Things that turn up in weird places ages after you lost them.

I lost a jacket in the park where I'd taken my grandchildren one day....a couple of weeks later I found it in a charity shop and bought it...I was pleased the finder had done that and pleased to get it back.

Marydoll

If anyone can tell me where my missing Fitbit is, that would be very helpful. I took it off to go for a bath and have searched high and low, to no avail! ☹

Marydoll , if your Fitbit is linked to your iPhone, you can download an app called ‘Find my Fitbit’ which cost about £5 and it will make your iPhone act like a Fitbit detector. I found mine which had fallen off into the vegetable basket in my larder using this.

Week one Mr LD lost his wallet in the supermarket car park. Luckily someone handed it it. He Then he did a repeat performances the exact next week with no luck this time. It held all his cards and a few shopping vouchers worth up to £200. ( he likes shopping with them to keep an eye on spending. )All cards were duly changed.

A month later, today he found it in a drawer. It is brown as is the wallet. No idea how it got there, we must be getting forgetful in our old age or the fairies are playing jokes on us.

For some reason I was to blame, goodness knows how!!!

I bought two bottles of Piz Buin in readiness for summer holidays. Couldnt find them when packing despite turning cupboards upside down. Fast forward quite a few years and moving home I found them still in Boots bag in a bedroom drawer that I used regularly.

Also lost my favourite potato peeler which had been bought in the days when folk used to hold kitchenware parties. After buying another which wasnt as good I eventually gave up looking for it. Fast forward a couple of years my OH came in from garden and said look what came out from the bottom of compost bin and still as good as new.

We lost DH’s wedding ring a few years ago. He had to take it off while he could, as his ring finger was beginning to swell. He put it in his sock drawer. When we went away I decided to find somewhere more obscure to hide it, but couldn’t remember later, when his finger was back to its normal size, where I had put it. We looked everywhere and gave up because it couldn’t be found, which upset me a lot. Then I was sorting out some bits and pieces in an under-used dressing table drawer and came across an old box of waxing strips which I decided could be ditched, but when I picked it up, it rattled, and inside was the ring. I’ve never been so pleased to find something.

Spooky.

I lost a black pearl(ish) earring a few weeks ago in the sitting room. One minute it was there, the next it wasn't. I hunted high and low. Yesterday I found it on the carpet just at the end of the sofa. I have hoovered many times since its disappearance. I don't know where it's been.

Then this afternoon I found a gold tipped crochet hook on a small shelf under a wrought iron garden table. It's been missing over a month.

The fifth dimension has been opening in my house this last 24 hours.

My husband lost his magnifying glass a few years ago which eventually turned up in the middle of a pile of papers but not the case. I found it yesterday in a different room behind a box stored under a bench. How did they get in separate rooms? Please no comments about my housework skills, it was only 3 years!

I found £11 (a ten pound note plus £1 coin) in my wellies once. I hadn't missed the money and have absolutely no idea where it came from as I live alone. (I also have a story about my daughter's brace but am deciding whether it's too yucky to tell. Ha ha.)

Lost the house keys once, searched high and low, so had to change the front door lock. About a year later they fell out of an umbrella when I put it up! They obviously fell into it after I opened the front door, I remembered that it was a horrible evening and that I had been upset because I had just heard that a good friend was terminally ill.

I lost a ruby ring. It turned up many months later when I turned the mattress over. I'd obviously been wearing it when I changed the bottom sheet and tucked it under the mattress. So pleased to see it as it had belonged to my grandma.

Scissors always disappear when I'm cutting Christmas paper when I'm wrapping presents. Using them one minute, put them down, then they vanish!
I know we've mentioned this before. Socks, vanish.
I bought a record voucher as a gift years ago for a relative put it in a draw, never to be seen again.

I ‘mislaid’ our birth and marriage certificates , searched the safe boxes where they should have been countless times , until I gave up and got copies. A few weeks later they appeared as if by magic in a desk drawer I never use. How they got there I’ll never know.

LauraNorder. Exactly what I was thinking!

No Fitbit yet Visgirl! It's driving me mad, as I need it to monitor my heart rate. A bit counterproductive, as my heart rate is now up! ?

TeacherAnne, I wonder if your Grandma put the money there for a holiday treat for you.

Marydoll

If anyone can tell me where my missing Fitbit is, that would be very helpful. I took it off to go for a bath and have searched high and low, to no avail! ☹

That made me laugh... have a you found it yet?

Witzend

Are you sure you did take them out of your holiday suitcase, glammanana?
I once went mad looking for a holiday-wear item - only to eventually find it in my suitcase - not in the main bit, but in a large zipped front pocket that I’d evidently forgotten to empty weeks or months before.

Who would have put them in my bedding ottoman ? found this morning after a search of my bedroom, I also found some tops in my overhead hand luggage which I had forgotten I had so a good result all now in the washer being freshened up x thanks for starting the thread Witzend

Many years ago a friend of mine lost a valuable ring. Twenty five years later her gardener found the ring on a twig in the branches of a tree in her garden. The ring must have fallen off her finger whilst she was gardening and landed on a low growing shoot. As the shoot grew the ring was taken up into the tree. What, I wonder are the chances of the ring being found after such a long time and being returned to its original owner.

That’s a good one, Calendargirl!

It wasn’t really a weird one, just a needle in a haystack thing, but a little dd once took some very small toys she was obsessed with, on holiday.

Almost inevitably, a favourite went missing - she was distraught. We had a room right on the beach and kind staff did really make an effort to find it - raking the sand, etc. but no luck.

Returned the following year, to exactly the same room. One night there was a bit of a storm, rain and wind, and in the morning, unbelievably, there was her little toy, lying on top of the sand.
I told her it was a very specially lucky toy, so she’d better take very good care of it in future.
Of course Sod’s law meant she lost it again not long afterwards - and this time we never found it.

I lost my favourite cropped jeggings for 18 months, found them last week hidden under a pile of t-shirts! Very welcome they were too as we had some very hot days last week.

I found my tape measure in a saucepan once. I have 'safe places' where I put things but can never remember where the 'safe place' is!

Our passports went missing, should have been in the safe, thought I could just lay my hands on them immediately. Shocked when they weren’t there.

For the next few weeks searched everywhere, all the places they might be and then the places where not.

DH said we would have to cancel them and get new ones, we had only had them a few months.

Decided to go through every room again.

Guess what I found under a pile of tea towels in the kitchen drawer?

DD took a small dolly on holiday one year and we never saw it again until the next years holiday when putting up our tent. Dolly appeared when we went to put up the rolled inner tent bedroom compartments.

I’ve had the opposite experience. I once borrowed a small suitcase from my grandma and ended up not using it but as she died shortly afterwards, I kept the suitcase. I got it out to use it a couple of years later and found over £100 in a small zipped pocket which grandma must have forgotten about.

If anyone can tell me where my missing Fitbit is, that would be very helpful. I took it off to go for a bath and have searched high and low, to no avail! ☹