Where does all the stuff go??

Pockets. Random Pockets of cardigans trousers and coats.

I second the duvet covers stealing socks, they hide in the corners.

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there are 3 possibilities

1. Borrowers
2. Burglar Bill ('that's a nice X, I'll have that')
3. The Mystery Mover (actually only in our house, moves things that then reappear in the wrong place)

Have you returned it to Network Rail? Maybe that's why our local line is always closed for repairs.

I am convinced the universe disappears things for shits and gigs.

Just this week, I lost cheques we'd been sent for Christmas 😞

Weirdest one wasn't technically lost but sleep deprivation. I found a missing bit of train track inside a box of crackers!!!! I'd put them away and accidentally dropped the track in!

Have you looked in your dog's bed? My dog has a habit of stealing things and claiming them as his own.

Lost a necklace 5 years ago.. found it 3 weeks ago in an old handbag I was about to send to the charity shop that I've not used in god knows how long, probably again 5 years ago. Alongside it was a ring my late mother had given me 2 years ago. I've no idea how it got there.

Check inside duvet covers. I’ve found a few lost socks in them.

I’ve lost both of my credit cards somewhere in the house, and I need one to put the deposit on a hire car next week (the only thing I ever use them for). I haven’t used either of them since the last time I went away in October.

I have searched everywhere I can think of!!

I arrived at work one day (commuted by train) to find I didn’t have my phone with me. no sign of it at home , in the car, anywhere, despite turning everything upside down.

THREE YEARS later I got a phone call from the local train station. The regular station master had retired, and the new chap had found a drawer full of all the phones which had been lost and handed in over the years - they had simply been put on a drawer and ignored (I’d asked at the time if it had been handed in) - he was gradually working through charging them up and calling the owners to let them know.

I also found my wedding ring 10 years after losing it, trapped between the runner and side of a kitchen drawer. The drawer itself had been searched several times - it was only when it was actually removed completely that the ring came to light.

Have you checked the freezer...❄

I know it’s obvious but have you checked the pockets of what you were wearing and your handbag?

Did you go straight to the bathroom when you got in and leave them in there? I’ve done this when dying for a wee and then found them behind an air freshener on the bathroom window sill.

I lost my wedding ring for two years. I went away to a spa overnight and left my engagement and wedding ring on top of my drawers as I didn’t want to wear them in the spa. I remember leaving them together and actively thinking “maybe I should just take them”? Came home and only the engagement ring was there. Adult ds who’d been left home alone swore he didn’t know and said he hadn’t had friends round but I was convinced he had and someone had nicked it (I didn’t voice this btw) but it was a complete mystery.

I then was moving furniture about two years later and found it behind a cabinet in the living room that I move and sweep behind every few months or so.

I couldn’t fathom it at all!

Behind the U Bend of the toilet.

Twice I've found my keys there, clearly I put them in a pocket while dashing upstairs after locking the door immediately behind me and trying to beat the 100 fold increased urge to pee while doing that.

If more women's had functional pockets it would probably be more than twice.

Bath is the other place.

Socks in our house usually turn up inside duvet covers or in pj bottoms after being in the tumble dryer.

You don't leave your door unlocked when you're in do you? People walk in and take car keys to come back another time.

This! Either that or it's house elves being over zealous.

A wormhole to a different dimension opens up. This also explains why you sometimes find something in your house which isn't yours and you don't know how it got there.

I don't know if this is linked to the washing machine sock abyss, or the tupperware lid abyss.

They're not in the door on the outside are they?? My kids do this all the time when they let themselves in.

When DS was little we were going out, I put the keys on the dining room table the phone rang, I answered it, turned round and the keys were gone. It’s not unusual to misplace keys so I assumed that I’d imagined putting them on the table. I emptied my bag, pockets started to search further afield. I then remembered DS, who was a toddler had been opening the cupboard in the sideboard while I was on the phone. I had a Quick Look and there they were.
I think I would have been searching for days if I hadn’t caught DS out of the corner of my eye. He’d been opening and closing the cupboard to get toys out.

I have found my keys in the door multiple times, in the fridge, in the cutlery drawer, on top of the bin, in the bottom of my bags for life, the dog has taken them into her bed. And they regularly turn up in my handbag despite me searching through it several times.

I recently lost a gold bracelet that had broken. I’d put it away somewhere safe until I had time to get it fixed. It took me nearly a day of searching, I’d put it in a box with another bracer I rarely wear.

What doesn’t help is having a DH who tidies up. After 30 yrs though, I now know his hiding places.

You’ve probably put them somewhere on auto pilot.

I’ve spent all evening looking for my daughter’s bank card and bus pass. I’ve looked everywhere but they’ve vanished.