OK - whose got them!!

When I am packing tings into boxes I carry a small wicker basket in which I keep 2 pairs of scissors, sticky tape, black bin bag roll, labels pens etc. This helps me keep track of stuff and then I keep it in the basket for next time.

Sorry sure

Old woman70 try the fridge, couldn’t find mine the other week. In the fridge, and once before in the cats grooming tin. Sue they grow legs and disappear.

My best screwdriver fell down behind a radiator yesterday and I had a terrible job getting it out. Could the scissors be somewhere similar?

I had my kitchen ripped out and re done last March ...they finished on the 10th ( today’s date note). After said kitchen upheaval the key to garage door had gone walkabout... as the fitters we’re constantly in and out of garage sawing things !! We have no car so not much of problem as we can access from side door! But today 10th March one year later I FOUND IT!! It was in the drawer with the silver cutlery..in the dining room. Just goes to show how often I clean the silver!

Perhaps the Fenordries could help me find my spare car key, snowdrop! It’s been missing months. ??

Perhaps you should ask the friendly ghost if he(she or it) wants to come with you when you move?

We had a black ghost cat in our flat and I did ask her if she wanted to come when we moved, but either she didn't or can't. I'm not certain that all ghosts can leave the place where you find them. My old cat comes on an occasional visit though and has had no bother finding us, even although we have moved twice since her days.

Oh I am so glad that others have these strange disappearances too! In this house an item suddenly vanishes; muttering and increasingly agitated searching goes on, OH says 'where did you last have it'? about twenty times and then hours later item is found more or less where it was! I think a ghostly hand takes the scissors/tape/pen/remote to use and then puts it back. And yes, the useful pen pots I have organised upstairs by the computer and downstairs by the desk with scissors, pencil, at least two working pens, tape measure and nail file - WHY is there only ever a blunt pencil and bits of screwed up paper in them?

Loving all the witty comments on this thread! Are some of you stand up comedians? You should be!

Just after xmas I telephoned a local charity shop asking if I had given them an album of dvds with the books and various other items they had previously collected from me.. Sorry they couldn't remember but dvds are popular and sell quickly so it is possible they had received them from me. I was upset as these were recordings of long gone TV programmes.
Two weeks ago I decided to tidy a small cupboard where I keep packs of toilet rolls ,soaps and towels etc for my downstairs toilet.What did I find? my album of dvd's.My friend suggests I ' take more water with it'.
I can only think that this album was in my hands en route
to fetching a toilet roll for the down stair loo.
I must take my friends advice.

Ha! Loved that OldMeg!

You are probably like me and easily get sidetracked. I was wrapping up a present in the bedroom (wrapping paper lives in under bed drawer) when the door bell rings. So I go down to pay the window cleaner with scissors in my hand, put them down, pay him, then think while I'm down here I'll make a coffee. Sit down read a paper. Then remember that I hadn't finished wrapping, and cannot understand where the scissors are when I go back upstairs. In the meantime, H has seen them sitting on the hall table and put them away! I think I'm going mad, and he is unaware why I'm mumbling to myself looking everywhere for them. Is it old age?

Forget what I just said. I found it on the back of my office door in a rucksack. Duh!!

I have the same problem Oldwoman. I took the hood off my mack last week as it looks smarter without it when not raining. Can I find it again? Nooooo. I can't think where I could have put it. Got soaked this morning when it came on to rain. To make matters worse I have been tidying up as my house is up for sale. Could it have hopped aboard when I went to the tip? Ahhhhhhhhhh.

sorry OldWoman!
I didn't mean to italicise you

I thought I would let you all know as I am sure many will have had a sleepless night worrying about it
We were out with family and I talked about nothing else OldWoman

when I wrap up Christmas presents, for example, I have to have at least 3 pairs of scissors and 3 lots of selotape on the go - then when I lose 1 or 2, there is always a 3rd. In the end, they all turn up.............works for me! And, GabriellaG, I am always quoting that one!

It was the Borrowers!

Glad you found them. I shall sleep better tonight . Last time I lost my kitchen scissors they turned up behind the TV soon after I had bought a new pair. I then remembered that I had used them to cut some dead leaves off the plant which stands nearby.

Anything you lose is always found in the last place that you look.

The Manx believe it's the Fenordries (spelling?), basically little people who take things and only give them back when you've finally given up looking and bought another whatever-it-was. So you end up with 2, or 3, or more.

FOUND THEM! For some reason they had climbed into a box of DVDs I am planning to take to the local charity shop. I thought I would let you all know as I am sure many will have had a sleepless night worrying about it Thank you for all your support in this difficult time

Giulia
Glad I'm not the only one. Specs, car keys, pens, scissors .......

IT'S EASY! Do what I Always do. Lose something else (unintentionally, of course!), and while you are desperately looking for that, you will find the scissors - and maybe two more pairs.

You then lose a third article - again unintentionally, and, once again, you will find missing article Two while seeking missing article Three. The story of my life!

✂️ I've got them! £50 in used notes gets them back...