by Hans Johnson

Spring cleaning was a bit eventful this year for Eric Cloutier of Laguna Niguel, California, when he sold an old watch box for $10, not knowing that in it was his wife’s $23,000 diamond wedding ring.

As his wife Racquel told ABC News:

Every year our community holds a garage sale. I was in the hospital. I just had a baby. So my husband thought it would be fun for my other kids if they could sell some things at the garage sale.

He didn’t know that before I went to the hospital, I put my ring in that box. I wanted the ring to be in a safe place and out of reach from my 2-year-old twins.

Upon her return:

I go into my husband’s closet, can’t find the box, and then he tells me he sold it. I said, ‘You sold it? What do you mean you sold it?’ I immediately started crying.

From CNN:

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Amazingly, Alyssa Lassau had read their story and emailed them, because her mother was the one who bought the box  (which had apparently been bargained down to $5) and she had given it to her.

Good Morning America has the meeting of the two women.

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[HT: TheBlaze]