Do things disappear in your house?

[SusanL]

I feel as though there is a big black hole in my house where everything disappears. I have now lost two books I was planning on using. I know that I have too much to do and not enough time but please don't keep taking things I need!! OK, vent over. Does this happen to you?? Please tell me it does because it is driving me crazy!

[slknight]

Ugh, yes! And I live in a tiny house so there are only so many places that things can go, kwim? Most recently, we lost a children's library book. I'm probably going to have to pay to replace it. It was really thin, and I'm afraid it might have gotten mixed up with the newspaper recycling. I feel for you!

[Beth]

Of course not -- just ask mom, "hey, where's my _________?" Or my other favorite, "I gave to you and you did something with it." But I have narrowed down the center of the black hole's pull -- it's on the north east side of the house -- where my son's room and the garage are. ;) :p

[funnybone]

I guess I have a black hole in my house, but I always thought it was a ghost moving things around. :D "I swear that I just looked there" is a common phrase around here. :rolleyes:

[MrsReber]

I recently lost a new pair of jeans. Searched my closet about 6 times. Where could they be? I really miss them......

[BarbaraL]

Happens all the time. Especially with papers, but I've had clothes, including a favorite black blazer disappear. Luckily, they do usually eventually reappear, but I've thought that (1) I'm losing my mind, or (2) we have a poltergeist.

[Hammster]

and we do find them eventually.
We had a library book go missing that we swore we returned to the library as we couldn't find it anywhere in the house. Well the following Halloween we got the Halloween stuff boxes down out of the closet and there was that darn book. A year later!! In a Halloween stuff box that we knew for sure a book wouldn't be in. LOL.

[blazedog]

When I was a child, I LOVED the series of books called The Borrowers which was about a society of wee people who inhabited unused portions of homes and well -- borrowed things. :)

[Laurielee]

I have 2 green bath towels that vanished! Its been about 6 months now. The strange thing is they were my towels that are kept hanging in one of my bathrooms :confused: :confused:

Laurie

[DanaSD]

black pants (maybe I left them at the dry cleaners or a hotel??)

cordless phone (our guess was that it fell in the trash can at some point)

the powercord to my printer (I blame my husband for this one, he went through a cleaning fit throwing out 'unused cords' but he denies it. now my printer is useless since they're not universal)

henkels knife (this one finally showed up when we packed our house to move. our cleaning lady had it in cady with all the cleaning products - not what a henkels knife should be used for)

[funnybone]

Actually, I do have some cutlery that has vanished. Hmm . . . :rolleyes:

[jellyben]

Actually, I do have some cutlery that has vanished. Hmm . . . :rolleyes:

We had a period of time where our silverware supply seemed to be diminishing by the day. Turned out my then 2yo was feeding them into the vents of the fireplace!

[KimE]

Does it happen....I bought the cutest barretts for my DH that said "I'm 2"
I have never found them and she is now 21 :eek:

Kim

Now where were those planters that I bought on close out last winter and I need now??????

[Aubergine]

i had to compose myself after laughing myself silly---and i needed that laugh--b/c we are going through this stupid business here about SO losing/misplacing checkbook this w/e. AARRRRGGHHHHH!, as the Peanuts strip would say.

years ago, i lived in a place where we used to have a running joke about 'the Elmer ghost,' meaning the spirit responsible for odd missing items, and i don't mean socks. it was our version of the Bermuda Triangle, and we had some laffs, but we also had many serious worries, b/c the most mundane things would vanish.

just so you know, you're def'ly not alone. ghost must be revisiting me, b/c things, simple things also, are suddenly vanishing.

[beacooker]

I think all your lost things must go to my house - I don't buy very much, yet my house is stuffed full of junk that I can't figure out where it came from. Feel free to stop by my house any time and re-claim your stuff!

[little_bopeep]

My desk is a vortex from which nothing returns.

This makes me think of a Family Guy episode where Lois says she's going to Bed Bath and Beyond, and Peter admonishes her to stay away from the "Beyond" section. There's a flashback of him going through the door marked "Beyond" and entering another dimension where things are psychadelic and floating....and he says, "Oh, THERE are the coffee mugs." Kinda loses something in the translation...ya kinda have to be there.

[Aubergine]

this just reminded me, Geo Carlin has a great riff from a few (many?) years ago about Heaven, and that one would eventually be reunited with all of one's missing socks, pens, sunglasses; a great, fantastic stockpile...

[HejazSunKat]

Right now I'm almost wishing stuff would disappear because I can't seem to manage to put anything away - and I just had 4 days off - funny how TIME seems to disappear. I would really like to know where that 2 pack of boot trays I got for the messy winter boots went - even though we seem to be in the clear for snow now. Maybe they'll turn up before next winter.

