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Can this be true?

241 replies

DNo · 11/10/2022 22:25

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.

OP posts:
Slightlylostalongtheway · 13/10/2022 19:51

I'm with asking st Anthony...has worked for me

Toomuchtrouble4me · 13/10/2022 19:52

My brothers ex gf flicked her hand in my mums house and her ring flew off in the hallway, they heard it ping on the wall, they had a quick look but it was in the wee hours and they didn’t want to wake everyone so they left it until the morning. They never did find that ring. Mum is sure that ex gf always suspected that she found and kept it as she kept asking and reiterating that it wasn’t valuable, just sentimental. Moved furniture, emptied hoover bag even though hadn’t hoovered! No ring - ever. That was 20years ago, new flooring laid since then, no ring. Weird.
Btw - yours, op, is in the bathroom cabinet, top shelf.

Genevieva · 13/10/2022 19:55

You will have put it somewhere else. My aunt lost all her jewellery for years. More than a decade. She isn't really a jewellery wearer so couldn't place when she last had it and assumed there must have been a break in that they were never aware of. It meant she couldn't claim on insurance. Then she handed my Mum a load of old stuff from the attic to give to a charity shop my Mum supports. My Mum decided to clean everything first and found all the jewellery in a plastic bag inside the pram. It was a close call, but she got it all back.

OMG12 · 13/10/2022 20:15

Have you got a drawer in your living room? I think you got distracted moving it

ArielManto43 · 13/10/2022 20:19

I lost a watch for about a year, and it only turned up when we had a total clean out of the car. It had slipped off my wrist and gone into the front door pocket, and then got hidden by the car service manual book. So glove compartment, door pockets and under seats in the car might be worth checking if you haven't already.

OMG12 · 13/10/2022 20:20

DorritLittle · 12/10/2022 23:09

So weird, I read it as three weeks too.

I hope you find it OP!

I read it as 3 weeks ago too

Toomuchtrouble4me · 13/10/2022 20:29

ArielManto43 · 13/10/2022 20:19

I lost a watch for about a year, and it only turned up when we had a total clean out of the car. It had slipped off my wrist and gone into the front door pocket, and then got hidden by the car service manual book. So glove compartment, door pockets and under seats in the car might be worth checking if you haven't already.

I found the diamond that had fallen from my engagement ring on the floor of my car when I swept it out to be sold. So glad I didn’t use a hoover!

Elodie09 · 13/10/2022 20:32

It is in an old purse.

WetLettuce2 · 13/10/2022 20:45

In every possible gap of a recliner chair.

Shergar has been lost to these things.

SiliconHeaven · 13/10/2022 20:47

In the freezer. You were scrabbling around trying to find the bag of peas and it came off your finger…

pollymere · 13/10/2022 20:48

I keep thinking it's in a pot of some kind, especially a teapot. Do you have a display of them anywhere? Or possibly a display of mugs? I also feel it's somewhere above head height.

geordieone · 13/10/2022 20:51

A small brown cardboard box around 3" square and 1" deep ?

CarefreeMe · 13/10/2022 20:54

Are you sure you didn’t leave it in the hospital?

Do you remember putting it back on your finger before you left the hospital?
Or do you think you kept it in your bag and then took it out when you got home?

Original poster
DNo · 13/10/2022 20:58

DuckbilledSplatterPuff · 13/10/2022 13:45

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!

This is what I'm wanting!!! 😬

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DNo · 13/10/2022 21:05

I don't have a teapot but I do have a caddy of special tea bags that was gifted to me so I checked there as so many have suggested.

I'm shocked how many people have read it as three weeks and think maybe that's a spiritual thing too! 😂

I've given in and asked St Anthony (not Christoper!) As a very lapsed catholic it was on the bottom of the list of things to do but I've just done it.

Can't believe I made the daily round up email! 😬

OP posts:
bluesapphire48 · 13/10/2022 21:07

Before you go to bed, tell yourself, "Tonight I will dream where I put it."

When you start to wake up, remember your dream.

It works for me.

1dontunderstand · 13/10/2022 21:09

Have you taken out all of the drawers and checked that it hasn’t fallen into the back of the cupboard where the drawers are?

mussymummy · 13/10/2022 21:44

Bottom of the wash basket?

JILL21 · 13/10/2022 22:35

Pray to st Anthony. We also sing a song over and over (make up the words, I.e please can we have a parking space. Change to please can I find my ring) whether it is for a parking space or we want it to stop raining. Completely nutty but Surprisingly it almost always works 😂😂😂

kennycat · 13/10/2022 22:43

I’m my house it would be inside my son’s pillowcase. He’s a bit of a magpie in our house. Have you looked in the crispier drawer of the fridge? Or the freezer? My rings sometimes drop off when I’m rooting around in the cold.

Ivymom · 14/10/2022 02:41

We recently made a cross country move (in the US) and sold or donated almost all of our furniture and housewares. I haven’t been able to wear my wedding set on my ring finger since I was pregnant with my youngest because I gained weight. I was wearing the set on my pinkie.

On our final night in our home a lady from a charity who helps refugees picked up the last of our bedding and housewares. I helped her load everything and noticed my wedding set was gone as she was getting ready to leave. We couldn’t go through everything because her moving van was completely full and it was really late. She promised to go through everything carefully and send it to me if she found it.

She messaged me the next evening to tell me she didn’t find my ring but would pray that it would turn up. I was praying too. It took four days of driving to reach our new city. I brought my coffee machine with me and when I unpacked it, my ring was in the reservoir. I have no idea how it got there. I messaged the lady so she wouldn’t keep looking and she messaged back that her prayers were answered.

Fraaahnces · 14/10/2022 04:34

I took mine off when pregnant. It disappeared completely. Many years later ai found it inside the lining of a handbag I was about to donate when I picked it up and felt it rattle. I had insured and replaced it and now have one for each daughter.

aurynne · 14/10/2022 07:13

Well it can't be a very spiritual thing when after all this advice from supposedly "spiritual" people plus praying to St Anthony, the ring has not turned up yet...

Fairfatandforty · 14/10/2022 07:40

Hospital sponge bag? 🤞

Withmayo · 14/10/2022 08:08

I lost a necklace somewhere in my house. I searched on and off for months. One day I started just really thinking about it and focusing on it coming back to me. A few days later I opened the washing machine to get out the wet clothes and there it was! It was lost for a year. Still no idea how it got there! Give it a try and good luck.