Ever lost anything and been really gutted?

sunflower27

Hi guys,

Just 5 weeks into a pretty bad breakup. We broke up after xmas and one of the gifts he gave me at xmas was a bottle of perfume.

I was away at the weekend visiting friends and it appears I lost it

I was doing so good but all of a sudden I almost feel back to square one.

I actually feel ridiculous typing this. I really thought I was moving on but obviously I'm not and I am teary again. Over a bottle of perfume.

Am sure I will get over it, but just feel really sad today and feel as if I havent moved on as much as I thought I had.

G86

I lost my camera on the night of my Graduation I was in tears over it, and not just because all of my photos from the day were on it. My Aunty had come up to Dublin, and the day beforehand I'd taken her out to see a house she used to work and live in 40 years ago, and we took some photos of her standing outside it to take home with her. It really meant alot to her, so when I lost the camera I felt like I'd ruined it on her. But, I decided to take her back to it the next day, and this time I chanced my luck knocking on the door - and the tenants let her go in to have a look around! It was brilliant- like somehow walking through the life she had way back then.

If I hadn't lost my camera, that never would have happened

I hope you're ok OP.

metrovelvet

I lost a pair of diamond earrings in the laundry. I was sick. They were a gift from a co worker.

The post office "lost" alot of family footage of us as kids that my late father took of us and the family growing up. My brother sent them to me in the post not knowing I was away at the time and they got redirected into postal never never land.

sunflower27

G86 - how lovely. That made me smile!

Diamond earrings metrovelvet... jeez... I'd never get over that

Ah, am OK, suppose it is just letting go really, it's all a part of it. It was a big bottle of perfume, Chance by Chanel. I remember thinking by the time I finished it I'd be in a happier place and I loved the scent so liked wearing it. And if I am honest I kind of smothered myself in it to finish it quicker What am I like!?!

Onwards and upwards, teary moment over now. I was a bleedin' mess earlier.:rolleyes:

When I was about 11 and going to the beach with my family, I left a snorkel and mask on the train. It was a xmas present (again!) and I remember being gutted for weeks after that. I was in Australia so it was summer and I had to see everyone else snorkelling away all day.... I thought I'd never get over that

Madame Razz

I lost a pair of Oakleys, on a day when it rained torrentially:rolleyes:

I still have no idea how they got lost, or how I didn't notice. I went and bought a replacement pair, but I'm still annoyed with myself for losing the first pair:mad::p

scillaria

I went away on a weekend trip with the girls and lost my engagement ring had it only for a few months. Thankfully my other half didn't mind. So I went an bought another one to replace the one I lost. Im still annoyed with myself for losing it as have no idea where it went

liah

I was born in Cali, and when my mother moved us back to Canada for good, she packed all of our family photos, my baby photos, videos, family history albums, scrapbooks etc into a very clearly marked box.

Of course, that was the only box of ours that the airline managed to lose.

To this day I have maybe a total of 20 photos from my childhood. I wasn't really upset at the time (I was 7) but I'm really upset about it now, especially considering I don't remember much of my childhood and those would have been amazing for me to have now.

It kind of feels like the 7 years I spent there don't exist at all, I have so few memories and no evidence of it. It's kind of a weird feeling.

LegacyUser

i lost my camera on holiday in thailand...the biggest holiday i was ever gonna take in my lifetime. i had the most amazing photos ..i was just in awe everywhere i went. my friend gave me some of hers but she picked out what she wanted me to have and they just dont tell the same story.

i get so sad every time i think about it. i went the second week with no camera as i couldnt afford to buy a new one...broke my heart being in such a beautiful place and not being able to capture my memories.

thats what i get for being slightly intoxicated!...the photos from that night alone would have been awesome! harsh lesson!

