The mystery of the vanishing watering can

Grammaretto

Here in Scotland we are advised to plant a Rowan tree near the gate to keep witches away. It works so may deter thieves too, CariadAgain

Actually ---- yep I did plant a rowan tree in my garden and that was part of the reason I did so....

....so I've got my (reclaimed from the thief I used to know) crystal at the front and rowan tree at the back.

Am currently checking out what people are available for "house healing" - having gathered that it can also be done from a distance (if they have a plan of the house/map of area). Currently wondering if I'd be making it too easy for them to instantly go "Aha - spotted the problem" if I do a quick sketch of the area. Reason being - there's two mobile phone masts I can spot and they're visible from one of my windows (one does look like it's possibly 5G and no-one seems to believe the other one is a mast - as it's one of the ones that is disguised as a tree). But that tree has never ever moved in the wind or grown at all in the over 10 years I've lived here and I can see clearly it's one of the disguised masts they sometimes do - as it's the only darn thing around here that never ever moves - and we get strong winds here sometimes to the extent I'm having a look at other peoples fences after yet another gale to see how much damage they've had this time. (Fortunately for me when I told a local workman that I wanted a typical English fence for one of my boundaries - he gave me an old-fashioned look/summed up that I'd only lived here for a very short time at that point and then proceeded to tell me how strong the winds are here sometimes). I changed my mind and did a rather different fence/differently placed and the wind doesn't touch it....

Here in Scotland we are advised to plant a Rowan tree near the gate to keep witches away. It works so may deter thieves too, CariadAgain

Inside duvet covers is a good place to start looking, for socks and pants anyway, maybe not shoes or gloves
Farmgran & grandma2002

I have just located my wedding ring again. It had jumped out of its box. I tried it on and even on my pinkie it needed soap to pull it off again. Arthritic fingers ....
I just don't wear rings.

I once lost a brand new pair of leather gloves . Searched for months then found them in a duvet cover which I was about to iron. It hadn't been through the wash!!

I do honestly wonder if some of the missing possessions are "off in another dimension" or something similar - as someone else wanted them and didnt bother to specify that what they wanted wasnt to be stolen for them to have it.

I don't think anything has done a mysterious "vanishing trick" since that kitchen jug of mine back in my last house - as I felt I made it very plain to the Universe at that time that nothing was ever to "vanish" on me again...even if it subsequently reappeared.

Since then I can only recall two things going - 1. a ceramic pot a trespasser neighbour to current house accidentally broke whilst trespassing and swept up all of it except one teeny tiny little shard I found that proved I do still "own" it so to say. 2. I bought a fairly large crystal - to have a go at "protection" being set in place on my house (ie against my awful neighbours) and I'd had someone round that I was regarding as a friend at that time (we all make mistakes) and it was hidden underneath some soil in my garden by me. For some reason just after he'd been paid to do a little bit of digging in my garden by me I decided to check it was still there - and it wasnt. I think he was so gobsmacked when I asked for my crystal back that he brought it back the following day - full of excuses that he'd "thought it was a pebble", "put it in his pocket whilst waiting to dispose of it". I did give him benefit of doubt at that point - foolishly - as I paid him for a subsequent long distance lift and gave him benefit of doubt again when he said I'd not counted out quite enough money to pay him (ie he said it was £15?/£20? short).

He's off the scene now - because he knew I'd just swopped my computer and asked me if he could borrow my computer hard drive "just for a few hours - for 'me and my brother' to do whatever-it-was that was his excuse". Luckily I realised for sure he was a thief at that point and "the shutter went down on him that second" and I binned him instantly. I revised my opinion of his intelligence level from "average" down to "thick" at that point. Make that "double thick - as this is a small town with a good grapevine and an unofficial police force too" - I think there may be a few people that havent been told he's a thief yet. Silly man....very very silly man.....but I guess he's got less knowledge of this town than I have....

Iost a pair of black trainers,I have searched theflat, nowhere to be seen, really need them!

I've never solved the mystery of the vanishing red suede shoe.
Years ago I came home from town, sat on the side of the bed and kicked my shoes off. One of them went flying through the air and vanished, never to be seen again!

DotScot

Before my Mum was diagnosed with dementia, (but perhaps there were signs) she got new curtains delivered and unpacked them ready to hang. Then they somehow went missing. We all searched the house from top to bottom, but they were nowhere to be found.
At the same time, my Mum had had carpet cleaners in, and my Mum had given them cups of tea and biscuits and chatted with them as she always does with tradespeople, getting their life stories and woes. She learned that one of them had a son who was getting married, but he didn't know what to give the couple as a wedding gift. Apparently, he wanted it to be something nice, but he didn't have a lot of money to spare. (Yes, our alarm bells were ringing at that too!)
So Mum concluded that the carpet cleaner must have taken the curtains as a wedding present for his son. Privately, we were sceptical - I mean, curtains as a wedding present? But anyway, it was a story that meant we could stop looking for them.
In the summer, the next year, we found the curtains, in their opened wrapping, outside in a garden seat that was also a storage chest. How did they get there? No-one knows. By the time they were found, my Mum had got new curtains.

I'm guessing someone found out they were stolen and brought them back.

Grammaretto, my friend lost her wedding and engagement rings due to weight loss. Eventually she found the engagement ring in the salad drawer of the fridge. The wedding ring was not found sadly. How lovely that you found yours on your anniversary.

Has the watering can re-appeared?

My best lost/found was my wedding ring. I am a potter and in our first house my studio was the garden room behind the garage, which housed the kiln.
I would take off my rings to save them from the clay but the wedding
ring just couldn't be found despite a lot of searching.
Fast forward a year or so, we had sold the house and were preparing for the imminent move
It was our wedding anniversary and I was on hands and knees sweeping the garage floor and there shining in the dustpan was my ring.

I can't find it at the moment actually...

....and then again - I've just spotted a mini-video on YouTube of what they are describing as portals and looking like things are dropping in out of nowhere (eg falling from the ceiling).

Thinks - just what exactly are they up to at CERN? - just a minor issue where nobody has really ever bothered to explain just what the heck they think they're doing and how they figure they can do it safely....

My favourite peeling knife went missing. It turned up at least 5 years later in the cutlery draw where it belonged! No idea where it went or how it got back 🙄

Yes, we've found the potato peeler upon the compost heap before now.

If anyone leaves anything metal in the front garden, eg children's bikes if they go indoors for tea, a lawnmower, then the scrap men come along and take it.

I used to think it was The Borrowers, now I'm not so sure!

Hatcham

Once found our missing vegetable peeler in the back garden 🤔

I found mine when moving the compost heap.

Once found our missing vegetable peeler in the back garden 🤔

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Yes!!’ The watering can is found!