I am heartsick at what I have done

Thank you for your sweet response. Unfortunately, I do not think it is going to happen. However, I met a nice buyer on craigslist who came over today and bought $25 worth of costume jewelry. Plus I had work this evening. Work has slowed down for now. That is why I am selling my costume jewelry. I believe in karma ..... or whatever you might want to call it. I have still not heard back from either lady. Tomorrow, I will call again. If she has it and does not return it, then it's her karma.

I am going to guess that you never got your special necklace back. I appreciate the best response, but I would have liked you to get it back as well. I like happy endings.

I do not think that they will return it in person because it takes about 45 minutes to drive to my house from their house and then it is 45 minutes back. It is quite a drive. I do not expect them to drive here to return it to me. She / they would have to mail it to me. And that would be a hassle for her / them also. The gold necklace in question was tangled up with other pieces of jewelry. Jewelry can get tangled. That is why I had this handful of jewelry in one box. I had meant to untangle the bunch. And without thinking, I put the tangled bunch in the "to sell" box without looking at what was in this tangled bunch of jewelry. I have no one to blame but myself that this happened.

Thank you for your very sweet response. I never did hear back from either women. I left another message for the woman who brought her neighbor. This is the woman who has bought from me in the past. And she did call back and leave me a message. She told me that she gave her neighbor my phone number but that her neighbor became ill and lost it. I know that her neighbor has an array of health issues plus three children and a husband. The message went on to say that both women went through all the jewelry that they bought from me and neither one found the angel necklace. Both woman seem like genuine people. But my angel necklace is still gone. I know that I did not sell it. It was a gift and I would not have even considered selling it. My memory is that the necklace had gotten tangled up with other jewelry and I had moved the tangled pile into a separate box so as to eventually untangle. This is vague memory. And when these woman came to look at my jewelry last week, I believe that I put the whole tangled bunch into the for sale box. I was not paying attention. I did not look through the tangled bunch. I had forgotten that the angel necklace was in the bunch. I never even looked at the bunch when I put it in the to sell box. I believe that the neighbor does have it. She may not realize it or she may be lying to the other woman who left me a message. Or the woman who left me the message may be lying. If she is lying or if the other woman is lying to me, then I leave it up to a higher power. I believe that what we do to others comes back. I have no one to blame for my loss but me. If I had only taken the time to look through the bunch of tangled jewelry that I had put into the for sale box .... But I probably should have taken better care of the angel necklace to begin with and kept it in a separate box and not in the draw with several other pieces of jewelry. Sometimes, the most painful lessons are the best one. Among the lessons that I have learned are "haste makes waste".