LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) – A woman who lost her class ring in Lake Michigan in 1954 has it back, thanks to a metal-detector hobbyist. Robert Savage told the Ludington Daily News for a story Saturday that he found the ring about 12 years ago, but only recently began looking for its owner.
You can read the full story HERE.
The article got me thinking. What is something I’ve lost I wish someone would find? I would have to go with my original wedding ring. Lost it several years ago. It cost me $40 back in 1996, but would still love to have it back. I’m now on wedding ring #3 (long story) which cost me $15.
What is the one thing you’ve lost that you wish someone would find?
That is an easy one. I’d like my innocence back. Early in life I believed everyone was basically good. After life has beat up on me, I wonder about the basic goodness of people……
When I was younger my mother gave me her engagement ring to wear. I had just washed my hands at a gas station in IL (we were driving from WI to ARK) and I had taken it off and set it down on a newspaper stand so I could dry my figer under my rings. Mom pulled up and honked, yelled for me and my sister to get in the car and off we went. Wasn’t til we got to the Buffalo River (8-9 hours later) I realized I hadn’t put it back on. But I knew exactly where I’d left it. I still remember that sinking feeling in gut.
shortly after i came home from college…i lost my bible…this was a graduation present and had all my notes from chapel services and traveling on a ministry team all through college…specifically it had notes on habakkuk that i would love to be able to recall, or to get back!
I could say my hair, I have been loosing it since I was 13. You know what? IT IS JUST HAIR!!!!
How about a lost friendship with a person that I just sometimes wonder whatever happened to them.
I once lost a diamond solitaire ring at a gas station in SC once (actually, I think someone whom I thought cared for me stole it). I’d love to get it back. On another note, about 3 or 4 years ago, I found a man’s ring in the sand at the beach in Jekyll Island, GA. I never found the owner.
Stuff is just stuff. Found this out after being robbed. You gain a new perspective after something like that. I look at it this way……I can’t take it with me when I go. Now, if I could have good knees (trampoline accident in 8th grade – it was ugly) and no CTS in my hands – that would be great!
I’m with Archie – I think I would like to have back my original openness to people back, perhaps my naivity and innnocent belief in others. The last two years have been so painful that I have to watch myself to keep from just closing up to people. I’ve gained wisdom but I’ve also lost something precious. Now I have to figure out how to live without it.
3rd wedding ring? Ok, you’ve got to share that story in a future post.
If I could get anything back that I lost, I would choose this rocking pair of RayBan sunglasses I bought when I was younger, not married (i.e. more money) and wasn’t as discerning with my purchases. I think I paid $130 for them and only had them for a couple of months after we were married and then they disappeared. They turned up amazingly about a year ago, I had them for a week and then they vanished again. *sigh*
I didn’t actually lose it! I pawned a gold watch years ago when I was married…we were broke, had no food and I pawned it and was never able to get it back. I loved that watch! It was the first nice thing I’d ever brought for myself.
Two things…. my dad bought me a ring when I was a teenager as a reward for quitting my nail biting habit. I lost it and then incidentally the nail biting began again. Sigh. And then my hubby bought me a pair of Mickey Mouse earrings while we were dating back in high school. I lost them also. I probably wouldn’t wear MM earrings today because I’m not really into Mickey anymore, but they hold tremendous sentimental value.
My hubby lost his first wedding ring in the lake. It was a unique ring and he loved it. I called the jewelery store and they didn’t have the ring in stock anymore, but they contacted the jeweler that made the ring and they still had the mold. SO… as a Christmas gift, I had another, identical ring made for him. He was very happy about it, and it was fun to surprise him with it!
I lost my friend Meredith Cooper….really. She moved, I moved, got married, last names changed……I heard she was trying to find me but the person didn’t know how to reach her. I have no clue where she is or her last name….so she’s lost. I’d like to find her.
my lint brush.
I was 6 years old and we were living in Michigan when I lost my Luke Skywalker in his X-Wing uniform action figure. I was at a friend’s house playing with the toys when Luke fell out and into a bunch of weeds. We thought it would be easy to find but we never could. Our search was also cut short because our dog Zeke had gotten loose and found me. He went nuts thinking the people were hurting me because I was crying. One lady even shimmied up the swing set. Both Zeke and I left the house and went home, my Mom was yelling for him and here we come walking down the street. Him with a big grin on his face like nothing happened and me crying and blubbering because I lost Luke Skywalker.
My “innocence” … date rape 30 plus years ago. When it’s gone, it’s gone. But God has brought me through it and beyond. He is the Restorer of Broken Walls! Hallelujah!
My car keys. Seriously. I sat them on the roof of my car when I was unloading my toddler and then went inside. Later, I was looking for them and couldn’t find them so I used my second set of keys. Took off with my original set still on the roof of my car. I want them back b/c they had a special key ring that matches my first dog’s collar. I’m also creeped out by the fact that someone somewhere out there may have my car keys.
I lost my wedding ring at River Country in Orlando, 1996. I plunged off the waterfall and my ring plunged to the bottom, never to be seen again. I got to enjoy a few days without it but eventually Cindy made me buy a new one.
my mind…anyone found it?
@ Anne Jackson – Bwahahahahah! (lint brush)
LOL @ you pete… i didn’t know there was anyone else who would admit to having multiple wedding rings!!!
i have had 3 engagement rings and 2 wedding rings (all from the same guy and no – we’ve never been divorced!!) all of which i no longer actually own. only 1 was important to me though and that was the original engagement ring which, in a freak accident, flew out my car window while we were driving on a highway overpass in the middle of the night while traveling home for thanksgiving. we actually DID pull over and look for it. *sigh* it was crafted by hand by a man who has known me almost all my life, my husband had actually picked out the diamond and the setting and even had the jeweler friend size my ring finger up while i was working for them over Christmas break the year before he proposed. royce (husband) would even come into the jewelry store to make payments towards the ring while i was there working. i never knew. i was so naieve and trusting.
all that thrown out the window.
