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DH has and hidden something valuable "for safety"

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Beebopwasthebest · 20/08/2024 11:36

Light hearted...sort of, because this is getting worse.

He has form for this, despite us having two secure safes in the house. He is quite anxious about being burgled.

He has hidden his watch somewhere in the house. We've been looking for two days. I am very tidy and organised. He is tidy but not as organised and has a lot of stuff.

This is driving me mad. My mum has said a prayer to St.Anthony for me😂

He chooses really weird places..I once found the (only) set of keys to our safe inside the cardboard box of a light bulb...which he had forgotten about! And he hid my car keys between the beach towels in the airing cupboard..We have an agreed spot for my keys now.

Can any one think of a weird place we haven't looked?

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AdoraBell · 20/08/2024 21:10

I’m just glad we could return the watch to him, it was a very beautiful piece.

InSpainTheRain · 20/08/2024 19:17

That would drive me insane. But why are you looking? Just make sure you have your house key and car key and purse, he can crack on and look for whatever he looses. That's what I do with DH - if he lost it he finds it.

DogsAtDawn · 20/08/2024 19:02

AdoraBell · 20/08/2024 17:10

We found a solid gold pocket watch in a house we bought. The owners had passed away and their sons had searched the house and thought it had been sold. We only found it because we removed the fitted bookcases from a room used as an office. Fortunately we still had a phone number for the oldest son. Turned out it was his grandfather’s watch and he was inherited it, just couldn’t find it.

That's a sweet story. Returning a valued sentimental family heirloom. So lucky you still had the phone number.

I should think a lot of precious family memories end up permanently lost in such circumstances.

EatCrow · 20/08/2024 18:53

Beebopwasthebest · 20/08/2024 18:48

Thanks for some more suggestions!
Sadly we have been burgled and it was very upsetting and stressful.
It's an odd and irrational thing to do but he is obviously not the only person in the world to do this. but it's done now and if it turns up ..I shall return to update.
Thanks again for the support and the similar tales..with happy endings!

Quite enjoyed all the random hiding places! Hope you find the
watch.

rochenut · 20/08/2024 18:50

Beebopwasthebest · 20/08/2024 18:48

probably best to have mentioned in op that you have been burgled and an awful one at that

rochenut · 20/08/2024 18:49

nothing like saying the op won’t be back

for the op to return! 😆

Original poster

Beebopwasthebest · 20/08/2024 18:48

OP posts:

rochenut · 20/08/2024 18:48

oh i get you! 😆

rochenut · 20/08/2024 18:48

CombatLingerie · 20/08/2024 18:45

@rochenut OP now lost like her husband’s watch.

come again?

DogsAtDawn · 20/08/2024 18:47

I have me one of them.

Me: Where is it?
Him: I put it in a safe place, don't worry.
Me: Where's the safe place?
Him: I forgot.
Me: You need to find it.
Him: I'll look.
Me: Check on/in/under X.
Him: Much noise in random rooms.
Me: Are you looking in/on/under X.
Him: FFS, give me a minute. I AM LOOKING FOR IT, OKAY!
Me: Please, X.
Him: a two hour human tornado, covering ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ0123456789-NOPE-9876543210ZYWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA-NOPE-shit,Shit,SHIT. Much freaking out. A declaration that I must have had it, it's been chucked out, he never touched it, it never got bought back home from the shop or got left on a bus etc., somebody nicked it (nobody has been in), the cat hid it (we don't have a cat) and eventually that I've hidden it to mess with him (oooh, me favourite). It's gone, never to be seen again, alas, woe is he. Poor, lost, tormented soul. "I don't get it. I have looked ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE".
He sits down for two minutes. Disappears. Reappears. IT in hand.
Me: Where was it.
Him: On top of X

Now, as a result, everything else that was in/on/under ABCD is now under/in/on ZHQ3T86F.

If I'm feeling particularly mean, I will go in at about the 1 hour 50 mark, pick it up off the top of X and wave it at him but he doesn't like that. "I lost it. Let me find it. Just give me a sec", are famous words around these parts.

The emotional fallout of a full on search is diverse. Let's just say I have a soft foam baseball bat and I use it. He purchased it and presents for a soft battering. Yeah, he's also a kinky weirdo with a sense of humour.

Wouldn't have him any other way.

CombatLingerie · 20/08/2024 18:45

@rochenut OP now lost like her husband’s watch.

EatCrow · 20/08/2024 18:38

I’m imagining would-be burglars making notes from this thread for future reference!

rochenut · 20/08/2024 18:31

niadainud · 20/08/2024 18:14

You may be right, but it seems to be commonplace judging by posts on this thread.

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well the OP doesn’t help matters but no responding to any questions!

LizzieBennett73 · 20/08/2024 18:16

My DC were so sorry for me spending my life looking for DH's car keys that they got him a Tile for christmas to attach to them. It works. Only the daft fecker is deaf as a post as well as forgetful and I still ending being the one to find them as he can't hear it........ sigh. He's 60 by the time he's 70 I'll be rocking in a padded cell somewhere.

Leave him to it OP, he needs to learn the consequences of his stupidity.

niadainud · 20/08/2024 18:14

rochenut · 20/08/2024 16:29

precisely

it is a sign that something may not be all as it should with this chap

the op doesn’t clarify whether they’ve even ever actually been burgled

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You may be right, but it seems to be commonplace judging by posts on this thread.

TheNormalRules · 20/08/2024 18:02

Have you searched:

The freezer (inside the bags of vegetables, for example)?

Every pan/saucepan that has a lid?

With the Christmas decorations?

The sugar bowl?

Indoor plant pots?

Taped under drawers or shelves?

MonsteraMama · 20/08/2024 17:54

Get him one of these for future hiding.

DH has and hidden something valuable "for safety"

indecisivewoman81 · 20/08/2024 17:48

My DH did the exact same thing last year and couldn't find his watch for months!

It was in his sock drawer hidden in a sock!!

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 20/08/2024 17:44

In one of the handbags you don’t use much.

BotterMon · 20/08/2024 17:37

Not your circus not your monkeys.

My father used to hide presents for my mother and often found them years later. It must be a male thing. (and no apologies for not using DF/DM which is twee)

ThinWomansBrain · 20/08/2024 17:37

his watch - not like the car keys that you might have needed, let him get on with it.

Wabberjockey · 20/08/2024 17:34

Omg. How do you cope with this level of utter stupidity? I think I’d have murdered him by now.

Maddy70 · 20/08/2024 17:33

Wrapped it in some t shirts in his drawer

Normallynumb · 20/08/2024 17:27

In the bathroom where you keep the toiletries
Dressing gown pocket
A vase
Kitchen canister( tea, sugar or coffee type)
In a pair of boots
Behind something on the windowsill
In laundry basket
His watch, his problem.

FranceIsWhereItsAt · 20/08/2024 17:24

Applesandpears23 · 20/08/2024 11:50

This may save you from a repeat. When we hide things we whatsapp each other to say what it is and where it is hidden. Try to introduce this to save you from the next instance.

What a great idea! I'm afraid I have form for this, and as I'm getting older, it's getting worse, so I think I'll give it a try with anything I plan on putting in a 'safe' place, lol.

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