To feel so bad I have lost my diamond earrings

[Ygritte84]

I have driven myself insane since realising they are gone. They were my wedding earrings and were given to me by my late grandfather. I only wore them for special occasions or work events, and either kept them in the safe or temporarily in a jewellery pouch on top of a shelf. Last sighting of the earrings was on 23 July, my first date night with my husband after a long lockdown! I am starting to think that maybe, as we came back late at night, I might have put them on top of the bedroom cabinet and they got knocked off and lost.

I have searched everywhere, in every room. Even emptied the vacuum cleaner. It just doesn't make sense, for such a valuable item, to have been lost so carelessly. I am driving myself mad with speculation: what if they were stolen? The only two people in the house since July have been my mother-in-law and a teenage neighbour (both came to cat-sit while we were on holiday). Surely not, but what if? It's a horrible feeling.

The insurance paid up to my single item limit (not the full value, but still a good amount). It's not for the money though... feeling so guilty and stupid. After this experience, I invested in Stackers and am going to send my most valuable jewellery items for a professional valuation. Don't know if I will ever be able to enjoy wearing jewellery again!

When we had to wear face masks last year , I pulled it off and diamond earring tore out my ear , flew of in the car park somewhere, not all bad news though my eldest son got to wear the saved earring . My husband bought them for me for Xmas and it was a good year before I wore them as I was frightened of losing them. When I told him it was lost he said don't worry about it and could he replace them. I told him buy me another pair but this time cubic zirconia earrings.

Lost forever things have a habit of turning up I can vouch for that. Including many of mine lost was a lovely diamond ring...I tried to forget about it in the end, but twelve months later it turned up in the bottom of a carrier bag full of old bits of Christmas decorations. What made me look in the bottom of the bag before I threw it out with the rubbish I will never know.

I'd say they are still there to be found. Were you drunk after the night out? (Hopefully because the logic of putting them somewhere safe whilst under the influence is hopeful - somewhere stupid no doubt, but still there). Or were you in your own car? Maybe one came loose and as has happened to me, I just take the 2 off and store them somewhere for safekeeping and they fall somewhere in the car. I have recently lost 3 pairs of quite expensive glasses. 2 I haven't found and have given up on as I know I was outside the house with them at some point but the third were found under a bathroom cabinet, a cabinet I didn't even realise wasn't flush to the floor. The washing machine filter is also a good place to look.

We can never move house, my engagement ring is lost somewhere in this house, has been for ages. Every day I have a 5 minute look in a different place. I am sure it is in this house!!

I'm still grieving the loss of one of my diamond earrings last year. I understand your pain and have no helpful advice. I hope they miraculously turn up for you!

There was a thread the other day about spooky goings-on and some were mentioning items that completely disappeared and then miraculously reappeared, so you never know 😇

Not a first world problem imo. I think it's worse because grandfather gave them to you. It's not like just losing a regular pair. I really hope they show up.

They definitely turn up! I lost a diamond ring moving into my first flat. I found it a year later on the path outside.

My kids bought me a pair of white gold studs and I lost one, no idea where. Found it many years later when I was moving house and it was under my bed the whole time 😩

I bought a lovely bracelet laat week and lost it the next day. Have just asked st Anthony to return thrm!

My partner bought me a gold diamond bracelets worth around £400 a few years ago. I had a seizure in my city centre (I'm epileptic) and it disappeared off my wrist. I still feel guilty for loosing it.

Have you run a metal detector around the area you think you had them?

They will probably turn up in the craziest place when you are least expecting it.

I’ll give you my story… I was washing my hair in the shower and tugged on it, apparently with gusto because it pulled a diamond stud out. I managed to catch the back(yeah, that’s my luck) but not the earring. I scoured the shower but gave up, because, it’s a shower not many places to hide, except the big fat drain.

Two days later I’m on the toilet, looking around aimlessly, and spot the little bugger, in the shower! So it was in there the whole time and didn’t get washed down the drain despite daily showers.

I couldn’t explain that one if I tried!

