Can't have nice watches, hats, gloves or sunglasses.
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I spent years buying cheap sunglasses, then breaking/losing them. I must have bought a new pair at least once a year. 3 or 4 years ago I bought a pair of nice Ray-Bans and they are still going strong. I guess knowing I have spent more makes me look after them more. So I kind of see it the opposite way.
I lose stuff also.
Sunglasses:
I now keep a good pair in each car, never to leave the car. This covers the great majority of loss situations.
Pens:
I have given away any expensive pens to relatives and friends when I received them, and only use cheap felt tips. No fountain pens or gold or the like.
Reading glasses:
Buy them by the card as cheaply as possible . Lose them often, but don't care.
Watches:
I now only have a couple of expensive watches which I do not wear unless for a dress occasion and never if I sm driving or going to the gym or the like,
The leaves the damn phone.
Have lost a few of these, no good strategy yet. Oddly, never lose a wallet.
Sunglasses:
I now keep a good pair in each car, never to leave the car. This covers the great majority of loss situations.
Pens:
I have given away any expensive pens to relatives and friends when I received them, and only use cheap felt tips. No fountain pens or gold or the like.
Reading glasses:
Buy them by the card as cheaply as possible . Lose them often, but don't care.
Watches:
I now only have a couple of expensive watches which I do not wear unless for a dress occasion and never if I sm driving or going to the gym or the like,
The leaves the damn phone.
Have lost a few of these, no good strategy yet. Oddly, never lose a wallet.
A few years ago I was removing a big pile of concrete rubble from the garden of my sisters new house, buried deep in the pile I found a pair of genuine Ray Bans, in perfect condition , not a mark on them... I've never been able to figure out how someone managed to lose them or how they didn't get damaged.
Nb. After adopting them they lasted about 3 weeks before I accidentally sat on them, cracking a lense and bending the frames!
Nb. After adopting them they lasted about 3 weeks before I accidentally sat on them, cracking a lense and bending the frames!
Otispunkmeyer said:
Vizsla said:
Between us, Mrs V. and I have managed to lose an almost entire skiing kit :
So you went Skiing then managed to come back with none of the equipment? lol- Brand new pair of 2.00 TR Comps and bindings, plus poles, never been used - lost in transit due to transfer coach operator cock-up during a blizzard en route to Val D'Isere
- Above ski bag also contained gloves, hats, socks, salopettes, polo-necks, thermals etc
- Ski poles - pinched when left outside a mountain restaurant at lunchtime
- Gloves - left on windowsill behind curtain and forgotten when leaving hotel
- Boots - taken in error from locker room on changeover day by someone who had the same make and model, but different size, grrr!
- Ski jacket - pinched from boot of car when car broken into
- Oh, and a ghetto blaster left in the luggage rack of a transfer coach.
As a kid my parents stopped buying replacement Game-boys after I lost my 3rd one...
Never lost a watch, but I've lost too many sunglasses. They're optically corrected so at £280 a pop it's pretty painful.
And USB sticks. I never put anything important or confidential on a stick because I know there's a 90% chance I'll lose it
Never lost a watch, but I've lost too many sunglasses. They're optically corrected so at £280 a pop it's pretty painful.
And USB sticks. I never put anything important or confidential on a stick because I know there's a 90% chance I'll lose it
I used to, now I have a system. Pretty much everything has a place, which is where I put it when I'm not using it. This works well for keys/phone/wallet/laptop/sunglasses/watches/etc.
Paperwork is my big issue, as the better half doesn't throw out junk mail when it arrives and we end up with random bags of paperwork dotted around the house in the process of 'cleaning'...
Paperwork is my big issue, as the better half doesn't throw out junk mail when it arrives and we end up with random bags of paperwork dotted around the house in the process of 'cleaning'...
I was always forgetting things and losing things. I went skiing a few years back and forgot my gloves so splashed out on a nice €80 pair at La Plagne before catching the first lift up. Very nice they were too.
