So that's where it's gone - things where they shouldn't be

My keys vanished while I was minding DGS2 (15 months) and I was convinced I'd left them in the front door and someone had taken them - I had a disturbed night worrying about someone sneaking in and woke up thinking we'd have to have the locks changed. It's a good job I had one last hunt around all the places i'd already checked 3 or 4 times. As I pulled out my hostess trolley to check under it, the top trays slid apart slightly and there were my keys, sitting on a pyrex dish!

Sorry, should have said kazzer.

kasser If you can post on here you have to be logged in, so your Gransnet password must be in the "remembered passwords" file on your browser, to be entered automatically when you go to Gransnet. You can display the list on the screen (how you do it depends on which browser you are using)

My dear mother in law lost her wedding ring. Ashamed to go out without it, she bought one in Woolworth's.
Years passed until the day she got to the bottom of her flour tin before emptying in a new bag of flour and there was the long-lost ring.

There seems to be no hope for our key then. Perhaps it will turn up in the garden in the Spring [hopeful emoticon]

I've lost my gransnet password somewhere in my brain, strange as it's only a little place. It means I can't login to competitions!

DS1, as a toddler, took the key to our french window down the garden - at least, that's where we supposed he took it. We never saw it again and I've often wondered if subsequent owners ever dug it up or found it in some unlikely place. Similarly, he managed to unscrew the little knob that adjusted my Dad's CH thermostat. That was never seen again either. Luckily, Dad adored his first GS and his wrath didn't last long.

DS1 lost a rather expensive watch and was sad as it had been a wedding present from his wife. A couple of weeks later he shook Cheerios out of the box and there it was. DGS was about eighteen months at the time. Could there be some connection? I said," Crikey, we were happy to get a plastic cowboy from our cornflakes back in the 1950s."

My DD and SiL discovered that many of DGS's play people had disappeared.
This mystery was eventually solved when DD caught DGS in the act of posting one of them inside the sub-woofer speaker of their sound system.
DD said that once she had seen him about to do this he continued posting it to dispose of the evidence. There were apparently several in there.

Reading my two posts above, I am now wondering if my DGC will be post-people when they grow up? If there is such a career in 20 years' time of course.

And DD2 has been 'posting' her Fisher Price people down a slot into the rattan conservatory furniture. Any suggestions how to get them out?

DD1 thought that DGS had eaten all his breakfast up nicely - until she found the toast in the video recorder!

We had GD and her 3 friends stay over recently to celebrate her birthday and so I put the key to the balcony windows in a safe place!!!!!!! Now DH wants to get out there to take down the bunting he'd put up..........

Two months on and my gold bangle is missing somewhere in DD's sitting room. Last seen in DGD's little hand - she's lobbed it somewhere and we've had hands down the sofas, checked toy box and cupboards under the rug - you name it. We all blame me for letting her play with it!

Worked it too hard so it needs a holiday? Neglected it and now it is in the huff? It will come back in a while, with its tail between its legs. Meanwhile, keep in contact with GN.

I used to have a SOH but it seems to have totally vanished. I'm sure I had it a week ago!
Any ideas as to what I might have done with it?

Good suggestion Elegran but the car has been valeted several times since I returned. Spare glasses are just that carried somewhere safe just in case, usually they never leave the suitcase.

I have lost a little clip-on MP3 music player with earphones. I used to wear it a lot around the house, and transferred the contents of dozens of CDs to it.

Then it vanished. After several weeks I found it again - in a box with some craft or sewing work that I had been doing. I left it there as it seemed a "safe" place and I would be wearing it when I next did the craft/sewing.

Now I can't find it again, and I can't remember what it was in with. I have looked in every storage box I can think of (I have quite a lot) but it is in none of them. It is SO annoying, because I could have moved it when it fleetingly re-appeared.

I lost a phone a while ago, searched everywhere (except the right place), phoned all the shops we had visited, tried ringing it etc. it never got used and eventually gave up any hope of finding it. In a fit of temper, because she could not find a recipe Linda tipped the contents of the file box she keeps all her recipes in on the floor, lone behold, my phone. How it got in there we will never know.

Are they under the car seat? That was where mine once turned up.

My spare distance glasses have gone missing. I took them on holiday in August and I haven't seen them since. I have turned out every handbag, DH has been in the loft and checked the suitcases, I have rummaged in drawers and turned my pristine bedroom into an untidy mess. I stayed with DD on holiday so I know I didn't leave them there unless she is telling porkies and hasn't cleaned the guest suite yet

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On the top step outside the back door!

3 toy bricks, a toy ambulance and a confused cat trying to work out how to access it's the cat flap!

Like Crafting, it's glasses with me. My grand daughter's face was a picture when I said 'the fairies have got my glasses again'. She had just had a visit from the tooth fairy so took me literally! When I am leaving her house she checks that I have my glasses, bless her. I have partly solved the problem by buying several pairs of reading glasses from a pound shop.

Bupa has just published a list of the top ten things we all forget, regardless of age. perhaps we beat our selves up too much :-

1. Forgetting why you've walked into a room.

2. Mislaying your keys.

3. Not knowing why you've gone shopping.

4. 'What was my password, again?'

5. Forgetting where you left your phone.

6. Remembering if you've locked up.

7. Forgetting what day of the week it is.

8. Not being able to put a face to a name.

9. Forgetting a colleague’s name.

10. Missing a birthday or anniversary.

Professor Graham Stokes, Director of Dementia Care at Bupa explains that these moments are not usually cause for concern:

“Regardless of your age, from time to time we all forget where we put our keys or what we went upstairs for.

"While occasional memory blots should not to be mistaken with the onset of dementia, these forgetful moments do give a sense of what living with dementia can feel like, and the emotions someone living with the disease can experience.”

While we can all suffer from memory blanks like these from time to time, if you think that your memory lapses or those of others are becoming more frequent, talk to a doctor.