Who’s got my lemon squeezer?

Check the fridge. If I lose keys, purse etc they always seem to be in the fridge!

tanith it might be same person who had mine for four months and then put it back in the cupboard where it lives without explanation.

So we’ve lost the bedroom clock our Grandson chose for his Mummy and Daddy. We had to go buy another one yesterday. I’m expecting it to turn up rather nonchalantly on Boxing Day as if it had never been lost!

No it’s not turned up as yet, and I’ll try that Davidal1968 ?

That’s weird you should talk about back scratchers Funnygran DH had two of those long handled ones one in the bedroom and one downstairs, well the downstairs one was missing after he died and 18 mths later I happened to try dusting down the back of radiators (as you do) and there it was hanging on the back of the radiator out of sight, I’ve left it there ever since.

Anyone who wants a glass lemon squeezer, often charity shops have them for sale.

My DH was given a road atlas book for his 21st, I was sure it was in a box in the loft, but no. He says I must have chucked it out, but I wouldn’t without his say so.

Nearly 50 years old, so utterly useless for nowadays, but it had the hand written route for our honeymoon journey in it, so was keeping it for sentimental reasons....

It's Elvie to blame! Has moved it to distract you from all the virus news and now we too are all thinking about the whereabouts of your lemon squeezer instead of Covid. You will find the lemon squeezer when you are not looking for it.

Chewbacca

Could it be with my knitting pattern? I've completed the back, one sleeve and half of the other sleeve of a sweater but can't find the wretched knitting pattern anywhere. The bins were emptied on Monday and I've a sinking feeling they took it away with them.

Chewbacca - there's been a suggestion that one, or other, of us might just have a copy of the knitting pattern that you're searching for.

Can you give us any details to help identify it? Make? Description of what you're knitting? Dare I ask - pattern number?

It’s probably having a party with my favourite butter knife that went missing a couple of months ago.

Tanith, this is a method which has worked for me. You squeeze the lemons another way (maybe with a fork?) and while doing this in the kitchen, say out aloud what a good job the fork is doing. The original squeezer may then turn up, in a fit of pique...

I'm the same as Georgesgran I think I'm losing my marbles too. I find I'm doing the strangest things. I haven't lost anything lately but the other day my bathroom radiator wouldn't beat up, we tried bleeding it but to no avail. I said to my hubby I'm going to check the valves and it turns out one of them wasn't open. We had not done it I think someone had sneaked in and turned it off. Probably the same person who took the lemon squeezed and knitting pattern. Haha

Perhaps it’s with my lottery ticket from a few weeks ago that I put in a ‘safe place’ it was lucky dips x 2, so I don’t know the numbers, but still....

We had a back scratcher shaped like a hand! My son loved it and used it every time he came to visit. And then it disappeared and is nowhere to be found. He didn’t take it and it’s a joke now that if anything disappears you’ll find it with the back scratcher. Not the sort of thing that would be thrown away by accident as it had a long handle. It’s so weird how things just disappear.

I threw out my own lemon squeezer deliberately. Who wants all that faff when you can buy Jif?

Maybe there's a lemon squeezer collector about...mine's gone as well..! It's not half as fancy as yours - it's a sturdy white plastic job - but it's served me well for over thirty years, and was definitely there when I made a lemon drizzle cake about a month ago...
Now? Nowhere to be seen..!!

@fluttERBY123, sounds as if your dh has the same compulsion as mine - i.e. to cram as much as possible into the dishwasher, when I’ve told him about 2764 times that e.g. the potato peeler and whatever else, only need a quick rinse under the tap.

Not that I’m actually complaining, since he does routinely clear up the kitchen, load the DW and usually even put it all away afterwards.

I can add a left wrist splint and sellotape plus dispenser to the list of missing items ?

You need to ask St Anthony for help. He’s a busy chap with lots of saintly matters to oversee but he usually spares a moment to help out.

I have just bought a new pair of pinking shears, Wheniwasyourage, so the old ones are bound to resurface any day now.

When OH retired I was undergoing treatment so he was in charge. If he doesn’t use a piece of kitchen equipment he works on the out of sight, out of mind principle. I find things in the sideboard, the tea towel drawer, cupboard part of a desk, even the airing cupboard. I suppose it breaks up the tedium of the day. A bit like a senior version of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

My glass lemon squeezer belonged to my Gran, then my Mum and now me. Dh put it in.the dishwasher and now there's a crack in it. It only needed a rinse.?

Or it fell out of the cupboard and the bits have walked to the bin.

I've lost a whole of important papers relating to my benefits - maybe all these things have gone somewhere safe for them? They might all return when we've had the vaccines and things are looking a bit more hopeful - but don't hold your breath.

It’s glass...maybe someone dropped it......

The Borrowers do exist...I knew they did!

I’m still searching for the Christmas Snow Horse we get out every year. It’s a glass dome with a horse in it and it snows when you shake it. It also plays Hark the Heralds Angels Sing when you wind it up.

I had my mother's lemon squeezer, but when it developed rough edges, DH got rid of it, I wonder why. . I have a wooden one with a handle now, it's actually very effective.

Oh ouch Maryd. I have my granny’s glass lemon squeezer and will treat it with more respect now. Has your squeezer turned up tanith? (That sounds a bit pervy, sorry).