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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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bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 22:14

rosemole · 09/01/2025 22:06

I'm still looking for my rolling pin so gawd knows 🤷‍♀️ How does one lose such a thing?

Any luck OP?

A rolling pin? That;s not even something you can throw away without realising.

No luck yet, Ive given up for now and using the spares....fingers crossed they dont find themselves in the key abyss

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PandoraSox · 09/01/2025 22:14

Pinkypup · 09/01/2025 22:05

But but but…..howwwww??!!!

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I don't know! Somehow between getting the bag out of the washing machine and hanging them up to dry the occasional one goes missing...

HumphreyCushionintheHouse · 09/01/2025 22:14

Last time my bunch of keys went missing, I found them in the kitchen bin. I think my then toddler put them in there. Nice of him to help clean up haha.

TheTruthHurtsDontIt · 09/01/2025 22:13

Maybe you've got someone living in your walls 🙃

Teenagerantruns · 09/01/2025 22:12

I lost my purse in December, so werid we out to a friends party, l didn't take my bank cards just cash for cab, paid the cab when we got home, next morning no purse anywhere, very annoying, it only had £15 in. I'm absolutely sure l had it in my hand when l walked in because my keys were in it. My keys were in my pocket next morning but no purse.

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bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 22:12

WartOrNot · 09/01/2025 21:41

Our shoe rack is under the place where we hang coats and bags, and the shelf where we put keys and gubbins. Shoes end up sprawled beyond the rack, and beyond what you might call the drop zone.

Keys, hair clips, trolley tokens, that special conker, basically anything that might fall out of your pocket, or that you thought you put in your pocket but didn't realise you missed the pocket, all end up in the shoes. Even the shoes that are a metre away from your coat.

If you keep shoes anywhere near your coats or bags, check inside each one. Don't just look, shake them out and stick your hand right in.

Check also behind and under any nearby radiators/skateboards/whatever else is anywhere near the drop zone.

If nothing else, you'll have an early spring clean 😉

Ive done all this. Ive checked the coats, pockets, hoods, sleeves. Checked all shoes....just in case

I usually come straight in, straight into the kitchen before ive even took my coat off, because the dogs run straight to the back door. Keys go in my handbag, handbag goes down the side if the sofa, that's my routine.

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zaxxon · 09/01/2025 22:11

I lost a bank card which I often shove into a pocket. So I checked every trouser pocket, coat pocket and handbag I could think of. They finally turned up... in a skirt pocket.

rosemole · 09/01/2025 22:06

I'm still looking for my rolling pin so gawd knows 🤷‍♀️ How does one lose such a thing?

Any luck OP?

sleetysnowflakes · 09/01/2025 22:05

In a paw patrol rucksack under the sofa (thanks to toddler dd)

Pinkypup · 09/01/2025 22:05

PandoraSox · 09/01/2025 20:35

Where do they go? Is there a fourth sock dimension?

I use one of those net bags for socks now. Even then, the odd one goes astray.

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But but but…..howwwww??!!!

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bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 22:03

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 09/01/2025 20:57

I lost a bank card once, it slipped down the side of the sofa cushion - I saw it go.

Stuck my hand down, took all the cushions off the sofa, cut the lining on the bottom, turned it upside down. Vanished.

Several years later we literally smashed that sofa to pieces to fit it in the car to go to the tip. No sign of my bank card. Where did it go?!

I also lost a car key - a key I used every day and had used to get home so it had to be in the house. Vanished. Moved house since then and it didn't turn up.

Very bizarre.....they must be somewhere...they have to be!!

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bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 22:02

Oreyt · 09/01/2025 20:56

I lost my house keys for a year until recently.

I lost my wedding ring 10 years ago 😢

spill....where did you find them?

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bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 22:02

Justploddingonandon · 09/01/2025 20:55

Left in the door would have been my guess, but presumably someone has left the house since the weekend and would've noticed if still there. And if someone had pinched them they would probably have at least taken the car at the same time!
Do you have young children? When mine were toddlers they liked to post stuff into anywhere they could.

