Peculiar items I have lost

[Canice]

My mother told me she'd lost her watch for 2 weeks and, "You'll never believe where I found it!" "In your shoe?" I asked. She looked at me in disbelief. "How did you know?" "Because when *I* lost *my* watch, I found it in a shoe."

So I'm now several weeks into wondering where my worn-once bra could possibly be (and no, there are no interesting possibilities). Likewise a pair of corduroys, also worn once. I once lost an entire box of checks that I use only, and I mean *only* when sitting at my desk at home; they travel about 30 inches when I need a fresh book, maybe twice a year.

Where does stuff go? Especially if you don't have kids, a dog, or a house cleaner? (DBF's house cleaner seems to enjoy tormenting us with her imaginative places for putting things, and he had a Cocker Spaniel who was a known thief. OMG!! The Brady Bunch!! Remember? All along it was TIGER, not Alice! OK, too much caffeine today - I'm getting punchy.)

[LaraW]

Canice, its funny that you started this thread, because I was going to start one asking you if you knew where a sports bra I was missing was, as well as a pair of DD's pajama pants. Both seemed to have mysteriously disappeared in the laundry and were gone for a couple of weeks and then just as mysteriously re-appeared in the dresser drawers where they belonged.

[colleency]

Canice, have you ever seen Free Enterprise? It opens with one of the characters pitching the movie he's trying to sell: Brady Killers!

[Beth]

While slowly moving back into our kitchen, I keep wondering where things are. I forgot we had a drawer above the hole where the warming drawer will go -- seems THAT's where the can opener was.

Temporarily lost my glves and the super cold moves in, but have found them again.

What I cannot find anywhere is a set of several decorative wooden plates I was going to put in the kitchen and a bookshelf/potrack that was going to be part of the window treatment. I remember packing them into a box before the demo started. We can't find them anywhere. I'm afraid I gave then away with the other stuff I tok to the donation center. I guess worse things could happen.

[lisas3575]

It's deja vu all over again.

Seriously, whenever I can't find an item of clothing, I've not fished it out of a suitcase/gym bag of some sort. I've found knickers of mine in suitcases that I don't even remember owning, they've been gone so long. Triple check the bag you use to go to DBF's house, or a suitcase from a recent trip and you might find them!

[lisas3575]

What I cannot find anywhere is a set of several decorative wooden plates I was going to put in the kitchen and a bookshelf/potrack that was going to be part of the window treatment. I remember packing them into a box before the demo started. We can't find them anywhere. I'm afraid I gave then away with the other stuff I tok to the donation center. I guess worse things could happen.

LOL, Beth! I can relate to that. During our kitchen remodel, we lost the plastic bin that I kept onions in from the pantry. It's a running joke between DH and I-- when we can't find something we say, "it must be with the onion bin." Of all the stupid things to lose...

[misskitty100]

You have probably already done this but check behind your washer or dryer. I also have found smaller items tucked inside a fitted sheet corner or a pants leg after being laundered.

[Peggy]

Glad I'm not the only one that loses things and then finds them in weird places. Once I lost my reading glasses and was going crazy trying to find them. Two days later they turned up in the refrigerator! I've never been able to figure that one out...

Peggy

[Kristena]

This happens to me occaisionally. A few months ago I made a bunch of Oompa Loompa costumes for our schools production of Willy Wonka. Our OompaLoompas had knee-high socks that were really bright--flourescent pink, green, yellow. After the last show I took the socks home to wash and then planned to take them back to school to store. I walked in through the garage, stopped at the washing machine and started my load of bright socks. After drying them I folded them and found....one sock missing. These are big wooly, bright socks. How the hell did I lose one?

Still haven't found it.

[KristaMB]

Canice, I know it's kind of obvious, but if have you checked the cracks and cushions of your couch? I always fold laundry on our sectional and have found all sorts of clothing in the cracks, under and around the couch.

You have probably already done this but check behind your washer or dryer. I also have found smaller items tucked inside a fitted sheet corner or a pants leg after being laundered.

Uhm, yeah. DD takes a fitted crib sheet to school for her nap mat, and I take all her things home each Friday to wash. I'm always rushing around Monday morning, pulling her sheet and blankie from the dryer and shoving it directly into her school bag. One of my all time most horrifying moments was having a pair of my thong panties sent home from her school on a Monday afternoon. They fell out of the sheet when they put it on her mat at naptime.

