If you lost your phone/bag whilst out, how would you………

Step by step Guide😂
Leave a spare with your neighbour or/and in a safe hiding place. Always keep at least £100 cash at home.
Take a taxi home . Get your house keys from your neighbours or your safe hiding place - open the door - get the money from inside the house, pay the taxi driver then get to your landline
and ring the police .

Be careful of pockets as they may be picked. A few weeks ago we were in M&S food department. Noticed a woman right behind us but didn’t think anything of it until we went out and just as we were about to cross a road she suddenly appeared and sort of stumbled into my husband and spent a short while apologising. It looked suspicious so I immediately asked dh to check his pockets. She hadn’t managed to take anything but I remembered her being close behind us as dh was paying in cash. I’m sure she was noting where he replaced his wallet.

i would go home and call my son on my house phone and he would track my phone, he has had a tracker on my phone for about 5 years, my mum was upset that he does this but i don't have a problem with it. i use a walker when out and my handbag is over the handles at the front, someone would need to move me out of the way to get to my bag, i also have a shopping bag and my keys are in that.

I have my families/friends contact numbers in my car. I very rarely take a bag unless going out to socialise. My mobile usually goes in my bra or an inside pocket. This is not ideal I know but I would like to see someone trying to get it.

A pocket diary, 2 phones, a friend etc

Cabbie21

I no longer keep a key in my key safe as my neighbour had theirs wrenched off the wall and the key was used to burgle the house.
Lots of food for thought here. I’m no good with remembering numbers either.

Oh heck 😳 think we are going to have to go back to old fashioned way of threading a key on a string & putting round our necks.
‘Latch door grans’ 😂

Bazza

It’s all well and good to memorise telephone numbers, but lots of people don’t answer unfamiliar numbers, as I know to my cost. What would we have done years ago before mobile phones and credit cards? Just find a phone box and ask for a reverse call. So much easier in many ways!

That is so true.
Then you have the scammers, ‘I’ve have lost my phone’, texts, so people are reluctant to reply back.

My brain is full of codes and numbers. I live in a flat...code for gate access, bins, bike shed etc.pin numbers for bank cards. So I haven't made an effort to remember mobile number. I've tried but it just won't stick. Overload me thinks!

I know DHs number better than mine - I have often given it instead <LOL>

He would be able to track my phone.

As to my bag, that would be a disaster to replace all of my cards. I do keep a £10 note in my phone case.

Duvetdiva

MT62

Duvetdiva
Hope you can read these clearly
Everyone young and old needs to carry one
Would that be in the bag 🤔
MT62
Nothing’s foolproof but a friend left her bag in a restaurant and the staff found the card and rang her contact number.
On another occasion a young lady was stranded in town as her phone was dead and she didn’t know any contact numbers (which instigated the production of these cards)

That was meant tongue in cheek.
Yes it certainly is a good idea.
I put my name & phone number in my suitcase, plus a tracker.
Can’t be prepared enough can we.
My dad once forgot where he lived after a trip out (that was start of dementia) I had to pick him up from the police station. After that I would put his name, address & our phone numbers on sheet of paper & put in his top pocket 😞

I no longer keep a key in my key safe as my neighbour had theirs wrenched off the wall and the key was used to burgle the house.
Lots of food for thought here. I’m no good with remembering numbers either.

If it was just my phone I maybe wouldn't notice for a couple of days, until I wanted to check my walking report. Losing my bag is a different matter. I would still have my keys (in my pocket), but my cardholder and best lipstick and fold-up shopping bag would be gone. No access to banking details on my phone, but debit card in my cardholder..

It’s all well and good to memorise telephone numbers, but lots of people don’t answer unfamiliar numbers, as I know to my cost. What would we have done years ago before mobile phones and credit cards? Just find a phone box and ask for a reverse call. So much easier in many ways!

