Have You Ever Lost Your Precious?

[BWise]

I''ve read many posts about insurance at this forum. I couldn''t help but wondered HOW does someone loose their precious, be it a ring, earings, or pendant? My heart is with all of you who had the unfortunately experience because I know that means not only you suffered a financial loss (if no insurance) but the sentimental value can never be recovered.




How about let''s share our stories so that others may learn a little on how to protect their PRECIOUS?




Here is my story - lost my wedding band on honeymoon - which is quite common, I heard.

We went to Hawaii for our honeymoon and learned about a wonderful snorkeling place. So we went on a beautiful sunny day in our rented white Mustang. It was a little bay with magnificent view. The best part - water was only waist high - perfect for me, a non-swimmer at that time. We quickly got in the water and snorkeled around. I have never seen so many beautiful fish for real. I was so excited and spent as long as I could in the water. When we finally took a rest on the beach, I reached out for a drink and realized something - where is my wedding band? Obviously I lost it while chasing the fish, and it wasn''t even a loose fit ring. Right then I remembered that I had picked up a red lava rock at another beach and was going to take it as a souvenir. A Hawaiian told me that would bring me bad luck. I shrugged at her words and kept the little rock. Maybe she was right!

 

[Nicrez]

*GASP!* Bad bad lava rock!




THROW IT AWAY QUICKLY!!!




That is so awful! Although I have not received my precioussssss yet (SOOON!) But my biggest fear is losing it. I am sometimes a bit forgetful of jewelry because I can't often wear it for too long. I had a lovely expensive watch gifted to me, and I always took it off when working on my computer, and left it in my office. Returning from lunch (forgot to put it back on) someone had stolen it from my enclosed office. To my stupidity I left the door unlocked and the office was close to the unmontiored entrance past reception...messengers and delivery guys galore!

Is there a pay to surgically attache an e-ring? Perhaps graft the stone into the finger and tatoo a band around? I'm looking into this...

 

[Mara]

I haven't lost it...(yet!) but it's insured, so I don't really worry about it. If it gets lost, I get a newer, bigger, better one with the insurance $$!

 

[mike04456]

My wife had a side stone fall out after about 10 years. My stepmother lost her center stone after about five years. My mother-in-law had hers stolen at a nail shop while she was getting a manicure.

Bottom line: get the mountings checked at least once a year, and if you take it off when you're out of the house, stick in a pocket or zip it up in your purse. My MIL just set hers on a nearby counter--one of the other customers apparently snatched it while she wasn't watching.

 

[pqcollectibles]

I was torn. Mysterious disappearance or misplaced. I clicked misplaced because that was ultimately the situation.

I grabbed a pair of work gloves as I ran out the back door one cold, winter night. We were going out to view some celestial occurance. The next day, I realized my ring was gone. I tore the bed apart looking for my ring. I thought it might have come off in my sleep. I went thru every inch of the house. No ring. I went back to the gloves from the night before. No ring. I about died.

Fortunately, when I went to put the gloves on again, I found my ring in the tip of the finger. I had shaken the glove and felt the finger part. The ring had turned over sideways and caught in the end of the finger of the glove. Whew!!

 

[winyan]

I lose everything periodically. It always turns up...be it my e-ring, w-ring, or any other possession.

It never turns up in the places I've torn apart looking for it either.

Ah well, that's just bubble headed me.

win

 

[icelady]

I have been a jewelry hound for a long time. Way back when I was living at home (my very early twenties) my parents house was in a secluded area and had been broken into, thus I had a beautiful pearl ring stolen in that robbery. Thinking I had to hide the ring I didn't wear all the time (diamond and emerald), I hid it all right. Do you think I could remember where? No!!! I was so upset that I couldn't let myself think about it.

Two years and one move later, I put on a pair of gloves I hadn't worn in that long, and there was my ring. I still can't believe I put myself through that! My family can't believe I put them through it.

 

[Nicrez]

Yeah well insurance is good if you get a rb, but what if you own a Cento stone, or worse yet a rare cut of a shaped stone that took you forever to find? We bought a radiant, and let me tell you the hell we went to find that baby with the depth and table, color and clarity and SQUARENESS just so. Even the appraiser said, hey, don't loose this, because lord knows if you'll find it again!

