Okay, I'm ready for the slams, no problem. I just want to point out that it was your daughter's responsibility when she was entrusted with the bracelet. It doesn't matter if it was lost or if she gave it away to her friend as an impulsive, sweet intentions, going away present, it remains that it was her responsibility. If she is not held accountable she will never learn the basics. Our children learn from us and the line that we draw, our moral ethics, our behaviors. Just writing this off as "Oh, well, it will return when it is ready" is a bad guideline for your daughter to follow.

Regardless of what the situation was in this instance she needs to know that she is accountable so that in the future when a more important situation arises she knows that she is responsible and will step up to handle it properly. Teenagers need guidance and sometimes it is a lesson with consequences. I truly think she should pay for this bracelet as a tough lesson that she will benefit from later. Slam me all you want, but I've been there, done it, and right now my son, a wild child at one time is now working on his graduate degree, looks like it will be with honors as his undergrad was. He is happy and now thanking me for seeing him through his wild child days and hoping his children won't put him through the same.

Wishing you the best,

STM

Note: Wild childs look sweet, act nice and then do the most irrational things behind your back, a sort of rebellion which is a phase we all went through.

I'd say somewhere next to your bank account things. Probably were there your bank passes or Paypal info.

Edit: definitely close to money related items. Was your daughter maybe snooping around your financial doc's (or other material like books).

Finance is the key word here
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yes, it is possible to find. it is in the grass on the sand. near ocean or sea.

Check the local pawn shop.

You're welcome

How many times will you allow this to happen before you have learnt the lesson?

The lesson is not one of trust or responsibility but one of non-attachment.

You will find your bracelet when you have accpeted, without emotional attachment, being content without it.

Its rather self-indulgant to bring this to ATS as the lesson is meant for you and no others.

I don't care if you find your bracelet but I do hope you learn from this lesson.

Life is as harsh as you make it.

Didn't read whole thread, but why don't you try to rent one of those metal detectors those creepy folks use at the beaches and scour the yard with it.

Next, if you have a upright clothes washer, sometimes nails and other stuff get under that " spinning thing"

To check sofa's and chairs, you have to turn it over and shake it, run you hand along the grooves and tap it. Putting your hand in-between the cushions is not good enough, stuff like coins can get inside the structure/body of the sofa. If that happens you may have to cut the bottom fabric.

Apologies, tagging for MyATS.

I did my thing, it's lost and you'll never find it back again. Someone else took it.

Originally posted by munkey66
all I could come up with was in a garden bed next to a door, possibly caught on a small branch.

but it's the first thing that popped into my head.

I also saw the bracelett in dark garden dirt. It's been dropped on the ground. This might be where the mouse comes in??? But, it seems to still be there. I see a woman in her 20's finding it... but not sure that it's you.

next to a mailbox......when the grass was green?

Check the vents in the house. Material objects come and go. I've lost all of my stuff once, then once I regained more stuff... I had to walk away from it all. Pooo... Invest your energy in something less vain... And the bracelet may come back to you.

No I didn't find it I have resigned to the fact I probably never will.
Oh well so goes life.

Look in the Bathroom drawer!

in a drawer or dropped and took a bounce under something, or mistaken for trash or accidently trapped with it.

You won't find it!
It might have just sentimental value but why bother.
My daughter has sentimental value to me, and I lost her 26 years ago!

Anybody now where she is?