Easter 2025

TastyReuben said:
Enjoying (?!) the shopping stories, as I’m heading out today for a major shop - we’ll see if I survive.

Wedding rings - I’d lost mine several years ago, gave it a few months of looking around, finally ordered a new one (for $39 from Amazon :laugh: ), and the day the new one arrived, I found my original one…under the couch and perched very nice on a bit of the wooden frame, like a little ring fairy had placed it there.
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He's lost more than one now.

The first couple of times it was lost it was found within 6 months. Third time around took me 12 months to find it. Luckily when we went cycling, we had gone into a jewellery store and bought their cheapest tackiest wedding rings because he lost his (technically we know where it is, we just can not access it) that ring in a shower block in the north of Sweden. It fell through the slotted wooden floor whilst he was showering. I can still see that camp site, and the climb out into the ski country the following day. He's lost his original a few more times since but it has always eventually turned up. But 12 months is the longest it had ever come without surfacing.

That said, I suspect I know what happened to it given today's fun and games. Apparently we only have 1 key for locking the bike rack onto the tow ball. So you would have thought he'd keep that safe given it prevents the vehicle boot from being used. You can open the top half, but you can't drop the split boot with the tow hitch on let alone with the bike rack on. (In a saloon you can open the boot which is what we originally had back in the UK some 20 years ago when we bought this bike rack.) anyhow, once home he wanted to remove the bike rack and I found him walking up and down our track looking at the ground...

2 hours later, by which time I had issued the order that the bins were not going out on Wednesday until all of them had been searched thoroughly, he finally found the key. IN THE EFFING KITCHEN BIN. The only key and he stores it in the kitchen bin? :banghead:

And he wonders why I get frustrated?
 
badjak said:
Get spare keys made NOW :hyper:
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He's going to try to get one cut on Tuesday. But if that fails I can order a new numbered key from Thule and get it delivered to the UK. Thule are a Swedish make and not common over here. Plus one he goes away, I'll search through the keys because I know we have more than 1 of that one. We both used to have a key each, plus the spare...
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
He's lost more than one now.

The first couple of times it was lost it was found within 6 months. Third time around took me 12 months to find it. Luckily when we went cycling, we had gone into a jewellery store and bought their cheapest tackiest wedding rings because he lost his (technically we know where it is, we just can not access it) that ring in a shower block in the north of Sweden. It fell through the slotted wooden floor whilst he was showering. I can still see that camp site, and the climb out into the ski country the following day. He's lost his original a few more times since but it has always eventually turned up. But 12 months is the longest it had ever come without surfacing.

That said, I suspect I know what happened to it given today's fun and games. Apparently we only have 1 key for locking the bike rack onto the tow ball. So you would have thought he'd keep that safe given it prevents the vehicle boot from being used. You can open the top half, but you can't drop the split boot with the tow hitch on let alone with the bike rack on. (In a saloon you can open the boot which is what we originally had back in the UK some 20 years ago when we bought this bike rack.) anyhow, once home he wanted to remove the bike rack and I found him walking up and down our track looking at the ground...

2 hours later, by which time I had issued the order that the bins were not going out on Wednesday until all of them had been searched thoroughly, he finally found the key. IN THE EFFING KITCHEN BIN. The only key and he stores it in the kitchen bin? :banghead:

And he wonders why I get frustrated?
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I don't enjoy wearing a wedding ring partly because moving your ring to thoroughly dry underneath every time you wash your hands is a pita and partly because I hate the way it digs into your finger when wearing gloves and cycling or motorcycling.

Didn't you find the temperature fluctuations when you were cycling meant the ring was often too small or too big? I've whipped a glove off and my wedding rings gone missing several times. I tried three different wedding rings before I gave up.
In the end I got so fed up with the stress of looking for my wedding ring I put them on a necklace instead.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I don't enjoy wearing a wedding ring partly because moving your ring to thoroughly dry underneath every time you wash your hands is a pita and partly because I hate the way it digs into your finger when wearing gloves and cycling or motorcycling.

Didn't you find the temperature fluctuations when you were cycling meant the ring was often too small or too big? I've whipped a glove off and my wedding rings gone missing several times. I tried three different wedding rings before I gave up.
In the end I got so fed up with the stress of looking for my wedding ring I put them on a necklace instead.
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Yeah mine stay in my desk drawer unless we are going out. I never wear them at home or to work.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I don't enjoy wearing a wedding ring partly because moving your ring to thoroughly dry underneath every time you wash your hands is a pita and partly because I hate the way it digs into your finger when wearing gloves and cycling or motorcycling.