LOL
the rest of the story is just as long and as complicated but not nearly as fun to tell.
i wish someone would find that ring and send it back to me. the diamond was exquisite and Royce had worked so hard to save up and pay for it. still makes me sick to think about it.
*sigh*
My first child – lost Kira in 1990 while I was pregnant at 6 months.
Somtimes I wish I could get some of my childhood back. Life’s events forced me to grow up way faster than any kid should have. I missed out on so many simple opportunities in life.
2ndly I bought the coolest pair of sunglasses 2 days before my wedding and then lost them the day after our wedding. I was so ticked.
I lost my 2nd son when I was 12 weeks pregnant, this past March. I wish desperately, almost daily that he were growing inside of me.
I also wish I could have back the purity I used to sing and worship with.
When I was a kid I had a basket that had all of my favorite toys in it. I don’t remember my parents ever getting rid of them so it could be in a box in their storage, but it had what I called my monsters and all of my matchbox cars. Monsters = GI Joes, Justice League figurines, He-man figurines, Star War Figurines, etc.
I miss those toys and wish I could pass them on to my boys.
My 1998 UT Championship Watch. I wore it til if fell off, but still would love to have that thing. lol…
Watch it Sircy! Seems to me I remember us going immediately to the mall and getting you another one because you were so upset you lost it!
The joy of my salvation…that really passionate excitement from when you’re first saved that makes you want to tell anyone and everyone about Christ. Getting older and more cynical has taken a toll on it, but I’m working on getting it back.
No dear, we were in Orlando, then went To St Augustine for two days. Is it coming back to you? Then we drove to Panama City for two days and I bought it at the mall there. I had three days of ringlessness(is that a word).
Now the record has been set straight.
Sorry, Pete, didn’t mean to a domestic altercation on your blog.
I’m going to have to agree with Lisa – I lost my sanity sometime in the past few years and would love to get it back!! HA!
Seriously, I have lost so many trivial things but nothing that was nearly as important as losing a chance. A chance to witness to someone or help someone. Lately I’ve been thinking about how so many people have come and gone in my life and I’ve missed many opportunities to say things, do things, be things…..Wish I could get those opportunities back.
When I was younger, I was playing with my grandmother’s engagement ring. It was serious bling for my Barbie. Then one day, I went to pull it out of the jewelry box and my mom said I had lost it.
I spent years.. YEARS feeling guilty about it. My granny didn’t have many nice things (living in rural East TN) and here I had lost one of them playing… it’s a tangible connection to relatives who have long since passed away – my mom and her mother.
Then a couple of years ago when I moved out of the house I grew up in, my friends and I were cleaning out the back bedroom. I pulled this little tupperware thing with a ziploc back in it. I looked inside and there was the ring! I started screaming and hollaring. I was so happy and angry at the same time.
Now, it’s in a box somewhere in the spare bedroom and I can’t find it. At least I know its there somewhere.
About class rings, my dad was way into metal detecting. I have two jewelry display boxes full of them that I inherited when he passed away. I’ve thought about looking for the people but that’s alot of work.
My husband’s journal from 2002. This was the year that God began to redeem our marriage and teach my husband how to walk in freedom from pornography.
I’m with stephanie, I did lose my car keys back in October, I was at the Kroger on Hwy 70, and I had them to lock the car, ran in, used the restroom, put my purse down on the floor, and tossed them in my bag, or so I thought, did my shopping, and went to my car, and they were gone!!! I was frantic, happy my car was still there, but upset I couldn’t go anywhere. I called my roommate, I was just moving in the apt, so everything was a mess, and tried to tell her where to look, no luck, she came and picked me and my groceries up, and went home. I, then, had to call a friend to come pick me up to take me back to my car (luckily she was still there) and still upset I no longer have a spare set!!!! I would ask the kroger peeps every time I went in for a couple of months, nothing!!! They literally up and disappeared, and if someone stole them, they didn’t take the car (and the remote worked, so they could’ve, but ONstar would’ve gotten ‘em lol)
My wedding rings.
Mine were lost in Feb in the middle of a very rough time in our marriage. God did a great work and we have been able to move past that.
But I have no rings. I am wearing an $8.88 walmart ring that looks like the one that I would like for my hubby to buy for me to replace the ones that were lost.
@charles–I’ll front you another one!
As for me, I would love to find the weekend of May 12, 2007 so I could go back and change history.
Incredible blog!
Glad I found your site.
Blessings,
Roxanne Kristina
http://www.sharingnotes.blogspot.com
Had this guitar that I LOVED and finally had made it my own with the sound. I let a friend borrow it to record with and he left it in his van. Someone broke into it that night and stole that and an amp and the rest of my sound equipment…..equipment didn’t matter but the guitar and amp were one of a kind for me.
That is a great story of honesty, even if it is 12 years later. Check out this story of a Virginia couple that found a $40,000 diamond ring and had the strength to return it to Mervis Diamond Importers in hopes of finding the rightful owner. The ring has actually just recently been reunited with the original owner!
VA Man Finds $40,000 Diamond Ring in Parking Garage
Here’s a great site where anyone who’s lost a diamond can post their story. They’ve already helped reunite one owner and their diamond!