Argh! Where do lost things go?

We went to Ireland on holiday and visited Knock, where I bought a holy card with a picture of St Anthony and a prayer to him. I met up with my mum and aunt and was going to show them what I'd got. I couldn't find it anywhere in my bag. I went back to the shop to buy another and the lady held the card out to me. If left it on the counter and she was chuckling away at it! I've still got the card in my purse now and it was 18 years ago.

Katek- missing things have been appropriated by The Borrowers- I thought that everyone knew that !

It won't really matter kircubbin because by the time youve figured out what the 3 little screws are for, they'll have vanished when you go back for them!

I have carefully saved 3 little brass screws to put back now my visitors have gone. Unfortunately I have no idea what device they belong to or why they were removed.

Lost things are always in the last place you look

That's what my Dad says

I think he may be onto something because I do have more success looking in places I would not expect them to be lol

Sometimes I think that I don't live in a house, but in a black hole .
Here's something which disappears regularly unless kept in the original box - one shoe and never a pair .
There's socks of course - the ones that disappear in the wash .
Hairbrushes .
I now have one on a ribbon on the bathroom door .

Scissors .

Knives .

And teaspoons !

My father throws them away !

Well, I’ve bitten the bullet and ordered a new pair from A——n which should be here tomorrow. I’ve even got DH on the hunt, he’s been checking out the washing machine/dryer in case they were in a pocket. Not to find them for me, you understand, but in case they damaged the machines. In any event they weren’t there, but at least the filters have had a good clean.

Without a doubt 'oh there you are' ? and frequently in the last place I would have expected them/it to be.

We lost my DHs garden sunglasses the other day. We checked every where including the windowsill where they always usually are. I spotted them after looking for days on said windowsill sitting on top of a pair of binoculars. I made him play Hot and Cold to find them lol. Goodness knows how he couldn’t see them I always say it’s a man thing.

I found my tweezers last week. They were in a skirt pocket in the wardrobe, when I tried it on to see what it looked like. I hadn't used them for about 2 months and was borrowing the "spare pair" from the model railway tool kit.

I put things into my bag which then vanish leaving me screaming with frustration about where my pills glasses have gone.

Also what a silly expression “it’s always in the last place you look “ Obviously

How big is the plughole in your bathroom basin - could they have slipped down there? Or been dropped in the bin as you put something else, such as a tissue, in it?

Well St Anthony still hasn't divulged where he hid that box of poly filla that had lived happily in the cupboard under the sink for 2 years. Nor the craft scissors that cut paper so cleanly. Nor the little pointed garden trowel that a colleague bought me. He's a kleptomaniac!

I have recently rediscovered lost items: TWO pairs of secateurs in the compost bin when I emptied it out; a pair of reading glasses amongst the runner beans and my night radio head phones under the mattress!

Buy another pair anyway. Then you’ll have a spare for when they go missing again.
I always keep some in my bag now, after more than once realising (in the car, on the way somewhere) that an ‘interesting’ chin hair has sprouted when I wasn’t looking.

I always ask St Anthony as well if I loose something..My mum said you say
Dear St Anthony please look down
Somethings lost and can't be found.
You then say three hail Mary's.
My dad used to roll his eyes every time we said this...

They will be in the first place you looked. But only the third time you look there.

I think they have gone to the same place as my secateurs. I’ve lost three pairs this year, despite the fact that my garden is quite tidy. So annoying.

They may be in our hall cupboard. It’s full of stuff I don’t recognise.

Maybe Georgesgran... or maybe they are with all the lost socks?

Perhaps they’ve eloped with MissA’s watering can!

GrannyGravy13

Callistemon21 I have St. Anthony on speed dial, and I am not even a Catholic.

I'm not Catholic either GrannyGravy but he has helped me several times.

I should have asked him first yesterday instead of making phone calls, franticall backtracking over last weekend.

Look under the sofa cushions

Callistemon21 I have St. Anthony on speed dial, and I am not even a Catholic.

We have been looking for a tower cooling fan for 2 weeks- but we did find it this morning. So patience and most things do eventually turn up (or not ).