To ask if you've ever lost something precious (to you or someone else) through carelessness in the past?

[TheFeminineMistake]

Now and then I cringe with guilt when I remember how I lost a couple of precious things when I was younger and busy with my small children. A great aunt had been in service as a maid and (in a fairytale scenario) had married her e

Now I want to know how it ended who got married?what got lost?
Presumably married her employer, which back in the day would have been quite the thing

me too, OP. Shit happens. It's ok. We can move on & not beat selves up for it. Nobody human manages to not make mistakes. only the deluded think they did that.

Yes but I cant say as it might be outing
It was a one-off, I'll never get it back and it can't be replaced.
I have sort of come to terms with it but sometimes I have a bit of regret

Great aunt worked as a nurse in Libya in the 1960's and gave me her beautiful gold locket from there. I was in my twenties and stupid. Lost it on a night out after drinking and dancing and it pains me I lost it to this day. I have no other jewellery that's either valuable or sentimental.

I should add it wasnt my carelessness but someone else's but if I'd been more on the ball I might have managed to save it

I accidentally gave the little knitted hat dc1 wore at birth that we saved for dc2 to wear at birth, in a bag to the charity shop. Still upsets me.

Ffs

I lost my engagement ring.
DH still hasn't noticed and it has been 11 years.

It was only worth about £200 but at the time we were so broke that was an enormous sum of money.

When I was pg with DS my hands were swollen so I swapped a precious ring to another finger, I then lost it after he was born. DS is 19 now and it still upsets me. Why didn't I just take it off for a few weeks?

When I was younger, I lost a signet ring when cleaning out the rabbit. It must've fallen off and got thrown away with the used sawdust. The ring was given to me for my First Holy Communion a few years previously and I was gutted.

@TheFeminineMistake

Now and then I cringe with guilt when I remember how I lost a couple of precious things when I was younger and busy with my small children. A great aunt had been in service as a maid and (in a fairytale scenario) had married her e

Did you lose the end of your post, OP?

I lost one of my diamond stud earrings just before Christmas - DH had saved for a whole year to buy them for me. I wore them every day for 5 years and adored them. DH has been very pragmatic but I am still devastated :(

Mine was also a ring my mum bought me when I was young, I wore it to secondary school one day and I lost it on the field.

A ring from a dead relative that boyfriend at the time said his jeweller friend would fix for me. Never got it back and the friend denied having had it.

My Mum realised she had knocked her engagement ring into the bin - the day after they were emptied

Dd aged about 8 broke one of my Nana's original glass Christmas tree ornaments at my Mum's. I was gutted but my Mum was very pragmatic about it - it had lasted over 70 years

I found I was missing one of my diamond wedding earrings on the first night of our honeymoon - amazingly was in the middle of the bathroom floor when we got back to our villa

Lots of jewellery, including my wedding ring. I know longer wear any jewellery that has any meaning, as I am very careless.

I've lost a mobile phone in the past.

These things happen but can be very upsetting.

I lost a diamond earring my great aunt had given me that my great uncle had bought her when she was 16..my dd had kept them safe in her jewellery box and I took them to wear and lost one after I took it out. Couple of years ago now and still gutted about it.