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Where are my glasses?!

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YeahIsaidit · 28/11/2023 21:26

Ridiculous perhaps but anyone out there have a good mind's eye or what have you that would be able to tell me where my glasses are?? They've been missing a while, I have my older ones but they're pretty useless. The missing ones have purple frames and I have looked under/behind pretty much every bit of furniture in my house and down the sides of my sofa/chairs. Thanks!

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Blink1880 · 01/12/2023 15:35

Did you find them @YeahIsaidit

Amibeingadick · 29/11/2023 07:31

They are in a dressing gown pocket, next to a sink you don’t use often, in a drawer in the kitchen or in a bag for life you’ve hung up somewhere.

pizzaHeart · 28/11/2023 23:48

I can tell you where mine where at least once:
In my make up bag ( a lot!!! )
in the box with pads
in the drawer with paperwork
in the wardrobe ( shelf with towels)
inside kitchen cupboard (with sugar and flour)
inside a bowl with chocolates
Inside footwear cupboard in the garage
at the side of the car seat ( they were on my knees and then fall down)
on the top of shoe rack in the hall

I have the same problem with mobile phone but it least I can phone it.

everythingthelighttouches · 28/11/2023 23:31

Can you see far without them on?

I think this matters.
I couldn’t cope without mine so it wouldn’t be long before I’d have to find them.

Mine could for example never be in the car, as I would never leave the car to get to the house without them.

I have sometimes left mine in a wash bag if for some reason I took them off to put contacts in or wash my face. But it would be 10 min before I had to find them.

PickAChew · 28/11/2023 23:27

They're hiding with my spare pair.

Mine only come off to sleep or wash my face or hair. I sometimes briefly swap them for proper reading glasses when I need to see close up outside of the near field of my varifocals eg to pluck my eyebrows.

FanFckingTastic · 28/11/2023 23:26

St Anthony will know!!

HalfMumHalfBiccit · 28/11/2023 23:21

Window ledge
your desk at home/work
bedside table
where your keys are

OvertiredandConfused · 28/11/2023 22:50

They’ve fallen down between the mattress and headboard and made their way into your under bed storage, lodged behind a vacuum bag.

PunishmentRoundupWithJoon · 28/11/2023 22:44

At what point did you have to get out your old glasses to wear? Was it first thing in a morning? Or later in the day? If you can remember at what point you needed to start using your old glasses, that may be a clue as to where they may be.

Throckmorton · 28/11/2023 22:18

Check the pockets of every item of clothing that you own, even the ones you've not worn in years and the ones that you don't think have pockets. Behind the headboard of the bed. In a drawer. Down the back of the drawers where old T-shirts/wooden spoons hang out (delete as applicable to the type of drawer!). In the tumble drier. In the shopping bags. On the bookshelf with the cookbooks. Somehow under the bath, even if it's one of those ones with fixed side panels. In the garage. Car glovebox. Top of a doorframe or tall cupboard. In long-unworn shoes. Good luck!

uncomfortablydumb53 · 28/11/2023 22:16

I'm blind without mine so I understand
Next to the kettle?
Did you take them off to clean when you were in the bathroom?
On a bookshelf?
Between sofa cushions or wedged in the sides?

Zaney40 · 28/11/2023 22:11

Maybe you need to ramp it up a bit...check in your fridge and freezer.

Sock drawer?
Underneath the laundry basket?

caringcarer · 28/11/2023 22:09

I often find mine on my head, in the car dashboard, on coffee table and someone has put something in top of them, in the kitchen. My Mum put hers in the fridge before. She put away some tomatoes and must have had them in her hand at the same time and put both away.

TheFairyCaravan · 28/11/2023 22:08

PortalooSunset · 28/11/2023 22:01

Mine are usually on top of my head when I can't find them 🙄

Me and DH spent ages looking for mine once. I turned the house upside down, he went through the car but we couldn’t find them. I got down on the floor, to look under my chair, when my face touched the floor and pushed my glasses, that I’d been wearing all along, into my face. 🙄🙄🙄

I had an excuse because I’d injured my eye and was wearing an eye patch, h but DH had been looking at me, while he was talking to me, asking where I’d last seen my glasses! 🙄🙄🙄

TroysMammy · 28/11/2023 22:06

I couldn't find mine, looked in my work bag, decided I'd left them in work then realised twat of the year was wearing them!

Pennina · 28/11/2023 22:05

Kitchen - maybe worktop, potentially hidden under tea towel?

Mombie · 28/11/2023 22:04

Shower, under the sofa cushions or under the bed (between mattress and frame).

JosieRay · 28/11/2023 22:04

Say a prayer to St. Antony.

Winniespooh · 28/11/2023 22:03

In your sunglasses case? Found mine there several times.
Top of the microwave?
Any shelves in your bathroom?
Dressing gown pocket?

PortalooSunset · 28/11/2023 22:01

Mine are usually on top of my head when I can't find them 🙄

LadyEggs · 28/11/2023 22:01

Have you asked St Anthony?

Whatifitallgoesright · 28/11/2023 21:58

Kitchen.

Pennina · 28/11/2023 21:55

Sofa? Coffee table?

Shower ?! I've left mine there before!

Blink1880 · 28/11/2023 21:43

Bathroom behind shampoo bottle or similar. Dressing gown pocket
pyjamas pocket if you have any

TwiddlingMyToes · 28/11/2023 21:40

Dressing gown pocket? In a drawer where you put a pile of socks/tea towels and maybe they got mixed up with them?

Do you have young kids? Mine used to "post" things into the bin...