Thought I was losing the plot

When l was a manager of a well known shoe shop a customer came in browsing the shoes, she picked a pair and brought them over to pay, l commented on her trendy bag, she was mortified when she realised she'd walked out of wilkos across to our shop with one of their baskets on her arm, luckily she hadn't put anything in it, as she couldn't face returning it l offered to pop it in out stock room assuring her l would find a use for it ?

A few years ago when I had just one grandchild I found a huge bag of Xmas presents stashed in the back of my wardrobe....
Thankfully she's a January birthday ?

I buy duplicates of books

I can testify to the fact that Covid definitely gives you brain fog. Since having Covid in February I have lost a set of keys, my purse and two debit cards, and I regularly have to use the ‘find my phone app’ to locate my mobile phone. I had to change my debit card PIN number because I couldn’t for the life of me remember it - not so extraordinary until you realise that I’ve used the same one for 20 odd years !! I’ve also left a shopping bag full of groceries at the checkout after paying, and had the customer services guy chase me down in the car park with it !!

My daughter bought me some wildflower seeds for Christmas in a little hessian bag. A week ago after searching the whole house, I found them under last year's calender in a drawer in the living room!

I have no idea how they got there!

I'm still looking for the beautiful and perfectly appropriate card that I bought for my dear aunt for her 90th birthday. She died five years ago - 'still haven't found it.

Buxus

Took the trouble to take some shears to be sharpened to trim a bucks hedge. Collected them, brought them home- haven’t found them since!

Due to a live in job, we moved into a flat above the hotel we managed on Christmas Eve. I had made a very large Christmas pudding, as we were doing lunch for all the staff...You've guessed it, we couldn't find it, and in fact 30 years later still haven't. I keep meaning to go through the boxes that move from attic to attic but never have

I think we have all done this and personally it has more to do with being busy, or absent minded than with old age.

When I was about 35 I got tired of misplacing birthday presents or Christmas one that I had bought for others, so started keeping them all in a box in my wardrobe.

Now I keep them in my desk cupboard, but my point is, make sure you have a place for things you buy as presents and always go straight to that place when you come home from shopping and put the gifts into it.

My most forgetful thing happen just after our 50th anniversary and my 70 birthday celebrations. Lots of gift vouchers given to us totalling over £300 …. You guessed it, I put all the cards into a large envelope for safe keeping so we knew where they were !!!! Still looking for them 5 years later ?

A few weeks ago I bought 3 series of spooks thinking I didn't have them. Me and my husband watched the full series so I put them away in the cupboard. I've just bought the full series of Endeavour and I was looking through the cupboard for a DVD case to put them in. Well I emptied the cupboard and right at the back was the three series of spooks that I had just bought. I don't remember buying them

I really had to question my sanity yesterday. Every couple of days or so I put the laundry for washing in the laundry basket at the top of the stairs ready to take down, usually taking it down at the time. However, didn't take it down yesterday as was carrying something else (can't remember what, which tells you all you need to know I guess!). It was only later in the day that I remembered the laundry and wondered where in the washing cycle it was. Asked my DH if he could throw any light on my problem and his reply was: 'Oh yes, I saw it at the top of the stairs and thought you hadn't got time to put it away, so did so'. So had to retrieve all the unwashed stuff from the airing cupboard and put in w/machine - had a good laugh about it. Only amazed that he didn't suss it wasn't clean - obviously his sense of smell is inferior to mine!

Not a purchase story but whilst doing some decluttering last October I took my glasses off and put them down "somewhere", it's now May and I still can't find them. Give it another 5 months and I'll be due another eye test and new glasses, so I can almost guarantee that I'll find them at about that time ?

I hid 4 boxes of mince pies on the top shelf of the wardrobe and didn't find them until June. Had to wait for bin day to pop them in the bin while OH was at work to throw them away. He hates anything being wasted so it kept the peace. What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for lolol

When I was out with the dog for a walk I stopped for chat with another lady who I have met on our doggy travels. I came away and realised I had been calling her Winnie, which is actually her dogs name.

I moved home downsizing in November. I still cannot find a piece of jewellery I knew I had put safe!
I am still getting things to the charity after nigh on 6 months.
It will be worth it and I give myself another 6 months to have it sorted then just decorating to do as and when.

I sometimes put things away in places where I'm sure I'll remember putting them. But when I look for them I can't remember where they are and can't find them anywhere. So I buy new ones, then find the originals, usually in a very obvious place.

One Christmas I lost all the veg for the Christmas lunch! We ended up with frozen peas. A week later I found it all in a carrier bag in the back porch where I had put it because it was cold out there and I had run out of fridge space!

Sara1954 you have made my morning ???

Oh, dear. That’s why my window sills and worktops are littered with post-it notes - to remind me! There’s always something I forget to remind myself about, though. ?

Lost DH’s Christmas present after he’d given it to me to wrap (lol). He eventually found it, hidden in plain site.

Fanny
A bit off subject, but a bit like your shop assistant, I was texting a tradesman, who was called Daniel, and predictive text put Hello Darling, god knows what he thought, but he always keeps his distance.

One Christmas I bought presents for our friends' children (when we still did such things) and carefully put them away. When it came to wrapping and taking them when we visited I couldn't find them so, as we were passing their large local shopping centre, we 'popped in' to replace them. Bad move! It was Boxing Day and the access roads and carparks were gridlocked, we were stuck for 2 hours!!! Needless to say the original gifts turned up in the New Year

When living far from home and had planned a trip back in the summer I thought I would save on postage and bought Christmas gifts to take with me. Had them all wrapped and left with my parents for distribution to family come Christmas. Somehow come the festive season I had forgotten all the planning and bought and posted gifts for everyone again. That is the worst of my forgetting episodes.