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Help lost key salary sacrifice

242 replies

Bagladygirl · 02/02/2025 12:14

They company are closed but I'm wondering if anyone has ever come against this before and if they will replace the key
mum panicking as have no money

OP posts:
bouncydog · 02/02/2025 18:02

Check and feel around the lining of any bags that you had. I knew I had a purse in my handbag and it had disappeared. Colleague had a look in my bag after we had tipped everything out to be sure and found it had slipped between the lining and the outside of the bag through a small gap in the seam of the lining.

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 02/02/2025 18:01

ThereTheirTheyreYourYoureToTooLEARNTHEM · 02/02/2025 16:43

I voted YABU for posting such a load of word salad.

What an invaluable contribution to the thread. FFS

TickTockPolly · 02/02/2025 18:01

Think back to when you last had them. What were you wearing/carrying/doing?

If you can be certain they are in the house then be systematic with your searching and look in places you don’t think they will be.

If the car is one you have to return after a certain period of time, I expect they will bill you if you don’t return two keys so if you really can’t find it I’d get two new ones

Feelingathomenow · 02/02/2025 17:58

oh check with neighbours in case you left them in door and they took them in for safe keeping

Feelingathomenow · 02/02/2025 17:57

What were you doing last time you used the car - have you checked fridge/freezer coffee jar. Were you carrying more than your handbag, did you run to the loo when you came in? Did you take DD anywhere, have you checked her pockets

LaurieFairyCake · 02/02/2025 17:49

Laundry bin

Put them in the fridge/bread bin

Anononony · 02/02/2025 17:47

Checked all coat pockets and pockets of any jeans etc that are waiting for washing? That's where I usually find mine!

idiotfacelicker · 02/02/2025 17:46

Whether they are on the same ring as your house keys is important as it will determine if they definitely made from the car to inside the house.

Did you have shopping bags, did your daughter have a school bag with her or PE kit bag? Try those. If you had shopping, where did they get put away? Try this cupboards etc. what was the first job you did when you got home, eg laundry? Try the washing machine etc etc.

Work really methodically through the entire process you went through last time you returned home with the car.

Twinsandsome · 02/02/2025 17:42

Sorry if this isnt your thing but you’ve nothing to lose saying the pray to st Anthony

O Holy St. Anthony gentlest of Saints, your love for God and charity for His creatures, made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Encouraged by this thought, I implore you to obtain for me (request).
O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms. The gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen.

rach7979 · 02/02/2025 17:41

Fridge
Freezer
Washing machine
Tumble dryer
Dishwasher
All bags
Shopping bags
Any food you put away that it could have been caught on like netting of fruit
Bookcase
Under the sofa
Down the arms of the sofa (I frequently lose my mobile here as you can get your hands under the arms)
Coat pockets
Trousers pockets
Shoes and boots
Drawers
Children's toys
Bathroom
Window sills

Chuchoter · 02/02/2025 17:38

Check your fridge. If you came home with shopping and put the keys in the fridge and then put products in front.

I did this with a pair of sunglasses once and they turned up a couple of weeks later as the food got eaten!

Simplelife1 · 02/02/2025 17:38

Not read whole thread, have you tried the fridge, I find all sorts in there when I'm flustered, good luck

SnakesAndArrows · 02/02/2025 17:38

If you park on the road, check on top of your tyres/under wheel arch just in case a passer by found the key and put it there for (relative) safekeeping.

Have you been anywhere on foot outside your house since you parked up?

Have you really systematically checked all bags by emptying completely and then emptying and shaking them? Speaking from experience here…

Have a sit down, empty your mind as much as you can and then re-trace your last journey home in your mind. What were you and DD wearing and carrying? Where had you been? What did you need to do as soon as you got into the house? What did you say to each other?

Definitely go through the bins again. Piece by piece into a separate bin bag. Horrible but necessary.

Barney16 · 02/02/2025 17:37

Right down the side of the sofa, so past the base if you see what I mean. I lost my phone down there once and had checked, just didn't shove my hand down far enough. And underneath something, they are in your house you just haven't found them yet and will do 🙂

Lemonyyy · 02/02/2025 17:37

Fridge, microwave, bookshelf, set of drawers anywhere? What did you do when you got home? Mug? Down the side of a sofa cushion? We’re they in your pocket when you went to the loo? Sorry op, I know how stressed you are!

BruceAndNosh · 02/02/2025 17:36

Cherry8809 · 02/02/2025 16:55

I thought I’d lost my keys once but I’d actually left them in the front door when I was unlocking it…

That's where my husband's lost keys are usually found

Astrak · 02/02/2025 17:34

My current car came with only one set of keys. It would cost £200 to replace them. I don't have that money to spare, so I make sure that I always put the in the same place when I get home.

MinkaLeDinka · 02/02/2025 17:34

“Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony, please come around.car keys are lost and they need to be found.”.

Notquitegrownup2 · 02/02/2025 17:32

When I lose my keys it's because I've broken my routine: I've walked in the house but instead of putting my keys in the pot, I popped to the loo and put them on the shelf outside the lio, or I've answered the phone/fed the cat etc and put the keys down there.

So I'd check to see if they are hiding in plain sight - on a kitchen counter or a shelf by other stuff. Good luck

itsgettingweird · 02/02/2025 17:31

Do any of your pockets you may have put them in have holes?

My lost keys were in the lining of my coat once 🙄

Another set that were in the car with ds and he managed to drop them never ever materialised 🤔 That one was the biggest mystery ever!

Christmassoxs · 02/02/2025 17:29

Wtaf who actually thinks OP is bu for panicking about her lost keys? The bitches really have got the knives out. I feel sorry for you OP, so many arseholes on this thread.

Bumcake · 02/02/2025 17:28

Spurber · 02/02/2025 17:05

Can you pay for them and she pay you back later?

Who?

I recently found my house keys in my bag, just where I’d looked no less than six times before. It’s baffling.

Christmassoxs · 02/02/2025 17:25

Stravaig · 02/02/2025 16:25

OP, when you find or replace the key, please, please don't get behind the wheel and drive until you can string a clear, coherent sentence together 🤣.

Heck there are some moronic remarks on this thread. Op is panicking and worried and all that some of you can come up with is shite like this.

TidyLion · 02/02/2025 17:23

I think the idea upthread of making finding them into a game with your DC is genius! 9 time out of ten when mine were little they’d have posted them somewhere.

(Now it’s still them moving things but just because they’re absent minded teens 😆)

intheaviary · 02/02/2025 17:22

Dressing gown pockets