OK - whose got them!!

Buy a new one, the old missing one will be sure to turn up.
Doesn’t matter what it is.

after cleaning the sofa cover lost current book and remote for tv.tore house apart.book reappearred/remote was hiding under other sofa!?
scissors and tapemeasures always missing, than just appear in clusters.found 3 pairs of scissors yesterday,the tapemeasures just come and go as they please(have 3 dyi type and 4 or 5 seamstress type)they all wander off.
dog has made a few things completely disappear most distrubing was a mylar package,shes leaving glittery bits on her toilet runsthankfully she is getting to adulthood and doing it less.

Lizzypopbottle No I don't have a dog, just a husband but I don't think he would do that ... or maybe he would ...
Overthehills I don't have an old Next Catalogue. There's probably an Argos one somewhere. Will that do?

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

No - it's usually in the first place you looked but it wasn't there then!

pam Ditto but also pens, and a box of sewing needles when mending things! This rule applies even if you do not move from the spot!!

I keep finding 'thingies' that look as if they may belong to something but have no clue what.
They're all in a drawer somewhere, everyone welcome to come and look to see if it one of their stray 'thingies.'

Oops
Ourkid - totally unreasonable, I stick an old Next catalogue under my missing ironing board foot.
When I left home my mother gave me her scissors. Oh the happy memories when the cry would go up “Who’s got the black scissors?” - I’ve still got them in the “useful pot” on my desk and they must be fifty years old if they’re a day. So you see, you’ve nothing to worry about, they’ll turn up eventually!

I know. It’s the magic fairy who puts the Smarties in the magic pot for my grandchildren. Needed them to open the Smartie packet.

OurKid1 Do you have a dog? My dog would sneak off very quietly with something like that and enjoy eating it in privacy.

I suffer similarly, usually scissors, Sellotape, glasses etc. There's clearly some sort of cosmic conspiracy, as they turn up later, in exactly the same place(s) I looked before and from where they were clearly missing. I thong they have some sort of invisibility capability, which increases in relation to my stress level!

PS It's not unreasonable to buy a whole new ironing board because it's three-footed and annoyingly wobbly is it?

While you're all looking, one of the rubber feet thingies came off one of the legs on my ironing board while it was in the cupboard. I've searched the cupboard thoroughly, giving it a good clear out in the process and it's just not there! Not on the kitchen floor, even in that dusty bit behind the fridge, and the ironing board never goes anywhere else ... unless it's up to something while I'm not looking. If anyone has a spare rubber foot thingy, I'll have it.

Go back and look again in the first place you looked. That's where they'll be. My address book was in the drawer I first looked in after I'd looked absolutely everywhere else!

One of my dad's oft repeated exhortations was, "Have you looked properly?"

and apparently saying 'It's just a label, dear' is not the appropriate response

Right you lot!!

DH has lost the label to his new fruit tree. I haven't got it - honestly! - so where is it?
ps it's not in the recycling bin or anywhere else that he has looked

You've still got them, probably in a pocket!

gillyknits (do you?), you're being gaslighted!

It's tape measures that go AWOL in our house, and it's only me and DH. if DH has been using something it generally vanishes.

With my luck I’ll come out 2 feet shorter but the same weight, and with short hair!

Jalima it’s a well known phenomena that upon reentering a portal items do indeed shrink. I’m thinking of going through one myself to test the theory.

That must be what happened to my engagement ring which went missing for many months then reappeared.

The strange thing is that during that period in space-time it appears to have shrunk.

They have disappeared through a hole in the continuum of time and have now reappeared through another rent in the time continuum that coincided with your box of DVDs.

In my case the answer would be round my daughters house. Everything I lose usually appears there!! xxx

My husband is like yours Diggindoris, Many times I have taken something out of a drawer to use and been sidetracked (multitasking!). Going back to said item only to find it’s gone. DH has tidied up and put it back in the drawer.
I sometimes wonder if he’s trying to make me think I’m going mad!

We definitely have a 'black hole' in our house that sucks random items into oblivion. We have a large box of Scalextric track pieces in the spare room but can't find the cars, the power unit or the controllers. DH has searched everywhere, including the loft, but no sign of them. So do we throw the track out? DH says we should but I know that as soon as we do the 'black hole' will reverse itself and the other parts will reappear.