Lost ! Advice.

Ah the borrowers are hard at work!

My DGC insist on using beds as trampolines and repeatedly knock off the wooden disks which fit on the tops of the metal upright posts of their Dad's bed leaving a quite sharp dangerous ring should they accidentally bounce onto it! I usually find the discs near or under the bed but three of them have disappeared this week.

Cue major tidy/clean up of bedroom which entailed two and a half hours of moving bed, furniture and numerous under bed storage boxes. I moved, dusted and vacuumed everything and found two of them. Having pushed a small chest of drawers back into place I wondered if it could have fallen into an open drawer so tidied up all the clothes in the drawers. No joy! Nowhere else to look!

No more options so I angrily said out loud, "Where the is it?"

I turned around and there it was on the (spotless and cleared of everything) floor! Angel? Poltergeist? House? Black hole? Portal to a parallel universe? Who knows? Maybe it was someone(thing)'s way of telling me to clean the bedroom!

I've glued them in with superglue now. Watch this space!

Love these stories. I shall ask the angel and house. I have ordered another copy of this booklet. Strangely it hasn't arrived and it was sent on Monday,...... Don't tell me another one has got lost!!

I quite often mislay things but luckily have an angel who usually helps me. If I have looked everywhere I can think of I say "please angel, canyon help me. Where do I look". I am not superstitious and I have no idea how it works, but it usually does. After a few minutes into my head pops something like "look in your cupboard under sweaters" or something equally unlikely, and voila, there is t,he missing item. Once I had lost my car keys and looked everywhere - for days - until I asked help and my angel old me to take a look under the seat of my car. I had looked there several times and so had my husband, but the keys had slipped so far in they weee completely hidden. I went back into the kitchen, very grateful and thanked my angel. Then, believe it or not, as I looked out of the window I saw a bus going past, marked
ANGEL TOURS! I laughed - but nobody believed me. So, ask out loud if there is an angel around who'll be willing to be your special helper.

I have to admit that more than once I've asked someone if they've got their phone when I'm actually talking to them on it.....

Come on, confess, how many of you have performed my trick of wandering around the house looking for your specs, only to eventually find them on the top of your head?

I reckon St Anthony's given up on us!!! See second item!!

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First place I always look is the recycling bin/bin.

I worked in a small library for a while, and was constantly amused by tales of people losing glasses and purses-they often seemed to turn up in the middle of freezers! I guess we look in there before shopping and accidentally leave them in there? I sound smug, but I' m not. I constantly lose a ring my partner gave me and usually a watch I have put with it- I put them down on my way to bed when putting things in the dishwasher or gathering reading material, and have woken myself up searching for the pesky things!I remember listening to Terry Wogan years ago, and one of his TOGS had lost a cup of hot chocolate they had just made. They found it a week later in the middle of the spare room floor.... we all do it! I would look in my handbag for that booklet, or inside another book. I have been known to put things in the front of another book thinking I will remember it and that it will be safe the. It is, usually from me!

Yes SueDoku I agree and in this hole (sometimes permanently) reside pens, pencils, scissors, needles, keys etc which were all originally sitting beside you when you were using them. Since I have had DGDs I will also add hair bobbles and slides which vanish while I am holding a ready brushed pony tail!!

Alternatively there may be a portal to a parallel universe whose inhabitants throw the missing objects back to us. Remarkably they seem to keep all the odd socks!!

I'm sorry, but all your items are in 'The Black Hole' - every house has one, and when you want something, it hops into TBH and hides, quite invisible, until you stop looking/buy a replacement - then the missing item hops out again and perches in the centre of the mantlepiece, middle of the dining table etc - anywhere you've already looked - smirking and waiting to be noticed...
I've had this theory for years, as it's happened so often.....

A week before setting off for America,I lost my glasses. They were essential for me as I was driving. They turned up at the bottom of the chest freezer.

We have a door bell remote,
for when DH is out in the sauna at the bottom of the garden, when he has finished he likes to take a dip in the little river by the side of this, so he rings on this thing, so that I can watch in case anythings happens to him (like a heart attack) anyway he tested that this thing worked, in the house, and it did, the week after, he went into the sauna fuming, saying "where has that thing gone to?" I hadnt got a clue, but said i could watch instead, getting bored with waiting, I looked around and on the piano guess what, the damned things was there, so I left it there as I knew he wouldnt believe me if I moved i,t I asked him to look on the piano when he came in again, he still wasnt convinced, but did eventually remember when he had tested it and didnt take it with him, but not too pleased it was HE who had mislaid it. I was hoping it was lost for ever, the door bell had a Christmas jingle it plays!

I once found my late mother's specs in her fridge. I of course have a vastly superior system - I carefully squirrel away important things like new keys, letters etc. in a Safe Place. Only problem is there are now several of these in.my house - if I could just remember where!

If I lose something in the house, I don't look for it. In the past I'd tear the place to pieces trying to find it. Now I leave it and sooner or later , up it pops.

have you looked in the fridge? I found my purse in there once

Rosiebee
My late DH had the patience of a saint
He would be in bed and sound asleep while I was turning the house upside down looking for something that could with his placid outlook have waited until the next day,
Not me though I would have been kept awake wondering where the hell I had put what ever it was I was looking for.

With all the new fertility technology available these days a friend of mine gave birth at the age of 65. When she was discharged from hospital I went to her home to visit.

"May I see the new baby?" I asked.

"Not yet," she replied. "First I'll make us a coffee and we can chat for a while."

Thirty minutes passed and I asked again if I could see the new baby.

"No, not yet." she said.

More minutes passed and I asked again. "Please may I see the new baby?"

"No not yet," replied my friend.

I got impatient and demanded, "Well when can I see the baby?"

"WHEN HE CRIES!" she told me.

"WHEN HE CRIES! Why do I have to wait until he CRIES?"

"BECAUSE I'VE FORGOTTEN WHERE I PUT HIM. OK????"

Isn't about multi tasking ? Taking on a one task but at the same time thinking about what you intend or need to do next?
I can never recall my late DH doing the daft things I did and still do.confused

Years ago my friend bought some ready made curtains. She knew they were somewhere in the house but from taking them in from the car she never saw them again - until about 5 years later when they were moving and she found them in the loft with some files she had moved up there! How good does it feel though when you find the missing item (s)!

How totally brilliant to read that I am not the only one. I've often thought that the dreaded Dementia was on its way. I'm also with mislay rather than lose. I do some voluntary work at a charity bookshop and all volunteers have a card on a lanyard that enables us to use the till. When I leave the shop I 'always' put it in the glove compartment in the car. Last week I was still wearing it when I came into the house. Cue a few days ago when I realised I didn't know where it was. Drove DH nuts as I searched the house night and day. I was mortified at the thought of admitting to the lovely manager of our shop, that I had been so careless as to lose it. I am dreadful for just putting things down instead of away. Yesterday I prayed very hard and promised to change my ways and lo and behold within 5 mins I'd found it! Spooky or scary??? I had some travel magazines on a chair by my bed and had put it down there but had also put a recipe book down on top. I had previously picked them up together to look underneath. But yesterday I noticed a bit of black and white [the lanyard] peeping out. I did pray my thanks and promised again to change my lazy ways and put things away. DH is not convinced. Glasses being the main problem. If I ever won the lottery I would buy hundreds of pairs of glasses and just scatter them around the house.

Well I'm off to say a prayer to St Anthony to try to find the pile of photos of me, as a baby through to my teenage years, that I took from my late dad's photo albums. I've turned the house upside down...literally!

Well, it was beautifully written in ornate script

Nice wallpaper for the lounge Jalima - or perhaps a framed print?