When tidying my house I always find...

I have 34 odd socks.........just me....not even including husbands. Where the flippin 'eck have their partners gone?

34??!! And you keep them, Hilda?

i put all odd socks in one place...eventually some match. Although when I did this for my kids, they had grown out of them when I got a pair!

I find rubber bands - and lose biros. I have lost my red one now, and I need it.

Specs. I'm always losing them so usually have about 7 pairs on the go at once. Found the green ones under a bed this week which had been missing since before Christmas . Purple ones have been missing since October, but I am ever hopeful.....perhaps if I did a bit more cleaning they would surface. I lose at least 2 pairs a day, but they usually appear before nightfall

Gally that made me giggle!

Socks, books, notebooks, mugs...

Crumpled tissues which moult from my sleeves and pockets and slide behind the bed from under the pillow. And the ones which stay in my pockets usually get shredded in the washing machine.

When my daughter was small, we always insisted she eat something for breakfast, even if it was just a slice of toast. My husband used to supervise breakfasts as I had to leave early for work. When I decided to tidy up the kitchen, I found what could only be described as a 'toast mountain' under and behind the chest freezer. Jenny had been tossing her toast over her shoulder when her father's back was turned :-)

Daisy that is so annoying isnt it rugs that have a mind of their own and move around the room at their leisure

Did you know there are sticky strips that you can buy now that keeps the rug firmly in its place.

Roseyk Oh no they don't! Our hearth rug creeps up onto the hearth every day in spite of it's immobilisers. DH has worked out that it is because we always step onto it from the same one side. This piece of scientific deduction is completely useless in practical terms (unless we can get Santa to call thrice daily x365)

We had a rug that used to climb up on to the furniture when your back was turned, especially during the night. The worst place was over the dining table legs so you could trip when carrying crockery. I had two of these room size Persian rugs and got so fed up I gave them to DD. She has never had a problem with them and they stay in place. I, obviously was never meant to have them.

I think it's like those heads of barley grass we used to put up our coat cuffs as children that gradually climbed up inside our sleeves. My rugs are on top of carpets and I think the way the carpet tufts lie makes the rugs creep. I've tried sticky underlay - it just creeps along with the rugs, ever so friendly.