Shine OnWoman accidentally sells $18,000 diamond earrings for $20 at garage sale
Karmic forces have been busy at work this summer.
First, a California woman made headlines a couple weeks ago because her wedding ring was returned after she accidentally selling it at a garage sale.
And now, we are crossing our fingers that another California woman, Dori Rhoades, sees a similar result after she accidentally sold her $18,000 diamond earrings inside a jean jacket at her garage sale. She hid the earrings in the jacket in case of robbery, reports CBS.
To add insult to injury, the jacket Rhoades sold for a paltry $20 in May also contained a ring given to her from her husband after their daughter was born and $1,500 in cash saved for a family vacation. One of the diamonds was a gift from her father to her mother.
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“I volunteer in my kids’ classrooms multiple times a week and I work full time. I think anyone who is a mother knows. You give so much of yourself that sometimes your brain stops working," says Rhoades while fighting tears.
After she read about the woman who had her wedding ring returned from the garage sale, Rhoades was inspired that her belongs may one day be returned as well.
“It’s my hope someone out there sees the story and knows the person who bought the jacket…I’ve just been beating myself up,” says Rhoades, the owner of a wholesale maternity business in Los Angeles called Conception Showroom.
She may have good reason to believe the items will be returned. Just a few weeks ago a Chicago woman had her wedding ring mailed back to her after she accidentally shipped it to Arkansas.
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Barb Kasang, who works in the shipping department at an auto manufacturer in Chicago, unknowingly mailed her wedding ring with a shipment to Arkansas. Luckily for her, the salesman Steve Smith who received it, mailed it back immediately realizing that whoever lost it would be devastated.
And in another remarkable story, a Boston woman was reunited with her lost wedding ring in April 2012 after losing it two years prior. Boston city employees found the ring in a sewer drain and went on a hunt to find the rightful owner.
What do you think the chances are Rhoades will her items returned to her?
