Can this be true?

[DNo]

I don't know the word but the power of certain minds? Is it real?

3 years ago I had a week's horrible unexpected hospital stay. I swelled up so much I took my engagement ring off (not my wedding ring).

When I came home I put it somewhere "safe" as I was still bloated and since then I haven't found it. I'm almost certain it was in the kitchen but to this day I haven't found it.

It's a beautiful ring, not massively expensive (cost £375 18 years ago). It was designed based on Monica's ring from Friends but opposite settings - emerald cut sapphire, with a small diamond either side on a white gold plain band.

Can anyone help me find it please? 🙈 I'm not spiritual but willing to try this ridiculous plea to being my lovely eing back to me.

[DuckbilledSplatterPuff]

I found mine after 4 years and a house move. It was in an antique cupboard I'd looked in several times, but it had lodged behind a vertical piece of wood at the front.. so when you opened it, it looked empty. One day I opened the cupboard to put something in and felt about and then my hand lighted on it. I can't tell you how amazing that felt. Keep looking!

[peridito]

Ohhh the dreaded ‘safe place’, otherwise known as the vortex to another dimension. Why yes, I currently have some things stored there, why do you ask?

[Lesserspotteddogfish]

I think rubbish tips must have quite a few rings hidden in them.

[saltinesandcoffeecups]

Ohhh the dreaded ‘safe place’, otherwise known as the vortex to another dimension. Why yes, I currently have some things stored there, why do you ask?

If this were me, I’d start looking for something else that you’ve lost. That’s usually when I find the other things that were put somewhere safe.

[Lessofallthisunpleasantness]

I have this same problem. Lost my engagement ring and wedding ring more than a year ago. I took them off which was so rare and so to keep them safe attached them to some keys...... Never saw the keys or the rings again since that day! Baffled. Annoyed. Frustrated. Also have insurance cover but not sure if to claim or not.

[DorritLittle]

So weird, I read it as three weeks too.

I hope you find it OP!

[FirewomanSam]

Doh, sorry OP, I totally misread the post as three WEEKS ago, not years. That is a long time to wait! It might turn up if you ever move house?! I lost an earring of my mum’s and I found it the day we moved, between the carpet and skirting board behind some furniture. I really hope you find it one day!

[PickAnyName]

Try the freezer - one of my parents was always leaving their specs in there.
Check places like where you keep postage stamps, toothpaste, toothbrushes, any medication/supplements you take, under pillows, in the washing/ironing pile, in food canisters (biscuits, coffee, flour etc), by the telephone (mobile or landline), where keys are kept, jewellery box - perhaps DH has seen it and moved it?

[BobBobBobbing]

DH's wedding ring was found at the bottom of the chest freezer- he'd been getting stuff out and it had slipped off his finger.

[SallyWD]

I've lost my wedding ring twice and my engagement ring. Both showed up after many months. My wedding ring showed up after a year! My engagement ring was under the dishwasher. Both times my wedding ring was in a clothes drawer. The first time it was in my son's pants drawer! I assume it just fell off my finger (I'd lost weight). The second time it was in my jeans drawer. I think I put it in my jeans pocket, then put the jeans back in the drawer and it fell out.

[Kadj]

Check your hoover bag……..

[DNo]

@FirewomanSam

Ok, let’s try a different approach.

With something as important as an engagement ring, you would normally put it in the same place every time, or you would put it somewhere very obvious. When things go missing, though, or aren’t where they should be, I usually find that it’s because something unusual has happened to disrupt my flow or mess with my normal routine.

So… can you remember any unexpected interruptions that might have happened in the last few weeks? Maybe the doorbell rang while you were moving it and you popped it down somewhere, like in the hallway, and thought ‘I’ll come back for that in a second’. Or have you been in any drawers or cupboards that you don’t normally open? Maybe you were clearing out a drawer and found a box and thought ‘that’s a great place for my ring’ and then immediately forgot because it’s not a drawer you normally open?

Hope you get the gist of what I mean! If you’re sure you’ve searched all the obvious places then you need to think of reasons why you might have put it somewhere much less obvious. There’s bound to be some sort of logic to it, something that will make you go ‘oh of COURSE!’ when you find it.

Ask others in your household to have a think too, in case one of them found the ring and thought ‘I’ll put this somewhere safer’ and then totally forgot doing it! My husband and I have a strict rule that we NEVER move anything remotely important belonging to each other unless we either physically hand it back to the other person or put it somewhere VERY obvious!

This is the problem. I have a specific place to put my jewelry. It's hidden, in the kitchen and I can vaguely remember putting it there in front of the box as I didn't plan on being without it for a long time. I can only assume (again very vaguely) that I thought it may fall into the bin below if I opened the cupboard it was in and I moved it somewhere "safer". About a month later I went to put it back on and it wasn't there.

