Lost items you still think about

[MrsMonzo]

Mine's a beautiful Oliver Bonas necklace I bought myself with some birthday money.

I never normally spend so much on jewellery, but decided I wanted something that felt a bit more special. Then I lost it. No idea if I lost it at home or out and about but I tore our house apart looking for it with no luck. It's still not turned up over a year later 😞

I keep checking Vinted and eBay in the vain hope someone might be selling one but no luck so far. Maybe one day I'll find it down the back of the sofa (despite having looked there on many occasions for many lost items)

Has anyone else lost something that they still think about? And has anyone ever found something in the most random place years later? Give me hope please 😁

😂
He's playing it well - he's been gone over 20 years now!

I keep a watch out for him in case he makes an unscheduled appearance on the Playmobil threads on here, but no luck so far...

In my late teens, I had a coral coloured gypsy style skirt, complete with large round silver discs, stitched in tiers across the front of the skirt. I adored this item of clothing and wore it so often, but all of a sudden it just disappeared into thin air. I’m convinced one of my parents accidentally put it in a bin bag with their clothes they were taking to charity. Other than this, I just can’t begin to think where it went. I have searched for an identical, or even very similar skirt to no avail.

When on holiday in France with my parents when I was around 15, I was wearing a diamanté cross with a heart shaped cut out in area where the two parts of the cross meet. I’m not religious, but I loved this necklace and was wearing it everyday, and then it just disappeared one night. Despite us all searching where we were staying, we never found it sadly.

My friend's daughter swallowed one of my earrings aged approx 8 (they were pretending to have tongue piercings!). It had belonged to my grandma. I asked my friend it had emerged and she said 'oh you wouldn't wanted it back, I threw it away'. It was valuable but I still would have liked it back.

A woolly hat I bought my daughter when she was about 4 months old, £4 from primark so nothing special at all but I loved that hat, assume it was dropped somewhere.
ps love that necklace! Hope you find a replacement one day x

An ex gave me a gold coloured watch and at the time I did live in care work, put it somewhere whole I washed my hands and it was never seen again. The man I was looking after was paralysed so I think another visitor had pocketed it or someone had put their hand through the window.

Eerily close to mine - a short but quite beautiful poem written on a business card by a Frenchman who saw me sitting in a cafe on my year abroad when I was young and lovely. I was a very naive girl and didn't realise till years later that he probably meant for me to call him. I just thought it was terribly romantic and French of him 😳

Also a necklace bought for me by my grandparents for my 18th birthday. Not especially expensive or anything, but it had my birthstones and looked really lovely on me. Lost at some point during my 20s when I was moving about a lot.

A white gold diamond tennis bracelet I lost on a night out in London in the 90s 😬 gift from an ex bf. For years and years afterwards I used to desperately feel around the inside of my handbags just in case..
I remember going into a WH Smiths to buy a Lenny Kravitz CD on the same day, wearing it - blimey, that dates it, doesn't it?!

I'm so sorry to hear that, @FamousFriends

I found that story incredibly moving.

A linked silver bracelet given to me as a gift by the management team when I left a job, it was really lovely had just the right amount of weight and it’s not often jewellery as a gift is quite what I’d have picked myself.

I wore it out shopping and somehow lost it :( I trawled back round everywhere I’d been to see if anyone had handed it in but it was just gone.

Very recently, my daughters brand new Mixx headphones which she hung on the hook on the back of the toilet door in the airport. She’s autistic and needed them for the flight to avoid sensory overwhelm. She realised within five minutes of leaving them, and we went straight back to get them but they’d already been taken. Didn’t turn up in lost property.

She was so distressed she had a meltdown, a massive anxiety attack, and resulting physical pain for days whilst on holiday.

If the culprit is reading - they were brand new, she absolutely adored them, and you caused a huge amount of distress.

A measuring tape (dressmaking) with my Mum's beautiful handwriting on it.

She died when I was 8, almost 40 years ago. I have so little of hers. I lost it at a Costco.

It's irreplaceable.