Can't lose ring...




Icelady, that happened to me with a lovely 4 stone diamond ring my mom gave me...I always hide it so well I never remember where, then I move and I find my precious babies again!

 

[Patty]

When our younger daughter was two I came downstairs one day and found she had my wedding ring on. "I have your rings," she said. I asked where the other one was. She just looked at me. The engagement ring was missing for 3 weeks until I pulled the last tissue out of the Kleenex box. There it was in the bottom of the box. It must have slid off when she went to get a tissue.

I kept thinking that it HAD to turn up because we searched the trash and knew it was in the house, but it was a long 3 weeks of tearing apart the house looking for it.

 

[Mara]

Nic..chances are I would not get the same thing I had lost anyway...so I would use that opp to get something entirely new.

 

[luckyhonu]

when I turned 21, my mother gave me a 1 ct. heart shape. It wasn't the greatest cut but the sentimental value was priceless. I lost it when I went home for Christmas break. I don't know how I lost it, but I'm always careful with my jewelry. My mom told me that the cleaning lady suddenly quit after I left to go back to college....so now we're wondering maybe she took it after all

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[elmview]

I have had two disasters with engagement rings! My first (from my husband's grandmother who collected saphires) I threw away after a holiday in the West Coast of Scotland, we live in Edinburgh. The second, which was a beautiful 7.5 ct saphire with diamond ring, was lost in Florida last year. We went to a jazz concert just near Cape Coral and when we got home I took off my rings and to my horror found the main stone missing! Luckily it was insured and it has been replaced - but the original stone was from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and bought/found by my husband's grandfather when he was a river boat captain on the Irrawaddy!!

I am now looking for a diamond ring for myself. I have contacted Mira and GOD for inspiration. I love Mira's engagement ring and contacted her jeweller to see if he can make me a similar setting. Also contacted Griffin but had no reply??

I was looking for a square stone but possibly will change to a RB - what do you think?

Marny

 

[sumi]

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On 2/27/2004 6:22:25 PM elmview wrote:

My first (from my husband's grandmother who collected saphires) I threw away after a holiday in the West Coast of Scotland,
Marny----------------

Did you throw it away on purpose or accidentally?


The diamond in my mother's engagement ring fell out when she was doing some gardening. Unfortunately, she never found it. It's probably under a patch of flowers at our old house in San Francisco. She said she felt so awful when she lost the stone. I don't think it bothers her too much now because they're divorced!

 

[hoorray]

I had to pick "Other" since you did not have the category of "dumb move".

I've learned over the years to develop habits with my jewelery. For ex. if I take my rings off to wash my hands, I always put them in my left pocket. (Nothing else goes in that pocket, so I consider it safest.) I have misplaced an annyversary ring and my husband's wedding ring that way. They were each gone for a couple of years, and finally found as I went through clothes to be given away. Yikes! Thank goodness I always check the pockets before wash or goodwill!

Worst one though was last summer when I didn't put them in my pockets, but left my brand new e-ring and band on my lap while I put lotion on in the car. Lacking my morning coffee, I forgot about them, and they fell out onto the gravel parking lot when I got out of the car. We backed up and drove over them, pushing them into the dirt. It took a small search party to find them, but they survived intact, and I learned that lesson well! Now they stay in their box when I'm going out to the golf course or somewhere else where they could be gone forever -- no matter how much I want to wear them!

 

[Spartan]

I have a history of losing rings:

When I was in 2nd grade I lost the engagement ring from my mom's first marriage (although, for the life of me I don't remember it the way she tells it).

When I was 13 I lost my grandmother's engagement ring from her first marriage to my mom's father. She had the diamond taken out and replaced with a beautiful golden topaz (my mom's birthstone and mine). She had given it to my mom as a gift. My mom reluctantly gave it to me when I turned 13...months later I lost it on a roller-coaster ride at Cedar Point.

In college I accidentally threw away 2 rings - one from my mom, one from my then boyfriend.

