by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting

"When I was a kid, my mother lost her diamond wedding ring," begins a popular comment on a Reddit post asking parents what the most expensive thing their child accidentally ruined. "She was devastated. A decade later, while cleaning things up for a garage sale, we found it jammed in the toilet of my Barbie house."
Ten years of wondering where it was"! Yikes, but at least it was kept safe and dry -- which is more than I can say about what other parents have been through.
Take a look at a more stories others shared in commiseration...
danieljay691: My daughter ruined my phone when she was about 2 months old. She threw up on me and it splattered hard enough to hit the phone just right while it was charging and it fried the charging port. ryan_503 5608: My brother ripped earrings out of both my mother's ears when he was a baby. He did one, then the other a few days later. I guess the cosmetic surgery to fix it was expensive and insurance didn't cover it.
ThMickXXL: I was washing my van one day 3 years ago and my two year old decided to help wash the other side.....with rocks. Scratched right down to the primer.
Gneissisnice: My sister destroyed not one, but two blenders by leaving a spoon in them before turning them on. The explosions were impressive.

Direwolf007: When I was about 4 or 5 I destroyed our upstairs and downstairs bathrooms. I had this little blue bath toy whale, and I had told my mom before that I wa...