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Honey … I can’t find my wedding ring

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Posted in Personal

It happened last week. Nick came to me with a sheepish look on his face, professing he couldn’t find his wedding ring.

My response was something along the lines of “Excccuuusssee me?” Or maybe it was a dirty glare. Yeah, I think it was the glare. But to be fair, well, I should have been more fair. After all, I’ve found myself in that position a few times myself. With my heart in my stomach because I’d forgotten that I’d left my ring on a countertop while soaking my hands in cleaner to mop the floor. Or having failed to remember I set it on the bathroom sink that one time ’cause I didn’t want my ring caked in mud the way my hands were going to be post-gardening. So I should have been more understanding with him. ‘Cause really, it just as easily could have been me.

This time around, I discerned a level of panic in Nick’s voice I’m not used to hearing. Almost as though he’d REALLY LOST HIS WEDDING RING. “I think I left it at work … yeah, yeah … it’s at work,” he told me. Next day—while at work—Nick found no ring. “It’s in the house. Somewhere around the house, I’m sure of it.”

So where did we find it? Well, turns out there was (white) gold in that thar carpet of ours because, while sweeping the living room before we had friends over on Friday, I came thisclose (and when I say thisclose, I literally mean like, 2 INCHES) from sweeping that band up with my beloved yellow vaccum. But I didn’t. Which means I saved the ring, had a bit of a “Eureka” moment AND got one of the biggest hugs from my husband in return.

Yep, just call me Gail the Super Sleuth :)

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Anybody else out there ever have a lost band scare? Share it with me in the comments (it’ll be my way of making Nick feel better about losing his ring. ‘Cause you KNOW I won’t be letting him live that down for a while ;) )

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January 26, 2010 - 6:02 pm Tira J - After almost 10 years of marriage, we haven't lost any of our rings. David has one and I have two. One of them, I never take off and lock up the other for safe keeping. My Mom lost her diamond a really long time ago and found it 6 months later. One of my friends had her wedding ring stolen from the tanning salon a few years back. My rule of thumb, is that I NEVER take my rings off if I am in a place other then my home. Our rings were meant to last hundreds of years, hence the reason, you can wear it while gardening! LOL!

January 26, 2010 - 6:03 pm Tracy - So Kevin left his sitting on the floor one day, after me repeatedly telling him to not do it. So I took it and hid it and waited to see how long it took him to confess he lost it....see I'm mean like that :) For the record it only took 2 days :)

January 26, 2010 - 7:46 pm j.ro - i intentionally dropped my ring into a bunch of used towels on the hotel room bathroom floor while taking a shower thinking to myself "wouldn't that be absolutely ridiculous of me to forget that I just did that"? And yep, I did just that. Luckily, I had helped the cleaning lady out by putting my own towels in her overstuffed bin. So when I called down to the desk she remembered who I was and found it right on top. phew!! and you know ... love that yellow vacuum!

January 26, 2010 - 7:48 pm Heather - My poor husband is the center of all ring-losing jokes in our circle of friends so I thought I would share. :) He lost his wedding band 3 weeks after we got married in 2005. We were at the beach and a strong surf pulled it right off his finger. It was crazy, because it fit really well... and it was a pretty expensive ring. We replaced it with one that was a lot cheaper (just $100 this time) and 3 months later......the SAME EXACT thing happened. Same beach. Strong surf. Missing ring! We replaced that one with a ring that cost us $1!! :) It changed colors several times throughout its little life on his finger, and then I finally bought him a new one for Christmas last year. This year we will celebrate our 5 year anniversary and he is already on ring #4!!

January 26, 2010 - 8:04 pm mary s. - so... my husband and i have been married almost 6 months. at our 2 month mark, he decided to go surfing... with his ring on... and the ocean ate it. whole. fortunately they only charge you 1/2 price for replacements where we bought his ring!! i bet you can guess what he got for christmas...

January 26, 2010 - 8:19 pm Tina - My sister had a hilarious story: She heard her cat batting something around behind the couch one day - she pulls out the couch, and finds the cat batting around her husband's wedding band. So she takes it, and when he gets home from work she asks where his wedding band is....he replies "oh I just left it upstairs in the night stand". She goes "oh really? go get it". Then he confessed he couldn't find it and was afraid to tell her:)

January 26, 2010 - 8:25 pm Gail - Okay, all of these stories are great (admittedly, the surfing ones are making me jealous because if Nick lost his wedding band surfing that would imply we live someplace warm, which would mean FAR AWAY FROM FRIGID INDIANA RIGHT NOW), but Tina, girl, your sister's story made me laugh out loud tonight. Thank you for sharing ;) Just wait..you're next to know the feeling!! What is it, 8 more months?

January 26, 2010 - 10:04 pm kerri banyas - oh my goodness...I can honestly say that I would have been kicking Drew in the butt!:) What a wonderful ending though....I think you deserve a night on the town for finding it :)

January 27, 2010 - 12:22 am Erin - funny stories!! erik actually lost his ring during year four. he was swimming in the atlantic ocean, playing some kind of water football with the guys and the next thing i knew...i received that same sheepish face. bummer!! but in all fairness i don't wear my engagement or band anymore, but have switched to a plain titanium band that erik made me for my birthday one year. i looooove my beautiful wedding ring, but living where we do, traveling, etc - a band is just easier for me right now. :)

January 27, 2010 - 8:28 am Jodie - Adam did the same thing the year after we were married. He always took it off adn would play with it and I kept telling him...stop doing that! Well sure enough he lost it in the couch and we never found. I honestly think the dog ate it but that means we would have to search you know what and I wasn't going there!

