Passports not in the drawer I always keep them in. Turning the place upside down.

It does seem a bit bizarre in this day and age that we are still dependent upon paper identification. You would think if it is possible to view your most private NHS records information securely on your phone, that your railcard is viewable on your phone, that surely you should just be able to bring up your passport on a phone when needed. Same for the driving licence. Then the worry of losing them would be no more.

My husband lost his driving licence once. He searched and searched to no avail. Ordered a new one. I was looking for another piece of paperwork and opened a briefcase and went through it really slowly. There it was tucked inside some other folded documents.

Aw ‘like meets like’ Lovetopaint! Thank you for inspiring us all to think of places where those blimmin’ passports might have secreted themselves! Yes please do come back when you find them! I’m so curious! Enjoy painting. 😁

Hopefully you will have a decent night's sleep as your mind is now at rest.

Well done, decision made. 🙂
It's no good getting more and more stressed over this.

(You know they'll turn up now, don't you!)

You’ve done your best, Lovetopaint and now you’re doing the pragmatic thing, to bring the situation to a close.

It’s just occurred to me - maybe the puppy ate them! 🐶

Absolutely will 👍

I’m glad you are feeling relieved, you haven’t let anyone down!

Please let us know if they do turn up though, we would all love to know where they hid themselves!

Absolutely the right decision.
Have a good time painting.

Ahh it’s a shame but you have to do what’s right for you and no one else can know that
If you feel relief then you ve done the right thing I don’t think anyone will say told you so we ll just say oh buxxer

Sometimes you just have to draw a line under it and accept defeat. Well done. You will feel so much better without this stress. They may well turn up but it doesn’t matter now. Enjoy your painting and the lovely puppy. Glad your health has improved.

You are such lovely people but I am going to let you down. I felt so tired and the building society said they would have let me know. I ran out of places to look. The thing is that we are in our eighties and because of this I am meticulous where things are put as I don’t rely on my memory!!!Dh never touches them as he knows what I am like. I am programmed to put them in that drawer no matter what is going on 😂. Of course I didn’t or else it would be there. So knowing it will turn up eventually I still couldn’t stand the stress 😱In shame I confess I did the silly deed and they are both cancelled. So just have to brace myself for the taking photographs and paying out the money. When I find them I will let you know and you can say we told you so. The bonus is that I feel relieved and I can get on with my painting of a lovely red Labrador puppy which the family has acquired. I’m out of practise as my health hasn’t been A1 this last year but this has recently improved and I was so enjoying dabbling again even if it isn’t up to scratch. Can’t tell you how much I have appreciated your posts. You are so lovely.

Calendergirl might be on to something. I lost DHs spare car keys. I’d put them in the, seldom used, kitchen utensils drawer instead of the dresser drawer, which I’d thoroughly searched along with every handbag and coat pocket.

I think you took them to the building society in Dec/Jan for I/D purposes, both passports in DH’s envelope.

Then when you came home, instead of putting them in the usual drawer, for some reason you popped them elsewhere. Maybe in a rush to unpack other shopping or similar? DH didn’t put them away himself somewhere, and has forgotten?

I realise you must have gone through all this, both physically searching and mentally searching as well, but I really think they will be somewhere safe, but in the wrong place.

If it was December/January, they have not been put away with any Christmas stuff? Grasping at straws, I know.

I so hope they come to light.

🤞

Try some self hypnosis.

Put on some gentle, relaxing music, then picture the day they went missing - what you did, where you went, how you felt.

Then turn it all off, get online, and order replacements.

Thank you Calendar girl. Definitely renewed and have the receipt in my empty envelope with passport number. Also all the passports are clipped.

This probably sounds silly.

Have you got your old passports handy?

It’s just you said in your OP that you wanted to check the expiry date.

I wondered if for some reason you never replaced them, but meant to, which is why you can’t find them, (if that makes sense).

Realise this sounds unlikely, but trying to think of alternatives.

I have a bad habit of stuffing items in pockets of coats and jackets and having a selection I frequently get a good surprise. Could that have happened?

If they do not turn up today I would cancel and start again. It is not worthwhile stressing yourself to this level.

Oh - just apply for a new one - you will make yourself ill searching for it - if you are not travelling in the near future, you can just cross your fingers and hope it will turn up. If you are intending to travel soon, £100 is a small price to pay and cheaper if you apply on-line. Good luck anyway

I mislaid mine last year. I hadn’t travelled for a couple of years and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t in the travel wallet where I normally store it.

After 2 days of frantic searching I found it in an envelope with 2 utility bills. I vaguely remembered that I’d used it months ago for ID purposes along with the bills. It was sandwiched between the 2 bills.

I hope they turn up today for you. It’s an expensive loss and needless to say you’ll find them before the replacements are delivered. Fingers crossed you’ll be back with good news later 🤞

Urmstongran . Thank you. We no longer have a car and went by bus to the building society. However, now you have encouraged me again. I will at least spend today retracing everything.

Ah thank you for the update.
I know we are all rooting for you! It must be SOMEWHERE in your house or car. I’d not give up just yet ….
I lost a gold earring a few months ago. I was so upset.
I found it at the end of the week.

Was still searching until late last night. The last time I would have taken them out might have been December/January for ID but not sure if I actually had to show them. The last time I would have definitely had them would have been just after a Bank holiday last April/May (23). That was at a building society. However, I would have thought they would have notified me if they had been left there which was unlikely. I will ring them today but it is so long ago. I am usually so organised and have all previous passports recorded and I still have them. However, this is the first time I failed to do this with the newer ones. Probably because we had no plans to go abroad. As said before I have the empty envelope and passport number for mine but my passport must be with my dh’s. I feel I have just about exhausted my options and am thinking of cancelling them just to ensure no one is misusing them somewhere. If the procedure is straight forward then dh is saying to save me getting myself into a state just cancel and order a duplicate. It’s certainly an expense we could do without and they might well turn up but beginning to think peace of mind is worth it. So kind helpers I will try the building society by ringing them, have another quick look where I have looked before and then probably cancel later today or tomorrow.

Not found yet? That’s strange…

Take a pin and a cushion. Stab the cushion three times, saying " I pin the devil" everytime you stab.
Then just forget about searching ( not easy, I know ) and where the passports are will come to you.