must be the borrowers again

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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

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.

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!