January 27, 2010 - 9:34 am Christine - OMG, I thought I had lost my daughters pride ring when I was in high school. It was winter time and I walked home from school in the snow. I wasn't wearing gloves and when my hands get cold they shrink and my rings don't fit anymore. I got home (like 2-3km walk) and my ring wasn't on my finger. I freaked out. Walked all the way back to school crying, looking through the snow, couldn't find it. Walked all the way back home and went to bed because the walking and crying exhausted me. I woke up and put my hands in my jean pockets and there it was! SO scary though! I only put my rings in three spots in my house, that way if it's not on it has to be in one of those three spots.

January 27, 2010 - 10:02 am Amanda - Allen takes his off to sleep and many mornings has forgotten to put it back on. I always leave it on the nightstand with a sad face on a piece of paper. That usually does the trick! :)

January 27, 2010 - 10:10 am Cassie - Hi Gail, I have been reading yours and Betsy's blog for a long time and am always that girl that never posts and decided it was finally time. I am a beginning photographer trying to start a business in the cold of winter. Anyway, I "lost" my ring at the airport just a few months after being engaged. I was talking to someone and went to show them my ring and it wasn't there! I dropped all my bags and ran through the airport like a chicken without its head. I had all of security looking for an engagement ring at 4:00 in the morning. Lost engagement ring was being shouted down the hallways until I had an aha moment...remembering I had left it by the sink when I scrunched my curls that morning. Few!

January 27, 2010 - 11:57 am Maya Laurent - Ha ha ha! Lucky find! Pat is notorious for spinning his wedding ring in movie theaters of all places. So I constantly here a clank, clank and we have to wait till the movie is over to find it. You'd think he'd stop playing with it!!!

January 27, 2010 - 12:54 pm Brandi - Brian is constantly taking his ring off in all sorts of places. I don't tend to wear mine while I am in the house but they are always in one of two places, and I never leave them anywhere else. He leaves his on his desk, on an end table, on the dresser, on the nightstand, in the bathroom.. 0_o So yes, there have been multiple times he's looking around and I go.. "What are you looking for?" "My ring." *grumblegrumble* :) But we have always found it, and by we, I generally mean me, fairly quickly.

January 28, 2010 - 8:24 am Kim - One morning I found John's ring on the nightstand after he rushed off for a meeting. I felt so bad for him because I KNEW he would be beside himself. I waited for him to call and when he did he was beside himself. My heart broke because it was the first time he was out in the world without wearing it and freaked out. This, from the man who BEGGED me not to make him wear a ring. Yup, I was right, he did get used to it and actually loves wearing it! ;-D

February 2, 2010 - 5:06 pm nicole green - I swear I am going to lose my new ring one of these days! I am soo not used to wearing jewelry and having an engagement ring on my had is soo bizarre. I am afraid that since I'm not used to it, it's going to fly off one of these days and I won't even notice .. and then that would be the end of Nicole since Dan worked so hard for it! AHH! :)

April 18, 2010 - 6:10 pm John Swartz - I just lost my wedding ring yesterday. We were at the beach (northern California), and we'd spent all day out there. We took several pictures, and in some of the later shots, my ring was still there. I must have lost it when I went to ocean's edge to collect water with which to douse the fire. That was the only time I was near the water. On the second trip, a larger-than-usual wave came and snatched the cooler right from my hands. It must have been that instant in which my ring was also snatched. I didn't notice it's disappearance until about two hours later while at Safeway. I noticed it in line while my wife was running out to the car to get our reusable grocery bags. When she got back, I raced out myself to get my wallet and check that, our camera bag and my pack ... no ring. On the way out, she knew something was off right away. She asked me what was wrong before we were even halfway back to the car. I just held up my hand and said, "I lost my ring at the beach." I was miserable. Inconsolable. To my wife's credit, she took the approach of "We'll get you a new one, and it too will be so special." I had a very sad sleep that night. We woke up today and started looking for a suitable replacement. My father is a minister, and he's the one who married us. We're going to get him to bless the new ring and to repeat the ring-exchange portion of the ceremony ... once the new ring has arrived. My ring -- a simple white-gold 6mm band -- was only $300. Having never worn jewelry before, I wanted something classic and simple. So, being only $300, money isn't the issue for me. That ring quickly became my most prized material possession. I'll always miss that ring, but my wife said we'll make new memories with the new ring, and it will in time mean just as much if not more. The thing I'll miss most about that ring ... in the airport on the way to our honeymoon (about four hours after we exchanged our vows), our luggage scratched my ring. At the time, I was like "Aw, crap ... scratched my ring already." But in time, I looked at that scratch with great fondness. Sure, my new ring will inevitably get a scratch on it while I'm creating some memory. But it will never be the scratch that happened on the airport on the way to our honeymoon on our wedding day. That's what I'll miss most about that ring. But I still have my ever-so-loving wife and a baby girl on the way. My family, I'll never lose ... and that means the most.

January 13, 2012 - 3:51 pm Kennia - I lost my wedding ring I left it in the bathroom counter while I shower. Then I left it there because I was going to wash dishes and when I finished I forgot to get it. Early in the morning I reconized NO ring I rushed to the bathroom to find it... And there was no ring I ask my husband my two girls (11/9years old) so they are big they wouldnt play with it.. And they said no they havent seen it at all. Till this day im looking for it around the house like crazy everywhere.... My heart is broken because that ring is so special and meaningful to me!!!??? WHERE COULD MY RING BE?????

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