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#31
I lost an abalone pendant in high school. It wasn't very valuable, but my mom gave it to me so it had sentimental value. Someone also swiped my watch from my beach bag while I was swimming when I was a teen. Again, it was an inexpensive watch, but it was a gift from my mom.
 
#32
I had my wallet stolen a while back, and had a ring that was destined for my step-daughter in it (now ex) after our trip back from my ex's parents place. When they stole my wallet, they took the ring, my cards, and any money I had and threw the rest of the contents out all along the building hallway and bathrooms.

The ring probably wasn't worth anything major in cost, but obviously it was passed down to the granddaughter from the grandmother so that you can't put a price on .
 
#33
I took off my rings (including my grandma's wedding ring I got after her death) to put on lotion once in high school and set them down then left for class when the bell rang. A teacher found them and I was able to reclaim them. whew!

However, in college I left my grandma's wedding ring in my dorm room and when I came back later in the day it was gone. I think it was stolen by construction workers doing work in the dorms. I still feel sad about it every so often...I never told my mom I lost it/it got stolen.
 
#34
coco5 said:
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! :'(
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yes sometimes my room steals things from me too....whenever i deep clean my room, I always find something unintentionally :)
 
#35
narcissistmas said:
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.
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I understand how hurt you must be, try to look at it on the bright side.. If the 7 bracelets were represented to stay together, maybe thats why she gave it to her loved ones, so each member can stick together and become one unit..like the bracelet set itself.
 
#37
Loopylou157 said:
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. :(
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I totally understand how you feel...sentimental items are alot more special than expensive items.
 
#38
Bentley1 said:
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:
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I'm really sorry too, i hope that you recieve many more sentimental pieces of jewelry in the years to come.
 
#39
Splurgeface said:
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.
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sometimes jewelry lovers (when they were kids) are just really stubborn :( i know what you mean though, I loveddd wearing my mothers ring even though it was soooo big on me...thank god i never wore it outside her bedroom though.
 
#40
skphotoimages said:
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.
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wow im sorry about the first ring, but really happy that you found the second!
 
#44
tiffanysilver said:
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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glad things worked out for the both of you then.
 
#45
My dad gave me a sapphire pendant, ring and earring set as a high school graduation present. The necklace and ring were stolen in a break in a year or two later - I was wearing the earrings that day so the thieves didn't get them. They also took some costume stuff I didn't care about, but oddly enough didn't take the antique gold, seed pearl and aquamarine necklace I inherited from my grandmother. That would have seriously broken my heart if it had been taken.
 
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