#losing the plot

OH thank heaven! I really did start to think it was just me so it's very comforting to know I'm not alone.

Thanks, Jayanna, you have just reminded me that I put the washing on when I got up and have forgotten to hang it out

I confess to owning 2 identical blouses. I saw one in a shop and thought how nice it was - forgot that I'd already got it !

Stansgran I can relate to that. Many years ago when you had to go to a travel agent to book a flight I booked ours and didn't look at the paper work. It was only discovered when we got to the airport and I was lookiing at departure times.

Over Christmas we booked a number of slots from Tesco home delivery. To reserve the slot we always put down three wine boxes to get over the £40 min. and then delete them when we fill out the real order. You guessed it, three lonely wine boxes delivered this week. DH says he forgot....at least that's his story.

Me too Jay.
I bought something the other day and was surprised to find already have it. Now I am racking my brains to remember what it was ...
I did a big weed of clothes on Sun to make a bit of room in my wardobe so I can see what I have Have also 'categorised'a bit .Irs not that I buy duplicates but I find I have really nice clothes I never wear because I've forgotten I have them
Am wearing very nice cashmere jumper as I write (I have two identical I bought ages ago and forgot I had ,possibly because its usually too hot for them but it is freezing here today ...) Good to give it an airing !
Off to garden to hang out washing before I forget

Not quite the same, but my OH will never let me forget that i bought 2 halves of cucumber in one supermarket shop.

No I am with you on this one, keep giving stuff to the charity shops and then sometime later buying it back again! Also was having some dental work d one and had a temporary set of top teeth. Couldn't find them anywhere, searched high and lw so I dashed down to the supermarket with a scarf wrapped around my face. Got home and there they were grinning a me on the table?

Falcon bird i frquently cant place people when I meet them out of context and hope for clues. There's a story about a famous British composer (i forget which one) who met a vagely familiar woman at a reception and desperately looked for clues: How are you ? - very well - How are the children? - They are well too - and your husband ? - yes he's well - (in desperation) Is he still in the same job? - Yes, he's still King!

I used to do this all the time with magazines. I don't read them any more since I bought my lap top but it used to make me feel really stupid. I was always absent minded so I can't always decide if I am getting worse or just being me.

Books books books. If I am ordering from Amazon they tell me I have already bought it. If I go to other sites they don't and I think ooo that sounds good, buy it, and start reading it only to find it rings a bell deep in the grey stuff. Oh dear already got it. Charity shop does well with brand new books

All the time! The funniest thread yet. I am delighted to see my daughter beginning to do the things she used to laugh at me for doing
I came home yesterday to find food burning on the stove and with her words (mum you are going to burn the house down one of these days) ringing in my ears went to find her and get my own back.

The upside to getting old and forgetful, is that I frequently forget I'm old.

My wife asked one Sunday morning, if I'd go for a loaf of bread, which I dutifully did. I was at our front door, on my return, when I thought, this loaf feels very heavy. I looked in the bag, I had bought two litres of milk !!! Another senior moment.

I started wearing contact lenses because I could never remember where I'd put my glasses. The other morning I woke up and could see perfectly - I'd forgotten to take them out!

When something kitchen-related goes AWOL, first place I look is in the freezer - even if it's a packet of sugar, or a kitchen utensil, or a shopping list - seem to have a fatal attraction for freezer storage. This is such a comforting thread....

All sounds perfectly normal. I don't think it's anything to do with the ageing process .... More like we're all too busy so our minds are full of a myriad of stuff.

My most memorable was a few months ago. Popped into the corner shop for cigarettes! Dare I admit to this utterly disgusting vice. Probably not my worst!

Anyway .... Bought 2 packets. Got home and only 1 packet in my handbag with receipt for 2. So called in there following day, explained perhaps the assistant had dropped a packet etc. Ok they said, we will check CCTV later. Return a few days later. No, you definitely put them in your bag.

Remained a total mystery for a couple of weeks until I opened 'fridge and saw them sitting on the butter dish. Of course both my DH & I had used the 'fridge a zillion times ..... And yet not noticed them.

The young girl who originally served me and I always break into hilarious laughter whenever I see her ?

I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I've started writing everything down,as I know I'll forget. Now where is that list?

I thought I was losing it until I read this thread

Both my DH and one of my sisters have bought two pairs of identical shoes (not even in Sales). DH insisted there was a very subtle difference in colour (?), but my sister just took them straight back and was given a credit note from a very obliging assistant. I thought it hilarious! Though it's probably only a matter of time before I do it.

Who was it who asked a child 'And whose little boy are you?' The child replied, 'Yours, Papa'. I think it was Papa and not Daddy!

I do most of theses things, people in unlikely places - been like that for years although I used to work as a barmaid & could remember not only details of customer but their family as well. Once bumped into a Lady whilst we were visiting a NT Property in Hampshire (I worked in Surrey), she said "oh fancy seeing you here" - hadn't a clue so the usual slightly awkward conversation, when we'd parted I remembered - we travelled on the same train every day

Go shopping & buy things I don't need & forget the essentials, making a list doesn't help

Losing items - frequently. I lost my Christmas Bauble earrings when I moved, fragile so knew I had put them safe, last year couldn't find them, in the Spring I was going through a "memory box", guess what - small plastic box with earrings in - I now know where they are - worn this Christmas.

My DD is Pregnant, she says she's got "baby brain", mine just "to much in my brain" carry lots of useless information as I love crosswords, quizes & trivia

I've always thought I was absent-minded. Now I'm reassured! My best effort was turning up for a meeting with the head of a school where I chaired the governors, wearing identical shoes - except that one was black and the other navy. She didn't comment.

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This has to be the funniest post. How much better it's made me and everyone else feel. Thank goodness we're all going dotty together. ???

I had to go up into the loft as husband has bad knee to get the boxes down to put the Christmas deccies away.

What do I find? Boxes of crackers... you know they come in sixes and we usually have eight people, so the other four stay in the box and live up there. Some look like those I got years ago! Why do I not remember this?

Same with gift bags and wrapping paper. He says he doesn't see any when we go up for the decorations, but there they were... at least a dozen booze bags and rolls of wrapping paper stuffed into the loft corner.

Since knee is still bad, I have put all the decs in a corner here in the lounge. They are not going up until the loft gets a good clearout. Who knows what else is up there. (Hehehe...found a baby pic of DH when he was Prince Charming on a float in his little Welsh town after the war!)