I found a pair of sunglsses down the side of our sofa. A couple of days later a mum who had been visiting that week asked if she had left them here. I said that I'd found some, and would let her have them. I left them on top of the piano as a prompt for when I next saw her.
When I came to look for them today, they're gone. Dh and ds1 deny touching them, and I certainly don't remember moving them. Friend is now saying that they're £120 Gucci sunglasses. We've had friends over (and kids over), so it is feasible that someone else has picked them up either by accident, or even might have been playing with them.
Other than phoning round anyone who has been in my house in the past few days, what should I do? She obviously feels agrrieved that I have lost them - I didn't know their value, but I had put them to one side. They've been lifted by someone outside of my family...
Just not sure what to do. If the item was less expensive then I'd have probably offered to replace. But this is just too steep, and seems out of line with the usual stuff that gets left (children's clothes, dolls clothes etc)