SeekerLazy22

36d agoFinance

My 10yr wedding anniversary gift destroyed

In 2022, I found out about ammolite from following nilered on TikTok. I immediately became fixated with it and started searching for my own special piece. I started looking on Etsy for a pendant. I found an absolutely gorgeous purple shifting one and showed my husband, telling him I was going to make that one of my purchases on a new credit card I had. I had just started building credit up having never had a credit card before. Once I paid my card off I went to buy it. (It was a secured card at the time that had about $500 on it so I had to wait for the payment to clear before I could purchase it.) I went to buy it and it was sold out! When I tell y’all I moped all day, I really did. I didn’t see anything else that looked anything close to it and was only sad. My husband was extra sweet to me that day, trying to make me feel better. What I didn’t realize is he was feeling extra guilty because he had bought it for me! We got married in December and when our anniversary rolled around, the was, it in person, and more beautiful than I ever could have imagined. I wore it about everyday for 2 years. Because I wore it so much and was unfamiliar with how they make these pieces, the resin eventually became dull and a little lifted in the middle where a small bubble formed. When I noticed it I stopped wearing it right away. It sat in a shelf for about a year. I was going to bring it to someone who knew that stone. In February, my husband tried to do something nice for me and took it to a local jeweler for an estimate. Instead of giving him an estimate they did not really contact him back. He thought they were going to steal it since they never reached out to him so he went to the store to ask for it back. They said they didn’t have it but would have it in a couple days. By this time my husband broke down and told me he messed up, and told me about taking it there. I went with him to pick it up, and they gave it back to me stripped of resin and the iridescent shell too. They w...