I am in a bit of a pickle and so I must turn to the great minds of the Dope.
I lost my weeding rings.
Yesterday morning I woke up and noticed that my hand was feeling a bit odd. My rings have been fitting a bit looser lately and my hands were so dry that I was putting lotion on like crazy, and I guess they slipped off.
My first thought was that they fell off while I was sleeping. So I pulled off everything from the bed, checked in the pillowcases, looked under the bed, under the mattress, in my dirty clothes, under my bedside table, and anywhere else I could think of in the bedroom. No luck.
So I expanded my search. I swept all the floors and under all the furniture, looked in my coat pockets, checked every drawer in the bathroom, all the counters, in the couch cushions, and every toy box, basket or drawer. I asked my three year old if she had seem mommy’s rings and she said no. The one year refuses to cooperate.
Any ideas on where else to check? I’m starting to freak out a bit…
As my father would ask me, where was the last place you remember seeing them on your hand? Just so you can narrow it down. If it was last night and you didn’t go out again, you know that they’re in the house. If it was yesterday morning, then it’s the house, the car, the driveway and every store you went to.
Vacuum everything and check the bag or canister. Check the 1 year old’s diapers. Check the dryer and the sink traps. When you find them, have them properly sized. That is unless the looseness was metaphorical, and then you don’t really need them anyway.
See, the problem with retracing my steps is that I can’t really say when I last saw it. It’s always just there. I worked in the morning, then got the kids, went to the mall, saw Santa, did some shopping, and came home. My hands were really dry from work so I kept putting on lotion. I figure I would have noticed it missing while putting lotion on.
If that’s the case then they are in the house. So that’s a plus. I just worry that I took them off to put on the lotion and the kids took them to no mans land.
Thanks for posting that, Lynn! I’m not sure how much longer I’d have been able to restrain myself.
I was just suggesting you check the bed, but duh, that’s the first thing you mentioned. Is the drain on the sink near where you put lotion on big enough for a ring to slip into? If so, and if you’re pretty sure you’ve looked thoroughly elsewhere, you might consider taking the trap off the drainpipe and looking in there.
My husband lost his iPad for a month (he thought he may have drove off with is on the roof of his car and it was lost for good), until one day I untucked the quilt from the foot of the bed, and I heard a thunk. I didn’t think anything of it, but I told him. He looked to see what may have fallen, and it was the iPad. Apparently it has gotten wedged between the quilt and the mattress and was shifted enough to unstick when I moved the quilt. He could have sworn he look in that exact spot several times, but there it was, after a chance incident.
So moral of the story is: Don’t give up looking for your rings. They may just show up out of the blue in the same place you could have sworn you looked a million times.
*I would say pray about it, but I won’t assume you pray.
I lost mine shopping the other day in a different town. Found them later in the corner of the bottom of my handbag. They must have slipped off when I reached in.
Were you wearing gloves? Worth checking inside them.
Also - recommend using a flashlight when looking under the bed and such. Even if you think you can see - it is easy for stuff to get camouflaged. Also maybe look (if you have carpet) where the carpet meets the molding by the bed and night stands. Are these round wedding rings or with a stone? If they are perfectly round they could roll a ways from the bed.
My money is on (1) clothing you removed before going to bed, check where you were when you got ready for bed, or (2) bed linens, inside a pillowcase, between headboard and mattress, some place like that.
If you get a flashlight and lay it flat on the floor, then move it around slowly like a horizontal searchlight, you can sometimes pick up glints of things. I’ve found rings, contact lenses, earring backs. The flashlight helps them stand out among the dust bunnies.
Another trick which may be useful is to put a piece of stretchy stocking type fabric over the nozzle of your vacuum cleaner, and run it all over the place, under beds and sofas, around nooks and crannies. It’ll get sucked on to the surface of the nozzle, but the fabric stops it getting sucked right into the guts of the machine and saves you from a dusty reunion later. Good luck.
One time when I was a kid, I lost my watch. My mom and I looked high and low for it. We looked for hours. We looked everywhere, or so we though. Eventually we found it. It had fallen behind my desk, but we didn’t see it when we looked under the desk because it had gotten stuck on a nail barely sticking out from the wood. We didn’t see it until we totally pulled the desk away from the wall and saw it hanging there. We had been so focused on looking down for it that we missed it.
