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harrigran that reminds me of the time I went to visit my in-laws and my FIL - chuckling away - told me that the open book on a chair in the middle of the room was put there by my MIL to remind her about something ... but that she couldn't remember what!

I could help with what it was, because I had popped around to tell them I couldn't get through on the phone (this was before mobiles) - my MIL had unplugged the phone to get some peace!

I left a memo on my computer "advent calendars for girls", fine I am getting a daily reminder but where did I actually put the blinking things, I thought I had also written where they were.

Things disappear all the time but what amazes me most is when I am sitting in one place and never move and still items vanish eg pen, scissors, sewing cotton, notepad, make up brush, etc, depending on the job I am doing. If I do not move they must be within arm's length but NO! Where do they go? They can only have gone to a parallel universe and then they may (or may not) return days later!

Ana - my thoughts entirely. Whenever I see nude statues of men I think, no way, it's the size of an acorn!

Barmyoldbat I have to ask. Do you do it on purpose?

Usually lose my husbandwhen we go out somewhere

I panic, lost my confidence, beauty. X

Birthday cards - seen early so bought for that special person, carefully put away for the day - they never fail to evaporate somewhere in the house. 'Have just found a lovely card bought for Dil almost two years ago!
Car keys - have spent hours of life trying to find them in spite of designating special places to keep them to avoid this maddening last minute hunting about and shouting.

My husband's 74 his nam's David and still looks like this! Lol

I usually know where things are. DH loses his keys, and then takes mine if I don't keep an eye on them. We once found his in the Dog's treat jar!!

Before we went abroad last year, my DH put bank cards not needed in a 'safe place', this included the card reader, National Trust membership card, bus pass, B&Q Diamond club card and so on.... It took him 3 months to find them, he'd replaced most of them by the time he came across them. I decided enough was enough - we had a safe installed. Now we have a safe place ... just not for the safe keys. Incidentally, I also have a glasses case that can effectively burrow deep into my handbags, under the bed, below car seats. I swear I can sometimes see it move out of the corner of my eye.

DH's glasses!
The eternal cry of "Have you seen my specs?" almost drives me insane. I bought him a wooden 'nose' on which to park them for the night but really wish I had bought at least another one so aim to get some more especially in the light of recent events.
He recently lost them for five days and five nights during which he searched every room and cupboard in the house, the garden shed and the garage and workshop including both big freezers. They had fallen off his nose when he was building the bonfire for bonfire night and had slipped down between a wall and a fence, miraculously there was not a scratch on them! How come he didn't notice at the time since he needs them to see?!

Michelle H.....Know exactly what you mean!!!

GLASSES!!!...BOUGHT TWO CHAINS/DECORATIVE NECKLACES TO ATTACH TO GLASSES THINKING IT WOULD ENCOURAGE ME TO USE THEM...THING IS ...CAN'T FIND WHERE I PLACED THEM.....

A receipt for something that I need to return. I always keep receipts for important purchases,i.e. clothes and shoes,items for the house,electrical goods etc. But I can guarantee,that if I ever have a reason to return an item,without fail,I can never find the damn receipt. I have lost count of the number of times this has happened to me over the years. I can find every other receipt in creation,just not the one I need. It has been infuriating at times,like the instance a few years ago,when a mobile phone I had bought started acting up. Could I find the receipt? Could I heck. Searched everywhere for it. Gave up in the end. Miraculously,the phone righted itself a a few days later. But what really pissed me off,was that a few months later when I wasn't even looking for that receipt but another one,there it was,in the place that I was sure I had put it all along.

My confidence, my memory and the ability to reach my toes

My short-term memory. I've been suffering from maternal amnesia since my eldest was born (he's now 38). I regularly go upstairs then can't remember why; I think I need to replace the toilet rolls, then think the same next time - and the next.

Lip balms , the idea as to have one in each bag and coat pocket, but they're never there!! I'm solely in charge of keeping the manufacturers in the black lol

Everything is in my bag - I think! I put the keys in, the purse in, the phone in, the lipstick in. But how is it that when I look for anything it has migrated to a parallel universe of handbagdom?

I often awake with a start at silly a.m. with a clear picture of where the 'safe place' was that I put the missing article. I then have to get up and retrieve before I resume sleep and forget again (amazing things our brains - I sometimes think we try too hard to remember and that when we sleep they re-boot). Lucky you Grannypiper, my hair has thinned too much to lose even a hairgrip.

The phones...what sadist invented the cordless telephone? I never find it before the ansaphone clicks in and the caller rings off.
Anything I need in a hurry but I usually find what I needed in a hurry the time before.
barbaralynne, I know exactly what you mean, it drives my family mad when I get half way through a sentence and...

felice if you can't find it you should be able to align it from your computer. Try to print something and it will tell you that you need to align and give you a link.

Bought some chocolates as Christmas gifts - sure I put them in drawer with Christmas cards..... no not there, now where else would I have put them?

I'm pretty good with glasses & keys, purse & cards live in handbag.

Lost my Christmas earrings (fragile, look like baubles so carefully wrapped) after a home move - found them when I was sorting a box of "odds & ends" in Spring. I know where they are now & will wear them this Christmas

Can never find a tape measure when I want one