To think I might have been burgled?

Have you got time today to go through the rooms methodically, @Kittensat36?

I think your bag is there somewhere. The fact you usually put it in the same place might mean you're confusing the time you took your phone out of it with another night.

I 'lose' things all the time. They generally end up to be in quite an obvious place that I checked first but probably missed in my haste. I then spend far too long checking in ridiculous places that I know they would never be.

Once I was sure I had left my glasses on the ironing board. Turned the whole house upside down with no joy. Retraced my steps and remembered I'd also packed some Next parcels on the ironing board too. Called the courier to bring them back and yes, I'd packed them as well 🙈

Sleepwalking?? 🤔

Of course she’s not been burgled, who breaks in and steals a pill container or paperwork.

Change the locks for piece of mind, and tidy up 😀

Honestly as a fellow messy house owner I very much doubt you’ve been burgled. Stuff goes ‘missing’ in my house all the time. It’s because it’s a mess. I’ll move things. Or put them down and because it’s messy I can never find them again. It’s infuriating, but the list of things you are missing aren’t things that would be stolen. You’ve just misplaced them in the mess. I’m sure your bag will turn up, probably when you’re not looking for it

We know why she’s hiding it, it’s what the whole thread is about.

Were all your windows shut? We were burgled once when we left a downstairs window open. Laptop and my bag stolen. Bag was found in a neighbouring front garden a couple of days later. We came down to find the front door slightly open so they’d left that way.

I really think you should spend time sorting the house if it's as untidy as you say its no wonder things are missing really.

Side door down the side of the house. If someone is good a picking locks I’m not sure whether there would be signs of forced entry. The burglar had gone through other stuff and left a mess so it was obvious what had happened. I don’t know the ins and outs of her locks but it unnerved me too, being a neighbour with a similar style property.

I'm sure I've seen advice to keep bag/keys somewhere other than the bedroom in the hope a thief would take them and leave rather than enter a room where you are sleeping.

How did they get in? The problem with this case is that there are no signs of forced entry.

She's hiding it because she's aware some people break into homes during the night.

I expect you have funny ways too.

My neighbour had someone come into the house at night and take her handbag while they were all asleep. It completely unnerved her. Have you got something simple like a door chain you can use at night?

I don't overly fret about security but sometimes think a decoy handbag downstairs might be a good idea. Some cash, old bankcard with £1 on it and an old key. Depends what the thief is after, really. My old laptop is downstairs, I could leave it out temptingly 🙂

Think you need a good clear out, @Kittensat36. I need to do my bedroom so I'll join you!

Maybe there's some new kind of master key that thieves are using? Get a dead lock as well as the Yale type lock.

This happened to my MIL this morning.

She lives alone and fell asleep in the living room and woke up in the early hours to see someone walk out of the living room.

She has an emergency alarm in case she falls and pressed it and they called the police. DH arrived and the police have attended and all of the drawers upstairs were all open.

There was no sign of how they got in, no damage to the doors and all were locked and all of the windows are closed.

The only thing that was taken was her handbag which was next to her in the living room.

My mum had someone walk in and just take her handbag from the hall once. The front door wasn't locked though.

An your work tack the phone in any way or tell if it's being used?

Do you think someone might have enter d the flat while you were asleep and taken it or whilst you were out?

This. I would have a good hunt for your handbag in the flat and, as pp have said, ring the phone.

She’s not just putting her handbag somewhere though, she’s hiding it every night. In her own home. So yeah it is way more over anxious.

I think if your house is that untidy you think you will find it at some point, then the overwhelming odds are no one is breaking in and stealing these things, it’s just you’re losing them under the clutter.

I don’t call everyone else over anxious, I call people hide their belongings in their home every night before they go to bed over anxious.

When you find your handbag in your messy home or somewhere you forgot maybe you should invest in a tracker or something for it?
….and some adhd medication maybe 👌
I hope this is what had happened anyway and in a few months you will laugh about it.

People who call everyone else 'over anxious' could do to focus on whether their approach to life and it's problems is perfect.

Is putting the handbag somewhere really any more 'over anxious' than buying a ring doorbell, for example?