Wedding rings missing

[lovemyangels]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this but I have a set of wedding rings in gold and one in platinum as my gold ones after having dcs seem to irritate me to hell so lovingly dh bought me a platinum band on solitaire to wear which is beautiful, though I wear my gold ones still as they are special to me being my real ones we got married with. Anyway on Christmas Eve before going to mass I ran upstairs to change into my gold set and they were not in my jewelry box where I keep them, I have since turned the house upside down twice and still nothing!
I discovered a gold bangle in my 5 year old dd's pocket and anouther ing under her bed so can only think she has been playing with them but has repeatedly asked her and she says she has not touched them! I did have a family party on the 23rd and the kids were playing upstairs but my bedroom door was shut and I feel bad for thinking they may have entered my room and been snooping around but I know the rings were there last weekend for definate as I wore them on the 16th.
I don't know what to do and am driving myself nuts wondering how they have been removed and where they could be, they are obviously expensive but thats not the point they are irreplaceable to me. (fsad)

sounds like the kids have been playing with them.

i would go through the carpets on your hands and knees, look under beds, against skirting boards, under wardrobes and chests of drawers and lastly go through the hoover bag.

they will probably turn up when you pull out furniture to decorate or something.

good luck!

My wedding ring has gone walkies this Xmas too. I think my 4yo niece has tidied it up, hopefully it will come to light but I am not going to fret about it. My mum lost her engagement ring and it turned up 7 years later. So long as its in house there is hope.

I agree with Vicar but if there were other children there too I would be inclined to phone the parents and explain in a non accusational way (to avoid any awkwardness) that you have discovered your DD has been playing with jewellery but some is still missing and that basically you are clutching at straws as an absolute last resort, but should they find a gold wedding band etc in their home or amongst their DC belongings that they may consider the possibility ot could be yours and let you know. Its a long shot and unlikely but if you dont ask then you never have a chance to find it that way.

I lost a ring that was my great grandmas a few years back when deep cleaning and sorting DDs bedroom. I was gutted and assumed the ring had gone in one of the many black bin bags which had been collected by the bin men. It randomly turned up in my bedroom doorway months later. i stood on it. I cannot fathom how it got there but it did turn up when I had given up all hope. So fingers crossed that if you dont find it now when you serach, it may well turn up in the future.

Good luck with your searching.

Sorry to hear this.

My 4 year old DD would put rings and jewellery like this inside her own jewellery box, or inside the wardrobe in her dolls house, places like that. Or inside coat pockets hanging in wardrobes, inside shoes etc. Good luck searching....but it does sound as though they are in the house somewhere

You were going to Mass on Christmas Eve? Would that be a Catholic mass?

If so, you should be aware that St Anthony of Padua can be called on to intercede in the case of your missing rings.

Simply say 'Dear St. Anthony, please come around. Something's been lost and can't be found' before and during a search, or you can google the saint and go through the whole kit and caboodle of nine novenas etc.

I would say once you have found them, put them away somewhere well hidden.

If a 5 year old can get to your jewellery, a burglar would have no problem either.

Only costume jewellery should be kept in a jewellery box that is on display, not valuables like that.

my daughter lost my wedding ring, it was gone for 18 months. Then dh was looking for lego down the back of our sofa, and he found it!!

Can you borrow a metal detector from someone and run it all round your room and over the floor boards? - a friend of mine found her missing ring this way.

Check everywhere - for some reason lost things seem to travel and end up in places you'd least expect them too.

Thanks everyone, izzywhizzy yes it was Catholic mass will try that! kurriKurri good idea on the metal detector will ask around its worth a try. Going to go through the whole house again tomorrow and yes Fairytights will try to ask in a very careful way the rest of the family who were here last week. I know Squeaky they were inside a ring box inside my jewelry box but still easy target I guess and I will be making sure that valuables are hidden well from now on, unfortunately I have learned this the hard way, hopefully they will still turn up.

If you can't get a metal detector, try turning the lights off, lie on the floor of each room and work in a circle, shining a torch as you go...if there is anything shiny on the floor/carpets under furniture it should shine back in the torchlight.