[Kathy B]

One of my older brothers used to have a theory that there were "grabbers" that lived in the walls of the house. According to him they would sneak out at night and "grab" stuff they wanted. For a long time if something was missing the standard response was "the grabbers must have gotten it!"

These days, I just call DD (12) when I can't find something. She honestly has some kind of radar for lost items! Only caveat, the radar DOES NOT work
if the missing item is her own. Really, though, I could make money renting her out. She is that good at it!

[Peweh]

I'm a firm believer in the ghosts! Right after we moved and were totally stressed we had tickets to see a concert. We were bickering about going, I wanted DH to take a friend so I could unpack, long story but I had seen the tix the day before in a box in our home office. Went up to confirm the start time and tix were nowhere to be found. Tore the office upside down and never found the tix - argument solved, couldn't go anyway. Fast fwd one year and I found the tix in the glovebox of a car WE DID NOT OWN at the time the tix went missing! My nice ghosts just wanted us to chill out.

[schuh]

I haven't been able to find my wedding rings in weeks. I'm dead serious.

[Canice]

To be honest: "Almost never" in my case (though there was the fun thread a couple of years ago when I lost one of DBF's Christmas presents (http://community.cookinglight.com/showthread.php?t=51673&highlight=Nordstrom).

However, I've been looking EVERYWHERE today for the dust jacket to my copy of "A Crack in the Edge of the World"; I always remove dust jackets, and that one is spectacularly designed and produced. I'm done with the book now, and it's a signed first -would like to reunite it with its jacket. Wherev er it may be.

Two other exceptions that spring to mind are:

Years ago knocking on a roommate's door and asking, "Have you seen my dinner? I was eating a bowl of pasta and now I can't find it anywhere." (It was on the top of the 'fridge.)
And once my mother called and said, "You know that watch I lost three weeks ago? Well I found it - you'll never guess where." "In your shoe?" I asked. She couldn't believe it! "How did you know?" "Because when I lost MY watch, I found it in a shoe." :p

[Beth]

I recently lost a new pair of jeans. Searched my closet about 6 times. Where could they be? I really miss them......

At least twice I have had a new pair of shorts disappear after the first or second washing. I found them in the laundry DH had folded and out with DS's clothes. Only happens with the black or tan -- never the pink jammies. :D

[vbak]

I bought 2 pair of jeans about a month ago and 1 pair I have worn and the other pair??? :confused: :confused: I finally found that new purse I bought last summer though. Yes, the control tag is still on it ,too. :(

Vicky

[LakeMartinGal]

Funniest thing -- this stopped happening for a while after DD's left! (I just KNEW it was them...) but it started again, after DH retired. He is a neat freak, and big on throwing things away if they're not where he thinks they belong! I finally convinced him that he was throwing money away :p , and he's better, now.... I still get the big sighs, though, if things are out on the counter... Now, I must admit, I do misplace things from time to time. My biggest grr is forgetting what I was going to do, and having to go back to the place I was thinking about it last, and try to remember what it was... :o

[MNGirlTX]

Yep! And, I'm single...so unless the cats are taking my books and clothes, I guess it's the Borrowers or the Grabbers or.......

Lori

[ellielk]

I'm sure everyone has the situation where you put a pair of socks in the dryer and only one comes out. One year, when I was married, my son, my daughter, and I were preparing to enter things in the county fair. My then husband made some comment about not having anything to enter and we suggested that he enter his 'collection' of unmated socks. He had a board with all the socks mounted and an explanation about how the dryer had 'taken' the matching socks. He took 2nd prize for the most unique collection.

[Peggy]

Yes! My zester has been missing in action for over a month. It's driving my crazy. Things tend to disappear in the kitchen when DH puts them away. ;)

Peggy

[funnybone]

I'm a firm believer in the ghosts! Right after we moved and were totally stressed we had tickets to see a concert. We were bickering about going, I wanted DH to take a friend so I could unpack, long story but I had seen the tix the day before in a box in our home office. Went up to confirm the start time and tix were nowhere to be found. Tore the office upside down and never found the tix - argument solved, couldn't go anyway. Fast fwd one year and I found the tix in the glovebox of a car WE DID NOT OWN at the time the tix went missing! My nice ghosts just wanted us to chill out.


Now that is creepy! My ghosts don't always take things, but they do leave pennies around the house. I really cannot figure out where they come from, except for what I've seen Sylvia Browne mention - that those who have passed on will leave coins all around. I'm convinced it my late grandfather. :)

[BarbaraL]

When I was a child, I LOVED the series of books called The Borrowers which was about a society of wee people who inhabited unused portions of homes and well -- borrowed things. :)

I loved The Borrowers too! I even have a copy of the book downstairs; bought it at a garage sale for DD. Haven't seen it for awhile; maybe the Borrowers have made away with it. . .

