OK, who's got it?

I have extra Tupperware.......

I have plastic boxes that never match the tops, even though I am sure I have bought exactly the same things. Next time I get the boxes out none of the tops fit!

No fish slice or butter curler here, I'm afraid, but if anyone can find the small cross-stitch picture of a quilt on a washing line (free with a magazine, so not an heirloom in the making), mislaid when we moved more than 10 years ago, I would be very grateful. I was rather fond of it.

I found my long level (needed for putting up a picture on two hooks) behind the TV yesterday, after weeks.
But where is my long sleeved cream coloured top that was to go with my Christmassy crocheted over-thingy? - and the blue ditto??

Pitt and trisher - we could have a tupperware reassignment party!

I have loads of mis matched bits. It's always proper stuff that is missing a bit, not the really cheap stuff I buy as a stopgap. Or the pound shop stuff that warps in the dishwasher and doesn't fit any more!

No fish slice I’m afraid. Did look. Anyone seen a double photo frame complete with photos? It was put away safely to make way for a Christmas thingy. I’ve looked, the granddaughters have looked even Mr C has looked. It isn’t here. It doesn’t have legs - or does it?

The Black Hole in our house has swallowed among other things a beer mug and two new sweaters- thermal ones- but a bottle of vintage brandy has appeared in its packing and a sealed box of Cuban cigars. We obviously have a very grateful black hole.

I bought what I though was a new fish slice today but it is actually a pancake turner as it goes in sideways as it were- does it matter?

I also bought: a heat diffuser (unfortuantely mine had a bit of a problem with gravy!) two cushions, some bin bags (er, actually 60, well they were on offer) 6 birthday cards and a birthday present for DGS.

My turkey foil. I KNOW I bought it because I nearly took DHs left eye out with it at the tills. Never to be seen again !

2 years ago, I bought a small novelty present for my daughter for Christmas, a key ring shaped like a mini, and the same colour as hers (she loves her mini). 3 days before Christmas couldn`t find it anywhere, so without much hope I ordered another from Amazon, that arrived on Christmas Eve. On Boxing Day, I opened a drawer and there the missing one was!

The fish slice could be wrapped up in my nice blue jumper

That is in contrast to my rather scruffy (but warm) blue jumper which I am wearing today.

Phew as long as its not ya comfy jumper haha

the one I'm wearing but wouldn't go out in

I once read a science fiction story like this....

I've got the very same one Jalimal

Don’t know what I’ve lost yet but this thread is helping me recover from Christmas stress! Last time DS and family visited it took months to find everything again- they like re-arranging the bedrooms for children and take every pillow and duvet they can find to make ‘nests’ for 1 and 2 year old. They departed yesterday - now I’ll have to try and find everything again.

Last year Joseph disappeared from the Nativity scene, at the same time as one of the Wise Men mysteriously lost an eye. As if to compensate, Balthazar or whoever he is has now gained a key ring complete with key and compass looped round his turban - no one is claiming it.

And we have lost Great-Great-Great Grandad’s lower half from the Santa Matroshka. I can confirm he was intact on Christmas morning.

Gremlins or poltergeists

The thing is that the good blue sweater is years older than the scruffy blue sweater
You get what you pay for

Maggiemaybe I sent ours all off to the charity shop at the end of last Christmas - the stable kept shedding green stuff all over the sitting room and Jesus just didn't look right at all. I meant to buy another one.

One of our Matroshkas developed a rather nasty split down her tummy one Christmas courtesy of enthusiastic little fingers; I should have taken her to A&E.

Christmas 2016 I cooked 2 different stuffings, when we were dishing up, one had vanished

We looked everywhere, but not a sign

To this day, over a year later, the mystery of the missing stuffing remains unsolved....................

I lost the stuffing one year, found it on Boxing Day.
A pity, because it was a home-made one.
Then there was the mystery of the socks (new) found in the freezer with the bread rolls ....

follow your nose phoenix
or was it the cat?

Jalima, this was Christmas 2016 not sign or smell of it, we even checked the bin in case I might have had an extra sherry got confuddled with it all.

Thank goodness this year BOTH stuffing varieties made it to the table

When I was wrapping Christmas presents I could not find the gift tags, neither those I had made from old cards last year, nor the charity ones nor the few I had actually bought.