Lost wedding ring - what to do?

pimento

A ring that I lost turned up three month later (after I had bought a replacement) in my husband's sock drawer.

There_Goes_Trouble

Look in the bathroom. Whenever I lose anything it always turns up in the bathroom.

flea72

i lost mine and got a replacement on insurance, but have never worn it, as it doesnt feel the same

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Hi,

have a read here, hope it helps.

belfastgirl23

building_with_lego wrote: »

My Mum would have you praying to St Anthony, the patron saint of lost things. The fact that she's atheist doesn't bother her in the circumstances :rotfl:

Try to "dream" where it is in an asking the cosmos kind of way. I'm not certain whether I believe in cosmic ordering but it's worth a try for something so sorely missed.

Hope you find it soon!

If this doesn't work there's always St Jude (lost causes). He got a lot of usage in our house!

building_with_lego

Off to make myself a Thinking Cap and Eureka stick for future searches :rotfl:

barbiedoll

It's strange how some people will be absolutely devastated at the loss of their wedding ring and yet others will shrug it off and buy another or make do without.

OP, you've done your very best to find your ring so stop fretting and start saving for another one. I know that it's associated with all of your memories and sentiments but a wedding ring is just a "symbol" of your commitment to your spouse. It's an outward sign of your marital status, and it is simply a lump of metal, nothing more. If it is important to you and/or your spouse to be seen to be wearing a ring, pick up a cheap one from Argos for now, until you can afford to replace the one that has been lost.

I know how you must feel, I lost my grandmother's wedding ring when I was burgled and I have spent the last 16 years looking in pawnbrokers and Cash Converter shops, just in case it turns up! It was very precious to me, and the fact that a scummy drug addict may have sold it in the pub for a tenner, really sticks in my throat. But what's done is done and you can either spend weeks and months beating yourself up over this or you can move on and forget about it.

And let's face it.....that's when it's most likely to turn up!

mandragora_2

Lost my first wedding ring one Friday near Xmas after work, rushing to get away for the weekend. Didn't find it, having hunted high and low. Claimed on insurance, bought V Grand replacement in the Jan sales. First ring turned up two months later, also in OH's sock drawer (I'd been rushing to bring washing in, turning socks to pair together, my hands must have been cold, sring slipped off, I didn't notice). Continued to wear V Grand ring for a couple of years because it was very smart indeed. Making pastry one day, took rings off, Helpful Husband cleared up the mess, V Grand ring (and engagement ring) disappeared, never to be seen again. We're both certain it's either behind a unit or in landfill, due to OH's overzealous mopping up!

Cue return of original wedding ring to left hand and carried on. Fast forward ten years, original wedding ring disappears again, after I'd been working in the garden. Too embarrassed to admit I'd lost it again, so quietly bought similarly cheap (£30) band and continued to wear it. Three weeks later, youngest son pipes up 'Heey! Loooooook! GOLD!!!!!' and guess who's found the original ring in the weeds outside? Of course, my OH was there, got excited too at the treasure that had been found, only to learn that it was my ring that I'd quietly replaced. So it was back again, and large as life. So now I have two identical cheap rings. I can't tell them apart, but I tell myself that the one I wear all the time is the original, and the one which eventually snapped (something symbolic here too - it happened as we were going through a very tough patch, a real low point!) is the replacement one I bought. So, if it's any reassurance, people lose wedding rings all the time. Check the sock drawer, check the washing pile, and then try not to worry. It will either turn up or it won't. If it's like mine it will come home sooner or later, usually to maximum embarrassement effect.

meritaten

there is another way of coaxing lost items to turn up - you either have to be mad or desperate to try it - but I was both one day when I couldnt find an important document! I needed to take it to the solicitors and despite searching the file it should have been in half a dozen times and my OH searching it as well........I was frantic. I vaguely remembered my nan telling me about this and tried it. enough waffling - It worked within ten minutes - the document was found in the file! you may say it was there all along .........but me and OH know it wasnt!

its called 'pinning the devil'. and what you do is get a pin and while picturing the lost item in your head you say 'I am pinning the devil (stick pin into a handy cushion) and I wont release you until you return 'lost item' to me! you are supposed to leave the pin stuck in until the item is returned to you.

anxious_mum

Blimey Meritaten, I was starting to think you were a sane poster! Although I have to say that's the kinda thing I would do, so maybe you are.... :-)