must be the borrowers again

I don't often lose thing but I have more than once lost my address book. In 2020 quite a few friends didn't get Christmas cards from me as I didn't have their address so couldn't contact those for whom I only use snail mail. Those with email got a copy of my Christmas round robin and an apology for the lack of card! I spent ages on the Royal mail postcode finder where detective work resulted in completing addresses where I remembered part!
In September 2021 I had some electrical problems involving the electricians moving my sofa to get to the sockets behind. They were moving furniture everywhere and I did say if you come across a yellow covered address book please don't leave it where it is. At one point while the sofa was pulled out I decided to have a look behind and under and was amazed at what I found! Said address book along with a large glue stick and a bra!! No idea how the bra got there, but the address book and glue stick had caused the recliner mechanism to jam which meant I'd moved my regular sitting location to a different sofa which still reclined! Once removed my sofa reclines perfectly again though I still sit on the other side of the room. Moving the sofa was impossible on my own as it is much too heavy and with the recliner jammed I couldn't check underneath.

My most worrying loss was when I lost my keys when I was about to attend an interview! I'd put them on my bed while changing into my smart clothes and put the clothes I'd taken off on top. I thought I'd looked everywhere but thankfully had a spare car key and front door 'yale' key though not one to double lock the front door. I made myself late for the interview looking, but thankfully they were running late so I had to wait for them and only the receptionist knew. I got the job, found the keys when I got home and worked for that organisation for almost 7 years until I retired!

Since living alone I don't have borrowers. My ex husband was terrible for moving things then denying all knowledge!

Yammy

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..

Worst thing with phones is losing your mobile then remembering you'd had it on silent for church! Only happened once and fortunately not for long.

When getting new glasses I always ask for the cheapest pair .
I lose them .

And I can't remember when just one shoe didn't disappear .

Never a pair .

I have my best ones in plastic shoe boxes .
And others with laces tied together .

I bet that they use the socks to hold all the biros they have borrowed!

Glad the Borrowers returned your spex madeleine. (Oh how I loved those books!)
I once lost my prescription sunglasses. I always kept them in one of those hanging thingies in my wardrobe. I searched and searched but they had disappeared. I was about to go on holiday so needed them desperately- luckily I was working in an opticians and they managed to make a replacement pair in a hurry.
On returning from my holiday I went to put my new sunnies away in the wardrobe for safe-keeping- and there was the original pair exactly where I had looked for them previously.
Incidently, my DM once lost her glasses which she often kept on top of her head. A very frustrating couple of hours passed before she found them - in the middle of a casserole she was cooking in the oven. They must have slipped off her head as she bent to stir it earlier.

grandtanteJE65

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 had to google “knee-hole desk.” They look beautiful, lots of antique ones, but I had not known that they were called this. I thought they were just desks!

I managed to lose my credit card without even moving from my desk. I knew I had, had it 15 minutes before because I had used it online. I hadn't moved but couldn't find it and so I then convinced myself that I must have nipped to the bathroom and taken it with me ??! Searched there and places I really knew it couldn't be. That afternoon I found it, standing up against my sewing machine (stored under my desk) the very thin edge up!

Re glasses. I get too point of loosing glasses but eyesight is too awful I can see to even see where they are even when right in front of me. #gettingolderpleasures

Panic panic panic this morning .
I couldn't find my house keys .
Then , I remembered putting them in my apron pocket !