#losing the plot

Thank goodness ,this has made me feel so much better . Last month I received two text messages saying that my Sainsbury delivery will be delivered , one a 1pm and one at 9 pm ! I had done a duplicate order in two days. I'm blaming Christmas ! Luckily I was able to cancel one in time .
Always watching TV programmes that after about 10 minutes they seem very familiar to something I'd watched before - trouble is DH insists he hasn't seen it so. End up wondering who is losing it !

We had some friends coming for New Year's Eve and I wanted my red place mats. DH and I searched every drawer and cupboard (or so we thought) - event went up in the loft. Nothing. A couple of days later we opened a drawer and there they were. This sort of thing often happens - I'm sure there are goblins around making mischief it can't be us!

DaphneBroon that made me chuckle.

Yes, I spent ages looking for something just before Christmas. I knew I had it, exactly where it should be and I needed it.
DH said 'I thought you sent it to the charity shop the other week'
I wondered whether to go and buy it back.

I spent a long time searching for my car when I came out of the shopping centre. In the end I phoned DH and said I thought it had been stolen. He said 'it's sitting on the drive, you took my car'.

Jalima and DaphneBroon and all fellow senior 'hour' friends

wearing identical shoes - except that one was black and the other navy.
I did that anno - except that my boss did comment! He thought it was very funny.

Daisy, it was Sabine Baring-Gould, the writer of Onward Christian Soldiers who did not recognise his own son. To be fair I think he had a number of them!

DaphneBroon your post really made me laugh ?

I bought my Christmas cards early this year (last year now!) - I still haven't found them. I had to buy another lot and hope the originals turn up in time for next Christmas.

Also bought a pack of mini chocolate Santas for my grandson to have a Father Christmas hunt - haven't found those either.

And I frequently make a pot of tea and then can't remember if I've drunk it or not - I have to check the teapot and see if it is full or empty!

I hate to tell you ladies and one gentleman but there are not enough care homes around to look after us lot!

There are tears of laughter running down my face.

I saw a bargain in M&S on line last week and ordered it for pick up at my local foodstore tomorrow. Of course today I could not remember what I had ordered so I obviously needed it desperately. Found the order form and it was for 2 pairs of trousers sale price a tenner each.

All this is so familiar. Had dog at vet for her six month check up and injections. Asked for more anti worm tablets, paid for them then walked out without waiting to pick them up from the dispensary. After a couple of days they sent me a text to say they were ready for collection! Picked them up, came home and found I already had enough for next two doses which I had forgotten about. Don't get me started about buying the same thing twice! It must be an age thing as I used to be able to multi-task without ever getting in a muddle ☹️

I lost my purse after a shopping trip and I was frantic, 'cos it had all my cards in it, including bus pass. I looked everywhere, and phoned my local supermarket, but no one had handed it in.
I thought I would make a comforting cuppa while I decided what to do, so I opened the fridge for some milk and there was my purse, sitting there, cool as you like!

This very afternoon I parked but realised on my way to the shop, I had left my glasses in the car. I went back, pressed the button on my key but nothing happened (it is a bit temperamental). I then tried to open the door with my key but it would not go in. I also tried the boot, nothing. I was waiting on my mobile for my breakdown company to answer, when I noticed a baby seat in the back of my car for a baby I do not have. Yep, you guessed it. My car was 2 cars away. I had been trying to get into an identical grey Corsa which did not belong to me. Thank goodness the owner did not come back or the breakdown company answer me. How daft is that?

I think your posts may have saved my sanity,have spent all last night looking for a gift reciept for a expensive item to be returned, thought I put it in library book I was reading for safe keeping returned library books yesterday,!!!Arrived at library today to be told that particular book had been taken out by someone, of all the books they could have taken,(shock)have been so upset all day today even forgot to go to monthly meeting I wrote last night! in diary.I live on my own and I find I am not very good at bringing myself out of the negative thoughts that come over me, It was such a relief and laughter to myself to see these posts,made me feel so much relieved and happy dare I say. This is my first post written so please bear with me, I felt I had to try and let you all know you have given me laughter the first for a few days Thank You all (flowers)

Jackie B You can also view previous purchases yourself on amazon Just go to 'my account' Gives you an idea if they have put their prices up since.

Welcome custard123 to the mad hatters society, used to be known as Gransnet.

We lived in a house for six years with our small DC then another baby.

I can remember every detail about that house except the bathroom and I can't remember the layout of it at all - yet I went into there at least twice every day, bathed children there etc, had a few minutes peace in the bath. The only thing I can remember about it is when I opened the airing cupboard door one morning and a sparrow flew out. He had pooed all over the clean sheets.

Perhaps I should be worried; however I can remember all the details about other houses we lived in.

What a relief to read these posts. I thought I was going doolally. I spend much of my life looking for things I've misplaced, trying to remember what people have told me, who they are, what day of the week it is etc. Yes, I've bought clothes and found they are duplicates of what I already have. Also plants for the garden have been duplicated. And I've found myself meeting people who obviously know me and my family but I can't actually place them, makes conversation tricky. In the summer I got to the bus stop and found I hadn't my purse so no money or bus pass. I sprinted home, caught the next bus, almost split a gut sprinting from the bus to the venue for the book group at the other side of town, managed to arrive only 5 minutes late only to find no-one there, the book group was actually meeting about 10 minutes walk from where I live. And I had the correct venue in my diary!!

Luckily I buy most of my books on Kindle, and Amazon tells me if I've already bought it.

Yes, I have tried to buy the same book more than once!

What about forgetting words - Does anyone ever forget the name of an object and have to use an alternative word ?

Certain well known people I have difficulty with such as Eric Clapton and Eva Cassidy, I can see them in my mind's eye but not their names.

Charleygirl do you think we should have a Gransnet Care Home for daft old bats like us ?

I recently was lucky enough to get some counselling on the nhs, for reasons that I shall not go into here. During one session I was complaining that my memory seemed to be failing. The reply was that as we age the filing cabinet (our memory) gets over full and it takes longer and longer to find the correct file, but it usually gets there in the end. I found this most reassuring.

Just this afternoon I left DDIL's after minding DGS3 for a couple of hours. I couldn't find my gloves, so left her searching for them. Halfway to town I rooted down in my handbag for my bus ticket and lo and behold there were the gloves, which I tucked under my arm while I found the ticket. And yes, then walked off scattering them as I went. Realised when my hands got a bit chilly, so had to backtrack and pick them both up, lying on the pavement a few yards from each other. So I had to text DDIL: found the gloves, lost them again, found them again, you can stop looking

I was only in my 40s when I looked down at my feet on an M & S escalator and was mortified to see one was matte navy, one was black patent. And they weren't even the same style! Things haven't improved...

That reminds me a friend was on the train going to college (we were still in our teens), looked down and realised she was still wearing her slippers

I presume you were on the right train, going in the right direction though lujaha
I can say no more .....

I went through a phase of buying the same thing over and over e.g. say we got low on sugar, I'd buy a bag when out shopping then next time, convinced we were low on sugar, I'd buy a bag until there'd be half a dozen in the cupboard. Toilet rolls were another repeat buy. I don't do it lately. Incidentally, do you call it toilet paper, toilet tissue (a friend calls it this, too posh for me) toilet roll or lavatory/bog preceding any of those?