Peggy, DH "loses" his keys and cell phone in the pantry and fridge all the time!

[vbak]

Glad I'm not the only one that loses things and then finds them in weird places. Once I lost my reading glasses and was going crazy trying to find them. Two days later they turned up in the refrigerator! I've never been able to figure that one out...

Peggy

A great laugh to start the day Years ago I used to make perc coffee on the stove. One morning I poured myself a cuppa, drank it, and went to pour myself another cup , and I couldn't find the coffee pot with the hot coffee in it! Where in the h....is the coffee pot? In the refrigerator of course. Isn't that where everybody puts it?

Did you check the linen closet? Closet floors? How about your car?

[honeygirl1971]

It's deja vu all over again.

Seriously, whenever I can't find an item of clothing, I've not fished it out of a suitcase/gym bag of some sort. I've found knickers of mine in suitcases that I don't even remember owning, they've been gone so long. Triple check the bag you use to go to DBF's house, or a suitcase from a recent trip and you might find them!

Yup, that has happened to me. I looked everywhere (or so I thought) for a long-sleeved onesie I had recently bought for our baby, and lo and behold, I found it a month later in a pocket of a diaper bag I had used once for a trip to the ILs. He had outgrown it by the time I found it, though!

[newtricks]

One of my all time most horrifying moments was having a pair of my thong panties sent home from her school on a Monday afternoon. They fell out of the sheet when they put it on her mat at naptime.

I love this story. Do you think the teachers talk about you now?

[Robyn1007]

Peggy, the glasses in the fridge is great!

I have 1 of my favorite red leather gloves but haven't found the other one. I remember seeing both of them this fall and then once winter hit I haven't seen it. The leather would be so much better for driving in the mornings and I'm really frustrated. I'll probably find it in April.

[little_bopeep]

Whenever we "find" something that has been hiding in plain sight, we say, "Yeah, I found it right here--next to the snakebite kit."

[MNGirlTX]

Canice - My watch is missing, too. Usually, it's behind something on the kitchen counter, but I looked there this morning, and nada.

So, I guess I'll look in my shoes tonight after work.

Thank you!

Lori

[Gracie]

I lost my keyring on Thanksgiving Day. I brought DD to the high school since she's in the band and came home immediately. 2 hours later DH and I went over to the game, and I couldn't find my keys to drive over. Where did they go in that 2 hours????

I haven't seen them since. My car's key has a computer chip in it and so to replace it costs $75. Needless to say, I only have 1 car key now and I'm keeping my eye on it! And replacing all those store key-chain cards was a pain, too.

Loren

[Pony]

Love this thread.

I found the home phone in the fruit basket the other day . I always use the cell, rarely use the home phone.

I love the coffee pot in the fridge.

[LakeMartinGal]

A friend recently lost the glasses she wears all the time! We thought the cat might have taken them, but I think it's aliens from outer space!

[Canice]

How funny that you remembered that thread, Lisa!

A great laugh to start the day Years ago I used to make perc coffee on the stove. One morning I poured myself a cuppa, drank it, and went to pour myself another cup , and I couldn't find the coffee pot with the hot coffee in it! Where in the h....is the coffee pot? In the refrigerator of course. Isn't that where everybody puts it? ....

This reminds me of the time, years ago, I asked my roommate, "Uhm, I know this is kind of a strange question, but have you seen my dinner anywhere?" I'd been eating a bowl of spaghetti when the phone range...and then couldn't find it when my call was over. It was on top of the 'fridge, toward the back. I always look in the highest place when I've recently misplaced something; for some reason I place things way up.

[stacy7272]

These are great stories!

I use a community washer and dryer and there have been reports of people stealing laundry in the past so when 3 of my thong underwear went missing I figured that they had been stolen from the laundry room. Obviously it was some guy who had a thing for thongs since those were the only things missing. The thought of this creep sorting through my undergarments was very disturbing.

Well, probably months later I found one of the thongs in a shoe box! I had to go up to Malibu for a wedding and since I had a long drive home I wanted to change out of my dress/thong/nylons/high heels and into casual clothes first. I guess I put the thong in the shoe box?! What was I thinking?

