The mystery of the vanishing watering can

Yes Aldom, I would like to think so,

Buy another watering can - or use a spare if you have one. Truly I believe that items turn up (in a fit of pique) if you ignore their disappearance and use something else....

Well Davida1968 you were spot on. I found another watering can at the back of the shed then DH said ‘Have you looked under the car?’ Of course I had but looked more closely and there it was!

Excellent news!

singingnutty
I bet that one legged robber put it there,,,

The opposite has happened to me. A pale blue wheelie bin appeared in front of my house and remained there for weeks before it disappeared. Now it is back - and in my front garden! I have no idea whose it is.

I've had a lawn mower taken from my home, also a hosepipe.

The day my DD was born my ex husband lost his watch. He checked everywhere at home, including the fridge, then asked if it had been handed in to lost property at the hospital. After a few days he assumed it was gone for ever, so claimed on our insurance. He replaced the watch and gave it no further thought. About a year later we noticed our cat playing with something under his chair. It was the lost watch which had obviously been stuck in the recliner mechanism for the past year and eventually simply fell out. The cat obviously thought it was his new toy!

A plastic bowl with food left out for the fox but I do know who the culprit was🦊.

The lovely wrought iron gates at the bottom of our drive disappeared about 25 years ago and never to be seen again.

Last year my son came to stay with his children and the travel cot, which I knew was under the bed, just wasn't there! I hadn't got it out in advance as I know he's better at stting it up than me. We searched the garage and loft but in the end my grandaughter had to sleep in the double bed with her dad. The next night her dad returned to work and her mum arrived after being at a conference, so she had a night in bed with mum before we all went off on holiday. The travel cot is still missing. My son thinks he may have once borrowed it, but I have no recollection. Maybe he took it to stay at a friend's house and left it there. I thought it wouldn't be needed again but have recently heard there is another grandchild on the way, so I may be on the lookout for a replacement!

My vacuum was blocked. I took it to bits, unblocked and cleaned all the parts. Now the bottom plate is lost, and I can't find it anywhere.

My Mother, once a spiritualist, said lost things had been “Aported to the spirit world.” Especially when they reappeared in plain sight later in the year! Her house was rather odd, things vanished often, only to seemingly turn up again at random. 😁

My sister has a similar disappearance. Filled up watering can number 1 from the tap in the back garden and took it round to the front of the house. Went through the house, filled up watering can number 2 and took it round to the front. By then watering can number 1 had vanished never to be seen again. Now learnt her lesson. Watering can number 1 stay inside the front door until number2 is filled up and ready to use.

I think either the borrowers have been or my hairbrush has gone off to find the missing handkerchiefs and odd sox that have disappeared before!! Only just bought this new hairbrush, so it may have got homesick and gone back to the shop!!

NotSpaghetti

Our watering can went missing too - for about 10 days and from our front drive singingnutty. We decided it must have been stolen... but no, it was tucked between big flowerpots where the foliage had disguised it as it was a green recycled plastic one!

I seem to remember another thread about a vanishing jug a while ago...

That may have been me re the vanishing jug.

It was in my last house - and I kept two different size glass measuring jugs on the top shelf, right-hand side of the middle wall cupboard (yep...I am a bit time and motion conscious - especially in my kitchen). So I designated that as the place where I kept the two of them - small one inside big one.

One time I went to get the small one out to use and it wasnt there. Cue for I searched the whole of that cupboard, then the whole kitchen, then the whole house. I absolutely "knew" it was there in its usual place - only it wasnt. So I reluctantly used the big one instead.

Cue for the next few months = every time I wanted to use that jug = I went to its usual place (even though I knew it was no longer there - because it had mysteriously vanished)......

....Until the day I went to get it again a few months later - and there it was - in its usual place!

I'm a stubborn wotname when I choose to be - and hence carrying on looking for it in usual place every time I wanted it - before reluctantly using the other one.

There IS no logical explanation for that. Or the black helicopter/s that were up above my house for some time around midnight one night. Or the loud factory machine there in one alcove of one bedroom one night when I was trying to go to sleep there. Or hearing "The Hum" for a few days start up in my area and I was so glad I'd had the foresight to see what radius away from my house I could hear "The Hum" and thankfully found a village 4 miles away was normal - and so knew my worst case analysis was being forced to move house to get away from it and could thank heaven at least it wasnt my own body that was the problem (ie tinnitus).

That house was a bit odd all round and would have obviously had some "history" - as it was Victorian. It was one of the reasons I sold it in the end - though it had always been my plan from Day 1 to use it as a "starter house" and move up to a better one when I could.

