Have you ever lost your engagement/wedding ring? Did you ever find it?

@kieungoc (232)
United States
April 28, 2008 11:00pm CST
This is a crazy story! I was asked by my dear husband to be his wife and he gave me his grandmother's wedding ring. It's a beautiful vintage, filigree, white gold, and simple ring. Well, I worked in a brewery and had a beer after my shift at the bar. After washing all those glasses my hands were dried so I rubbed some lotion on them and I had removed the ring. I was reading a book and placed the ring inside and forgot to put the ring back on. Being new at wearing a ring, I didn't even realize it wasn't on until that night at home! I freaked and called work. I asked them to leave the trash for me to go through the next day and that is exactly what I did. After going through peanut shells and cigarette butts from the night before, I didn't find my ring. Throughout this whole ordeal, I hid it all from my husband knowing he would freak out on me. I think about 3 months went by and we took a vacation together. He wanted me to show the ring to our friend and that is when he realized I didn't have it on. To make a very long story short, I found it. How? I leaned over to get something from under my MIL's car and it was just sitting between the middle armrest. I was ecstatic. It must have fallen out of my book when I pulled it out to read in the car! Ever since, I do not remove it, even to moisturize my hands.
4 responses
@beccrook (13)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I lost my engagement ring as well. I would say about a year into the marriage I took the ring off and set it on my side table in my bedroom to put lotion on as well. Went to bed and thought nothing of it,I had done it many times before. Woke up the next morning and went about the day. I went probably a week or so without it on because at that time I had an infant and didn't want to scratch him with it.So I cleaned the bedroom and move the furniture, Not thinking of the ring,One night my husband asked why I was not wearing my ring. So I told him why,I didn't want to scratch the baby, and he said he picked that ring out for me and I should wear it more. So I went to put the ring back on. Well now I can't remember wear it is.I searched hi and lo. I asked everyone if they had seen it ,except my hubby, they hadn't.Finally I found it on the side table under stuff that got piled on top of if. Now I put it in my jewelry box if I take it off.
@lhw7661 (51)
• United States
29 Apr 08
WOW! You are one lucky person! It must have been awful going throught those bags of trash. Did you try a metal detector? What is a MIL? Did your husband's mother know it was lost? If so, she must have been pretty upset?
• Indonesia
29 Apr 08
It's awesome... you find it in unpredictable places. For me, I'm very careful with my ring. Each time I do some work in which I may lose my ring, such like washing car, motorcycle, I always remove the ring from my finger and put it in my wallet. I just don't want to lose it. Because if I can't take care on this ring, how can I taking care on my precious wife ?
@busta1baby (1230)
• United States
29 Apr 08
well im not engaged yet b ut wen i am i hope i dnt lose it...lol