One of my diamond earrings at a DL a few years back. It was a fortieth birthday gift and I searched for an age for it. And my DS’s blue Ted - last seen in Warwick about nine years ago. I think he put it down in a bakery 😭

I had a little charm which was a gold cat with a tiny pearl. Went to see one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films and it disappeared. So sad. Suspect I clutched my pearl once too hard in fear, and it was lost to the ABC in Southampton forever

My prescription varifocal sunglasses that cost a fortune.

I was clearing up old pairs of glasses and took them to the opticians for recycling.

So not exactly lost as I know exactly where the fuckers went.

An amethyst and gold Victorian necklace my grandmother gave me. I still think about it.
Also other grandmother gave me a jade ring but I know exactly who stole it. It was more than forty years ago but I still think about it.

The diamond earrings Dh gave me as a wedding present, lost in our old house somewhere and never found. 😳
Also a lovely jersey baby blanket that was spotty one side and stripy the other. I would never have given it away and I've no idea what happened to it.

Asterix tapestry wins the thread!

I recently watched a Scandi drama in which a young man enters his childhood bedroom to try to jog memories of his past. He looks round at all his old pictures, toys etc and suddenly I GASPED because one of my own old toys was there! A Danish money box in the shape of a red post box with 'Penge Post Kasse' written on it.

I was so blown away I instantly searched ebay and found one. I'm having it posted from the USA because I'm a nostalgic fool.

Sorry I didn't check back til now.

I was very young, and concentrating on preparing a presentation at university that I was extremely nervous about. I sat down at a table in a busy carriage, and noticed a businessman opposite who glanced up but then seemed engrossed in his crossword for the short journey. When I alighted from the train he ran after me and gave me his card with a shy smile. Such a beautiful eloquent note, along the lines of how lovely I was, but he could see I was engaged so just to take it as a compliment, if I didn't want to call him. The engagement didn't last, but the memory of the note did.

travel my back from a trip that included a wedding, a baptism, and a day at the races I had my suitcase stolen- he grabbed it frok
me just as the doors were closing and I watched running down the platform as the train pulled away and I couldn’t alert staff.

it had four proper outfits, plus proper jewellery, and good matching lingerie
(back when I had a life)

its 18 years ago, and I still miss the pink and orange shoes.
and regret loosing my mothers jewels.

Thank you @thomasinacat

The anecdote was just as charming as i'd hoped it would be.

A navy blue coin/card holder from Aspinal of London. I’ve never had the money to buy myself things like that (was £125) but I treated myself for my 30th birthday 4y ago and I lost it 2y ago.

Legitimately feel a pang of sadness whenever i think of it, i loved it and it was so special to me

This will out me so spectacularly to anyone who knows me, but - my dog grooming scissors. I was about to snip a tangle off our dog while DH held him. The Amazon courier knocked the door. I put the scissors down very carefully at the side of the chair DH was leaning against, out of the dog's reach because they were new and very sharp. DH stayed where he was, holding the dog, I went to the door, took the parcel, came back, and they were gone. We turned the entire place upside down looking for them, moved all the furniture, checked under the rug and down the sides of all the chairs etc., but they never turned up - this was two years ago. I know I put them down before I opened the door to the courier because we have a fiddly latch that requires two hands. It's annoyed me so much because I hate losing things and this was a big shiny object in a small defined space that should have been easy to find, but I swear they just slipped into another dimension!

sadly a ex boyfriend smashed up most of the few things that were my mums that dad had given me. it was only weeks after she died and he sold a lovely tapestry that i had done when i was only 8 and mum had paid for it to be framed, not cheap. we had just come out of a refuge so did not have much so these things were doubly important

A pair of cheap Guess sunglasses. Cheap, but I loved them so much and fitted me so well

A set of keys - car, home and office. Dropped them in a small side road between my parked car and the office building. I never saw them again, it’s 4 years now. Police weren’t interested. I wondered if someone picked them up with the thought they might try and reunite on social media but then couldn’t be bothered and binned them. Cost me over £200 to replace the car key.