Lost my wedding ring
Lost my wedding ring
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durbster

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12,128 posts

253 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Bugger. This disappeared back on Wednesday 19th March, somewhere between Nottingham and Tiverton, Devon.

Keep an eye out please. I'd really like it back.

Ta.

decadent

2,569 posts

206 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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What does it look like?!

boyse7en

8,223 posts

196 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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That's a hell of a spread of distance to look for a ring!

CoolC

4,508 posts

245 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I know the feeling. I lost my wedding ring last year. Turned the house and garage upside down looking for it, but as it had been bin day resigned myself that it had ended up in there and was now in the landfill somewhere.

It turned up a few weeks later when I was doing some work in the garden, put my gloves on and there it was at the bottom of the finger in the glove.

monthefish

20,467 posts

262 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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decadent said:
What does it look like?!
Like a clown with sharp teeth, but that's not important right now.

BryanC

1,125 posts

269 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I know the feeling.
Mrs C lost her wedding ring in the garden and after a few months I decided to make an honest woman of her and bought another.
A couple of years later guess what surfaced while she was digging and weeding ?
Its not all good.
She inherited a solitaire diamond ring from my mother and lost the stone somewhere in the supermarket. We never found that.
Good luck with the search.

P-Jay

11,413 posts

222 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I will have been married for a year next week, and frankly I'm amazed I haven't lost my ring yet. I take it off if I settle for more than a few moments, I've never really ever got to the point I can't feel it there.

Anyway, I took measures, I chose a very cheap ring, made from titanium for strength and well, cheapness from a high street chain that's in most towns - so I've never more than a few miles, and £50 from a replacement.

boyse7en

8,223 posts

196 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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How do you lose a ring 'somewhere' between Nottingham and Tiverton???

Presumably you were in a car, so either it is in the car, or you spent the entire journey throwing random objects out of the window and accidentally included your ring in one jettison.

If you were walking, it would take somewhere in the region of a week to cover the distance, so you would have missed the ring at some point on the journey and could narrow the search area down further.

A bike would be a couple of days...

Even if you were on a motorbike and stopped, for example, 5 times along the way that would still narrow the search down to five locations rather than a blanket 'Nottingham to Tiverton'

They can't find a flipping jet plane with half the Australian navy searching for it, what chance have we got??

Anyway, best of luck finding it. (have you checked down the back of the sofa?)

Grandpad58

12,549 posts

212 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Nearly lost mind in a meat mincer, as I was feeding it my hands where in chilled beef ,my fingers shrunk as they do , heard a clink down the neck of the feeder, instantly stopped the machine, luckily.

durbster

Original Poster:

12,128 posts

253 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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boyse7en said:
How do you lose a ring 'somewhere' between Nottingham and Tiverton???
Well, I'm pretty sure I had it on before I started loading up the car in Nottingham. I absent-mindedly play about with it all the time so I don't think it would have disappeared much earlier.

We drove down to Tiverton, stopping only at Michaelwood Services on the M5.

As I unloaded the car in Tiverton I realised it had gone.

So it must have come off when packing the car, at the services possibly when pulling my phone out or something, or when we were unloading. I've searched the car, around our house and I scoured the road where we unloaded as soon as I realised. Nothing's been handed in at the motorway services either. frown

I'll admit you this thread was a bit of a long shot but I'm out of ideas... hehe

It's bloody annoying. I haven't taken it off in almost five years and it's never fallen off on its own. I must have lost weight.

andygo

7,408 posts

286 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Grandpad58 said:
Nearly lost mind in a meat mincer, as I was feeding it my hands where in chilled beef ,my fingers shrunk as they do , heard a clink down the neck of the feeder, instantly stopped the machine, luckily.
Is that a euphemism? biggrin

Are you a gynaecologist?

I recently had rather a hot curry. I didn't lose my ring, but it may have caught fire.


Edited by andygo on Friday 4th April 17:49

rohrl

8,984 posts

176 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Sorry OP but I haven't seen your wedding ring.

I lost a purple and green wallet on the journey from Aviemore to Swansea in 1994, probably at a motorway service station, so if anyone sees that please PM me.

Coolbanana

4,419 posts

231 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I lost my wedding ring a year ago, haven't replaced it yet.

It was first 'lost' in Egypt in a hotel swimming pool but a sharp eyed chap cleaning it saw it and returned it to me the next day.

Then I left it in a house we rented in Italy on another holiday and it was posted back to me.

Finally it went missing on the same day I took stuff to the Tip. Gone.

Been married 8 years and will eventually replace it - probably do so on a second Honeymoon celebration-type thing one Anniversary.

skip_1

3,514 posts

221 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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monthefish said:
decadent said:
What does it look like?!
Like a clown with sharp teeth, but that's not important right now.
rofl

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

255 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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monthefish said:
Like a clown with sharp teeth, but that's not important right now.
laugh

Superhoop

4,919 posts

224 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Don't worry, these things always turn up, for example....

The daughter of a guy I work with lost one diamond earring which she'd been given for her 18th birthday, happily it turned up 4 days later when their dog went out to the garden for a dump vomit

She cleaned it up in hot water, only to find that the setting had badly discoloured - as they were under a year old, she returned them and complained, and was given a new pair.

Number 5

2,761 posts

226 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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skip_1 said:
monthefish said:
decadent said:
What does it look like?!
Like a clown with sharp teeth, but that's not important right now.
rofl
Have another

rofl

legless

2,061 posts

171 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I lost mine while snorkeling in the Maldives on day 3 of our honeymoon. I felt it slip from my finger and no amount of searching would make it turn up.

Two days later, I was snorkeling again in the same area and a gold twinkle caught my eye. It's not left my finger since.

CoolHands

23,665 posts

226 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I bought a cheap one off amazon for about 20 quid when I done that whistle

Mobile Chicane

22,024 posts

243 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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durbster said:
boyse7en said:
How do you lose a ring 'somewhere' between Nottingham and Tiverton???
Well, I'm pretty sure I had it on before I started loading up the car in Nottingham. I absent-mindedly play about with it all the time so I don't think it would have disappeared much earlier.

I We drove down to Tiverton, stopping only at Michaelwood Services on the M5.

As I unloaded the car in Tiverton I realised it had gone.

So it must have come off when packing the car, at the services possibly when pulling my phone out or something, or when we were unloading I was unloading into a hooker's mouth. I've searched the car, around our house and I scoured the road where we I unloaded as soon as I realised. Nothing's been handed in at the motorway services either. frown

I'll admit you this thread was a bit of a long shot but I'm out of ideas... hehe

It's bloody annoying. I haven't taken it off in almost five years and it's never fallen off on its own. I must have lost weight.
Yeh yeh yeah