Does anyone else have a dp/dh who keeps losing things?

[beansprout]

I do and it's driving me mad.

Among other things he has lost:

• his wedding ring
• our camera with all our wedding photos on it (this was on honeymoon, great)
• bags, the contents of which have caused varying degrees of grief

and today he has lost the bag that had my lovely baby sling in it. This was a present from my mum and ds2 is only 5 weeks old, ffs.

The clincher is that he then tailspins into self-pity while if I am bothered/upset, this is me "giving him a hard time" and so I am the one that then has to set about replacing said items, wasting money we can't afford.

[Freckle]

DH is always losing his glasses - he has two pairs, one for normal sight and one for reading. Problem is, if he loses them, he can't see to find them! I'm the one who has to race round like a headless chicken looking for them whilst he gets more and more fed up.

He completely turned the house upside down the other weekend, making it even more of a tip than it normally is, getting angrier and angrier. He had, apparently, "looked everywhere, including the car". So, when I went out to the car and found them sitting on the passenger seat, what was his reaction?? "Oh right". Pause. "Thanks". Then he sits down and watches the rugby all afternoon leaving me to clear up the blardy mess. Sigh.

[beansprout]

Yep, he has lost both his glasses and his sunglasses too!!

[Joolyjoolyjoo]

Ah, this is the classic- I-can't-find-it-you-must-have-done-something-with-it phenomenon. Husband loses something. Wife MUST have put it somewhere (!!!) He moans and moans. long-suffering wife finally gets off her butt to go look for it, finds it somewhere obscure, gets accused of putting it there! (Yeah, I took your wallet and put it in the garage!) If he loses it at work/ outwith demisne of wife it is gone forever.

[squilly]

Sorry, but I'm the one who keeps losing things.

DH is always having to tell me where I've put my purse/keys/credit card and he is starting to get cheesed off with it after 15 years of it.

I frequently leave the keys in the lock of the door when I come in from the school run and I am generally quite scatty.

Last week I took my mum out and left my handbag on the back of my chair when I left the pub we'd been sitting in. Didn't realise til I'd dropped her at home, 5 miles away, so had to drive back and get it.

I have some sympathy with your dps here...if they're like me they simplly won't realise that they're being a pita and won't be able to do much about it even if they do know!

[Nessamommy]

Doesn't it feel like sometimes your husband is just another child to look after? That's what I feel like sometimes!

[lancarra]

I bought mine a loc8tor everything he owns is tagged

[Joolyjoolyjoo]

I think sometimes its a toddler-like strategy to get your attention! They ask you where such-and-such is. You say "in the top drawer in the kitchen" They open the drawer a fraction, peep in, loudly exclaim that it is definitely not there. you finally get up and open the drawer and lo and behold...! But they have got you up, and away from whatever it was you were doing!! I experimented with this- DH asked me where his shoes were. I said I didn't know, but that the only place I could think of was the wardrobe. He went up, sighing, came back down, said they weren't there. So I said "Oh well." He was aghast! " Are you not going to help me look for them?" demands he. "No. If they are not in the wardrobe, then I can't think where they would be." He went in SUCH a huff, especially when he had to go out to dinner in trainers!!

Of course, I found the shoes next day. In the wardrobe