That's just a tad embarrassing!

Kitty, did you find anything you have been searching 24 years for ?

Don't be silly!

We are in the process of packing up our house prior to moving. We have been here 41 years. On the day we moved in I think I lost my engagement ring. Wouldn't it be lovely if we had an undisturbed draw like yoursKitty and I found it at the bottom?

Oh, I hope you do!

Just wishful thinking on my part

BBBevan, I feel for you. At Easter I put three rings, one inherited from my mother and of deep sentimental value, on the side in the kitchen, but not the usual place because DGC were staying and DGD does love my pretty things. i hid them in something. Two hours later I couldn't remember where, I know, bad sign. I have turned the kitchen upside down, emptied every container, cleaned out every cupboard and drawer with no success. Several family members have searched both probable and improbable places and I am beginning to wonder whether they could caught up with some rubbish and thrown away.

I keep hoping they will re-appear.

kitty how long have you been living in my house?

My sister lost a ring a few months ago and retraced her steps to several places she had visited with no luck. A month ago she went on holiday to Italy and rang me to say that she put her hand in her jacket pocket for a tissue and found her ring in the corner of the pocket. The jacket was a one she took on summer holidays but had worn it to a garden party and had not worn it in between, just as well she didn't take it to the cleaners before her holiday.

Maps! Do we really need a drawer full of maps that are over 40 years old?
Some areas even have motorways now, not on our maps of course.

Pens - they may become popular again!

Not sure about Perry Como though but we could have DM's Perry Como LP somewhere ...

My Dad died in 1992. Clearing out his bureau we found at least 50 biros . " Those will come in handy" said DH. They are still in a draw ,untouched and with the original elastic band around them ! !
I might disappear them in the move

Have you looked in any jugs or ornaments ? Someone once found a very expensive ring in the spout of an old teapot!

I think that's wonderful, kittylester you're a woman after my own heart! I've been in this house 18 years so I've got a bit of breathing space to do my drawers!

BBbevan, pass the (working) pens into a charity shop. I volunteer in one and we are always looking for pens.

DM lost her engagement ring when I was a small child. She was further upset because she thought that my father suspected that she had pawned it . Twenty years passed and she gave an old dresser to a young relative who was moving into her first home. They were moving it into a van when on hearing a twinkling noise they looked on the floor to see the long lost ring!

Don't post often but how about this. We have a tiny safe for valuables, was built in but renovations changed that.

This summer DH hid it. On return from holiday I asked him to fetch it. " It isn't there" he said. I began to worry I had hidden it and forgotten where !. Thought and thought and thought. No clue so worried.

10 weeks later in walks DH, "I've just found the photo I took so I wouldn't forget where I put it but I forgot I'd taken the photo"

Relieved, but ???.

I'd put my few bits of inherited jewellery in an an old spectacle case at the back of the airing cupboard. That took some months to find & turned up in the end by accident.My friend put hers in a shoe at the bottom of the wardrobe!

PS Have you checked the freezer?

Thanks Liz46 will do

Kitty - I have drawers, cupboards & boxes full of the sort of stuff you mention! Plus there are boxes in garage that have not been opened since they were put there the day we moved into this house in 1992!
DH is a hoarder! We started tidying out a large cupboard in spare bedroom last weekend & had to give up when so much stuff had gone to the dump they suspected he was a dealer or something & asked him for
identification. I will sneak some down myself this weekend.
The cupboard is still more than half full!
I am determined that this is the year & will regain some storage space- I have given up on the garage- it has never had a car in it!

MOnica; could they be in your handbag? I'm doing this more and more [losing things]. I lost the S.O.'s spare car key at my sons wedding and found I'd just thrown them into a shopping bag full of bits and bobs. I felt awful at losing them .

I have some postcards in my drawer that I bought in 1980.

Tegan, if only, I have emptied bags, looked in pockets, gone through jewellery box. I remember picking my rings up off the coffee table in the living room and walking through into the kitchen and thinking 'I am not putting these on but in an unusual place because I am suddenly beset by DGC wanting breakfast and I do not want DGC touching them, I will remember.', but I didn't.

I lost a lovely silver ring my dh bought me, years later I replanted the spot at the base of a standing stone and buried in the soil was my ring, I always took off my gardening gloves and put them on top of the stone.

I lost a precious little earring that my DG had given me, bought with his own pocket money. I hunted for it everywhere, subconsciously looking for it wherever I went. At Christmas time, I got out the tiny artificial tree that sits on the sideboard, and there was the earring, dangling on a branch like a bauble.