Check a handbag you took, the missing stuff I've found in my barely used handbags is unbelievable! Also check pockets of 'going out' jackets.

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Have you run a metal detector around the area you think you had them?

Do people generally have metal detectors laying around the house.?

People may not have a metal detector hanging around their house but if it meant locating a pair of valuable earrings I might consider actually asking amongst wider friends and family. They are hardly rare.

I have a sinking feeling (certainty?) they got accidentally thrown away / hoovered up. I remember hearing a "clunk clunk" sound once (stupid me for hoovering so well under the bed, I didn't think anything about it as it was before I realised the earrings were missing). Stupid me for hoovering in the corners, I should have just done a quick hoover, damn!

I'd love diamond earrings. I can even afford diamond earrings. But it would kill me if I lost them! I've got £50 GVC diamonique gold studs and every day in shower I check they're firmly in my lobes. I once dropped my engagement and eternity diamond rings from a neckchain in the bakers. We looked everywhere, found one. They took my phone number. I was full of self-pity, why was I so stupid etc. 3 days later, eating the last crust of bread from the baker's bag and there it was. Relief.

OP let's hope that you revive this thread when it's become a zombie saying that you have found them. 🤞

Another one for St. Anthony. I remember when I was at school and lost my Form Captain badge during the summer holidays and I knew that I would be in trouble as it needed to be passed on to someone else in the new term.
I spent weeks looking for it everywhere. Prayed about it the day before school started, put on my dressing gown hanging on the back of the bedroom door and it was in the pocket. I had worn this at other times during the summer but it appeared minutes after praying.
Since then, it's worked every time. Someone at work had lost their wedding ring. I told her about St. Anthony, she was a bit sneery and sceptical. Two days later she came to tell me it had worked. Wedding ring was under the plinth of her kitchen cupboards.

When my granddad died my Nan flew over to Australia to stay with my uncle and cousins. She always wore a gold locket with his and hers picture in it and had done every day for 20 years. While she was in Australia she lost it. The whole family looked everywhere, no sign. She was devastated.
5 years later my uncle had his front garden dug up to make way for a paved area. My aunt came out of her front door and there just nestling under a tree was the locket still with the pictures in it. It was discovered on my grandads bday. It felt like he had sent it back to her.

I really hope you do find them OP.

My husband (then boyfriend) bought me some small diamond earrings one Christmas and a few years later I lost them. I was gutted but didn't want him to know I'd lost them, so I bought replacement ones, exactly the same and carried on wearing them.
He had no idea, until I found my original earrings about 3 years later, and was so happy I had them back but I now had 2 pairs!

My husband mislaid his wedding ring, but he is careless, so I wasn't totally surprised.

He had a pewter egg thing that lived on my dressing table, which was slid across the surface whenever it dusted, etc.

Then, 6 months later, my mum was with me in my bedroom and lifted up the egg shell and there was his wedding ring.

No prayers necessary, just a fresh pair of eyes, it turns out.

You'll find them...👍

They'll show up. You're misremembering where you put them. if they're in a pouch and made it into your house they're still there unless you've had a burglar, in which case the earrings won't be the only things missing.
I found a 'lost;' gold ring weeks later by my front door. It had slipped off while i was rummaging for my keys. Various odd earrings have turned up in my knicker draw (beneath my jewellery tangle above) and under the chest of drawers where they've been kicked or pushed by the hoover

It's a bit frightening that so many adult women think a Portuguese priest who died 800 years ago is enthusiastically helping them to find a good parking space. I hope you're all taking the piss

I lost my Grandmother’s engagement ring and Great Aunt’s wedding ring. Had been given to me when I married my first husband. When I divorced and remarried they were put into a lipstick carrying case in the back of the drawer. At some point I cleared out the drawer and sorted some stuff out for the Charity shop. Months later I was looking for them to show my niece and realised they had accidentally gone into the Charity shop bag.
Went to the Charity Shops (we had taken some bits to each of two different shops) but no sign/record of them.
Took me ages to get over it - even 4 years later when we moved house I still hoped that magically they would turn up.