This house eats things!

Other dimensions. Someone in another version of this world has whatever you lost. Sometimes it shifts back. Some of the 'doorways' are weak and things slip through. We've got a hot water dispenser as the kettle is a bit heavy now and it has to be filled so it can filter our very hard water. We fill it from one of those water softner jugs too and a jug full goes in more or less every time I have a mug full of tea or coffee. Other person here also fills it. Where is allthat boiling water going to? Someone in one of the other dimensions, or possibly a few people in various other places, are using our hot water.

I may have posted this on another occasion but asking St Anthony often works:

Dear St Anthony, full of grace
Lead me to its hiding place

Years ago when we were going on holiday we put our Building Society pass book under the sitting room carpet for safekeeping. We were never able to find it again.

First rule for lost things.
Look in the same place at least 5 times.
Even though I would swear I had thoroughly ransacked a possible hiding place, I quite often find something in a place which I thought I had searched thoroughly at least three or four times!
Yesterday it was my little case of bank cards, loyalty cards, membership cards etc.........
(Memo to myself - must make a list of the cards - the thought of trying to remember them all and having to replace them was VERY daunting!)

I don't know why they would need my original birth certificate. Maybe for wallpaper, but I had to get a copy from the powers that be. It cost money too. !!!

Callistemon
What a lovely thought. I can see that fence in my imagination x

My house eats and later throws up passports. One year, it was nowhere to be found. I searched frantically but gave up, two days before I was due to go to Paris with my sister. Off I went and threw myself on the mercy of very kind officers in the Passport Office. What did I find when I opened a drawer. You've guessed it. Lately, I had a fruitless search for my current passport though fortunately I don't need it right now. It has turned up in the very bureau I had turned upside down in my search,

I couldn't find my rolling pin where did it turn up in the fridge ???

If I lose anything I call on St. Anthony. Works every time.

Alishka one of our cats brought home a cold leg of lamb one Monday lunchtime. It had had a small amount carved off whilst hot (probably on Sunday) and I decided not to canvas the neighbourhood for the owners, though I did hear a bit of a row from next doors!

Whenever they can't find something in our house, DH and DD accuse me of throwing it away. It does my head in!! The items usually turn up in some weird place where THEY have put them and forgotten.

There is a greetings card borrower in this house, and a key thief. In spite of strict orders to put car keys and door keys in a basket in the kitchen cupboard, they disappear - oh the hours spent, wasted in hunting. I bought a beautiful card for a dear aunt - couldn't find it a few weeks later when her birthday came; still haven't and she has been dead for five years now. Cards regularly climb out of the card drawer and run away.

We lost our upstairs phone. We rarely use it, but we both remembered DH using it a week or so before we noticed it missing. Ringing number did no good as battery probably dead. We both searched high and low, on several occasions over a couple of months, but to no avail. I rarely lose anything so it was driving me mad. One day getting ready to go out I picked something up from my dresser, which was where the phone base sat. But I dropped it. Bent down to pick it up and, you've guessed it, there was the phone staring at me from under the dresser. A place we had both independently searched behind and underneath on several occasions, as it was the most obvious place it could have fallen to. Gremlins?

I love this thread also.... thank you for the link to Slinky Malinki

just what we need, especially after reading the thread about `orrible things... can`t remember the heading, but yes, there is good stuff out there..

more please!

Sorry, don’t know where the “nap, got” came from ?

Loving all these stories of mischievous cats and borrowers. Thank you all. You’ve made me laugh out loud after a long 12 hour nap got shift on a dementia unit. With lovely residents I hasten to add.

It’s obvious really. Whilst you are asleep, all the inanimate objects get together & conspire. They discuss tactics & decide amongst themselves which of them should re-locate on a temporary basis or disappear permanently. I think it’s called “resistentalism” They sometimes object to being used incorrectly or ignored, so this is their method of revenge.

My DDs cat was being courted by a mangy- -looking ginger tom. One day he arrived carrying a pound of bacon rashers wrapped up. in greaseproof paper. They nicknamed him "Tom Sainsbury" after that. They never did find out whose bacon it was.

The Borrowers in my house have a liking for crockery and cutlery, to the point that I no longer have a complete set of anything!
My DS claims it isn't him.

This is why I don't buy Christmas cards, wrapping paper and presents in the January sales!!

I bought pyjamas for DGS last year, too big so I put the in my T shirt drawer. Bright red with diggers on them, I saw them all year then went to get them on Christmas Eve and they had gone.
Searched everywhere and they are nowhere to be found, questioned DGS and DD but nothing.
They will probably turn up when he is too big for them !!

I thought every house had a black hole. Ours certainly does.

Our house is extremely mischievous, has been hiding things for the last 33 years, only to reveal them years later in places that they could not have been all that time!!!

Certainly pens and socks . Swapping handbags last week I found my favourite vegetable knife which had been missing for months.

An irate neighbour wanted me to pay for her Sunday roast, which had been delivered and left on her doorstep by the butcher’s boy because my Siamese cat had tucked into it. I didn’t.