Not long after that, I found the other two pair on the floor of DH's closet. They must have fallen out of the laundry basket and were hidden amongst all of DHs clutter so I didn't see them for the longest time.

So, I guess the freak that I reported didn't exist after all....

[Robyn1007]

This reminds me of the time, years ago, I asked my roommate, "Uhm, I know this is kind of a strange question, but have you seen my dinner anywhere?" I'd been eating a bowl of spaghetti when the phone range...and then couldn't find it when my call was over. It was on top of the 'fridge, toward the back. I always look in the highest place when I've recently misplaced something; for some reason I place things way up.

LOL! Oh, this thread is cracking me up, thanks for posting Canice.

Oh, I just remembered one that I found this weekend. While moving out of the house from hell in July I caught the nasty roomie packing up my glass pie plate. Grrr! But rather than have it out over a $10 pie plate I just let it go. I don't even make pie anyway. This weekend I went to put something away in my baking drawer and there was my pie plate. How did it get there? Why didn't I notice when I was putting stuff away. (I suppose the fact that I had to leave for a month in 2 days might have had something to do with it but still!)

[sarah2397]

I think I am prone to picking things up more than loosing them. Over the past 8 months I have had things I didn't know were there fall out of my clothes 3 times. Twice at the gym. After warm-up for class I took off my sweatshirt and had a dryer sheet fly out. Another time it was a sock. A dryer sheet also flew out at work when I took off my sweater. Very glad that one was not a bra or panty. Have tried to look a little harder to prevent this in the future!

[Terrytx]

We were putting up the Christmas decorations this year and putting the regular stuff back where is belongs. I had changed out a Christmas rug for the regular one that is inside the front door. I can remember thinking at the time-"put this somewhere where you will remember where it is when the time comes to put it back". Needless to say, I can't find it anywhere! To make it worse, while I was looking for it, I found a 1/2 full drink sitting on a closet shelf (DH had lost his drink the night before and had given up looking for it and made another )

[donleyk]

We were putting away the Christmas tree and I looked 3 different times for the tub that held all the tissue paper and boxes we wrap the ornaments in. Even DH looked. We spent a combined 2 hours looking thru every flippin tub we own and it was nowhere. I get another out and all new tissue paper get them wrapped up then brought back up the artificial Christmas tree box. Made perfect sense at the time to stash it in there but did we remember! Heck no.

[Canice]

.... I can remember thinking at the time-"put this somewhere where you will remember where it is when the time comes to put it back"....

Oh, those are the words that ALWAYS preceed the most hopeless expeditions for lost items!

(The one exception is tickets: I have a folder in my file cabinet market "tickets" and they go in there the very minute I get them home; so those I really do know where to find.)

[LaraW]

I just remembered that we had a DVD that DH had picked up for his parents for Christmas last year. He actually had bought 2, but when it came time to send gifts, we couldn't find it. We put a note in their box that we'd hidden it really well, so well that we couldn't find it but that we'd send it if we found it.

Well, we never found it. We had had a bunch of toys in our basement that were donated to Toys for Tots, and we thought that it had accidently gotten donated with that stuff.

We were both home doing some cleaning between Christmas and New Years this year, and DH took some things out of the front hall closet. Guess what he found? The DVD. We wrapped it up and put "Merry Christmas 2005" on the tag and mailed it off to his parents.

[BarbaraL]

Great thread! I somehow managed, while in a rush to put things away, to put the new jar of mayonnaise in the freezer instead of the fridge. Defrosted mayo is not a pretty sight.

I've been losing lots of things lately - putting them down, then not being able to find them. Definitely a sign that the stress level needs to decrease. Then again, DD was clearing the table and almost put the salt/pepper into the fridge, so it's not just me.

[DmOrtega]

I once lost a sponge, while I was using it. It was in my hand one minute and the next, gone. It sure drove me crazy because I was washing dishes and my sponge was just gone. I found it the next day.... in the fridge.

[tamawrite]

Glad I'm not the only one that loses things and then finds them in weird places. Once I lost my reading glasses and was going crazy trying to find them. Two days later they turned up in the refrigerator! I've never been able to figure that one out...

Peggy

Yeah. Me too. The other day, I lost my jar of dried minced onions mid-recipe, only to have it turn up the next morning in the drawer full of measuring cups.