must be the borrowers again

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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 .

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.

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!

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..

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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!!

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?

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. 😁

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!

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 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!

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….