Chuchoter

On a school trip to England I lost a hundred pounds (which was a hell of a lot of money to me). The worst part was when a teacher from the other school we were visiting FOUND the hundred pounds, told us and never sent it back. :mad:

Das Kitty

I lost all the emails from my early 'courting' days with my husband. Fracking Windows.

mariebeth

I lost a gold Claddagh ring that belonged to my grandmother a few years back. My mum passed it on to me for my confirmation. Still haven't told her that I lost it because she'd be gutted. If she asks why I don't wear it, I just say that I don't feel like wearing any rings at the moment...

baby and crumble

When I was in secondary school, in 1st year myself and the girls I shared a dorm with made a "radio show" and recorded it onto tape. it was really funny, I found it when I was about 16 again and listened to it.

I have no idea where it is now. I'd give a hell of a lot to find it again, just for the memories. We had so much fun writing the plays and the ads and recording it.

Just goes to show how boring boarding school is... :rolleyes:

Fluorescence

crayolastereo wrote: »

On a school trip to England I lost a hundred pounds (which was a hell of a lot of money to me). The worst part was when a teacher from the other school we were visiting FOUND the hundred pounds, told us and never sent it back. :mad:

What!?! Damn thief! What the actual fuck?

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is a necklace my grandmother got me for my 18th birthday. I was wearing it one day and noticed that the chain had opened and the pendant had fallen off at some point during the day. I never did find it

LambsEye

What was the perfume OP?

I lose everything. It's a running joke among my friends that I need to be chaperoned on a night out because it's likely I could lose my wallet, phone, ID, jacket and shoes.

To date I have lost:

Four wallets
A really AWESOME camera
$500 cash
Countless phones, gloves, umbrellas etc.
Several dresses
Many, many items of clothing
My straightener

Once, in an airport I just put down my passport and walked away. Luckily someone ran after me.

phasers

Last year I lost a funny note that my favourite teacher wrote to me in sixth year. I used to look at it almost every day, I was so upset when I lost it. I still feel sad when I think about it.

Azureus

LambsEye; right there with ya!! think Ive got better now, but from 15-20 I was a disaster!! To the extent that I have lost four passports (ID on nights out) and had to have an identity theft interview!!

The most sentimental thing ive lost is the diamond ring my boyfriend bought me on our second Christmas together. I absolutely loved it and it was the most amazing suprise, so Im gutted tbh. Im pretty sure its in the house somewhere but Ive looked everywhere and cant find it for the life of me! Told the fella and he was cool and said itll show up-thought he was gonna kill me three weeks on so hopefully itll turn up someday soon...

Scarinae

Only last week on the way home I lost a lovely scarf that I'd been given for Christmas, I had a matching hat and gloves too so I was really annoyed I'd lost part of the set. I found it online though, and ordered another, which arrived yesterday. Yay! It was on sale and they only had a few left, chances are if I'd lost the scarf in a couple of weeks I wouldn't be able to find a replacement

A few years ago I lost a bracelet my ex had given me, not long after we'd broken up. I lost it at a very drunken house party, I combed the place the next morning when we were cleaning but no luck. I'd kissed another guy at the party, and my weird not-over-my-ex-yet logic told me that this was why I'd lost the bracelet This seems hilarious to me now!

We have a family ring, and each of us was given one by our grandparents on our 21st birthday. My brother lost his one last year, he suddenly noticed when he was paying for something in a shop, meaning that he could have dropped it anywhere. He was particularly upset about it because he associated it with our grandfather, who has since passed away. My parents got him another one, and gave it to him the day of his PhD graduation, so that it will have happy memories as well.

I remember being really little and going to the amusements at Bray. I had to beg my parents to let me play enough games so that I could get a little mini etch-a-sketch. I managed to win enough tokens that I could buy it, using tokens from that day and all the other tokens I had saved up from previous visits. After the arcade my parents took me to the pub so they could have a drink and after I left I realised I didn't have it. I pleaded with my parents to let me go back to look for it but they said no one would take it and we could pick it up on the way home. I spent all day waiting to get back to the pub and when I did it was gone.

