I FOUND MY RING!! It was inside of a file folder in my filing cabinet at work!

[sinkingfeeling]

I'm so happy! I can breathe again!

[bigwillq]

1. Yay!

[In_The_Wind]

2. That may be the best news I've read today!

[stillwaiting]

3. Holy Schnikes, that's fantastic!

Very happy for you!

[cwydro]

4. I posted on your other thread, but

I'll say it here too: yay!

[redwitch]

5. I am so happy for you!

Yay!

[KansDem]

6. Move over Wagner! It's time for...

Das Ring des Sinkingfeelingen!!!

[appalachiablue]

7. Good for you! Hate to lose stuff, but great to find it-

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Congrats! My wife misplaced hers years ago and thought it gone. We got another one for

her. Then, when winter rolled around again and she put on one of her snow gloves...yup, there it was.

So, now she has two.

(But my One Ring still rules them all!)

[Coventina]

9. Hooray for happy endings!!!!

[lastlib]

10. What was it filed under??

(maybe my lost class ring is filed under the same thing?)

[magical thyme]

11. Phew!!!! Congratulations!!!!

[calimary]

12. OH EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm VERY happy for you! And relieved, too. I hate when something like that happens! Will say a prayer of thanks to St. Anthony - the patron saint of lost things.

[Omaha Steve]

13. Can you look around for my class ring?

I lost it around 1985.

Marta lost one a few months ago.

K&R!

OS

[BlueJazz]

14. You are one lucky Lady. Bravo !!

[lovemydog]

15. I'm glad you didn't take my suggestion

of holding a Pee-Athon in the snow!

[project_bluebook]

16. I Found a gold wedding band lost for 10 years

found it for a coworker who lost it while gardening. 20 minutes with my metal detector turned up the gold ring near a rock pile where he was chucking rocks out of his garden. He was jumping for joy.

[srican69]

17. I guess you were married to your work.

[shenmue]

18. Yay!

[Throd]

19. My Precccccciiiiiooooouuuuuss!

Now go throw that thing in a volcano.

[KamaAina]

32. Thread win!

[niyad]

20. ah, that is great news. . .now, if I could only find mine!

[csziggy]

21. There must be something going around - I found my two rings today!

The only two valuable rings I own, inherited from my grandmother, an alexandrite and a diamond.

I'd stuck them in an old metal mesh purse from my grandmother and forgotten about it. When we packed up stuff from the old house, I checked everywhere else and couldn't find them - thought they were lost.

Today for the first time since we moved in (in 2008) I unpacked the three boxes of odds & ends stuff from my dresser and bedroom. There was that little purse with some lumps at the bottom - my rings!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. That's wonderful, my dear csziggy!

I'm really glad for you!

Family heirlooms are SO important!

[csziggy]

24. I've been thinking of giving them to a niece

She lives in Washington DC and is much more likely to wear them than I do. But I haven't said anything since I wasn't sure if I had lost them.

The alexandrite has been in the family for at least 100 years so it has to be one of the rare Russian ones. The diamond belonged to the great aunt I'm named for. So they both have a lot of sentimental value.

Now to find the other ring I inherited - it's only got a mine cut diamond chip set into a solid gold band - but the band has "pure gold" stamped into the inside in Chinese characters. We think grandmother may have gotten it as a child when the family lived on Vancouver Island. We know there were Chinese workers living on the same block as they did. For unique that one has it made.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. OMG since 2008! There is still hope for me. How wonderful you found them.

My lost rings went MIA in July

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Oh, most excellent, my dear sinkingfeeling!

Wonder how it got in there?

You might consider having it resized so it won't fall off.

Happy Breathing!

[LiberalElite]

25. .

[KMOD]

26. I'm so happy to hear your excellent news.

Somewhere, on the bottom of the Erie Canal, Lock 7, Mohawk River, lies my high school boyfriend's ring.

I still feel so horrible about it. He took me fishing. I cast the line, and cast the ring as well.

At the very least, we do know where it is. Hopefully it will be recovered someday. And thankfully, we are still friends.

[MerryBlooms]

27. Yay!

[adamwalkner]

28. I FOUND MY RING!! It was inside of a file folder in my filing cabinet at work!

So if you really want to know my thinking about you Found your Ring, it was inside of a File Folder in your Filing Cabinet at Work, then i will tell you that ok that's a good news buddy. I can understand that how Scared of you after lose it. When you notice that the Ring is not in your Finger. But now take a Sigh of Relief and be Careful in the Future.

[boston bean]

29. How the hell did it get in there? :)

[Phentex]

30. what a relief!

Happy you found it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. Amazing! Anytime I file something, it's lost forever!

[Lifelong Protester]

33. Congratulations to you! Now is my

2015 calendar in there, too???

[sinkingfeeling]

34. Not in the filing cabinet, but I do have an extra 35 2015 calendars.

[OriginalGeek]

35. I currently wear my grandpa's spare wedding ring.

When I got married I weighed 125 pounds soaking wet. Soaking in beer, I managed to gain about 120 pounds since then and at some point many years ago, my original, skinny-me wedding ring had to be cut off. It was a the ring or the finger and I like my finger. We saved the gold intending to melt it into a new ring at some point but some point became some number of years and the scrap was misplaced.

So I went without a ring for more than a decade.

Fast forward to about 15 years ago. Grandpa was out working in the yard again and that night while eating dinner he and Grandma realized his wedding ring was missing. They searched and searched the yard but never found it. Now grandma was a tad more old-fashioned than my lovely wife and she would have none of this Grandpa-running-around-without-a-wedding-ring bull-harkey. They went to the jewelry store the very next day and got grandpa a new ring.

Fast forwarding again...there's that dumb Matthew McConaughey Lincoln commercial...not quite as dull at 3x speed...whoops, too far..back up a minute...OK.

So about 8 years ago Grandpa is out working in the yard again and he's fiddling with one of the sprinkler heads and lo and behold, the glint of gold and there is his old wedding ring! He ran inside to tell Grandma the good news. And by "ran" I mean "shuffled." He was in his mid-late 80s by then. But Grandma and Grandpa were reunited with 60+ year-old wedding ring and all was well in the universe. Spare wedding ring went into a jewelry box. A few years after that Grandma passed away and one day Grandpa invited my wife over to look and see if she wanted any of Grandma's jewelry. She saw the spare wedding ring and wondered why there was an extra man's wedding ring and Grandpa told us the story of lost and found and she asked if we could have it and he said "of course" (because my Grandpa is still one of the greatest men on this planet and not just because he gives me stuff) and that is how I once again have a wedding ring. It's wayyy nicer than the Service Merchandise POS ring I had before lol.

I'm glad you found your ring! I hope one day to find my scrap of gold and turn it into something meaningful.

[sinkingfeeling]

36. Great story!

[ailsagirl]

37. What a relief that must be!!!

[yellowdogintexas]

38. Congratulations to you. I sure do wish I could find the two of of mine that are missing

They were heirlooms and either I did something incredible stupid with them or they were stolen when I had my house cleaned last summer.

I am leaning toward the theft. I have three really good rings and two are missing, though and they should have all been together. So why only take two of them???

i have a vague recollection of wearing those two rings and not the third one and doing something different than the usual when I removed them.

Sinkingfeeling my best to you I am so glad you found your ring!!!

[Jenoch]

40. I once lost a contact lens.

I have hard contacts (gas permable). I loaned a hardcover book to my brother and he found my contact lens in the pages of the book. I fell asleep and upon waking, my contact must have flicked out from my eye and into the pages of tbe novel.