slipped it in as her hand was sore from the shaking at my dad's funeral.

Yes, my grandparents gave me a beautiful murano glass pendant. I don't know how I lost it, as it was a hefty thing. I thought I had left it at a boyfriends house, but couldn't find it. This was absolutely years ago now. Still hoping it will turn up one day. I was hoovering the sofa earlier and wondered if It had gotten inside the sofa somehow, so I know what you mean about still looking.

Oh gosh don't remind me.... I've lost a few pieces over the years that haunt me to this day!

One particularly I'm still sore about because it was a pure and perfect diamond. Miniscule, about 2mm in diameter but hung from the most delicate 18K gold chain, choker length. Perfect in every way. I'd wear it with my casual jumpers or wear it with glam dress, I loved it.
Stayed over somewhere and left it out on a dresser, I'm pretty sure the person who cleaned the room took it but I noticed too late, couldn't exactly contact anyone at the place because they died before I realized! Still annoyed.

Unfortunately you just need to let go.

There's another item, an absolutely mahoosive unique emerald ring that I was promised in a will that got "lost" (stolen) by a BIL during the sorting out. I'm still annoyed about that but never actually got the chance to wear it in the first place so can't grumble too much, other than it wasn't the person's written intention to have him flog the ring off for his own gain.
Just have to move on and forget about really.

I noticed when I was out last weekend one my charms was missing from my bracelet, it's DD1s baby handprint 😭 set in silver.

Lost quite a bit of jewellery in the past as wasnt as careful with my belongings when I was younger, but found 2 pieces of jewellery that had been lost for over a decade. It was a ring and bracelet that had belonged to a great aunt that I didn't know well but I felt terribly guilty as my mum had given these to me as I liked the look of them. They were found whilst clearing out our loft. I can only assume that when putting non essential stuff in the loft when we moved in it had ended up in a box that was put up there. That's a complete guess though! I was over the moon as I thought they were gone forever. I'm also much more senti mental about family jewellery now that I'm a bit older.

Yes, I had a beautiful bracelet that my friend's family had given me when I was staying with them (they were working abroad) at the time of my 21st. I left it in a hotel when I was about 40 and they never had it handed in by the cleaner.
I still feel sad about it now (18 years on)- it was not only really pretty, but probably worth quite a bit (they were on fab money and only had one child and thought of me as another daughter, plus the taxes out there meant values were different), but it reminded me of those times, and the way the family looked after me at the time. Both my friend's parents have since died, but I still feel sad for losing that bracelet

I was given a locket that had been my grans for my wedding day. It had a picture of her and my grandad on their wedding day. A few months after I moved countries and, it and some other pieces 'disappeared' between moves. Still upsetting to think about it.

I lost a silver necklace that my parents gave me for my 18th. I tried to replace it for a good 3-4 years after but could never find the exact chain link design as it was unusual and distinctive.

Randomly found an exact match on eBay 24 years later and was over the moon!!!!!!

I had a string of pearls that my DH bought for our wedding. They were unusual and had a gold link in between each pearl. I wore them mostly on special occasions, the last time being my sons graduation day. When I went to wear them again a few months later couldn’t find them, so suspect the clasp became loose and they must have fallen off. I have photos of that day, but I’m really sad about loosing them. We were burgled in our first home and a ring my Nan got me for my 21st was stolen, I got another with insurance money, but it didn’t make up for the sentimental value.

I lost a very expensive bracelet DH gave me for my 50th less than 24 hours after he gave it to me. I think I dropped it at the tram station I put up signs offer a reward but never got it back. Still gutted about it.

I lost my wedding ring, which had come from DH's family. It disappeared when I was sorting things for a village jumble sale.
No one mentioned having found a gold ring. Perhaps someone did, or it slipped into a crack in the village hall floor.
Bugger.

I managed to lose my beautiful wedding ring still feel sad about it 3 years later.

My dad learnt jewellery smithing after he retired and one of his pieces was a very simple silver diamond shaped earrings that he made and gave to me. After he died, DH and I took mum on holiday to York where I wore them. Lost one whilst in and around York. Gutted.

Rang every place we went but none of them every found it. Wasnt worth much but totally sentimental value. Kept the other of the pair safe and I think about making it a pendant so can still enjoy part of them.

I also have a family engagement bracelet (from my great grandmother) which I have been asked to pass onto my niece to keep it in the family, but am terrified of placing the burden on her if it gets lost or stolen whilst with her but at some point I must.

Not jewellery but I lost a very lovely doll given to me by my aunt. It was my other aunts (her sister) who had passed away and my aunt gave it to me as she didn't have any children. To this day I'm still really sad I lost it and change the subject if she ever mentions it as I feel so guilty but on the other hand I try to tell myself I was a child when she gave me it and didn't really understand it's sentimental value then.

A small silver ring my grandmother always wore. She was given it for her 21st by her grandfather.
She had tiny fingers and It wouldn't fit me but I kept it in my jewellery box and would take it out and reminisce.
No idea where it went but I've lost it.
Also lost a ruby pendant I bought her and kept when she died. Still got the chain but the ruby has gone.
I love my Grandmother so much and hope she'd understand that they meant so much to me and that I'm just bloody hopeless at looking after things.