Inexplicably losing things
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Pints said:
My daughter (7) has started keeping things "neat and tidy", so what looks like a mess to her gets carefully packed away in any nook, cranny and corner she can find.
This means my carefully constructed piles of man-stuff are regularly disappearing.
Only yesterday a green, extra long USB cable that I had stored with a few other odds and sods vanished and I still haven't found it. HalfPints mk1 had been seen in the vicinity acting suspiciously the night before.
She's turning into her mother.
wait till she gets older, my daughter is 25 and clears up all the time, so does her mum.This means my carefully constructed piles of man-stuff are regularly disappearing.
Only yesterday a green, extra long USB cable that I had stored with a few other odds and sods vanished and I still haven't found it. HalfPints mk1 had been seen in the vicinity acting suspiciously the night before.
She's turning into her mother.
they (her and her boyfriend) live with us and looked after the house while we were on holiday.
the wife cleaned and tidied the house the weekend before we flew abroad (why?)
we came back and our stuff had been moved and put away by the daughter as she didn't like it and it was messy!
I made a lunchbox of Pasta/chicken a while back - put it "down" and couldn't find it about 15 minutes later. No one else had been in the kitchen and I gave up - I found it, in a pretty gross state, a month later in the very back of the cupboard where the plastic tubs were kept.
This isn't the first time - never mind the times I've put something down, turned my back for a second and it's vanished. Just gone.
Many many things turn up in my 7 year old daughter's play oven for reasons that I can't fathom...
This isn't the first time - never mind the times I've put something down, turned my back for a second and it's vanished. Just gone.
Many many things turn up in my 7 year old daughter's play oven for reasons that I can't fathom...
My other half tidies stuff away in an annoying fashion
If it's mine, it'll go straight into my area where I keep man stuff. So a USB key on the coffe table could end up in the shed, utility room or my box of car bits
If I was to leave a backpack sitting about she'll put other things in there then put it away, so I went to go to Le Mans this year, got my back pack out and found lots of stuff I'd lost over the year In The sodding bag
If it's mine, it'll go straight into my area where I keep man stuff. So a USB key on the coffe table could end up in the shed, utility room or my box of car bits
If I was to leave a backpack sitting about she'll put other things in there then put it away, so I went to go to Le Mans this year, got my back pack out and found lots of stuff I'd lost over the year In The sodding bag
In my mid-twenties I was invariably skint at the end of each month.
This particular month was no exception and had managed to get to pay day by the skin of my teeth. This pay day was on a Friday and it was mid summer as I remember it being quite warm. Me and the lads were hitting the town that night, as was our wont.
I went to the supermarket after I finished work and bought some food, beer and some replacement shaving stuff to tidy myself up before heading out. I was in high spirits!
I got back to the house, (which although I shared it with a couple of mates, they weren't home yet.), and remember clear as day placing my newly acquired shaving paraphernalia on the corner of the bath before popping back downstairs for something to eat and a nice cold one. An hour or so passed and headed upstairs to ready myself for the evening's shenanigans only the shaving accoutrements had disappeared!
The bathroom was in a bit of a state as I was in the middle of 'fixing it up' so checked in case they'd found their way under the bath or behind the loo or sink but nothing. I checked my wardrobe, under my bed, in the fridge, oven, bin and was all over my car with a fine toothed comb but never ever found them.
I had to shave with a shonky old Phillips electric shaver that night.
This particular month was no exception and had managed to get to pay day by the skin of my teeth. This pay day was on a Friday and it was mid summer as I remember it being quite warm. Me and the lads were hitting the town that night, as was our wont.
I went to the supermarket after I finished work and bought some food, beer and some replacement shaving stuff to tidy myself up before heading out. I was in high spirits!
I got back to the house, (which although I shared it with a couple of mates, they weren't home yet.), and remember clear as day placing my newly acquired shaving paraphernalia on the corner of the bath before popping back downstairs for something to eat and a nice cold one. An hour or so passed and headed upstairs to ready myself for the evening's shenanigans only the shaving accoutrements had disappeared!
The bathroom was in a bit of a state as I was in the middle of 'fixing it up' so checked in case they'd found their way under the bath or behind the loo or sink but nothing. I checked my wardrobe, under my bed, in the fridge, oven, bin and was all over my car with a fine toothed comb but never ever found them.
