Finding things in odd places.

It’s nice to find a hidden Terry’s Chocolate Orange in July though, isn’t it?

Oooh! Where do I start?

Dirty knickers in handbag, clean ones in bin, and a bare bum!
Milk in the oven, dinner in the washing machine!
Poinsettias, salt, and tea bags yet to be discovered, and that's just this week, and doesn't include hubbies losses!

I once put the teapot on the doorstep instead of the empty milk bottles for the milkman to take away. That was in the good old days when I had a milkman.

My main problem stems from decluttering. Having had a good sort out I put the remaining objects back in different places ( it seems such a good idea at the time) then I can never remember where their new home is. If you add this to the usual - “Where on earth have I put my ?” The result is chaos.

I am still looking (in a half hearted manner) for my iPad pen. Last March I was using it, went out of the room briefly to fetch something, returned, and it had disappeared. The room was searched, the sofa turned upside down, my route out of the room examined - nothing. Personally I blame Polly, our house poltergeist and I feel sure that one day I will come across the cache she has made containing all the missing objects. Pity that so many of them have been replaced, but never mind they can be duplicates for the next time that we lose them.

Oh yes! I very recently found one of the presents I hid from my husband that I was to give him last Christmas, just in time to give him this Christmas.

Before going on vacation I've often hidden things, only to return home having completely forgotten where I hid these things. They turn up eventually.

Misplacing car keys used to be my problem - now I just leave one in my bag, as my latest car opens and starts as long as I have the bag with me, even if the ‘key’ is buried in all the jumble.
The garage door remote hasn’t turned up, but 2 new ones were hand delivered by the supplier yesterday. I expect that’s the signal for the lost one to turn up.

All my important keys are on lanyards. I am so used to putting them round my neck I rarely mislay them. Very useful tip given by my doctor.

Having finally located my two winter coats (hanging on a hook behind the door of my daughter's old bedroom!) I put one on and to my great surprise found a pair of glasses (which I had given up looking for in about March!) in the pocket - what a nice surprise! Whilst I can never find my own possessions I am pretty good at finding lost things for other people!

Weirdest ever here was when a dd lost a silver claddagh (sp?) ring she’d been given when visiting family friends in Ireland.

I can’t remember how long it was before I found it, but certainly months rather than weeks - at the back of the lower of my two pull-out pan drawers in the kitchen!

How it ever ended up there will forever be a mystery.

I only wear glasses for reading and I lose them all the time. Drives me mad. I now have a special pair for reading in bed which don't move from the bedside table.

Vickya no I no longer have cats. Weeks after they died I could still hear them in the house, but that is for another thread.

Netflixfan you are right I shouldn’t use wipes, I am trying to wean myself off them.

Sharon103 I went to take my glasses off today only to realise I didn’t have them on in the first place ?

I have lost some slippers bought for a Chrissy present I have bought some more !!!

I was in the middle of my on line shop when I realised I needed to ring the doctors before they closed. I searched high and low for my phone and was getting quite panicky when I suddenly realised I was doing my shopping on it

I found my reading glass at the bottom of my bed, folded and placed neatly under the duvet when i woke up the other morning, how i hadn't kicked them out of the bed i will ever know.

I'm getting more absent minded the longer this pandemic goes on ?
Share it with friends who are all the same, you are not alone.
My time clock is all over the place too, nightmare.
Stay safe all

I couldn't find my dentures and my late husband eventually found them in the kitchen bin which fortunately was virtually empty. Heaven knows how they got there !!

JaneRn, you could do what I used to do where I worked and that is tie the pen to the phone with string. Mind you, i often ended up with just the cap left still attached to the string! ?‍♀️ When my children were young, I’d taken some pork chops out of the freezer to make tomorrow’s dinner. On my way back from the freezer, I picked up this, tidied away that, as you do. In the middle of the night I suddenly woke up wondering what I’d done with the chops. Not in the fridge, not anywhere on the way back from the freezer. Two days later, I found them in the kitchen cupboard where I’d obviously put them down to put away the tumblers I’d picked up along the way. Oh dear. And I was still only in my early 40s at that stage...

I find that if you are looking for one thing you will nearly always find another which was lost some time before!

My particular problem is pens. I am forever buying them but can never put my hands on one when I need it, particularly the note pad by the telephone. I am convinced there is a pen goblin in the house, a close relation of the sock gremlin who hides socks but I have never discovered where. Reading your comments, perhaps I should look in the freezer that is when I find my glasses!

It's nearly always Glasses with me, too! I need one pair for "seeing" and another for "reading". If I have my reading glasses on, I can't see to search for things (I can only see clearly when looking at papers or screens that are inches away from me). My biggest problem is finding things in the filing cabinet! I need "seeing glasses" to read the "tags" ON the suspension files, and reading glasses to identify anything IN them. Now that's a REAL pain that regularly drives me crazy, trying to find things in either pair!!!

EllanVannin

D'oh ! I was looking for my glasses to read the paper the other day and I already had the darned things on ! Nothing down for me I muttered to myself " you silly old bat ".

I’ve frantically searched for my mobile phone only to find I have it in my hand along with my purse! Knickers in a twist for no reason ?

In order to keep control of my glasses and masks I have them round my neck. My mask is an ETSY mask with a long elastic round the neck, through the sides and up to a toggle. When not in use the mask is round my neck, the glasses are on a string of beads with loop ends. So both are round my neck when not on my face or nose.

If I really can't find something I call on St. Anthony. Never failed yet.

I believe it is because our brain moves on to the next job before we finished the last.
I came downstairs with dirty washing and instead of moving wet washing across from washing machine into the tumble drier I just put the dirty washing straight into the tumble drier and put the clean washing on for a second wash!
I've put the butter on the front doorstep and empty milk bottles in the fridge before too.
I love some of you tales but there is no like button.

Facial wipes bad for your skin and the environment. A nice clean flannel is cheap and harmless xx

Not so long ago my shoe polish had somehow found its way into the freezer!