It's a shame I left them on that lift and had to buy another, cheaper pair from the same shop 15 minutes later as the gloves weren't on the lift when it got to the bottom. 😟
It's a shame I left them on that lift and had to buy another, cheaper pair from the same shop 15 minutes later as the gloves weren't on the lift when it got to the bottom. 😟
Tannedbaldhead said:
Judging from the tone of your question I take it you've never lost a watch.
I haven't - I can lose most things but I've never lost a watch simply because I never take it off.I do however destroy things as I'm a builder so I won't buy an expensive phone etc as it might only last a week.
I have a couple of nice watches but they just live in the safe, I replace my £200ish Citizen / Seiko diver every 2-3 years when the glass is so scratched I can't see the time / date any more.
rhinochopig said:
Working on the car. Took off oakleys and left them on the cylinder head. Finished up, slammed bonnet shut and crack...
Now buy cheaper sunglasses.
I went through a phase of leaving them on the car roof (it was about 20 years ago now, and no, I don't know why) and driving off. Now buy cheaper sunglasses.
Always Ray Bans and Oakleys too.
I used to be bad like that but not so much any more, managed to lose my wedding ring (on t' honeymoon too) but that was more because we were let down by the supplier and being somewhat broke at the the time grabbed a cheap old thing I had lying around as a stand in which wasn't a perfect fit...
Another tradesman, so I simply don't wear nice stuff unless going out in the evening, 1 pair of decent sunglasses for driving then several pairs of tinted safety specs for mucking around in etc.
Fleeces are a bad one, particularly in summer as you wear one to work when it's cool then take it off when you're working and hot and forget to bring it back as it's warmer.
Another tradesman, so I simply don't wear nice stuff unless going out in the evening, 1 pair of decent sunglasses for driving then several pairs of tinted safety specs for mucking around in etc.
Fleeces are a bad one, particularly in summer as you wear one to work when it's cool then take it off when you're working and hot and forget to bring it back as it's warmer.
I can't buy my wife anything expensive...it always gets lost or stolen.
On our wedding day she borrowed a friend's jewellery. It got stolen from the bride's room & cost me a 4 figure sum to replace.
She's a photographer and has had all her equipment stolen...twice.
We were burgled last year and her entire jewellery collection was stolen.
Every other nice watch, gloves, sunglasses etc. she's had have been lost.
On the other hand, I've built up a nice watch collection over the last 15 years. When I wear one I don't take it off, when I don't they're in a safe.
For the last few months I've been wearing a fitbit and the watches have been locked away. It's been quite liberating not wearing anything expensive.
Meanwhile my wife's given me the perfect excuse never to buy her anything luxurious ever again...
On our wedding day she borrowed a friend's jewellery. It got stolen from the bride's room & cost me a 4 figure sum to replace.
She's a photographer and has had all her equipment stolen...twice.
We were burgled last year and her entire jewellery collection was stolen.
Every other nice watch, gloves, sunglasses etc. she's had have been lost.
On the other hand, I've built up a nice watch collection over the last 15 years. When I wear one I don't take it off, when I don't they're in a safe.
For the last few months I've been wearing a fitbit and the watches have been locked away. It's been quite liberating not wearing anything expensive.
Meanwhile my wife's given me the perfect excuse never to buy her anything luxurious ever again...
Lost a pair of Oakleys MTB'ing, wasn't keen on them do didn't go back to look for them.
Have had watches & a Mont Blanc for nearly 20yrs, still have my 1st front door key for my parents house somewhere, that's 30yrs old now (& at least 2 doors behind!).
I have managed to mis-place a set of keys for the office, sure they must be on the premises but haven't seen them for over 10yrs now!
Have had watches & a Mont Blanc for nearly 20yrs, still have my 1st front door key for my parents house somewhere, that's 30yrs old now (& at least 2 doors behind!).
I have managed to mis-place a set of keys for the office, sure they must be on the premises but haven't seen them for over 10yrs now!
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