Losing your favorite pin...

[asteriskos]

Hey guys,

I didn't want this to be the first post to make before my proper introduction to the forum, but I need to vent out a bit.

Have you ever lost your favorite pin(s), and if you have how did you lose it?​

This past Friday I finally received my Jessica Rabbit PTD (the one with her poka-dot ensemble), and I was absolutely delighted. She immediately became my favorite pin. For the less than 48 hours that I had her, I took her everywhere with me. Whether's it's at the dinner table, on the floor with my laptop, or when I was running some errands she was right there with me (i know, call me crazy). I just really, really loved this pin. Then today happened. In the 48 hours that I had her, I lost her, and she is never coming back.

Today, I don't why I left my guard down...and I really regret it. I was on my desktop, browsing as usual, and we were getting ready to leave so I left her on top of a napkin. She was still visible, and I was going to get her once I had finished blow drying my hair. After finishing I am running around trying to get my stuff, and as soon as I am walking out the door I remembered Jessica. I immediately run towards the dinner table, cause that is where our desktop is at the moment, and noticed that the napkin she was resting on was gone. Panicked, I realized that my mother had thrown away the paper so I rush towards the trash can, and as luck would have it she had away taken it out. While getting ready I didn't noticed that she took it to the garbage bin. Devastated, I start running towards the car and asked if she had thrown the napkin away. "Yes," she says and I just started speaking in a louder tone (she hates it when I yell). I told them to leave me behind so I could call the maintenance workers so they could help me get it, but as soon as I approach the garbage bin, the compressor starts. It was too late. I knew that once that machine started crushing the garbage I was never going to get her back.

tl;dr: Basically, my Jessica PTD was on top of a napkin and my mother didn't see her so she threw the whole thing in the trash and I can't get her back.

Thanks to me, there are only 299 of those Jessica PTDs. Right now I just can't talk to my mom. I know I'm being overdramatic, but it was my favorite pin. I won it for a pretty low price, and it's going to cost me to replace it; money I don't have at the moment. I mean, I get it if it was lost and someone found it, but she's going to be going to a landfill!! Ugh.

How would you feel if you lost your favorite pin? or your most expensive pin?

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I'm not gonna lie, I was about to break down in tears in the car. I just had her for less than 48 hours and she is gone out of my life. Not my best day. Sorry for the long post. I just had to vent out my feelings. Thanks for reading this whole thing if you did. And don't worry, I'm not going to be ignoring my mother forever. Just for tonight. I'm just too hurt. This isn't the first time she did this. *sigh*

 

[abby315]

Oh my gosh, that's horrible! I'm so sorry that happened to you :C I haven't personally lost any of my FAVORITE pins yet, but I did lose a Baby Eeyore that I really liked and I almost lost a Belle pin that I wore to school. Thinking back on it, I have a horrible track record with losing bobby pins and rings, so I basically decided not to wear any valuable or loved pins out much.

Hopefully you'll be able to get another one! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I hope you feel better

 

[moorhunhe]

I have my very first Lion King pinned onto my bag, it's been on there ever since 2004 when I bought it at Disneyland Paris.
It came of maybe twice during the years, and when I thought I actually lost it 2 years ago, I got to work the next morning, and the cleaning lady found it *yay*!
Thank God I didn't even knew I had lost it, till the next morning I arrived there. Was too tired to probably have noticed it that same evening.

Then, I lost it for good last year I think switching trains, my bag must have gotten stuck somewhere, and I lost it eather in the station or on the train.
I was extremely upset, I'm so attached to my stuff, and specially if it's Lion King. Couldn't quite understand why I'd feel so sad about "just a pin".
I got home, went straight on ebay, and luckily found the pin again!
The next week, I'm at a random collector's fair, with a few Disney people here and there, and found the pin again, and bought it also.

It's a pin I now originally had 4 times, lol.
1 for me, but then lost it, so now I have a new one + back-up, and the other one decided to give to a friend many years ago for his birthday.

 

[ClanMcDuck]

Boy, that's too bad. Before I really started to get into pins, I had a small bag of them I had purchased every once in a while. There were some LE Tron pins, Star Wars, and others I can't remember. Well...I can't find them. They used to be on the living room table and now they aren't. I got so upset and frustrated, that I vowed to make up for the fancy ones I had lost...and so that got us into buying pins big time. Hahaha.

 

[mylittletyguy]

That totally sucks So sorry that you lost her. I have been pretty fortunate at this point to not lose anything of high dollar or sentimental value...so I hope it doesn't happen anytime soon. Here's hoping another Jessica makes her way to you soon!

 

[Boog1981]

What a bummer. I've never lost a pin that's near and dear to me but I know that feeling of losing something you really like after only having it a short while.

 

[AgentR]

Sorry to hear that. We all have our moments. I had a few pins put on a hat, and my sister decided to take my hat. Well, a few weeks later, I remembered that she had borrowed it and I asked for my hat back. One of the pins was missing. I haven't seen the pin since then. It sucked, and I felt so bad. However, I learned to be more careful with my pins, and I was able to move past it and live on. I hope you will start smiling soon.

 

[jmw1976]

I have an Oswald D23 pin that I received in the mail. As I was driving home from the post office, it fell between the seats of my car and was lost for a week. Oddly one of the worst feelings I had. I only found it becuase I saw my phone slip between my seats and when i grabbed, there was Oswald beneath the phone. I hope you can obtain another one.

 

[VillainousGoof]

One of my favorite pins fell off my lanyard while I was walking from the Haunted Mansion to Pirates of the Caribbean. It wasn't a very popular pin but it's not super common either.

 

[chroll]

I haven't ever lost a pin that really meant anything to me, but I know that I would definitely cry if I lost one of my HTF pins.

 

[Nettiejeanne]

Oh, Boo! That totally sucks rocks! I'm sorry! I recently got that same pin, too. I immediately put it up on the framed cork board I use for my PTD's. They are for sale pretty regularly, so I hope you can get another one soon. You may want to invest in some of the locking backs, then you can wear your pin for a while instead of carrying it around, but you won't have to worry about it falling off!

Best of luck to you!