Needless to say, my engagement ring will have to be fully insured - if I ever get it, that is

.

 

[snydog56]

these rings can often be found

 

[snydog56]

These rings can often be found

 

[alexah]

I suppose it doesn't count (?) but she is gone - my BF has taken the stone away from me to get her mounted today (right now actually!) & then I don't get to see her again until he decides to give her to me-- I'm going thru withdrawl already! I keep looking at the 'show me the ring' forum, hoping for some eyecandy to tide me over...

 

[dberg]

Mine is MIA as we speak. Took it off last week and thought I put it on the kitchen table while I was gardening. It's been gone since.

DH is starting to suspect that I lose jewelry on purpose just so I have to buy more. Now I might do that with earrings and such

- but never with my wedding ring.

 

[glitterata]

My college roommate gave me an antique white-gold filigree aquamarine ring for my 21st birthday. Several years later, I lent it to a friend, who lost it. Several years after that, it turned up in the cuff of a pair of her father's pants! She gave it back to me, and a few years later, it vanished mysteriously again. I kept hoping it would reappear, but I've moved several times since then. Last week I bought a replacement on ebay. I hope my first one has found a happy new home, and isn't just sitting in somebody's cuff.

I currently don't know where I put the cameo that I use as an atavar. I remember seeing it sometime in the past few weeks and thinking, "Oh, so THAT'S where I put that!" But of course, I don't remember where that was. I trust it will show up again.

When I was a teenager, a box of jewelry, including my mother's wedding band, a birthstone ring my grandmother had given me, my father's high school class ring, and my grandmother's college class ring, disappeared from my bedroom after some workmen fixed a leak in my closet. None of the rings was particularly valuable, but their sentimental value was huge. They never reappeared.

 

[Nicrez]

I am so notorious for losing jewlery. It surprises me I got an e-ring!!! (just kidding honey!)

When I was a child, I would pop out stones, pull yellow gold ring off my finger, and basically misplace so many precious items, my mom stopped giving them to me. They are stored in some vault in their house that is collecting dust to this day. my mother imparted her gift upon me. She can hide things so well, even she can't find them. I do that, and I do it well!

I think I cried for days when I found out my mother's school ring (which she gave to me) was either stolen or totally misplaced. I remember leaving it in our house in the kitchen, while washing dishes and a party later it was gone. It was her college ring and even though she never wore it past then, she held on to it to give to her daughter. It had a 1.75 carat blue sapphire in it with the most beautiful 18K gold designs and I am sick to my stomach still, because it took her 3 years of hard saving to afford it for herself!

Everytime I think of it I shudder...but the 10K gold initial ring my sister got me on my 14th birthday got lost without a tear....hmmm....bad luck or good luck?

 

[moremoremore]

Didn't lose it...came THIS close...First- let's get one thing straight. I'm a slob- so I would have been looking forever.... I guess I put my ering on a little ledge that sat above a trash can in the bathroom and that night...GARBAGE NIGHT!!!!!....I was looking for my ring...as a fluke, I looked in the can and there it sat at the bottom. I think one of my devil kitties hand their paws in the mix. If I had emptied the trash it would have been gone....Pays to be lazy!

BUT, then again, I would have had a nice fat check from the insurance co for a bigger one!

Never liked it- Ended up selling it and starting from scratch!

 

[Mara]

Heheh moremore...sounds like you should have just looked the other way, closed that trash bag and tossed it!

 

[ringbling17]

I haven't lost my ring yet, but I did lose my diamond earring stud. It was not insured, but I got it for fairly cheap.
I just noticed when I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror that it was gone. I looked on the bathroom floor, but only found the backing.
My ring is insured, as well as my anniversary band, but if I ever lost it, I am not sure if I would get a new diamond, I may settle for a CZ

.

 

[Trinity]

I never lost my e-ring, but I lost a pair of gold earrings my now husband gave me that had great sentimental value to them. I was heartbroken.
My husband (boyfriend at the time) went out to a bunch of stores looking for the same type. He finally found it and bought me a pair just like the ones I lost. Awwwww, so sweet!!!