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ilovediamonds1

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Dec 22, 2010
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#1
I recently lost this bracelt that was given to me by one of my dear aunts....I was soo heartbroken because when she gave it to me (about 10 years ago) she said that this was one of her favorite pieces and that she wanted to to take care of it...
So I can't help but wonder, what special items of jewelry have you lost?
 
#2
My wedding set was stolen last year, and that was hard on me. It's still hard on me over a year later because I have been in "reset hell" with getting the stones set into better settings and til this is all done I feel unsettled.
 
#3
ame said:
My wedding set was stolen last year, and that was hard on me. It's still hard on me over a year later because I have been in "reset hell" with getting the stones set into better settings and til this is all done I feel unsettled.
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I am so sorry that happened to you. I know how hard it is to lose something sacred especially when you really can't replace the meaning behind it... I hope that you find it in your heart to let go, and hopefully get a new one :( try to think of it as an upgrade..
 
#4
Oh I have a new one, and it was kind of an upgrade. Right now I am having a new setting reworked and then HOPEFULLY this will be done.
 
#5
I was just going to create this kind of thread. Im :crybaby::crybaby:. First this morning my key chain that was given by a friend disappeared. And then just 10 mn ago I realised that my charm bracelet that my mother gave me and that means a lot to me is not in the drawer anymore. Its probably not lost, just in my room somewhere but still! :'(
 
#6
I don't know if this counts but...

my mom's grandmother was a military wife and in the 50s she went to Morocco and bought these gold bracelets. It was a very special thing because it was a set of 7 and it had some sort of religious meaning and had been banned for some reason, my mother doesn't know the whole story. Anyways it's all we have that's really from our family. Anyways my mother's grandmother gave the bracelets to her daughter (my mother's aunt) and she told my mother how special and meaningful the bracelets were. It turns out my aunt gave the bracelets off to people she cared for. My mother had 2 and the other five are just floating around somewhere. it really breaks my mother's heart because the whole meaning of the bracelets were that the 7 stay together and for her it dilutes the meaning that they were split off and handed off to people that don't even know how special they are. (we found out my mom's friend's mother had one and she told us she had no idea they meant anything). So it's technically not lost but the fact we, the family, aren't in possession of all seven really upsets her.
 
#8
After my uncle died in 1999 I was given a silver Russian wedding ring which belonged to him. I wore it every single day on the middle finger of my left hand. In 2006 I was going on holiday with my OH. I was driving from my house to his to collect him. I had the ring on when I got in the car as I can remember seeing it. When I got to his house, it was gone. We searched the entire car, driveway and entrance of his house but it never turned up. I was so sad and also angry at myself for losing it. The ring had no real financial value but it had such a sentimental value to me. I bought an identical ring when we were on holiday in 2008 as a replacement but it's just not the same. :(
 
#9
ALL of my jewelry, watches, valuables, were stolen in a home burglary this past June. I had to start my jewelry and watch collection COMPLETELY from scratch. I did not have 1 piece left after the robbery.

I'm still devastated and its hard to replace items that were given as gifts. Some things are simply irreplaceable.

I'm sorry to all of you who have lost or had items stolen from you. :sad:
 
#10
When I was about 13 my mother gave me a gold charm bracelet she had been collecting all her life. I adored it, especially since I had always wanted a charm bracelet and admired hers.

Stupidly I wore it to the park and lost it. It was obviously too loose on me but I loved it too much to care - I wanted to wear it and that was that!

Wish she'd waited until I was older to pass it onto me, but c'est la vie I guess.
 
#11
Yep, my dad gave me his baby ring to wear on my wedding day. The next morning on the way to my parents house to open presents it somehow flew off my finger and went into the vents up by the windshield of my husband company car. We did all we could to find it, but to no avail. I'll never get over that.
Our movers also stole my husbands diamond wedding band right before the wedding. Thanks to a spectacular police department, they found it at a pawn shop a few days later.
 
#12
My DH purchased a pair of antique opal earrings for me. The next day, I wore them to a doctor's appt. and lost one of them. Every once in a while, they would call me when they found an earring, but it was never mine. :(
 
#15
I can't find a sterling cuff I received as my 18th birthday gift. I have many more so it doesn't matter too much.

My friend lost her deceased grandmother's platinum spinel and diamond ring at school. I mean this was a substantial ring that her grandmother had insured for $10,000 until she passed away. My friend cried for days afterward. Luckily she has other jewelery from her grandmother that she's thankful for.
 
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