This was November 2019 so it's been a while waiting for it to turn up.

[MaMisled]

I'm going to say behind a toilet because 3 years after I lost a precious piece of jewellery, I found it behind mine!

[ToffeeNotCoffee]

I was going to say is it in with the prescriptions etc that you might have come from hospital with ? In the bottom of an existing pill bottle ? In the family medicine cabinet ? In your 'every day' toiletries/hair brush etc bag/box/shelf.

In the bag that other prescriptions have come from at the Chemist ? Have you got a bag of bags i.e. supermarket carrier bags in one larger carrier bag. Could it be there ?

Jewellery box ? Does your husband have a jewellery box or just a box of useful or precious things ?

Pen pot ?

Does your husband have a tool box ? Spares box ? Could it have got mistaken for a washer ? (no offence)

[DotBall]

It’s the sort of thing I put in my tablets bag when in hospital. Perhaps somewhere like this or a bog bag (toiletries bag)?

[Itshotoutthere]

It's in your bedding somewhere? Inside the duvet? Fallen in between your bed/ headboard/ wall? Where did you unpack your hospital bag?

[Emotionalsupportviper]

@CrapBucket

"Your prayer is important to us and may be recorded for training and miracle purposes"

You forgot "Your call is in a queue. There are 7,867,453 penitents ahead of you."

followed by <tinny version of greensleeves>

(We can all laugh - but it works)

[Emotionalsupportviper]

@CrapBucket

I'm such a twat. When I lose things I pray out loud 3 times to St Christopher. Reading this thread I discover it should be St Anthony!!!

However I recommend giving St Christopher a try as he is always very helpful. Maybe as he gets less requests than Anthony 🤣

They're probably mates - he'll pass the messages along.

(I've recommended St Anthony myself - he's proved himself very helpful to me in the past.)

[CrapBucket]

@LookItsMeAgain

I hierarchy of saints to help you..

"Hello this is the Saint help line. If you're looking for something that is lost, press 1 for St. Anthony. When he goes on a break or his line is busy, St. Christopher steps in.
Press 2 for St. Patrick - he is always getting rid of things...like snakes out of Ireland, but get's particularly busy in March
Press 3 for St. Stephen - he likes a good bank holiday the day after Christmas Day
Press 4 for St Jude - he likes lost causes
Or stay on the line and God or one of the holy Trinity will be with you shortly!"

"Your prayer is important to us and may be recorded for training and miracle purposes"

[FirewomanSam]

Ok, let’s try a different approach.

With something as important as an engagement ring, you would normally put it in the same place every time, or you would put it somewhere very obvious. When things go missing, though, or aren’t where they should be, I usually find that it’s because something unusual has happened to disrupt my flow or mess with my normal routine.

So… can you remember any unexpected interruptions that might have happened in the last few weeks? Maybe the doorbell rang while you were moving it and you popped it down somewhere, like in the hallway, and thought ‘I’ll come back for that in a second’. Or have you been in any drawers or cupboards that you don’t normally open? Maybe you were clearing out a drawer and found a box and thought ‘that’s a great place for my ring’ and then immediately forgot because it’s not a drawer you normally open?

Hope you get the gist of what I mean! If you’re sure you’ve searched all the obvious places then you need to think of reasons why you might have put it somewhere much less obvious. There’s bound to be some sort of logic to it, something that will make you go ‘oh of COURSE!’ when you find it.

Ask others in your household to have a think too, in case one of them found the ring and thought ‘I’ll put this somewhere safer’ and then totally forgot doing it! My husband and I have a strict rule that we NEVER move anything remotely important belonging to each other unless we either physically hand it back to the other person or put it somewhere VERY obvious!

[PumpkinDart]

Ohh OP I hope you find it. Something similar happened with my engagement ring but weirdly I walked in to my bedroom months later and found it in the middle of the floor. So strange! Underwear drawers (at the very back) bedside cabinets, wherever your husband puts stuff "safely" (mine once moved my ring without telling me which caused a mad panic).

[Onlyhuman123]

The seal around washing machine drum? Under microwave or other kitchen item that has slight gap on work surface? The 'kitchen dump' drawer? And something is telling me to tell you to look in a filing cabinet? Do you even have one?!! 😂

[Redpriestandmozart]

Sorry I haven't read the full thread, but could you have set it on your toilet cistern and it fell down the back? You could lift the lid as it may be caught behind that.

[Emsb2022]

Pocket in garment hanging in wardrobe

[Luminousnose]

I’ve not RTFT, but my two suggestions would be - the washing machine in the rubber seal bit, and if you have a jar of jewellery cleaner. These clearly aren’t based on you putting it ‘somewhere safe’, but on where we’ve found missing jewellery before.

I’d also suggest replacing it - my Mum did this, claimed on insurance, and then promptly found the original (in the jewellery cleaner!).