Who steals a kids toy???

marywary

When I was in 2nd year in Secondary School we celebrated the schools centenary and as part of the celebrations we had a school photo taken of the whole school which would have been 1000+ students and all staff as well. It was done as a scroll type of thing. That was in UK & I moved here over 20 years ago and left it with my sister in her house. She moved house and the photo is missing ever since. I've emailed the school to try and see if I could get a copy but no luck I'm afraid. Gutted!

snuggles09

my figure about 10 years ago..can't seem to get it back at all:(

chelseavera

A digital Camera on my last night of a beautiful week in Budapest - where it was a winter wonderland and its a city that really lends itself to that. Rememeber taking great pictures up in the old town with all its snow covered turrets and wonderful icicles. The Danube was partially iced over and had these amazing hot springs throwing up steamy geysers. Had a nice celebratory meal and a few drinks (after very successful dental work) and panic the next morning , before dash to airport - no sign of camera. Left in taxi i suspect. You get really cross at yourself - I had been Soooo careful up to then! Never again etc etc

Stench Blossoms

A bracelet my dad bought me for my graduation.

It fell off me when some cow attacked me. I don't think I've ever been more upset about anything in my life.

magneticimpulse

Yeah I had a claddagh diamond necklace for graduation/21st from my mam.

And then another diamond necklace my ex got me for christmas one year. i lost it the 1st day i put it on!! Still have the gold necklace for 2 of them funny enough, but lost the diamond pendants

Ginny

I lost an earring a few weeks ago and im still gutted, it was tiffany and they were the first thing i bought for myself out of my first paycheck, ive worn them day and night for about 6 years, they were nothing special, just plain silver, but i loved them!

Novella

My virginity.

(Seriously. Not in an AH 'haha' way!)

squeakyduck

I lost a memory stick with all my first and second year work (essays/presentations), I moved around alot so it could have been lost in transit or anything. I'm not gutted, but I do have a feeling it will turn up somewhere even though .....My first year writing was absolutely shocking away. But it would still be nice to look through my old essays and compare them to my 3rd year writings and my thesis :rolleyes:

Snoopy1

Novella wrote: »

My virginity.

(Seriously. Not in an AH 'haha' way!)

You beat me to it, i was going to say that!!

I lost a really nice bracelet in edinburgh once, tried to re trace my steps, but had gone into too many shops :mad:

A very close friend living in canada sent me a wolf pendant. Little round metal kinda thing. Absolutely treasured it, but the clasp broke on the bus one day and I didn't notice until later in the day. No luck in lost&found

God, that was about 9 years ago now I think. Still remember how bad i felt about it

Lost contact with her a few years ago, wonder how she is doing

Asphyxia

I had a lovely notebook full of my first sketches and poems and I ended up leaving it behind on a school tour i was devasted and even when i think of it now i feel sick

Michellenman

When I was in primary school I had a teeny tiny purse and I managed to save 8 pounds, in pound coins. I'd never had that much money that was all mine before. I brought the purse everywhere, and then one day in school, it was suddenly gone. All my money in the world. For years and years and even nowadays I still think I'll find it somewhere, that it's just stuck behind a couch somewhere I was absolutely devastated for ages because of that

Rubberlegs

Lost a beautiful silver charm bracelet, that was originally my mothers:(. It was given to her years ago by girl's she worked with, and my Dad had got her charms for it over the years. She gave it to me to wear for my Debs, over 20 years ago. OH got me charms to add to it also. Moved out of home and seem to remember having it with me at first house I moved to. After that it's just a complete blank, couldn't tell you where it went to. My mother knows its missing for years now and I feel so bad about it, would give anything to know where it got to. Had total clearout of attic etc recently and prayed I'd come across it, especially since Dad has since passed away, and Mam would be thrilled to see it again.

My Dad's Dad was in the Old IRA, so he had shots fired over his coffin. My Dad picked up a bullet casing and handed it to me and told me to keep it. Kept it for years, it went missing once and OH found it. But then it went missing again, never to be found:(

