Dear Rose:

I am not sure what you mean about a soda lid. Ideally a soda life should not be use to dip into Holy Water to transfer to another container, if that is what you did. In any event this soda lid is not like the Blessed Sacrament whereby a sacrilege is committed by doing something like that. In my opinion, you do not have to go looking for the lid. Just say a prayer to God about it.

As for items buried in your back yard, a blessed scapular, let's say, the scapular, or rosary, or whatever should first be broken up. Once it no longer resembles the intact scapular or rosary the blessing attached to it is removed. We bury it in respect, but the blessing is no longer there. Same with cursed objects. Once destroyed the curse no longer exists.

Thus, in disposing of any blessed object, it should be cut apart, dismantled, burned, sawed in two, or otherwise made to not resemble the intact item, and then buried. It is no longer blessed so it does not matter if it is dug up by a new owner of the property.

There are times when a blessed object is buried, such as in the house blessing we have in our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog. In that ritual blessed Benedictine medals are buried in the four corners of the property as a sort of no trespassing sign to demons.

If the Benedictine medals, in my example, were dug up, it is likely it would not even be noticed among the dirt. In ant event, we can leave that sort of thing up to God.

In terms of the superstition of burying a St. Joseph statue to sell a home, that is improper as it is shear superstition, and should not be done in the first place.

I hope that answers your questions.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary