Coping with loss of Jewellery.

[JuiceBox]

@angelfish, it is good advice.. i'm definetly going to make sure I do from now on XD

@joolluver GOSH! I'd feel totally awful.... sorry for your loss! but you also provide good advice about not dwelling .. I'm a firm believer of that but I just found this particular situation hard.. :<

btw I managed to get a bracelet on ebay, 9ct gold for just £27. I feel quite relieved and I suppose it will be a funny story when the day comes that my mum finds the old one and asks why I have two XD!

 

[smooches]

In the dorms in college my grandmother's wedding ring was stolen from my room. I didn't have a roommate so I think it was a construction worker as there was construction going on and they probably had a master key.

I still feel bad about it and haven't told my mom as she would probably get really upset. I had gotten the ring after my grandmother died.

this thread is really sad

 

[JuiceBox]

In the dorms in college my grandmother's wedding ring was stolen from my room. I didn't have a roommate so I think it was a construction worker as there was construction going on and they probably had a master key.

I still feel bad about it and haven't told my mom as she would probably get really upset. I had gotten the ring after my grandmother died.

this thread is really sad

I'm so sorry to hear that

I try to believe in karma so whoever took it should get whats coming to them

 

[KatsBags]

I'm so sorry to hear that

I try to believe in karma so whoever took it should get whats coming to them

I truly believe that, too.

When I was pregnant with our first child, I lost a ring that my husband gave me when we had first started dating. It wasn't expensive but it was the first piece of jewelry he ever gave me...so sentimental! I was DEVASTATED. I cried for days...probably from the hormones. I still think about that ring.

 

[LV Rawks]

Aw, that is too bad...for all of you!

When I was in 6th grade, my grandmother bought me a beautiful silver and turquoise ring when she was in Mexico. I loved that little ring! One day I was walking home from school, and I looked down at my hand to see that it was not there! I remembered that I had taken it off to wash my hands at school...I ran all the way back to school, crying my eyes out (it was pretty far too). I never found my ring, and I still think about it to this day...23 years later

 

[A-T-G]

Oh I lost TONS of jewelry...it's a miracle people still give it to me !

My grandmother gave me a ring (my birthstone) when I was young. I lost it at her house and never recovered it.

When my husband proposed, he gave me a little silver ring (a placeholder). We got the "real" ring later but, somehow...when I got back home (after a summer tour), I couldn't find the ring ANYWHERE! We were so sad! I wanted to keep that little silver ring!

On our first christmas as husband and wife, he got me this gorgeous peridot necklace from Tiffany's--I lost it! I couldn't find it anywhere! I thought it was in the bottom of a bag and I searched them all, over and over again for a YEAR! We were discussing replacing it when my sister came for a visit. She asked to borrow my bag and I checked it AGAIN! When she was finished with it, she pulled her stuff out and low and behold...my necklace came out with it. YAY!

Recently, I lost an elsa peretti tear drop necklace from my husband. I took it off because it was getting in my way and put in a bag of mine...I haven't seen it since. I don't know where it's gone. I haven't told him yet. He'll be so sad that I lost ANOTHER one!

 

[saligator]

Wow. I've never lost a piece of jewelry, but I've given away stuff I wish I'd kept. Boyfriends gave me stuff and in passionate moments of hatred for them after we'd broken up-- I gave it to charity, not realizing I could sell it or something. I regret two bracelets I gave away just last fall. Can't replace them either. Sigh.

 

[digby723]

My mom gave me an ID bracelet when i was probably 7 or 8, that her mom had given her when she was about 16 or 17. I went abroad for 10 months and started wearing it then as a reminder of my family daily and continued to wear it up until about 6 months ago when I lost it. I must have lost it at work, because I had it when I went into work and I didn't half way through my shift. I tore that place up looking for it, but, never found it. It still makes me sad, and I told my mom, and, I've thought about getting a new one, but, it's not the same...I've also lost countless earrings (all cheapies, but, still) and a couple of necklaces when I was younger.

