Please tell me this has happened to you too?

[Trekkie]

I was cleaning receipts out of my wallet and found a diamond! It's a wonky lil old cut ten pointer, and it was neatly wrapped up in a piece of paper. I nearly threw it out with my receipts! It's been in there for nearly two years and I'd actually forgotten all about it!

Has something like this ever happened to you?

 

[Calliecake]

Can't say that I have. I sure wish I would find a diamond!!!!

 

[VRBeauty]

Uhm... no!

But there is a nice Tiffany chain sitting in a little plastic bag in one of my purse's side pockets - I replaced it with an adjustable chain for the pendant - that I should retrieve and put in the safe before I clean out that purse and accidentally throw it out...

 

[Trekkie]

Can't say that I have. I sure wish I would find a diamond!!!!

LOL! It's just a little one! Maybe I should have left it in there to grow a bit more!

Uhm... no!

But there is a nice Tiffany chain sitting in a little plastic bag in one of my purse's side pockets - I replaced it with an adjustable chain for the pendant - that I should retrieve and put in the safe before I clean out that purse and accidentally throw it out...

Yeah, that might be a good idea!

What are you going to do with it once you remove it?

 

[momhappy]

Oh my! Well I'm sure glad that you didn't throw it out - what a nice little surprise

 

[kenny]

Wow Trekkie!

You're invited to our house to clean out our papers.

 

[VRBeauty]

UPDATE: The chain is now safely stowed away in its little blue bag in the safe! Thank you, Trekkie!

(I'll keep it because it came with a wonderful little Tiffany pendant - and I can use it with that pendant or others when I need that length.)

 

[Tekate]

I had my engagement reset from 18K yellow gold (80s style) with 1 carat of princess cut diamonds in the band (they were from VS2 to SI2) they were very small.. so I had the jeweler take the stones out of the ring and I sold him the gold (back in like 0 then I put the little stones in a drawer and forgot them! cleaning out my drawer 3 years later and I found them again and had a band made in palladium...

 

[tyty333]

A no, I don't have enough diamonds to lose one and not know about it!
Can I come over and check your couch cushions...finders keepers!

 

[tuffyluvr]

I borrowed a suitcase from my old boss--I went on the week-long trip, came home, unpacked and was checking all the pockets to ensure that I had not left anything behind before I returned her suitcase... The last pocket I checked (small outside zippered pocket) I found her 3ct+ diamond and platinum studs which she had removed and tossed into the bag when she was traveling 6 months earlier! I called to tell her what I had found and she casually said, "oh! That's where those ended up!". She obviously has a lot of diamonds not to have missed those!!!!

 

[Trekkie]

I had my engagement reset from 18K yellow gold (80s style) with 1 carat of princess cut diamonds in the band (they were from VS2 to SI2) they were very small.. so I had the jeweler take the stones out of the ring and I sold him the gold (back in like 0 then I put the little stones in a drawer and forgot them! cleaning out my drawer 3 years later and I found them again and had a band made in palladium...

YES! I am not the only one after all!

That band sounds beautiful! Does it have a thread on SMTB?

I borrowed a suitcase from my old boss--I went on the week-long trip, came home, unpacked and was checking all the pockets to ensure that I had not left anything behind before I returned her suitcase... The last pocket I checked (small outside zippered pocket) I found her 3ct+ diamond and platinum studs which she had removed and tossed into the bag when she was traveling 6 months earlier! I called to tell her what I had found and she casually said, "oh! That's where those ended up!". She obviously has a lot of diamonds not to have missed those!!!!

Must be nice to be your boss, !

 

[Tekate]

Hi Trekkie! my ring is in my safe deposit box.. I saw the thread on "show all your jewlery" and thought I should get my stuff and take a pix..

the ring has more of a story... the princess diamonds had been set as invisible.. so each diamond had a groove to fit into the next, so that is one reason why I forget about them because the jeweler in Austin (Americus) told me it would be impossible to reset them.. so one day I found them again and my hubby was away on a ski trip. (aha! time to get some jewelry) so I called him from the store (C K Root in NW Austin TX) and he thought it was okay .. the personnel at C Kirk Root told me that they could set the stones but not as invisible, but in a channel setting I was fine with it.. So it took months to get the ring, they finally called it was done and I went over to get it and they had set the stones as an invisible setting! I was shocked...the jeweler thought it looked better so they spent quite a bit of time resetting, which I thought was nice for 1k (probably expensive but I didn't know nearly as much about settings etc back in 09 10 timeframe).. I like the ring and will get a post up eventually.

 

[PintoBean]

Hi Trekkie!

May I please send some neatly folded papers to stuff into your wallet?

 

[chrono]

No, but any diamond found is a good diamond, right?

 

[boerumbiddy]

Had given up on an antique garnet pendant that had apparently vanished into thin air only to sweep it up from under the couch when I finally cleaned the house seriously before the arrival of my cousins. Not a diamond and not quite forgotten, but I really thought it was gone!