Didn't you find the temperature fluctuations when you were cycling meant the ring was often too small or too big? I've whipped a glove off and my wedding rings gone missing several times. I tried three different wedding rings before I gave up.
In the end I got so fed up with the stress of looking for my wedding ring I put them on a necklace instead.
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No, oddly enough i never had any issues. I hated the fake ring (that did dig in, and had sharp edges. It cost a whole £39 mind you!) but love our proper rings. (3 colour twisted gold). It's got rounded edges and wasn't every an issue cycling in it. Luckily still having mine means his can be matched to it. The jeweller was delighted to be making something different and original. They'd not seen the design before (it came from Ernest Jones (UK) back in 1996). They weren't desperately expensive back then, mine was £125 his was more, but that was 3 decades ago. Costs now mean his is going to cost £1,500 equivalent to replace.

One of the problems with him losing it all the time was that he did take it off to wash his hands, bath/shower etc. Mine stayed on all the time. I even went swimming in it everyday at work after cycling to work. It never bothered me. I guess that's why I still have mine and he hasn't. We put mine in the safe 4 years ago when my arthritis got to the point where getting it on and off was hard. So whilst it's not been written for 4 years, it has been safe. Lay time I wore it was the day he lost his (Australian citizenship day), but I had such a hard time getting it back off that I didn't dare try wearing it again. So mine is getting adjusted at the same time. It gives the jeweller chance to match the two rings.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
No, oddly enough i never had any issues. I hated the fake ring (that did dig in, and had sharp edges. It cost a whole £39 mind you!) but love our proper rings. (3 colour twisted gold). It's got rounded edges and wasn't every an issue cycling in it. Luckily still having mine means his can be matched to it. The jeweller was delighted to be making something different and original. They'd not seen the design before (it came from Ernest Jones (UK) back in 1996). They weren't desperately expensive back then, mine was £125 his was more, but that was 3 decades ago. Costs now mean his is going to cost £1,500 equivalent to replace.

One of the problems with him losing it all the time was that he did take it off to wash his hands, bath/shower etc. Mine stayed on all the time. I even went swimming in it everyday at work after cycling to work. It never bothered me. I guess that's why I still have mine and he hasn't. We put mine in the safe 4 years ago when my arthritis got to the point where getting it on and off was hard. So whilst it's not been written for 4 years, it has been safe. Lay time I wore it was the day he lost his (Australian citizenship day), but I had such a hard time getting it back off that I didn't dare try wearing it again. So mine is getting adjusted at the same time. It gives the jeweller chance to match the two rings.
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I got married around the same time as you (1995) and I remember eyeing up that three colour gold twist ring! Nice choice.

I tried three different shapes of wedding ring and didn't get on with any of them but then I used to have very slim fingers and rings always had a hard time staying on.I've lost my engagement ring and an eye wateringly expensive cocktail ring because my hands got cold 😬
Arthritis has swollen my fingers too so I doubt any of them would fit me now anyway. Heyho.
The only time I tend to wear a wedding ring is if I go to a foreign country on my own, then it has proven itself useful!
 
I woke up early this morning so that I could get the Apple Pie made for this afternoon's lunch.
That was a fail!
I had frozen some leftover Apple wedges and they were just mush!
:facepalm:
Okay, now what's for dessert?
DH: Didn't you just buy a big carton of that Ice cream that we all like so much? That'll do just fine! AND it's one less thing that you need to do! Sit down, have another cup of coffee, and what's for breakfast by the way?
:laugh:
Have I mentioned that my husband is a genius lately?
 
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kaneohegirlinaz said:
I woke up early this morning so that I could get the Apple Pie made for this afternoon's lunch.
That was a fail!
I had frozen some leftover Apple wedges and they were just mush!
:facepalm:
Okay, now what's for dessert?
DH: Didn't you just buy a big carton of that Ice cream that we all like so much? That'll do just fine! AND it's one less thing that you need to do! Sit down, have another cup of coffee, and what's for breakfast by the way?
:laugh:
Have I mentioned that my husband is a genius lately?
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Meanwhile I have the exact opposite problem.

I am having my mom, dad, brother and SIL over for dinner this evening. I wanted to make a chocolate soufflé cake for dessert. I put out some butter, in a bowl, to soften to room temp, and went off to relax a bit.

In the meantime, my husband wandered in and decided to load the dishwasher. Trying to be helpful and all that.

I came back into the kitchen…”um, where’s the butter?”

Dumbass had somehow NOT NOTICED THE FREAKING ENTIRE BLOCK OF BUTTER in the bowl and had tossed the whole thing in the dishwasher. So now the dishwasher’s full of freaking butter, I need to restart my soufflé, husband is sheepish and I am trying very hard to not be too mad at him.

If profanity were allowed on this forum, my post would be full of much more colourful words.
 
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