No young kids. My kids are late teens and twenty's, so at the age where they step over things more than move things out the way 😂

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bleepingbleepybleep · 09/01/2025 22:00

Createausername1970 · 09/01/2025 20:46

I picked up my work ID pass and lanyard and put it round my neck. Then I walked into the living room and sat down in an armchair to finish my cup of tea. I stood up and walked a couple of steps across the room and something fell to my feet. I bent down to pick it up and realised it was my ID card. I went to put the ID card back in the plastic holder attached to the lanyard - IT WAS GONE! I just had the lanyard round my neck with the metal clip at the end. I searched the floor, under the chair, removed all the cushions, but I couldn't find the plastic holder, and never have.

I can't work it out. If the holder had fallen off before I picked up the lanyard in the kitchen, then how did the ID card end up falling to the floor in the living room. How could it have been transported there?

Very weird.

Very strange, even more so because you saw it happen

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username299 · 09/01/2025 21:42

No idea. I've stopped buying pepper grinders as two expensive ones disappeared.

WartOrNot · 09/01/2025 21:41

Our shoe rack is under the place where we hang coats and bags, and the shelf where we put keys and gubbins. Shoes end up sprawled beyond the rack, and beyond what you might call the drop zone.

Keys, hair clips, trolley tokens, that special conker, basically anything that might fall out of your pocket, or that you thought you put in your pocket but didn't realise you missed the pocket, all end up in the shoes. Even the shoes that are a metre away from your coat.

If you keep shoes anywhere near your coats or bags, check inside each one. Don't just look, shake them out and stick your hand right in.

Check also behind and under any nearby radiators/skateboards/whatever else is anywhere near the drop zone.

If nothing else, you'll have an early spring clean 😉

ForPearlViper · 09/01/2025 21:38

Just before the first lockdown, I cut my fingers and, as I had to dress them, I took off my favourite ring. It went missing. It is all a bit mixed up after with lockdown and having to look after elderly Mum who got very sick (not Covid) and ended staying at my house.

I turned the house upside down trying to find the ring and even went through the bins. It couldn't be found anywhere. Mum, now better, said she'd buy me a new one but I couldn't find something similar.

Couple of months later I went outside to the recycling bins and the light caught something. It was my ring. It was right in front of the bins I go out to all the time. It was right at front of where I park my car and walk to the front door.

It's silver and not particularly precious but I would be even more devastated if I lost it again after it's miraculous return.

SydneyCarton · 09/01/2025 21:29

It’s the Borrowers!

Grasmereginger · 09/01/2025 21:27

I've had two debit cards disappear now No clue where

Elderly · 09/01/2025 21:13

As a kid this happened to the toys that I didn’t save from going to the bottom of the bed.
i learnt to sing,‘I saw three ships come sailing in’ and lo! They would reappear! Try it - and let me know if it works!

FTHC · 09/01/2025 21:08

I've also lost things for months so ordered a replacement; Sure fire way to make the original reappear.

DancefloorAcrobatics · 09/01/2025 20:57

... same place as all the single socks!

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 09/01/2025 20:57

I lost a bank card once, it slipped down the side of the sofa cushion - I saw it go.

Stuck my hand down, took all the cushions off the sofa, cut the lining on the bottom, turned it upside down. Vanished.

Several years later we literally smashed that sofa to pieces to fit it in the car to go to the tip. No sign of my bank card. Where did it go?!

I also lost a car key - a key I used every day and had used to get home so it had to be in the house. Vanished. Moved house since then and it didn't turn up.

Oreyt · 09/01/2025 20:56

I lost my house keys for a year until recently.

I lost my wedding ring 10 years ago 😢

Needmorelego · 09/01/2025 20:56

Do you have a toddler who owns one of those Cosy Coupe cars?
Lost keys apparently turn up in the ignition of the toy car quite a lot.