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Gold digging
hehe, While working on some house projects this past weekend we found a gold, rope necklace and ring in our sink! My first thought was to pawn/sell it and go out to dinner. It may not even amount to much....
Now, I'm feeling all guilty because the ring is engraved and has an inscription. Should we contact the seller and get it back to her? I kind of feel that if she really wanted it, she would have taken the sink apart to get it. BUT, what if she lost is and didn't know it was there?
If you've sold gold, how much do you really get? If you sold your house and accidentally left something would you expect it back? If you remember she left her bread machine, that I fully gained rights to and an NEVER giving that back :-)
Our Abby Jean
Re: Gold digging
Two pieces in the sink?
We had a neighbor one summer who had a huge blowout with her then husband. During the situation, one of them wound up tossing a jewlery box in to the stream in between our house and theirs and proclaimed that they didn't want the memories of the other person to be around ever again. So my sister and I got what we could from the stream, with her knowing, and she never wanted any of it back.
If it was just one piece in the sink and it was the ring, fine, ok, she likely lost it by accident and didn't realize. But a necklace, too? My guess is that they weren't exactly there accidentally. There is always the chance, but my guess is that the seller won't miss it.
I'd likely go ahead and sell it. I might feel slightly bad about it, but.... gold is worth a lot these days!
;-)
This is probably what I would do, but I'm also totally evil
The only thing I got out of my old house in So Po was the former owner's porn DVD collection (hidden above the false ceiling in the basement).
Sell the jewelry. Unless it's really heavy, though, you won't make a lot of money. I sold an old engagement ring setting a few years ago and make about $10.
As someone whose husband just found a small box of jewelry I thought I had lost a couple of months back (and was devistated!), I would be eternally grateful if someone had found it and returned the pieces to me (I thought I left them @ a hotel on Block Island). I also have terrible Catholic guilt, so keep that in mind.
Do you know if they had children? Just wondering, as I did something similar when I was young w/ my mother's necklace in our bathroom, and she would have never found it if she hadn't caught me playing with it. The rope chain might not be a big deal, but if the ring is engraved it may have some real sentimental meaning to the owner. True, it's their fault for leaving it behind and not doing a better job of looking for it, but they may have had no idea where it was. I don't mean to be a buzzkill on your sweet find, just my two cents.
FWIW, I'm 110% with you on the bread machine, that's totally a leave behind they were aware of!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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I would contact the seller, if they don't respond, sell it
My hopes are that when we move, we find LOTS of missing things
I'm thinking about 2-3 sippy cups hidden somewhere, lots of jewelry, computer equipment and probably things I don't even yet know are missing. Kids.
a) kids put things down the sink ALL THE TIME. So I wouldn't think it was on purpose.
b) I believe in Karma. I would contact the seller.
c) that being said, if the seller said keep it or didn't get back to me in a certain amount of time, I'd sell it (gold never drops in value!) and do something fun with it.