When you've been married as long as I have you learn what and what not to worry about. Take for example vacuuming - say you are vacuuming, because you should be doing that, and you hear a clink into the bag. As a newly married person you have to make a rapid decision. Do you mention the clink to your spouse, and when? Do you stop the machine immediately and yell, HONEY! Or do you pretend you didn't hear it? Either way you were probably in the wrong for not paing enough attention so there is some math sense in staying quiet...

But, what if later they say "Hey have you seen my heirloom diamond ring?" 

Now you're in real shit, doubly so if you emptied the bag.  Of course you could fess up right away and only hear about it a short while. But if you stop at every clink the job might never get done.

As a person married as long as I; I know the location is the critical factor - a clink in the kitchen? Dog food.

A clink in the bedroom...STOP THE LINE.