Have you ever been gutted to lose something and then find it again?

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5 years ago,we sold our house and moved into a caravan in preparation for building our own house. All our possessions went into storage at various relative's houses. Shortly before our agreed moving date,our buyer announced that she'd have to bring it forward as she was working abroad in the near future. We had an absolute panic trying to pack everything up in time to be out by the new date,and my system of organised,labelled boxes,ended. I just shoved stuff into wherever it would fit and hoped for the best.
After the new house was completed,I slowly started retrieving all our stuff,but all of my best underwear and an expensive new wool blanket never turned up. I was really annoyed and could only think that they'd been put in a black bagged and binned by mistake in all the confusion.
A few weeks ago,I came across a tiny little suitcase that had been left behind at my cousin's barn,I could see a few of Dd1's old things in it,and started to unpack it. Underneath her stuff was all my fancy undies and nightwear,plus my blanket! I'm so inordinately pleased,most of it had sentimental value and I was convinced that I'd never see any of it again.
Anyone here ever give something up as lost for good,then find it again?

When my grandad died, I was given one of his vintage fountain pens that I often used rather than a ballpoint

On a holiday several years ago I had the pen with me and used it to write my postcards home. On the penultimate night I was at the theatre and dropped my evening bag and the pen rolled out and down steps never to be seen again. I asked everyone near me in the rows in front and it couldn't be found. I was absolutely heartbroken.

After coming home, I went to my parents and the postcard I had written with that pen had arrived. Whilst looking for something else in their lounge I came across the pen. In its original case. Nobody could explain how! But the postcard 'proved' I had used it on the trip.

I've never been so pleased to find something but I still cannot understand how it was in that house!

Oh, the joy of finding the lost thing again! I moved house a couple of years ago, and little by little, all our things that had come with us in boxes, or been stored, eventually emerged. Except one beautiful hand carved wooden playset. We'd bought the first few bits when my daughter (now 11) was a baby, and had been adding to them ever since. The man that made them is now retired, so they're pretty irreplaceable.

We searched the house top to bottom, numerous times. We looked in the loft. Not a sign of it. We'd recently had building work on the house, so I had an awful feeling it'd been in a box that had been accidentally chucked on the skip by the builders.

Anyway, after weeks of hunting for it, we did one last search of the loft. And it turned up... Inside a suitcase! We'd obviously put it in there for more protection while in the loft. How we thought to look inside the suitcase I have no idea. I was overjoyed to see it again.

A beautiful diamond and sapphire ring husband had given me. Missing for six months. I was in M&S returning something, rooting in my handbag for the receipt spotted something sparkling in the bottom. There was a small hole in the lining the ring had slipped in. I squealed with joy, the assistants thought me mad then funny. I was so relieved.

When we were burgled I happened to be wearing the ring after a night out. Everything else valuable was stolen.

My now DH bought me a beautiful Tiffany bracelet for my 21st birthday, when we moved house it completely disappeared, the pouch for it was exactly where I thought it was but it was empty. I searched everywhere time and time again for weeks but never found it. In the end I just assumed I'd left it somewhere in our old house. 4 years later I was on a night out and took an old clutch bag out that I'd had stashed at the back of the wardrobe, opened the little inside pocket to put something in and there it was. Such a lovely feeling when you find something you thought was gone forever.

How utterly bizarre!

Sounds like you found one that belonged to your parents and they didn't have the heart to tell you it was theirs.

On a totally different scale to the others on this thread, but a few months ago I lost a Lisa Eldridge lipstick I love. I turned out all my bags, emptied out my makeup storage, and scrolled through photos to see when I had last worn it - which turned out to be only a few days before it was lost. I ordered a new one, and was really annoyed at myself. A couple of weeks later DP took the cat’s bed outside to give it a good shake (he sheds a lot) and out rolled my lipstick!

I think I’d put it down on one of the kitchen sides, he’d been playing with it on the floor, then taken it back to his bed. I’m missing a couple of other bits that I can only think he’s made off with (nail polishes so things that never leave the house) and wonder if he might start asking us to call him Louise instead of Louie down the line.

Back when iPods were the techiest thing going, I took mine on holiday. It seemingly vanished out of the locked case on the way home and I couldn't understand it. It was one of those hard shell suitcases with no internal pockets. I looked everywhere and was gutted.

I put the suitcase back in the loft, replaced the iPod and forgot about it. Months later, I pulled the case back down out of the loft to use again and there was an immediate rattle. The original iPod was in there. I've never made any sense of what happened there. There was nowhere for it to have hidden. Nobody else even knew I'd lost it.

A couple of days ago, I was getting something from the cupboard-under-the-stairs, which is also where luggage lives - and there was a hair clip I'd lost ages ago!

I hadn't been too bothered - I assumed it had fallen from a pocket - and I had a spare one anyway, as I liked it so much, had had compliments on it, and in the end, it was only a few quid from Morrison's. But it had puzzled me, because I was sure I'd had it when I'd come into the house, and I'd not felt anything fall out or anything. So I was glad to see it again.

Maybe one day, the green button off a cardi will show up. And the other one from a pair of earrings I dropped on the bedroom floor...

@Hungrycaterpillarsmummy It's actually quite a rare vintage pen and I would be amazed if one of them had had the same pen and it hadn't been mentioned before. I know that makes more sense to a stranger than what actually happened but I know the pen I found at theirs was the same pen I had lost.

Even if that was the case why would you upset the op by saying that?

My beautiful friend killed herself a few months ago. My husband went into the Chinese takeaway last night and I was waiting in the car, clearing out my phone and came across a voicemail from her that I didn’t know I had. It was like winning the lottery. I’ve played it over and over all day.

I lost a watch my ex bought me for my 21st birthday. It matched his.

We had not long broke up and I was approaching 30 so I saw it as a sign to move on.
I had worn it every single day and I’m still gutted but I guess it was time to take it off. I would still be pleased if it turned up though.

I'm autistic...daft things matter emotionally even though logically they are easily replaceable. Maybe it is to do with not knowing what happened to it or maybe the length of time I've had an object even if cheap. And it's random what triggers a thing to be missed (Bastard autism)

Can't think of anything really sentimental at the moment but we "lost" a cheap plastic spade on holiday... Kids chose, we all had one , thought it must have been left on the beach. Was a bit sad. Maybe because it was a stressful holiday and small things matter. It turned up in ex's house after he moved. Maybe he had it since last year he took kid away and I did not notice we had not packed it. Maybe he carried it home? Maybe we used his car and forgot to transfer stuff back? Anyway I am pleased it is back mostly because there are not so many proper beach shops where we are going to replace it.