I am going to have my DS call the men in the white van! I went to purchase some soya capsules, to help with these menopause symptoms. I was sure I already had done so, so looked for the packet. No, nowhere to be seen. None in my drawer, none in the cupboard, none on the table. Oh well, I'll get some then. Not cheap, not expensive but money better spent if already got some, obviously.
Packet came yesterday, yippee, took a couple, over the day, ok. Then, just now, coming back in from the kitchen, a packet of the very same capsules sitting on my tea trolley! Why hadn't I seen it? So, 120 capsules now to get through! 
I do this all the time, especially with dvd's and cd's. I buy them, thinking I haven't got them and then I find out (usually from a laughing DS) that I already had a copy.
Do other people buy replicas and then find the original? Or am I really going to the dogs? 
OH thank heaven! I really did start to think it was just me so it's very comforting to know I'm not alone.
Thanks, Jayanna, you have just reminded me that I put the washing on when I got up and have forgotten to hang it out 
All the time! The funniest thread yet. I am delighted to see my daughter beginning to do the things she used to laugh at me for doing
I came home yesterday to find food burning on the stove and with her words (mum you are going to burn the house down one of these days) ringing in my ears went to find her and get my own back.
My wife asked one Sunday morning, if I'd go for a loaf of bread, which I dutifully did. I was at our front door, on my return, when I thought, this loaf feels very heavy. I looked in the bag, I had bought two litres of milk !!! Another senior moment.
I thought I was losing it until I read this thread
I do most of theses things, people in unlikely places - been like that for years although I used to work as a barmaid & could remember not only details of customer but their family as well. Once bumped into a Lady whilst we were visiting a NT Property in Hampshire (I worked in Surrey), she said "oh fancy seeing you here" - hadn't a clue so the usual slightly awkward conversation, when we'd parted I remembered - we travelled on the same train every day
Go shopping & buy things I don't need & forget the essentials, making a list doesn't help
Losing items - frequently. I lost my Christmas Bauble earrings when I moved, fragile so knew I had put them safe, last year couldn't find them, in the Spring I was going through a "memory box", guess what - small plastic box with earrings in - I now know where they are - worn this Christmas.
My DD is Pregnant, she says she's got "baby brain", mine just "to much in my brain" carry lots of useless information as I love crosswords, quizes & trivia
I've always thought I was absent-minded. Now I'm reassured! My best effort was turning up for a meeting with the head of a school where I chaired the governors, wearing identical shoes - except that one was black and the other navy.
She didn't comment.
I had to go up into the loft as husband has bad knee to get the boxes down to put the Christmas deccies away.
What do I find? Boxes of crackers... you know they come in sixes and we usually have eight people, so the other four stay in the box and live up there. Some look like those I got years ago! Why do I not remember this?
Same with gift bags and wrapping paper. He says he doesn't see any when we go up for the decorations, but there they were... at least a dozen booze bags and rolls of wrapping paper stuffed into the loft corner.
Since knee is still bad, I have put all the decs in a corner here in the lounge. They are not going up until the loft gets a good clearout. Who knows what else is up there. (Hehehe...found a baby pic of DH when he was Prince Charming on a float in his little Welsh town after the war!)
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