 

[dallas]

Oh God this is such a hard thing for me to tell, it makes me cry just to think about it. I had an ancient gold locket and inside I had put a few strands of my precious late mother's hair. I wore the locket for a long time but the chain was so fine I decided it would be better just to carry it with me until I bought a stronger chain, so I put it in the zip part of my purse. One night my car was broken into and I had stupidly left my purse in it.......those rotten people that stole my purse didn't get any money but they got something far more precious than they will ever know.

 

[JuiceBox]

Oh God this is such a hard thing for me to tell, it makes me cry just to think about it. I had an ancient gold locket and inside I had put a few strands of my precious late mother's hair. I wore the locket for a long time but the chain was so fine I decided it would be better just to carry it with me until I bought a stronger chain, so I put it in the zip part of my purse. One night my car was broken into and I had stupidly left my purse in it.......those rotten people that stole my purse didn't get any money but they got something far more precious than they will ever know.

Oh gawsh...

You have my sincerest apologies. I'm very sorry.


I'm very sorry for making this thread. I feel it has done more than just bring up bad memories.. so to anyone who is starting to feel sad after this thread I'm very very sorry and I don't want people going through the trauma I went through a couple of weeks ago after burrieing (sp?) the fact my jewellery was gone.

I sincerely hope many of you have recovered from this loss, and to those who haven't just remember that many of us have had similar experiences here and hopefully that will ease the sadness.

 

[ShimmaPuff]

Don't be sorry. Yes, it may bring back sad memories, but inside each of those sad memories is a story about love, and many more memories that are happy ones, and it is good to be reminded that whatever material mementos we may lose, the real treasure that those tokens represented can never be lost!

 

[dallas]

Don't be sorry. Yes, it may bring back sad memories, but inside each of those sad memories is a story about love, and many more memories that are happy ones, and it is good to be reminded that whatever material mementos we may lose, the real treasure that those tokens represented can never be lost!

Beautifully said and so very true. JB, please don't be sorry.

 

[fALLON]

I do not know if this fits in with your query, but how is this for an unlucky ?
I was attending the formal wedding of a cousin in Rio de Janeiro. After the reception a group of us went to an exclusive late night club. Somehow both my diamond necklace and the small glittery broach that was pinned to the front of my satin gown were lost and never found.
Security wanted me to believe they had fallen off while dancing, and they would eventually turn up. But the several dances I had had all been to slow music. Security said there was nothing more they could do and dismissed us as like we were crazy. I’ve always wondered if anyone has ever had a similar experience that would explain what could have happened. Or is it that I am just klutzy?

 

[Neeya]

Back in high school, two men sledge-hammered in our glass doors and stole a ton of stuff, including my Mom's entire huge wooden jewelry closet. Every piece of jewelry she had collected since she was 12 years old was taken, everything given to her by her Father, her Mother, her husband (my dad), and my sister and I. Never did an angrier, more upset woman exist, and she is still obviously very angry about it to this day. Over $80,000 worth total (luckily she was wearing her wedding ring and a bunch of her Yurman to work that day). Dad had his entire antique gun collection stolen too


I am extremely careful with my jewelry due to this, and I have only lost one item. It was a necklace that my Dad gave me a long time ago, a piece of red/orange coral in a gold pendant on a thin gold chain, and at age 13, after he told me not to wear it until I was older...I lost it that same day. I cried for hours.

 

[saligator]

Wow. I've never lost a piece of jewelry, but I've given away stuff I wish I'd kept. Boyfriends gave me stuff and in passionate moments of hatred for them after we'd broken up-- I gave it to charity, not realizing I could sell it or something. I regret two bracelets I gave away just last fall. Can't replace them either. Sigh.

Hey! Guess what? I thought I had given away the two bracelets but -- we've been cleaning out the garage--and I FOUND THEM!

They were deeply buried in a box. I'm really happy to have them back.