Missing luggage

My last but two mobile phone vanished. I tried ringing the number - no response either in the house or in the car. I searched the car because that was where I remembered using it last. Went under the seats, in every possible hiding place - and came to the conclusion that it must have fallen out when I stopped to pick up a passenger, but couldn't find it outside his flat either. Reluctantly I concluded it was gone for good and acquired a new one. Months later, after I had had to brake suddenly, what shot out from under the car seat? Yes, you knew this was coming, didn't you? However, when my sister lost hers in Spain, there was no such happy outcome.

roses I am convinced that there is an "old socks club" somewhere where they all dance about laughing at us
One August I went to the xmas shop (yes I know it was far too early) which had just opened in Albert Dock L'pool for some pretty special decorations for the tree,the assistant packed them up well with tissue and gave me a lovely bag to keep them in until I needed them,they where put under the stairs on top of a box which was full of other decorations,they where never seen again and from that day to this I have no clue where they went as the bag was very attractive so no one would have thrown them out by mistake,very strange indeed every year since we mention the saga of the missing decorations.

Elegran you are right! The moment you buy a replacement, the original turns up..... ususally in the place where it should be and you have already checked there, it's weird.I had to replace small Easter eggs [and they turned up the minute I bought the new ones.] Last week we searched for the Rose Clear in the garden shed, as the roses had black spot, only a small and fairly tidy shed, no luck, thought we must have used it so bought another.The second I got back from shopping [with a new Rose Clear] the DH said he had found it while I was shopping, in the shed, where we had looked before. Unbelievable. A few days ago, our front door key vanished from it's usual spot, and I know that it's somewhere, hiding and laughing and waiting for me to have a new key cut.Don't even get me started on the 'where do odd socks go' question.All I know is, that there IS a place.

I had one of those too....dunno where it went!

My DH was always misplacing his keys so I bought him a key ring which if you whistle it would whistle back - he lost it!

Some years ago I 'misplaced' both my mobile phone AND a landline handset at the same time. Neither of them have been seen again.

Murphy's Law......

That is the most sure way of finding anything - buy a replacement.

Alie, I have two small hammers because when I lost one I went and bought another. Then, of course, the original one turned up.

Surely that depends on how big her freezer is, doesn't it?

But will you be able to see to find them?

So maybe my distance glasses are in the freezer. That seems quite possible.

I bought the DD2 some socks years ago when I was grocery shopping in Sainsbury's. Could not find them when I got home, the store did not have them either.
Weeks later I took some bread out of our big chest freezer and guess what! Yes, nicely chilled pairs of socks packed in the bag with the bread by the kind lady on the till.

Flower my guess is whole lot inside a bigger suitcase Russian doll style. Good luck!

Bought a replacement zip. Took it out of handbag, instantly it vanished. Searched everywhere to accompaniment of DH smugly telling me how utterly hopeless I was, how I never knew where anything was etc etc. Next week I emptied the indoor recycling box into the outdoor bin and there was a small now screwed up John Lewis paper bag containing...... Did he apologise? Did he buffalo! "Well it looked like an empty bag". I know it doesn't help find your luggage, but it proves lost things do turn up ....sometimes!

My smallest hammer vanished too. It reappeared eventually on the rockery, mostly turned to rust.

I still haven't found the cellar key, which has not been seen since approximately 1975, when DD1, DD2 and a couple of friends were playing in and out of the cellar one afternoon. Luckily the back door key was identical (back door now replaced, in case any would-be burglar has the cellar key stowed away)

All the things I haven't got are the things I have 'lent' to my daughter!

Apart from my smallest hammer, which has not been around since the men were here replacing my gutters........

I'd been looking for my garden fork on and off for some months. I assumed it was lurking somewhere in the undergrowth in the garden. And it really, really wasn't in the shed. I'd just about decided to go and buy a new one, when I went down to the shed to put a hoe away and what should I find in the corner of the shed? That blinking fork!!

I returned them to DH who retreated into his study! I can see a repetition of this scenario when the GC come round because DHs study looks as if we've been burgled!

Are you giving them to the GC golden girl, or have you scoffed them?

Charleygirl, try St Anthony, he has often worked for me, although he has been known to take ages - but sometimes quite instant.

The Borrowers operate quite often in our house but do put things back occasionally.

DH bought 6 Easter eggs for the 6 GC. We couldn't find 3 of them and so had to buy 3 more! Hey presto I found them yesterday in my study in a sturdy bag where I must have offered to hide them before Easter! So Flower is it possible that your bag is hiding in a bigger bag? It's bound to turn up eventually but perhaps when you're least expecting it

rosequartz St. Anthony would need to move in permanently as I am forever losing things, especially paperwork. Filing has always eluded me.

Yes, I thought it was about luggage lost by airlines before I read the full Op

Hope it has been discovered now - St Anthony is often helpful in finding lost things:

'Dear St Anthony, full of grace, lead me to its hiding place.'

The title of this thread brought back what they used to say about Concorde. Breakfast in London, lunch in New York, luggage in Hong Kong.

Perhaps it's gone on holiday.

We searched high and low for DD2's large suitcase (one of a set), and she finally went off abroad without it about two and a half years ago! She decided it must have gone missing when she moved house.
A few weeks ago we found it in a large cardboard box in the attic.