OK, where is it?

A kitchen knife is missing from my shed. The cat ran away with the spoon, sort of...?? (Once I found £11 in one of my wellies. No idea where it came from.)

Oh well, now that you've said its Robert Welch, probably most of the street has been secretly coveting it.Is it in plain sight through a window when it sits in it's block ?

Have you looked at the loaf ? Your knife may be hiding 'in' it or 'under' it!

If it was in the loaf, then I've swallowed a 10" bread knife because the loaf has been eaten!

Suggest you buy new knife then lost one will be miraculously found.
I lost electronic car and garage keys which were kept in a small tin for safety. Lost them last summer and spent weeks turning house upside down for them.
Husband gave up and bought replacement car key recently. I was searching wardrobe again! opened a shoebox and there was the tin lurking in the back. I had posed it there 'for security'.

It will turn up, as soon as you have bought an expensive new one to replace it...

We bought two new pairs of garden shears. An hour after we had begun to use them, our original shears materialised in the shed. Of course, the shed had been checked and they definitely weren’t in there.

Have you looked at the loaf ? Your knife may be hiding 'in' it or 'under' it!
A few weeks ago we 'lost' my Mum's folding garden chair which we had used for a picnic. OH swore blind that he hadn't moved it.
We searched the house, the car, the shed, with no luck so eventually decided someone had stolen it from our porch.

It turned up yesterday hiding behind the ironing board in the garage! (that shows how often I do the ironing )!!
OH still says he never moved it (I know it wasn't me)!!

Hands up those whose bins are upended at least once a week to search for a missing object,

OK, I've turned the wheelie bin upside down and gone through a weeks worth of recycling: not there. Checked the she'd and the greenhouse; not there. Freezer, fridge and dishwasher again, still not there. Even took the cushions off the chairs; nope. Every drawer in the kitchen; nope. If that bread knife is in this house, it's found damned good hiding place. This is just silly now. It was here yesterday; I'm beginning to think that someone stole my Robert Welch bread knife and they left the cheap ugly blunt one behind.

In the bin? I've lost items by putting them in the bin without realising. I lost a watch a couple of weeks ago - I took it off to wash some pots, and I think it must have somehow got thrown away when I cleared up.

I swear that this house eats things! Lost count of the number of things that have gone missing, a professionally done plan for the garden, my bean slicer, a tube of Dermol wash that I only picked up from the surgery last week, the list goes on!

However the mystery of Mr P's missing odd socks has been solved

Stretching out in bed, my toes encountered "something" that shouldn't be there!

Quick furtle under the duvet and voila! A sock! This has happened twice.

Mr P doesn't take his socks off in bed, nor does he go to bed in them......

However, a certain young cat who shall remain nameless (Minnie, you know who you are) and who adores Mr P and gazes at him as if he is the most wonderful thing she has ever seen, has upped her game from stealing washing up sponges to socks!

I would love to catch her on film taking them from the floor beside the bed (yes, Mr P still manages to "miss" the laundry basket, thought of trying a star chart, but hey, what's the point?) and burrowing under the duvet with her treasure!

I have a lovely collection of garden trowels, sorry, that should read HAD. This year four of them have disappeared. Hopefully they will reappear in the winter. ?

You haven't inadvertently put it in the utensil jar or cutlery drawer have you, chewbacca?

Have you looked in the dustbin. My son was given a beautiful silver spoon at his christening. Family heirloom. Rather than it sit in its velvet lined box, when he was two I let him use it for cereal /pudding. It went missing one day. I searched everywhere. No sign of it. DS was in the habit of putting things in the kitchen bin at the time. The day the spoon was lost happened to be bin collection day. I have always assumed the kitchen bin contained the spoon when decanted to the dustbin. Never told my in laws I had lost the family spoon. Happy hunting!!

They will be with the box of Christnas cards I bought one christmas and never saw again.

As I read a lot of crime fiction novels I would be very worried about a missing 10" bread knife.

Hope there isn't a loaf murderer on the loose.

It'll be in the same place as all those missing socks.

I always say we have a ghost in our house, Times I use something like scissors one minute and they're gone the next.

SuzannahM I found two pairs of children's socks in the freezer once - new ones, thank goodness.

Opercular as in lid?

We are still missing a GD's Christmas present from her aunty, put under the tree, seen under the tree, and never ever found when everyone opening their presents. I would blame the cats, except I know where they hide things......

It's in the same place as my favourite potato peeler.

Sit down, have a and retrace your movements on the day in question.
Like Midsomer Murders!

When I ask where is it Mr B always replies look in handbag/shopping bag and sure enough that is where it is. Once found a massive screwdriver in my handbag after going through security at Bristol Airport, KL, Bangkok and Luang Prabang airports. It was only when I emptied out my bag that I found it. I am forever losing my reading glasses and have been found in the most opercular places.

Doodle Is there a new series being filmed ?? Ccutting costs perhaps ?

I have two identical pairs of scissors that normally live in a kitchen drawer - except that for long periods we can only ever find one pair. Then they will both be there. We've decided they take it in turn to have long holidays away.

Defrosting the freezer last week I found a box of three pairs of tights at the back of one of the drawers. No idea how long they have been there but at some point I was probably scouring the house looking for them.

I lost my secoteurs at the beginning of lock down I have never seen them since, they were the ones to replace the last ones I lost
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If knives, kitchen scissors or soup bowls go missing in this house, they've usually found their way into the garden/potting shed. DH will take things and not bring them back!

Have you asked St. Anthony to find it for you?

Did you swallow it? Any circus performers in your family?

It'll be in the fridge with your butter and marmalade.