I’ve done it again...

try again

I may well be accused of "teaching Granny to suck eggs" but here goes.

I have a box file called A SAFE PLACE which sits on the shelf with the others. This is where I put small things e.g. passport, keys, spare glasses, Christmas Card address list, etc. which must not be lost. The box also contains a note book, wherein I list where I have put/hidden larger items, eg Back Bedroom, big or wee shed, under bed drawers. This works most of the time for me.

Held a surprise birthday party for ex-h. Took several years to ‘find’ certain dried food.

Last year I hid all the toys id bought for the grandchildren. On the day we were visiting I gathered them up for my 4 and 6 year old grandchildren. As the 6 year old was opening his, all was well. Then I realised the 4 year old had hardly anything to open. I realised some of her gifts were still hidden at home. I was mortified but she took it so well when I told her what happened. The next day she got her gifts!

Found a "hidden" box of chcolates, in the summer, use by date well past.

I'm renowned for this. Two weeks ago I found last year's Christmas crackers ??

Be at your Witzend no more OP , simply unleash a squirrel in your house and all will be revealed!!!!!!

That’s a lovely story Nanagem!
My Mother once wrote all of her Christmas cards early, put them somewhere’safe’ and they were never found again. Even when the house was finally sold, they never turned up,

I’ll look in all my hidey places for you. Perhaps they have got there - oh no, I can’t remember where those places are now!!

Stop looking and it's s**s law they'll turn up !
Personally I think that every house has an elf that hides things just for fun and when they can see you have got bored and given up looking, they put them back where they were in the first place!

I would imagine my friend was looking everywhere for her scissors last year. She had wrapped them up with my present! She lives in another party of the country so I couldn't pop them round to her.

I’ve had a little sign made, it reads
“Nanny’s Nook” aka safe place of things I’ve lost!!
I put everything in this little cubby hole!!... a real life saver!!!

Not quite the same but we remember the year when DD, DSiL and DGD1 aged about 4 arrived for Christmas, only to discover that DGD’s Christmas stocking and contents had been left behind. Fortunately I was able to provide both a suitable stocking and things to fill it and so far as DGD was concerned Father Christmas had done his thing. An occasion when being an over enthusiastic granny paid off!

Ashcombe

My darling late Mum always claimed that mislaid items were always in the last place you looked!

Well this is obviously its own truth - since you would stop looking once you found them, automatically making the place they were in the last place you looked!

My SIL had 4 children she used to store Christmas presents at MIL house. One year being helpful her DM wrapped all the presents which SIL picked up late on Christmas eve as she laid them under the tree she realized MIL had not put on any gift tags it added a new dimension to Christmas morning!

I have a tip. Write a note in your diary saying where it is for a couple of weeks before you need to give the gift!

It's about the only organised thing I do!!

My family are use to receiving presents when they have eventually been found! This means they get little gifts, whenever the present turns up. They love ❤️ this

PS just found the sparklers for bonfire night 2019 ?

We have a selection of birthday and Christmas cards bought and lost and then found again and lost again! Still, it keeps someone in a job manufacturing them I suppose!

My mum used to give us presents in January that she had found after Xmas and it was a lovely surprise. In my teenage years I was off school sick and found mum's hidden presents. There was two Xmas annuals, Jackie & Oh Boy. I sneakily read the Oh Boy under my sickly bed covers and told my mum I'd prefer the Jackie annual if possible for Xmas and my sister received the Oh Boy annual that year lol.

My sister and I must have been exceptionally good children; Mum would say "don't go in my wardrobe, the Christmas presents are there" and we never did!

Once there were no more children sneaking around, searching for their presents, I always stored any early purchases in my wardrobe. I had bought a copy of Terry Pratchett’s book ‘Pyramids’ for my son. When I went to get it out, ready for his birthday, it had vanished. I had to buy another copy. That was about 12 years ago, and the book has never reappeared. They say that pyramids have magical powers!

elleks

My sister and I must have been exceptionally good children; Mum would say "don't go in my wardrobe, the Christmas presents are there" and we never did!

And I must have been exceptionally bad.

At around nine years old, I remember searching for Christmas presents, and finding them hidden in a large blanket box.
I sneakily opened the corner of at least one (the one I still remember was a child's tapestry of a girl on a horse going over a jump). I never let on, and was still just as delighted to receive the said gift on Christmas day.

Since then, I have realized that I prefer to know in advance what is going to happen, whether good or bad. That way, I adjust my expectations accordingly and am less likely to be disappointed. It's just the way I am, and hopefully doesn't make me a bad person!

MamaCaz one year my son couldn't bear the suspense and tore a corner of the wrapping paper off all his presents under the tree.
Trouble was he got carried away and tore a corner off everyone else's presents as well!

V3ra Perhaps I wasn't as bad as I thought - it never crossed my mind to sneak a peek at anyone else's presents