And another bracelet:o. OH got me a really cool silver bracelet, very unusual. At one point I put it on and remember didn't take it off at all, can remember saying I'd not taken it off for well over a year. Then suddenly realise its not on my wrist anymore. Can only think it must have fell off somewhere, as I'd no intentions of taking it off. I'm sickened:(

barleybooley

I can only think of one thinly I've lost and been completely devastated as a result. Years ago, when I was about 3, my dad brought home to me a fabulous koala bear teddy, he was just gorgeous so much so that the hierarchy of teddies was completely overthrown as a result Anyway, I brought the bear out to my babysitter's house the following day and when I went to get him when i was gone home, he'd vanished. Completely. Left no trail. It's still a complete mystery and I often think of it. Funny thing is, the babysitter never came across it and it's nearly twenty tears ago that it happened. I van only hypothesise that the other bears kidnapped and did away with him

ynul31f47k6b59

When our son was born nearly 7 years ago, my OH gave me an eternity ring. It vanished off the face of the earth about 2 years ago, thankfully he doesn't really pay much attention to whether I wear jewelry or not, but if he asked I'd lie. I couldn't admit to losing it, it was beautiful.

I lost a leather jacket, a phone, 2 wallets, - the usual stuff that I used to leave behind me in pubs/clubs, but only one jacket ever annoyed me - it wasn't even an expensive one, in fact I got it in a charity shop, but it was the absolute perfect lightweight black jacket. It went with everything. And I left it down on a windowsill one night when I was looking for money in my bag to pay for a taxi - walked off without it. It still annoys me, and that must be well over 5 years ago. I've never found a similar one since.

ams

I lost the gold watch my parents got me for my 18th (I think it fell into a binbag of rubbish when I was moving apartements). At the time I lost it my mam was sick and I couldnt face telling her so I searched every where for a replacement. Eventually I found a shop that could sell me the strap and casing but not the face - the new watch cost me €350 but it was worth it to me - so sickened over losing the oringinal.

sunflower27

It's a happy ending.

My friend that drove me from Dublin home the weekend I was away found my perfume. She had had a quick look and saw nothing, but found it when she looked under the seat yesterday. It must have fallen out of my handbag and I kicked it quite far back.

Am really pleased.

carolinespring

My beautiful engagement ring a couple of years ago on velentines day. We had just come back from a weekend away and decided to go for something to eat before heading home. I went to get some cash for the ATM and it must have come of when I pulled my glove of to use the mashine. Noticed when we had finished dinner.

Spent the next 2 hours looking on the street in the P***ing rain. put ads in the local paper, radio, shops but no luck.

The insurance company payed up and my husband wanted to replace the ring and we got the most beautiful ring but I just never "fell" in love with it and have only worn it about a dozen time. I remember the jeweller saying that we might be better going for something other than another ring as most women never feel the same about it. He was so right and we both now wish we had spent the money on a holiday of a lifetime and not the replacement ring.

Will never get over losing my ring, it has so many special memories attached to it.

goose2005

I don't mean to be rude but I once thought that I could set up a business backing up people's photo albums into HD scans on CDs - would people be interested?

brindybrunette

I lost all the text messages from my current boyfriend...made me a bit sad but I suppose I'm with him and thats all that matters!

RainbowNinja

i lost my iphone4 2 weeks ago.. gutted.. feel like i've lost my right arm...

didnt have it insured as thought it was insured on the house insurance.. but turns out it isnt!!

600e to replace it, which cant afford, and still locked into a contract for another year :mad:

IrishEyes19

well this is tiny compared to everyone elses stories of losing important jewerally and so on, but its a bit more light hearted. I remember when I was about 7, I had this pink little bag with kind of dark pink feathers on the top, a typical barbie girly bag and in it, I kept all my important things, at least things that a 7 year old would consider priceless, and in it, was basically a plastic key to a fairy castle I had gotten for christmas that year, a kids lipstick that I got in a girly magazine, a small poly pocket and a pair of pink sunglasses, and these came everywhere. Having the bag around my shoulder following my mam, I felt like a princess.haha.

But we were playing at the park one day and we were playing hide and seek and I hid inbetween a couple of trees, and sure I left the bag down and on our way home I remembered I had left it there, ran back but never found it. Came back the next day, nowhere to be seen.
to this day I dont know what happened to it, but whenever I pass by the park I still get kind of a knot in my chest, lol. And everything in that bag to be honest back in those days, wouldnt have come to a tenner Id imagine. Funny how one mans trash is anothers mans treasure. lol.

tan11ie

A charm bracelet my first real BF bought for me, i lost it running to the pub lol serves me right....greedy bitch

Kablamo!

