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Where does all the stuff go??

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bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 20:14

I lost my car/house keys at the weekend. They are on the same bunch, I drove home, let myself in the house. Went to lock up that evening and couldn't find them anywhere. I still haven't found them and I have turned this house upside down. Along with the obvious places, like under the sofa, down the back of the coffee table etc, Ive also emptied the bin, searched though the washing, looked in the freezer, searched the garage, if it can move, ive moved it. If theres a gap, ive searched it - nothing!

ive lost stuff in the past that ive never found, even when moving, they've never turned up.

Where are my keys? And were does all the stuff go?

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Grasmereginger · 12/01/2025 09:54

@ViciousCurrentBun good shout. We have a brush thing. I'll give them a good old poke

ViciousCurrentBun · 12/01/2025 09:40

Check behind your radiators. I’m very much keys straight in the bowl in the kitchen but once when distracted I didn’t. Must have had them in my hand and leant on it or something, they had fallen behind the radiator.

Grasmereginger · 12/01/2025 09:36

Just realised I have a set of car keys missing for months
And a ring
And a shirt

Katemax82 · 11/01/2025 20:57

In the last house i lived in i lost a perfume oil, it never turned up, even after we moved out and we gutted the place

Silvertulips · 11/01/2025 20:43

Any luck yet?

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bleepingbleepybleep · 11/01/2025 17:45

tolerable · 10/01/2025 07:29

is it just like silver keys n a hoop-are they on a similar\same material surface.i was terrible loose my phone when really id sat it face down on the edge of a black stove top ...cant see for looking...

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There's a car key card, a Yale type key, and a long key. I've also got my trolley coin on it, with a couple of rings,an initial keyring and a standard plastic keyring thingy with the car logo on. The bunch is too big to just not be able to see it.

Im going to have a clear out tomorrow and look (again) in all the nooks and crannies.

Fingers crossed they turn up, they have to for my own sanity.

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zaxxon · 10/01/2025 09:51

Letmeknowhowthatgoes · 10/01/2025 09:45

@zaxxon

Came on her to post exactly that. Brilliant song!

Isn't it! It actually makes me tear up 😢

Letmeknowhowthatgoes · 10/01/2025 09:45

@zaxxon

Came on her to post exactly that. Brilliant song!

myplace · 10/01/2025 08:08

I calculated the number of socks I handle in a week, and that really reassured me that a few missing was really inevitable. Each sock gets handled many times- off foot, into hamper. Out of hamper into basket. Out of basket into machine. Out of machine into basket. Out of basket onto airer/line. Off line into basket… into drawer, onto foot. That’s 16 times per pair of socks worn. 5 people in the house. That’s 80 sock manoeuvres a day, disregarding PE and any sojourns on the floor. Inevitable one goes wrong.

However the dog’s ear drops that I put between my legs to warm yesterday morning… they vanished before I could use them. That really is mysterious.

Auburngal · 10/01/2025 07:31

I only wash the duvet with the pillowcases. So I don't get socks trapped in the duvet.

peacockbluefeather · 10/01/2025 07:29

It's house pixies, right?

tolerable · 10/01/2025 07:29

bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 22:27

I do leave it unlocked so this isnt impossible, but, there is nowhere by the front door for me to leave my keys, so they would need to come in to the living room, and I think id see/hear them

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is it just like silver keys n a hoop-are they on a similar\same material surface.i was terrible loose my phone when really id sat it face down on the edge of a black stove top ...cant see for looking...

Bettyfromhomeroom · 10/01/2025 07:26

This happened to me too and I knew I had used my keys to get in the house, got new car keys and everything, I had bought myself a new work blazer and wore it upstairs and didn't wear it again for 2 weeks, I put the car key in the pocket of the blazer obviously!

Auburngal · 10/01/2025 07:21

I had that with socks. I put a load of washing on a few weeks ago. Couldn't find one of the socks. In the meantime, put the single sock in a drawer. I put on two other loads and no sock.

Then on the 3rd load I did, on opening the door, the other sock fell out. This was even with me rotating the drum several times.

LyricalGangsta · 10/01/2025 07:08

Before Xmas, DS got soaked in the rain so put his brand new backpack and shower jacket in the drier.
Took them out when dry, put the jacket on back of dining chair, backpack on the seat. Backpack disappeared completely.
No one else in the house needs/uses a back pack so didn't take it. Just gone.

aramox1 · 10/01/2025 03:32

Car keys: next to the toilet or in a random coat
House keys: on ds 19's floor

tolerable · 10/01/2025 03:01

in a pocket?

Floatlikeafeather2 · 10/01/2025 02:14

TeabySea · 09/01/2025 20:28

I'm missing several things. Most irritating would be socks. A friend bought me a really nice pair of bamboo socks. I wore them and washed them. There was only one in the machine when the washing had finished. The machine has been checked over and the filter emptied and its not there.
Nor is the other sock I lost. Treated myself to a pair of silly print socks. Same thing- wore them, washed them and one vanished.

I happened on one of those reels that turn up unbidden on Facebook. It showed someone taking the back panel off a washing machine and the cavity around the drum had loads of socks in it. If you think about it, it's easy to see how they could get there.

ObelixtheGaul · 10/01/2025 02:09

I once lost a lovely watch my husband bought for me. After turning the house upside down, I came to the conclusion I'd left it in the place we stayed on holiday. That was the last time I wore it.

A few years later, our cat was sick under our bed. I went to clean it up and found the watch! I looked under the bed at the time, and had cleaned under the bed since. How on earth did I not see it until that moment?

SheSaidHummingbird · 10/01/2025 01:57

@bleepingbleepybleep Are they still in the lock, on the exterior side of the door?

GogAndMagog · 10/01/2025 01:02

Well it's the Borrowers obviously! 😊

Delphiniumandlupins · 10/01/2025 00:55

I once found my missing-for-several-days keys in my peg bag. Only then did I remember arriving home as it started to rain and rushing through the house to fetch washing in (obviously still with keys in hand). So, meticulously retrace your steps as you came in.

However, that has not helped to find the balloon whisk which disappeared from a kitchen drawer months ago. We had visitors around the same time and I initially thought it had just been put in the wrong drawer but it's never turned up.

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 10/01/2025 00:12

I’m sorry this is no use but I’ve lost things that have turned up months or years later. It’s really weird

saltandvinegarchipsticks · 10/01/2025 00:09

TeabySea · 09/01/2025 20:28

I'm missing several things. Most irritating would be socks. A friend bought me a really nice pair of bamboo socks. I wore them and washed them. There was only one in the machine when the washing had finished. The machine has been checked over and the filter emptied and its not there.
Nor is the other sock I lost. Treated myself to a pair of silly print socks. Same thing- wore them, washed them and one vanished.

I once stripped the bed and put two pillowcases in the machine and one came out.

Much weirder though was all the other things which went missing in the flat. Most strange was that I had a branded work polo top and I knew I had to get up early for an event so had the top laid out at the foot of my bed. Well, it was gone in the morning and was never seen again, not even after we moved out (none of the missing things turned up, there were many). I had to request a new work top, and when asked what had happened to it I said it had been spirited away to a parallel dimension.

that was a weird flat all round though.