must be the borrowers again

Yes, even although I know it is stupid I look all the places I already have looked obsessivly.

Last time it was my other glasses - the pair I use for seeing things at a distance that disappeared.

And they were not in any of the usual places or the unusual like inside the fridge!

They were on the floor in the knee-hole of my knee-hole desk. Somewhere they have never been before. It might be the borrowers, but I am blaming a six month old cat called Tigger.

Unfairly, as he has never shown the slightest interest in my glasses.

Fortunately, I found them before I put my feet on them - by the simple process, if it can be of any help, of using a powerful torch to look for them. Due to a cataract I am finding it hard to see darkish things in dark surroundings right now.

If it is the borrowers, try this trick, it works with our Danish version of them. Say very loudly, "If you don't bring back my glasses right now, there will be no Christmas food for you lot this year!" After ten minutes or so the lost article will be staring you in the face, practically flyping its nose at you, from somewhere you have searched thoroughly ten times!

I have several pairs of reading glasses, as does DH. Sometimes you can buy them in a 3-pack, which I highly recommend!

And here's a good idea if it works with your vision. I wear one reader prescription contact lens. Pop it in in the morning, and I can read small print all day. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it feels natural to me now. You will need to go to an optometrist to see if it will work for you and get a prescription.

As for things going missing... quite often you will hear me saying, "I just had it in my hand, where did I put it?"
I'm a great one for setting down items and forgetting to put them in their homes.

Sadly I found my glasses……after I had sat on them!
Do hope you have found yours op.

I get annoyed with myself ... put things down can't find them ... even if only a few seconds or minutes before ... I will look in the previous places I have already looked loads of times, so not on your own there then ! Hope you find them. Have you looked under your chairs, down the side of your chairs, even under your bed, in your fridge ? How often do you or other people say ... when / where did you last have them ? If you knew that would be easy to find ... ARGH ! Lol ... let us know if & when you find them please

When I bought my latest reading glasses I asked the optician which of the cheap glasses they were and he said 3.5. So I bought several pairs of them ( one pair was £1.99…how can they make things so cheap?) and I leave them all over the place. I did lose a pair of my second newest glasses. Searched high and low for them for ages. They turned up in a cardboard box that I’d left on the stairs that had contained a delivery from Boots. Why on earth did I put them there?

I lost one of my debit cards looked everywhere but could not find it so I cancelled. Next day I found it still in a card reader I had been using for a transaction.

Over the last 2 days I picked a lot of orders for my vintage business and came to pack them tonight. Two items were "missing" (ie not in the box where the others were) so I was unable to pack those orders. I know I got out the items but if I cant find them tomorrow I will have to send out the orders and refund the buyers saying that the items were "unavailable". Im really annoyed as I know they are somewhere in this bl***y house. I bet they will come to light at a later stage.

Rather than looking for something I have lost, I sit quietly and try to remember where I left it. This means re-enacting my day in my mind. It often works better than looking.

MrOops often finds things in places that he has already looked in, his favourite way of losing things is to put them on his lap, stand up and then wander off, in the meantime his glasses or whatever have landed who knows where, under the chair, under his desk, in the dogs basket…
(I also have a pack of 5 pairs of 3.0 glasses, dotted around the house)

But as my Mum used to say ‘ look where you last had them’ if only it was that easy….

I think Mr Oops is on the same wavelength as my husband whose advice for finding lost objects is “Look on the floor”, and so often he is right, particularly about lighter things- pens , glasses, which often get inadvertently kicked (or roll).

However that does does not take into consideration Polly, our resident poltergeist who has endless hours of fun moving things!

One quick tip for you : when looking for glasses always feel on top of your head … far too many times I’ve had the house upside down looking for them only to find they’ve been up there all the time! 🤪👓

I have about 10 pairs of reading specs around the house. They are cheap, so no great expense. I’m a bookworm, so must have them to hand.
Try the traditional prayer to St.Anthony for lost things.
Usually works for me when I drop a contact lens!

Madeline45. I rarely lose things. Drives me mad when I do. Lost one of our cordless phones. Upstairs one. Hubby and I hunted high and low. And under and behind the chest of drawers it sits on. Repeated several times on different days. No sign. Hunted again another day. There it was. Large as life and clear as mud. Under chest of drawers. Unbelievable. So yes, worth re-searching where you've already look. Obviously the gremlins who steal our stuff when we are not looking do occasionally have a conscience. 😁

Some years ago I packed my prescription sunglasses in my 'hold' suitcase for my trip to Australia. They vanished, and have never turned up in either country.
Amazingly, the exact same thing happened again, a few years later. None of the family can think of a rational explanation.

Ideas, anyone?

I have evidence to prove that it is VERY stupid not to look again, ..and again... and potentially expensive as well.
It's a while ago now, when I wasn't very used to hearing aids, and one day realised that one was missing. The house and car were both searched very thoroughly to no avail. I thought the most likely place was the car, as sometimes I get tangled up with my seatbelt when putting it on or taking it off. So I searched it really thoroughly, but eventually had to give up and guess that maybe it dropped on the ground when getting out of the car somewhere.
So I had to pay for a replacement which cost £ 100.
A few weeks later I was straightening up the seat belt as it hadn't retacted properly when I got out of the car, and there on the floor was my lost hearing aid! Somehow it had hidden under the base of the belt.
So never ever think you are bing foolish to revisit places you think you have searched!!

Rory Stewart says the thing he has had more reaction to in his podcasts was when he said if you lose something go back and look again at the place where you think it should be but didn’t find it first time round. Most of the time that’s where it will be.

I have eyeglasses cords on all my glasses. this makes it a lot easier to find them if I misplace them. I only take the cords off the pair that I intend to wear when i am dressed up and want to wear earrings. As soon as I take them off I put the cord back on. I have spectacle cases at every point where I might take glasses off i.e. bedside, at the computer etc.

I switched to varifocals a few years ago, put them on when I get up take them off when I go to bed, problem solved!

I lose things and look in all the usually places then find it where I have previously looked. Doesn’t make sense,

thank you all for your messages. I found the flipping glasses when I got back from swimming. Reckon it must have been the borrowers!! Had a good swim and did a variety of things but today sunday is being a domestic day. Of course jobs always take much longer than you think but so far have cleared up a lot of paperwork, put the washing out at dawn today, as although it was grey a good breeze.Have got it back in with a fair amount of wet off it but it smells so much nicer havng been outside. Have listened to desert island discs and private passions and enjoyed them whilst I was sorting out but now have only this post to keep me from the dreaded ironing. so thankyou all for your suggestions and making me feel that I am not the only one who loses things. Time for me to get the cafetiere out and make some decent coffee to put the moment off for a little longer but then out with the ironing board and start. At least it is grey and miserable and looks as though it will rain shortly so radio 3 , coffee and feeling virtuous getting it all done by this evening. I do like the feeling that I am showered and bed changed and all the clothese washed so that for tonight at least everything is clean and decent. Whilst I iron I will allow myself to consider christmas things. (I am traditional and will not consider christmas until bonfire night is over !) Hope you all have had a good sunday Bye for now

I have had a family of borrowers living with me for years. They move with me...now somewhere on my narrow boat. Socks are, of course, their favourite. Just think of all the things they can make from a sock

Theoddbird, I have a branch of the Borrowers family here- cousins perhaps?

Madeline45
I read your post and above it was an ad for specsavers lol.
I always keep an spare set just in case.

If I lose my glasses I have to ask Dh to look for them,I am so long-sighted I can't see anything close up. They often turn up on the bathroom window sill. I have been known to lose the land line handset, ring from my mobile, and follow the bleeps audibly and orally from DH..