I had to shave with a shonky old Phillips electric shaver that night.
Hooli said:
I'm so glad this isn't just me.
Me too.If something vanishes, I go to the most unlikely place. That's where she will have put it. I once found the TV remote in the fridge. Yes, she'd been making tea during a commercial gone to the fridge for milk and placed it on the top shelf.
Things do turn up. Years later, inches from where they vanished.
I was about 8 or 9. 1979 and our car had a roof ariel above the windscreen. My Dad unscrewed it to go through a car wash and handed it to me on the back seat.
We got home and it had vanished. Turned the car inside out.. Nothing. He bought a new ariel and was most annoyed.
Getting on for a decade later, the car is on its last legs but still in the family with a relative. He's visiting and gives us a lift. I get in the back and there lying on the seat is a car ariel. My relative hadn't seen it before. The replacement was still on the roof.
All I can thing is that it fell between the base and backrest and somehow worked its way out.
I have found that if you know you put something down somewhere, and it's been "tidied", take a second to pause and think like your wife/girlfriend. I annoyed the hell out of my missus on one occasion, by asking where she'd put it. After loads of "I haven't touched it" "it's never been here" etc etc, I stood back, and thinking out loud, said now where would you put it? You wouldn't have taken it to my shed, or the car,you would have just "tidied" it out of sight. Lots more protestations, and then I spotted an old trophy that my father had been given. The most illogical place for whatever the object was (USB drive or something), but sure enough, she'd put it inside that. Cue more protestations about it wasn't me, then you should tidy up yourself.
Bless 'em.
Bless 'em.
The way to find something is to buy another one. Very soon after the purchase the missing one will turn up. Guaranteed.
It's a variation on: the way to find a use for something is to throw it away. "Ooh, I could have done with that __* I threw away last week." (*fill in as applicable)
It's a variation on: the way to find a use for something is to throw it away. "Ooh, I could have done with that __* I threw away last week." (*fill in as applicable)
It's poltergeists ! This is the only logical explination , I live alone and my stuff just disappears only to reappear in the first place I looked .
The latest have been a high capacity SD card for my cameras , I looked everywhere for it all three cameras , camera bag , camera case , both laptops and bags , main pc nowhere to be found . Two days later it's back in the pocket of the camera bag where it's normally kept .Now it's the adapter lead for the card reader to connect to my tablet , its normally in the pocket with the SD cards and readers .
Or it's the spirit of my mum winding me up as she loved to do , god bless her memory .
The latest have been a high capacity SD card for my cameras , I looked everywhere for it all three cameras , camera bag , camera case , both laptops and bags , main pc nowhere to be found . Two days later it's back in the pocket of the camera bag where it's normally kept .Now it's the adapter lead for the card reader to connect to my tablet , its normally in the pocket with the SD cards and readers .
Or it's the spirit of my mum winding me up as she loved to do , god bless her memory .
DickyC said:
The way to find something is to buy another one. Very soon after the purchase the missing one will turn up. Guaranteed.
It's a variation on: the way to find a use for something is to throw it away. "Ooh, I could have done with that __* I threw away last week." (*fill in as applicable)
This. I have two nice Swiss Army knives. I was bought one as a gift and lost it so I replaced it. Then I found the &closet" one. The upshot, both cars have one in their respective glove boxes.It's a variation on: the way to find a use for something is to throw it away. "Ooh, I could have done with that __* I threw away last week." (*fill in as applicable)
In 2003 I was doing a bit of work on a TVR Chimaera I had just bought.
I put my new glasses down as I didn't want to damage them and just like my hammer, they disappeared.
Jump forward 12 years and I'm clearing our my garage preparing for the winter staorage of my latest TVR and guess what I found..... my 12 year old new glasses.
Live in hope, your jacket may turn up.
Oh and just to add, my little bag of marbles turned up last year after a 45 year absence.
I put my new glasses down as I didn't want to damage them and just like my hammer, they disappeared.
Jump forward 12 years and I'm clearing our my garage preparing for the winter staorage of my latest TVR and guess what I found..... my 12 year old new glasses.
Live in hope, your jacket may turn up.
Oh and just to add, my little bag of marbles turned up last year after a 45 year absence.
Edited by so called on Sunday 6th September 13:16
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