Comments on: Finders Keepers November Giveaway : Hello Kitty Flags, Chopsticks and Tote

By: Jill Wolters

Jill Wolters — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:48:11 +0000

My husband lost my wedding band and another ring several months before we got married. He was remodeling the house we were going to live in & figured he just misplaced them. Several months after we were married, I found the rings. We had them all welded together so that I could wear them as one ring. They were beautiful–my engagement ring, wedding band & a ring he bought for me while we were in Russia serving as missionaries (I, long-term; he, short-term). While pregnant with our first son, I lost that special ring along with a silver band I purchased in Russia which is embossed with a blessing in Russian. We have never found those rings, but my husband did secretly contact a friend who is still a missionary in Russia & she was able to purchase another silver band for me like the one I lost. I now wear that ring along with a wedding band we bought at a pawn shop for $13! Like others have said, even when you pray for God to help you find something, sometimes God gives you an answer you may not like–”no”. That’s okay. I’ve learned that our material possessions are not our real treasures anyway!

By: Sarah Joy Albrecht

Sarah Joy Albrecht — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:00:05 +0000

Working on the drawing now :D !

Andrew (@higgins82 ) Gets an extra entry for his RT: @mrsalbrecht: Finders Keepers November Giveaway : 8 Hello Kitty Flags, 3 Sets of HK Chopsticks, and a Red HK Tote http://bit.ly/1Z61Vr

Note: Only the entrants who shared stories are receiving an entry. Gotta play by the rules!

By: amy

amy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:58:03 +0000

My mom and sister were at a lake playing on the shoreline and one of them dug up a class ring. I told Mom to go to the public library and look at photo albums from the class and look for people with the same initials and call the school.
A woman called my mom later and said her daughter had lost the ring while at the lake two years ago and figured she would never see it again.
The reason I feel like this story includes me is that my mom was just going to keep it, figuring she would never find the owner. I can’t imagine why you would want to keep someone else’s classring when you obviously had not gone to that school AND it has the person’s initial’s carved into it!

By: Elizabeth Hull

Elizabeth Hull — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:56:38 +0000

This is not an Earth-shattering tale but my lost and found story is sort of embarrassing and humbling! I went to Target to pick up a couple of items while I was pregnant with my twin daughters this summer. When I got home I realized that two bottles of soap I had purchased were nowhere to be found in my bags. The next day I went back to the store to have them check to see if the cashier had placed them at teh service counter for me. They were not there. So instead the clerk refunded my money and I then purchased two new bottles of soap. Upon returning home from my shopping trip I was taking items out of the back seat of my car and noticed something under my seat and found the original two bottles of soap! Being so big and uncomforable during my pregnancy I hadn’t bent down to look under the seats and didn’t really think to look there. They had rolled out of the bag! So the day after that I returned the two bottles of soap to the store explaining what had happened. The girls at the service counter were a bit surprised and thanked me for being honest. Personally I felt more than a bit silly over the whole thing but THREE trips to the store later I finally had soap for my bathroom! And now that I’ve had the babies, I can bend again!

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:56:14 +0000

Recently, our kids found a wallet in our backyard. They remembered that an elderly lady who was visiting next-door had come over to chat earlier in the day. Both of the kids promptly went next-door to check and see if it belonged to either of the ladies. The lady was so happy to get her wallet back and she rewarded them with a couple dollars.

In the more distant past, when my husband and I were youth sponsors, we took a group of kids to Colorado. On the way we stopped in western Kansas at some rock bluffs so the teens could climb on them. Once we arrived at camp we discovered that one child had left his bag (including clothes) in Ks. We checked on our return trip to see if the bag happened to still be there and were shocked to find it 5 days later in the same spot! What an answer to prayer!

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:34:50 +0000

I have lost a lot of things (and people) over the years, but one sticks in my mind. I had been going to a church and was getting ready to move on. I had a big purse that was stuffed with stuff.. (for a young teen it was important) My last day at the church I left that purse somewhere I still don’t know where it was left. TWO YEARS later I went back to that same church and they handed me that same purse telling me that they knew that I would eventually come back for it. Makeup, and everything else was still in it. Got a surprise when I looked at my wallet and found that I actually had a $20 in it. I had been trying to get a job at the time so that I could get Christmas presents. I still can’t believe to this day that they kept that huge purse for 2 whole years waiting for me to come back.

By: Linda Kish

Linda Kish — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:50:13 +0000

I don’t have any specific stories. If I find something, I turn it in immediately. Oh, I did find a very overstuffed wallet one time in a shopping cart in grocery store parking lot. It had ID and I took it into the store for them to call the owner.

lkish77123 at gmail dot com

By: Peggy

Peggy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:38:10 +0000

We learn things about Japan all the time because this is where my son wants to be a missionary. Of course, Hello Kitty is one of my girls favorite (7 & 4 yrs) because it was my favorite growing up too! My lost story is about the girls best friend from church who lost his toy this summer while playing. It was green and, of course, lost in his “green” grass front yard. Ben looked everywhere and then finally asked for help. When he was asked if he prayed, he said “of course, I did that first” but he still couldn’t find it. He dad explained to him that sometimes the answer to our prayers isn’t the answer we want and we may not find it. Ben was determined and just kept looking. Sure enough, 15 minutes later, he found it! Not that it was an important toy; but if God can answer a prayer that we would consider “cute” or “trivial”, I would think he would answer others if we would just have the “faith of a child”! :)

If we would happened to be drawn to win something, we will share this with Ben as he allowed my girls to share his story with you!……God Bless!

By: Melody

Melody — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:15:07 +0000

Great Story! My girls love all things about Japan and have never been. We have hosted two summers a 12 year old Japanese student, and my 10 and 11 year old girls just love all things Japanese. We went to Epcot in May in Florida, and the Japanese store was our favorite stop! They eat with chopsticks often. In fact, we just got a dog (first one for the kids), and they named her Nikko (sunshine in Japanese). I don’t have an honesty story to share, but I enjoyed your story and would love to win this package for my girls… Thank you.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:23:30 +0000

We are always looking for opportunities to show our children that honesty is the best policy.

One day we went shopping at a WinCo, as we pulled out of our parking spot, I noticed a wallet on the ground, that was under our car. I got out, and pick up the wallet, looking through it, and all I found was a social security card and an ATM card. I took it into the store, and gave it to customer service. I hoped that the owner would check there and find his property.

A month later, while reading the local paper, we came across a Thank-you, written in the comments section. Judging by the date and time, we realized that the Thank you was for us, for turning in the wallet.

Although, we didn’t think a thing of it after placing the wallet with customer service, it was so sweet that that young man took the time to call the paper to thank us.