For some reason my father decided that the best place to store our home videos was in an unused BBQ in the back garden.
He of course done this under his own steam, without consulting myself or the mother.
Fast forward about 5 years, and I'm cleaning out the back garden and find a load of moss and mould that used to be videotapes.

Its equal parts hilarious and heart wrenching, because he's deceased now and of course I'd love to be able to watch him and hear his voice again.
As a bonus though, I was a horrid child. So at least I'm spared my mother showing the guests tapes of me having baths out the back in mayonnaise buckets

cdaly_

Do you still have the tapes? Given that they're plastic, they might clean up enough to get the video off them. It's worth a try, there are probably companies out there who will do that sort of thing.




Oh, and we obviously want to see the mayonnaise bucket thing...

Kablamo!

cdaly_ wrote: »

Do you still have the tapes? Given that they're plastic, they might clean up enough to get the video off them. It's worth a try, there are probably companies out there who will do that sort of thing.




Oh, and we obviously want to see the mayonnaise bucket thing...

The tapes inside had gone rotten... And there was insects in them... UGH. Skin crawling thinking about it!
Laughed my head off at first, because, let's face it, it isn't what you expect to find in a BBQ. Then I cried when I copped what they were. Then I laughed until I cried because it was such a Dad thing to do, so all in all I think I'd rather have that moment of utter "WTF?" when I found them than the tapes. Sure all the memories I need are in the noggin!
.... My Lion King video was in there too. Still sore about that.

I have no idea why the bathing in mayonnaise buckets, in the background of various videos there's a neglected baby bath lurking in the corner, but no, big mayonnaise buckets it was. We got a lodger once and when I came in to introduce myself to her she was watching that particular tape with my parents. Very embarrassing!

watna

I had a white gold and garnet necklace my OG bought me as a present back from South Africa. I wore it everywhere. We went to South Africa together for a visit at Christmas. I had the necklace on leaving his granny's house and then went to play with it on the plane (was always fiddling with the pendant part) and it was gone. I've no idea how it happened but it must have fallen off. I'm still upset about it. My OH doesn't buy me jewellery often and it meant a lot to me. It was just weird I lost it on the way back from SA when that is where it came from!

I lose jewellery a lot. I've a box full of odd earrings. Recently an earring fell off at work and I heard it hit the floor but then I couldn't find it anywhere. My colleagues were all on their hands and knees looking for it. We looked under everything. I've no idea where it went.

I got engaged recently and my engagement ring is never coming off. Ever! I don't care what I'm up to. The diamond in it is from my OH's mother's engagement ring and for it's sentimental valiue is irreplaceable. I'm not chancing ever removing it, knowing me and my terrible track record with jewellery!

Giselle

I lost a beautiful pair of purple leather Dents gloves a few weeks ago. They were so elegant and such a beautiful colour, and now all the gloves are gone from the shops until the fall.:(

Other than those the most important thing I've lost is my perspective, frequently.

Shulgin

George carlin on losing things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bmPbPHCOY

Crumble Froo

Ha, interesting thread title...

Yeah, in the last 6 months, I've lost my house twice.
Was in both of them when they lost walls and was there to watch the first one get bulldozed only 2 weeks before losing the second one.

Can't begin to explain to anyone who's not experienced it too the horrible sense of loss losing my home, my space, my writings (in the first house, they were all on the wall).

After losing my home, honestly, I very much stopped caring about my possessions. I was happy that I happened to be wearing the clothes I was, cos I quite liked those ones, and I had my pet rat.

Been quite minimalist since, and don't really miss anything I left behind... but for one necklace an ex gave me that it took a while to take off after we broke up (I'd never taken it off before, in about 3-4 years), I decided to take it off, more symbolically than anything else, with the hope of maybe wearing it again in time, but it just didnt feel right at that point of life.....

Couldn't find it to save my life. Not that we had much time to go salvage things that we had, but just couldnt find it, still pretty gutted, and haven't found a replacement necklace yet, 6 months later now, neck still looks weird and naked.