Losing and finding things

Harri and Galen - thanks for a good laugh - hope you find your keys/safes.

Harri I need to remember where we put the safe! I know where the key is!

When my children were younger, if I needed to hide food that was required for entertaining, I had various places they didn't know about, trouble is I used to forget where those places were myself. There were occasions I discovered bits and pieces months later with out of date sell by dates. Kind of served me right really!

The trouble is that since they started selling those 'false' baked bean tins every thief now knows where to look first....

anno Elegran -duh! It's in the cupboard with the other BB tins of course. It's my 'safe' place for keys and valuables, etc.....

It was amazing when I was married how every time OH lost anything I must have moved it, even when he found it where he had left it.
My gd told me once that I was a very good looker - no, not my appearance, just good at finding things.
I have started using the same child's birthday for my bank accounts, etc. as I got very confused when using different ones. Last month I went to pay for some shopping with my card, which I have used several times a week for over two years, and had a complete blank about my pin. Fortunately, I had enough cash with me, and although I know you are not supposed to write it down anywhere, I have put the individual numbers on different pages of my diary.

Keys are my problem. You have them all ready for going out. Then you need a pee, or to check the back door is locked, or the lights off upstairs. Whatever, but in that time the bloody things have gone!

harri

Been there and got the T shirt, I got so sick of searching the house for hidden rings and necklaces that we went out and bought a safe. Everything is sitting securely in the safe now all I need to find is the key

My DH goes fishing in Scotland on a regular basis. Whenever he loses anything(seems to think its my job to find lost object) I tell him he left it in Scotland .it makes him very cross. I've tried telling him its in the car/study/on the floor under the bed but he is wise to me just trying to get him to deal with it. He such a SLOW learner.

But we don't know where you have hidden the baked bean tin. I hope you have left yourself a note in the teacaddy to say where the beans are, then all you need do is remember where the note is.

Thanks, Gally, now we know...

I've got a baked bean can which doesn't contain baked beans

Where is this legendary 'safe place' that we all seem to have? I used to put my jewellery in the freezer when I went on holiday - until I discovered that it was the first place the burglars would look. Why did everyone have the same bright idea?

We put our wills in a ''safe place'' and then couldn't find them . Now if anything gets lost someone will say''Oh, it's with the wills!'' (We have incidentally since found the wills and placed them with a solicitor.)

JessM... might try that dreaming thing... every time I go away I hide my rather expensive watch and I insist in putting it in a different place every time don't ask why. Trouble is, when I get home I can't remember where it is!

I must be half asleep... I read your post as 'I once lost a filing cabinet'... eeeek...

OH always blamed our good friend and cleaning helper in the UK. And he still blames here 1000km away, whenever he loses something now, poor Georgia

I once lost a very expensive ring my mother had passed on to me. I looked for it for months, then told the insurance I'd lost it whilst gardening. They used photos to get one re-made by their jeweller- but it was never the same. When we moved 3 years later- OH found the ring behind a chest of drawers, in all the dust ... I must say I am a very honest person, but I didn't tell the Insurance (we had changed insurers in the meantime) - gave the new one to our youngest who love it, and kept the original.

susieb I like it. I am going to locate this any moment...
as if you would have glass earrings galen
I lost a diamond earring once in a holiday cottage. The people there went through the hoover bag and found it and returned it to me.
(momentary guilty pause - they were specially ordered by DH to go with engagement ring. I do not wear earrings any more cos I got fed up with pierced ears. I do not wear wedding or engagement ring since the blooming DS's dog broke my ring finger. should get rings adjusted really. dont think i will get ears pierced again though)
I once lost a filing cabinet key. Went on holiday. Put it in a safe place. When i came back I could not remember where safe place was.
I knew that somewhere in my skull the memory lurked so I told myself as i was going to sleep that I would dream the hiding place.
I dreamed i was looking at an election poster and someone said "It's a centre right party" I woke up and knew that I had put the key half way down my right hand bookshelves. Ta-daaaah.
Always worth a try if you have deliberately hidden something and can't remember where.

I lost my driving licence 10 years ago and had to send for a replacement. I was sure the original would turn up at some point but it still hasn't ! We are still in the same house so I am ever hopeful even though it would be of no use now.

I put my passport in a safe place and still haven't come across it! Luckily the passport office gave me a new one and kindly said to forward the former one to them should it turn up. Phew!

It is hard for me to lose anything at home, as I live in a very tiny, very tidy flat, and alone. Don't you know it is always somebody else who has moved your belongings?
In the great car key search, I also found the little stylus I bought for tapping on letters on the Kindle Fire tablet - after I had spent about 5 pounds on a fancy one in Queenstown! The gd who now owns the tablet uses neither as she is so adept at using her mobile phone for texting, etc.
My mother found twenty pounds, which she really needed, in my Dad's empty shaving things box, after he died. She was about to throw it out when something prompted her to look inside.

My cleaner told me ' I've picked up a glass earring of your floor'
A glass earring, I asked
Yes square and colourless.

It was one of a pair of diamond earrings I'd left on top of a box on my dressing table!
She must have knocked off while dusting, away with the fairies as usual!
Thank goodness she noticed it on the floor though!

Never ever tell yourself you have lost something ! If you do your subconscious wont let you find it - how can it if it is lost?

I learnt that trick in CBT many years ago, and it works !

Justme, I've done that with earrings, several times!

I had a lovely pair of earrings and I lost one of them. I kept the other for YEARS in my jewellery box 'cos I thought 'oh well, you never know, it might turn up'.

After about 4 years sat there lonely, I thought 'don't be ridiculous' and I threw it out. The very next week, I was in the garage and there on the floor was the 'lost' earring!

You couldn't make it up, could you?!