The house I then bought/still have is in a different area (West Wales rather than southern England) and it was built in 1974. I was wondering a little bit whether there'd be anything "odd" about it - but all I had was the day a friend of mine drove me over to move in and the furniture had just been unloaded and the van gone and we were in the hallway and had a very distinct loud "knocking" house in the house. We both looked at each other - and I assumed it was the last owner (who had died within the previous year - hopefully not in the house) and said, very firmly, "It's MY house now. Will you please leave?" and the noise stopped and there's not been any further "odd" incidents here since (unless you count finding a witches bottle buried in the garden....) and I used to keep finding various neighbours trespassing in my garden and had to shoo them out (one of them at 7 o'clock in the morning).

Just as well - given the neighbours have been one huge headache virtually from the start....guess that witches bottle was there to protect my house from them. I had also found a box of legal documents in the house - everything from Day 1 onwards - and the clues were in there as to some of why the neighbours were being an issue (still are!).

Yes!!’ The watering can is found!

Oreo

The only things I lose are earrings, or to be specific one earring from the pair.Add an earring to the one legged robber with the watering can.🤬

Some years ago, DD1 was on an archaeological dig at a very well-known London residence, when a solitary silver and diamond earring turned up which had probably been lost during a ball in Victorian times. For safe-keeping DD had to sleep with the "find" under her pillow till it could be moved to a secure location. I gather she had a sleepless night!! I often wonder about that earring's original owner and her sadness at what would have been, for her, never knowing what had happened!

Which is exactly why I had a third ear piercing - for the odd ones!

Ooops. It has become the norm where we live that if somebody has an unwanted item they put it out by their gate. People then stop and take it away. I am afraid I am not really keen on this myself.

lilliep

Ooops. It has become the norm where we live that if somebody has an unwanted item they put it out by their gate. People then stop and take it away. I am afraid I am not really keen on this myself.

That placing by the gate thing is rare here - when I moved here it used to turn up a carboot sale here at which 95% of stuff was obvious rubbish one wouldnt take as a gift.

That carboot sale has stopped and I have (very) occasionally seen stuff put outside for people to help themselves to subsequently.

Not something I can do outside my house - as its tucked away - but I've got a few reasonable neighbours (thankfully - considering the number of bad ones I've had/have here) and I pass them on surplus fruit I've grown when I'm passing their houses.

Once I was going to make meringue so I got my mixer out of the cupboard. The attachments were not with it but they are kept together. I searched everywhere. Took everything out of the cupboard with no sign of them. OH came to look, again everything out of the cupboard with no luck. The week after that I went to the cupboard for something only to find the attachments in exactly the place they should of been. No idea how that happened

Gingster. Could it be in a shoe? That’s where I found mine on returning from holiday once! Hadn’t worn that pair when away.

Hob goblins, they think it is funny. Hide stuff then put it back somewhere you already looked!

I am sure to there is s a very strange land where all misplaced, lost and stolen objects live or go
for a visit. No
A sort of Twilight Zone.

Some of the objects do come home. Some don't.

There are also always opportunist thieves about who will steal anything. I once had a crutch stolen from a cyber cafe years ago.

How low is that?

I reckon Bill and Ben were responsible for nicking your watering can.

Hope they return it.

Nightsky2

A plastic bowl with food left out for the fox but I do know who the culprit was🦊.

The lovely wrought iron gates at the bottom of our drive disappeared about 25 years ago and never to be seen again.

That was the sort of reason why I bought a set of 3 matching ceramic pots since moving here and then was soon looking at the 2 matching pots and thinking "I swear I bought 3 - and not 2".

I had to scan that part of my garden virtually with a fine toothcomb and a magnifying glass to find out what happened there. I found a very very tiny sliver of a ceramic pot indeed. Reaction "She must have tripped over my pots whilst trespassing and broke one of them and got scared and thought she'd swept up every last little bit of it". There were two potential culprits amongst the neighbours at that point that did their darndest to trespass pretty often in my garden - and it took a LOT of doing to stop them.

I often used to find a set of metal garden furniture of mine that I put in my side garden mysteriously moved - sometimes several times in a day. It never vanished - just moved a couple of feet. So I lurked one day - just after I'd moved it back to its proper place yet again. Cue for the next door neighbour trespasser creeping down the side of her house and shoving my furniture over. She must have realised I'd spotted her and so then knew for a fact that my furniture was moving and suspected who the culprit was and she didn't dare do that particular thing again...especially because I then had the proof (in my own mind) as to why one of those "moves" had resulted in my table falling over and a bit breaking off.

I never did figure out what put that entitled little idea in her head that she could move MY furniture in MY garden around.