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Right, come on, own up. Who's got my rotary cutter?

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Bathsheba Mon 23-Apr-18 22:30:10

I was using it this afternoon. I haven't tidied away any of my sewing stuff from the dining room table - it's all as I left it. Except for the rotary cutter that is. I have searched everywhere, on the floor, in my boxes of fabric, on all the shelves, underneath all the piles of stuff that I seem to collect. It has gone. Disappeared. Vanished into thin air hmm (why is the air always thin when things vanish into it?).

So if any of you see it floating past, or lying about inexplicably on your table/floor/worktop, can you please box its ears and send it home? Thank you smile

Panache Tue 24-Apr-18 10:04:00

A sigh of relief by us all I presume?

Bathsheba Tue 24-Apr-18 11:28:15

A big sigh of relief here, certainly!

Petra ?. I know I’ve done it too - a relatively new salt cellar went that way once, I’m sure of it ?

bikergran Tue 24-Apr-18 11:37:41

I have a solution for you all.... smile

Install CTV in your rooms....when you loose anything just rewind !!! lol....lol..

Panache Tue 24-Apr-18 11:40:21

Whilst I can only assume a very dear old but meaningful gold bangle that went missing, must have accidently fallen into our bedroom bin..............and from there... the tip I guess.
We have looked everywhere over the course of many months but to no avail..........just the vain hope it might appear one day when we least expect its return!
I am sure that some objects have legs!!!!

chicken Tue 24-Apr-18 15:26:40

My bunch of keys did a runner yesterday. Searched everywhere, even the most ridiculous places, then found that they had done a hop, skip and jump and were hiding at the bottom of a bag of King Edward potatoes.

loopyloo Tue 24-Apr-18 15:56:32

And does anyone know where my very small wind up radio is? It was a present from my son and it's titchy so difficult to spot. It might be in the shed.

Grammaretto Tue 24-Apr-18 20:16:10

I'm so glad you found it! I hate losing things. One thing I'm glad of is I have trained everyone to throw all waste food into the compost . In this way I have retrieved any number of teaspoons when I turn out the heap in the spring.

Chewbacca Tue 24-Apr-18 23:53:54

I lose a potato peeler at least once a month. Thing is, I never realise it's gone again until the day after the bins have been emptied, so I never get to retrieve them.

callgirl1 Wed 25-Apr-18 00:17:31

I had my grandma`s wedding ring from her first marriage, it had been made into a signet ring with her second marriage initials on the front, and her first husband`s inside. I know I put it inside one of the several purses I keep in the cupboard, but can I find it? It`s really upsetting me and making me feel guilty. St. Anthony has failed to find it for me, but I only tried him as a last resort, maybe he thought I wasn`t a true believer.

DanniRae Wed 25-Apr-18 08:18:53

When I lose something I do that really annoying thing of keep going back and looking in the same places over and over again. Why? If it wasn't there the first time it won't be there next time! confused

Auntieflo Wed 25-Apr-18 09:36:15

Glad you found your rotary cutter Bathsheba. I lost a little silver ring a week ago. I wore it on my little finger, and I think it must have slipped off whilst pottering in the garden. I looked in my gardening gloves, not there, so maybe it will turn up in the future, when I am pottering again. It wasn't an expensive thing, but I do miss it and my finger still has the indent of here it lived. sad

Bathsheba Wed 25-Apr-18 10:43:59

Oh callgirl that must be so upsetting for you - I do hope you find the ring. My rotary cutter could easily have been replaced, but something of such sentimental value is altogether different sad

DanniRae oddly enough, though, I have found things when I've gone back to the first place I looked. I've never been able to explain that confused

Auntieflo another more upsetting loss than my rotary cutter. I hope it turns up soon - keep pottering in that garden, especially on sunny days when the sun might just catch it and make it glint smile