The phone is in a wallet, along with some cash and a bank card. For the amount of time it’s in there I’m not unduly worried tbh 😀

My key safe key will only get me into the back garden, then I have another there for the house (plan B) it’s always best to have one !

Juneandarchie1

Key safe at home, and my phone stuffed down the side of my bra does the trick. I don’t carry a handbag.
If I have pockets, useful for lippy and tissue.
Job done 😀

That is ok but isn’t there small amounts of radiation coming from the phone 🤔

Best thing is a small cross body bag that you aren’t going to leave any where.

Oreo

More to the point, if your bag and phone are gone how do you get home anyway?

They would have to flag a taxis down. Sure taxis would tip them off at home. Obviously keys will be in the handbag so how do they get in the house to retrieve the money 🤦‍♀️

M0nica

Start by memorising a few key numbers (good brain training to ward off dementia)

When we had a personal safety training at work, we were told never to put our keys in our handbags, always have them in a pocket. I have followed that advice ever since.

if your keys are in your handbag, and it is stolen, even if that taxi driver will take you home, assuming that you have cash or card in the house, how will you get in?

Master key probably is a good idea as someone suggested.
My mum is always loosing her keys, so I am thinking of putting an apple key tag on her bunch of keys but the app would have to go on my phone.
I can’t persuade my mum to have a master key box fitted unfortunately as she is worried people will try to break in.

Key safe at home, and my phone stuffed down the side of my bra does the trick. I don’t carry a handbag.
If I have pockets, useful for lippy and tissue.
Job done 😀

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I recall when I was a teenager (some 40+ years ago now!!) that I knew all the landline numbers of close family and friends off by heart.

Because, of course, I dialled them each time and so got used to them.

Now I only know my own number and those of my husband and two sons - but only because they are all consecutive and we've had the same numbers for over 20-years.
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I have a typewritten card in my wallet with contact details for my nearest relation.

I realise that this is helpful if I am hurt, but of no use whatsoever, if I forget my bag somewhere or my wallet is stolen.

I do have a key-safe with an extra front door key in it, so I can get back into the house. I bought it, after I had lost my keys one evening, the friend that had my spare key was not at home, and I had not at that point realised that being widowed means among other things that there is no-one in the house who can let you in. On that particular evening I had to break a window to get in!

I always have cash in the house, and here a taxi driver will usually be willing to drive an elderly woman home, if she can assure him that she will pay for the trip as soon as they reach her address. I also have an extra credit card which I never take out of the house, as ATMs often "swallow" cards and either you cannot ring the bank when that happens, or it takes them up to a week to return your card.

I suppose we should all have a card with personal details and phone numbers for emergency contacts on us at all times. Unfortunately, most of us would probably forget to move this card from one coat pocket to another when we decide to wear a different coat or jacket than usual.

We could write a memo to ourselves and put it up on the inside of the door we go out of, when we go out.

MT62

Duvetdiva
Hope you can read these clearly
Everyone young and old needs to carry one
Would that be in the bag 🤔
MT62
Nothing’s foolproof but a friend left her bag in a restaurant and the staff found the card and rang her contact number.
On another occasion a young lady was stranded in town as her phone was dead and she didn’t know any contact numbers (which instigated the production of these cards)

I buy all my everyday clothes online from the clearance offers at Rohan. They have loads of zip and inside pockets so that I can keep my phone, purse and keys in different places. Usually, I don't even need to take a bag.

TillyTrotter

I have thought of this , I’d get a taxi cab (you pay at destination)
and we have a key safe on our house wall (more in case I get myself locked out).
I would let myself in and find money to pay cab driver .

I have too, but as it’s only been used once years ago I have forgotten the number … must locate it and write it down .
Thanks for the warning. My neighbour had my keys so I got complacent, but he died earlier this year sadly, so now they aren’t with anyone. Must try to remedy that too. Been waiting to see who moves in but it’s been deadly quiet for months. No complicated probate for his relatives I wouldn’t have thought?