I've found my - long lost - ring!

[Pomellata]

I had hidden it far too well. In a very unlikely cupboard, in a box, in a box, in a box. Vague recollection of hiding it somewhere but just could not find it. 3 years of mourning the ring DH gave me after DD's birth.
Fellow airheads who misplace important beautiful things and believe them lost forever, I wish you happy breakthroughs!
Tell me your lost/found stories x

So helpful 😂

@Pomellata i was sure I'd looked there many times, but clearly I hadn't.

Congratulations @Pomellata ! I 'lost' my collection of silver jewellery at home for quite a few years because I have this irrational habit of hiding valuables in unexpected places at the last minute when packing for my holidays. Thinking something like "if we have burglars they won't look here". And of course then it sometimes takes a bit longer for me to remember where I hid it in the first place. Sometimes it takes weeks, but that one took years and I had been looking for it semi-systematically for a while. The eventual discovery was purely by luck, but I was so happy.

Edited to add: it was at the bottom of one of my boxes of knitting yarn, carefully nestled in to be invisible from the outside of the transparent box.

Thank you @GlowWine it's a good feeling to have found it but I also feel quite silly.
What you are describing is almost word for word how I made that happen.
Next time I need to hide something I will make a note of where. Thing is I will probably code it and it will make no sense after the holiday.

My granddad retired from work and he and my Nan decided to go and visit their son and their grandchildren in Australia . My uncle and family had emigrated 5 years before. Unfortunately the week before they were due to fly out, my grandad had a heart attack and died.
My dad spoke to the airline who were brilliant and swapped my grandads ticket around so my uncle used my grandads flight home ticket to fly over, attend grandad funeral and then fly back to Australia again using grandads ticket with my Nan.
My Nan had one piece of jewellery that she wore 24/7 and always had done, a gold locket with my grandad and hers picture inside. Obviously she was heartbroken about my grandads passing but staying with the family in Australia definitely helped. She had been there 2 months when she noticed her locket was missing.

She and my aunt and uncle turned the house upside down. The problem was because she never took it off she didn't really know when she had definitely lost it. There was no trace of it and a month later she flew home without it.
2 years later my aunt and uncle decided to get their drive redone and as the digger got started in churning up the old tarmac something glinted in the sunlight and caught the digger drivers attention. He thought it was a bottle top at first but actually bothered to get down and check it. He was a bit surprised to find it was actually a gold locket .
Obviously the chain had broken but the locket was in perfect condition and so were the photos of my grandparents . It was discovered around the time of what would have been my grandparents 45 wedding anniversary. Once again my Nan put it back on and it remained on until she died.

Oh @Ahwig your nan must have been so happy to have her locket back!