[Terrytx]

I can't figure out where my DD's clothes go :confused: I buy her new things, never see them on her and later on down the line, she will ask for something else. I ask where the "such and such" is that I bought her last week (or month or what ever), she has no idea, but they (or it) isn't in her closet! :(

[LakeMartinGal]

I can't figure out where my DD's clothes go :confused: I buy her new things, never see them on her and later on down the line, she will ask for something else. I ask where the "such and such" is that I bought her last week (or month or what ever), she has no idea, but they (or it) isn't in her closet! :(
Maybe they "go to school" while she wears someone else's clothes, and doesn't get her own back? Had some experience with this eons ago, when my DD's were younger... ;)

[Wendy w]

Big problem here. It is especially hard when you have had 2 bedrooms for years and then you have to condense everything into 1. It gets rather cozy. :rolleyes: There's lots of storage space but my roomie had almost all of it filled when I moved in.

[Rae]

I lost a bathroom set once. Yes, the liquid soap dispenser, the bar soap dish, glass, and other assorted containers. I was moving at the time and was kind of living in two places at once, went back to the old apartment to pack up my bathroom and my bath set was gone! I couldn't figure out what had happened to it but knew that maintainence had been in my apartment and my suspicious mind wondered if they had taken my new and favorite bathroom set. It seemed too ridiculous and I was sure I would find the set once I unpacked. No go - it was nowhere to be found. Several years went by and I would occaisionally wonder what had happened to it - long past being upset about it, just bemused and curious. Last summer I was getting some stuff together for a rummage sale and decided to put a long unused toiletry luggage bag in the pile. You guessed it, all wrapped up very neatly inside of it was my long missing bathroom set! I have absolutely no memory of putting it there!! Even more ridiculous, :rolleyes: I've moved twice since then and have moved that bag (containing my bath set) twice!! :rolleyes:

[bobmark226]

I could give you a list of things that disappear here, but the best one recently was at a supermarket. I'm near-sighted, so I remove my glasses to read labels. I finished shopping, got out onto the street and realized I couldn't see. I went back into the store in a panic, checked through all the carriages that had been put back, then when they weren't there, went to the manager's desk and asked if anyone had turned in a pair of glasses that I'd probably left in a carriage bin, at which point his eyes went straight to the top of my head where my glasses were perched. :o :o :o

Bob

[Peggy]

Bob...That is soooooooo funny!!! :D :D

Peggy

[mommycook]

I can't figure out where my DD's clothes go :confused:

They end up at my house. :p

I have a whole stack of kid clothes that do not belong here. I have eveyone who comes over to see if anything belongs to them.

This stack drives my DD crazy since there are many cute in it that she wants to wear. I know if I give in and let her where something that we will run in to who it REALLY belongs to :eek: who will them think we 'borrowed' it from them!!!

[Aubergine]

love "The Borrowers," and there was a great, fun film made of it about 8-10 years ago.

ladies, i'm surprised you haven't figured out how pre-teen and teen DDs operate. in my experience, they trade clothes all of the time. hey, i did that, to some extent, at that age, but since today's world seems to require a 'new' wardrobe every few weeks, :rolleyes: that's how they handle it, in part. at least, that's how mine (now 20) did for many years, and also borrowing/stealing from me freely.

[Farhana]

Nope, everything has a place and I make sure it remains in it's place, I'd go crazy if I can't find something when I need it. Anyways, things disappeared once though, my spoons- as my 2yr old DD found another place for them- the heating vent :rolleyes:.

[Aubergine]

Nope, everything has a place and I make sure it remains in it's place, I'd go crazy if I can't find something when I need it. Anyways, things disappeared once though, my spoons- as my 2yr old DD found another place for them- the heating vent :rolleyes:.

ROFLMAO, reminds me of when DS (at about 2) put a piece of hotdog in the water well of the coffee machine...like, who examines that early in the am? or ever? it took us weeks, until the routine de-calcifying bi-monthly thing, to discover it.

[mbrogier]

I recently lost a new pair of jeans. Searched my closet about 6 times. Where could they be? I really miss them......

My favorite jeans went missing about two months ago. I had bought a new pair to wear to a NBA game, and I put the old jeans in the GAP bag the new ones came in. The old jeans sat in that bag forever. (They were with Rob's clothes because I had bought some boxers for him.)


Yep! And, I'm single...so unless the cats are taking my books and clothes, I guess it's the Borrowers or the Grabbers or.......

My husband recently lost a ring. One of the cats took it. She loves jewelry. Whenever we are missing pens, we look under the sofa because the cats steal them.