Ok, so does anyone know where I put them?

Something found - my sister found a pair of pretty little amethyst and turquoise earrings in a jeweller's box in her airing cupboard. She had no recollection of buying them or being given them. Her husband said he'd never bought them either. The mystery endures, but I was presented with the earrings!

The one advantage of living in a small flat is that things can't get too lost!
Now retired, with time to investigate cupboards,etc. all is revealed. Mind you, it's often a great surprise - when did I buy that and then duplicate it?!
So even with a tiny place it's still possible, sadly. Organisation a ' work in progress '. Smile

Oh how SAD!!

Alie I can beat you on that sweetie,when Albert Dock opened to public after the regeneration years ago and all small fancy shop's took over the ground floor area a super little shop selling very lovely decorations opened,I could not help myself and bought a big bag of them all with different initials on for DGCs and DCs who lived at home at the time,well says I,I will keep them somewhere safe so they won't get damaged I even unwrapped them and rewrapped them in tissue paper and tied the bag with a big red bow so I would know what they where,and do you know what ? never to be seen again the case of the disappearing christmas bag had us wondering for years and I always wonder if the bag fell below the gap under the stairs and is still laying there waiting to be opened and put on someone's special tree,as we sold that house in 2001 before our move abroad.To make matters worse the stupid shop closed down the next year so I could not replace anything.

Try thinking of this before you go to sleep, your subconscious may help...

Mind you, I haven't found the box of decorations I had three years ago! I borrowed some, having returned these last year I bought more, and now I STILL don't know where my other ones are!
And they aren't any of these places.....

Have you tried asking them where they are? It's supposed to help. And you have to name them, aloud. You can swear at them as well if it makes you feel better. I hope they come out soon!

kitty that is where I keep mine.

Tattynan I love themes too it stops me dithering for ages thinking about which card to send to a particular person. They also have to be 'Charity cards'.
Glad you've found yours Kitty.

Oh what a relief kittylester. So many grannies losing sleep for another night would be just too much.

Brilliant, gm thank you.

harri nearly right! On top of the very high shelf in the study. But, why and who?

On the top shelf of the very deep cupboard in the study.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNYKAFMp19Q
If the link works - you might find Pam Ayres' poem Heaps of Stuff apposite.

Kittylester this is the perfect excuse to buy more cards and wrapping paper! What theme shall we go with this year - winter sparkle. pixies and elves, scandinavian red, holly and ivy or silver reindeers? Have fun.

I have a c-mas drawer under the spare bed but I swear there are things in there that I have never seen before....

No I' just having shaky finger problems notso, andI haven't even started on the gin yet blush

Do you have 2 stashes Grannyeggs?

Try the cupboard on the landing under old wrapping paper and blue tack, that's where I hope I've put mine

In the cupboard on the landing in the bag with the blue tack and some Christmas ribbon, that's where I hope mine is

A Safe Place is where you put them! Safe Places are where you put everything you can no longer find! Instead of leaving them on the sideboard or behind the clock on the mantelpiece we put them in a Safe Place. It's not the things we can't find its the safe places.

I went and bought National Trust C-cards at a 20% discount. Shortly after I got them home, I remembered I had - months ago - already bought some Unicef ones in a sale. So I have probably got enough cards to last at least two years - if I can remember where I've put them!

granjura if she's been here, I hadn't noticed. And she didn't move that pile of magazines!! Mind you, neither did Claire (my cleaning best friend!!)

Probably or not POGS

Whenever anything disappears in our house, Georgia, my ex cleaning friend, even though we now live about 900 miles away. Well, we all need someone to blame don't we (bless your cotton socks Georgia)...

Kitty

Well it could be a diamond wrapped in box after box after box!

Or not

Oh, that's ok then *IPOGS

No it's not, I want extremely small presents