The utter despair of losing something

Mine turned up when the car got valeted so I obviously didn't search the car well enough

Losing something is awful, the worst. And my obsessive personality type really doesn’t help 😩

I lose my sunglasses in the car all the time. They always turn up in a place I've already searched at least twice. Usually tucked away under a seat, or down the side between the seat/door jam or seat/centre console or back passenger footwell. But that's because I usually chuck them on the passenger seat because they're about 10 years old with one arm clinging on for dear life after DH sat on them (on said passenger seat...) rather than a Chanel pair that I might look after.

This thread has inspired me to finally replace them 😆

Yes absolutely. I've lost my Kindle and really want to read a new book! I

I get annoyed when things go awol, but extra annoyance from the general shoulder-shrugging from the rest of the family! Mostly because they will ALWAYS expect me to know where their jumper/football boots/air pods are…and I usually do. But when I can’t find my sunnies, there is 0 help or bother forthcoming. Feels like my brain carries an encyclopaedic knowledge of everyone’s belongings and GPS position, and runs out of capacity for my own stuff.

Having said that, my sunnies were in the suitcase where I knew I’d put them, but further down the pocket. My missing cycling glove (over a year) had got right to the bottom of the sports drawer and folded itself into a rarely-warn fleece.

Regularly instruct the kids on Looking Skills and need to follow my own advice!

Yes, I get this. My things are bad enough but I’m so anal about keeping on top of where things are it tends to be DH’s stuff or the kid’s. DH is the opposite, just puts stuff anywhere and then loses it. Famously bought a nice watch roll for his expensive watches and managed to lose that and all the watches in one go. I have turned the garage and house upside down looking and it still bothers me, more so because it doesn’t bother him enough for my liking. I HATE IT

2 things I’m still missing:

beautiful dressing gown I got for my honeymoon- reminded me of that JLo dress - left on the bathroom door in San Diego and sold out so couldn’t replace

a beautiful ring of my mums - her then boyfriend purchased it when we were all on holiday in Scotland in around 1977 - silver with blue resin. She gifted it to me and at some point around 2009 it vanished - I still spend hours online trying to find something like it.

I lost a beautiful Hermes watch. Started an insurance claim and then it turned up in the pocket of an old dressing gown. I had two dressing gowns and didn’t wear this one much. I must have put it on whilst the other was in the wash and, for some reason, taken my watch off and put it in the pocket (and then completely forgotten about it). Was so pleased when it turned up!

Of taking the earbud? No way. He claims it was in his room but we turned it upside down (moved the bed and flipped the mattress) and it was not there. I reckon he dropped in on the stairs.

Or of taking the engagement ring? Nope broken window and other stuff stolen (camera, camcorder) but the ring was impossible to replace and my own fault for not wearing it.

I would also be surprised if someone took something from your car. But then I have been told I am ridiculously risk averse for leaving my purse and phone out in the changing room while I shower after swimming! Opportunistic theft of this kind is pretty rare.

Off the subject I know, and I hope they turn up, but why on Earth do you ever leave the car unlocked? I never ever do, it only takes a couple of seconds to lock it (and I live in a relatively safe, quiet place).

I lost a ring when out. I was so incredibly sad, couldn't blame anyone else. Got it replaced on our insurance.

I can't understand why Tile, (other tracking devices available) can't just produce a tiny, stick on tracker for the inside of arms of glasses and sunglasses.
OP you can maybe claim on your house insurance? My optician told me to do just that with my last pair of unreasonably expensive prescription sunglasses.

I had a few instances of losing expensive sunglasses in my mid to late 20s - just sunglasses, everything else I kept track of. It was gutting and infuriating. In hindsight, I think they were nicked when I was out.

I now get my sunglasses from TK Maxx, I don't worry if I lose them as they were pretty cheap

Yes I hate it too. I lost mine recently. I've had them a while and they weren't that expensive but they really suited me and fitted perfectly, plus I kept them in a plastic case I've had for about 30 years so they wouldn't get scratched in bags etc. I'm grieving the loss of both.

We'd been out in the countryside the last day I had them and I hadn't actually used them, but they were in my back pack. So I have no idea how they got out or where it would have happened. I couldn't stop looking round the house for them at first.

It’s awful losing something. Years ago my dad gave me his late mother’s gold wedding ring with their initials and marriage date engraved on the inside. I had it at uni in a little metal tin where I kept my earrings and rings etc (none very valuable). One day I was getting something out and noticed the ring missing, I didn’t actually wear it at the time as I was only 19. Looking back I think the likely culprit was the uni flat’s cleaner (we were in flats in halls) as no one really came into my room as we flatmates tended to meet in the kitchen. And I’ve stayed friends with my four flatmates from that time and just can’t imagine them stealing a ring from me. I always wonder what happened to it and feel really bad for my dad who trusted me to look after it.

Had similar, gave them up as lost and then after my car was serviced, there they were! Must have slipped down under one of the seats or mats and I hadn’t seen them, despite looking. Don’t lose hope!

My DH lost an expensive pair of sunglasses. He is convinced a scaffolder or roofer just picked them up from our living room and walked off with them! Many years later and we don’t have a better idea what happened to them 😔

We need my DD7s birth certificate today, she's booked in to have her ears pierced as a birthday present. Piercing is a 90min train/tube journey away.
Realised last night we don't know where it is and have looked in all the obvious spots. Found 2 other kids certificates and 2 wedding certificates - urgh.
We're going to have to try our luck with passports, driving license and an NHS letter.

I lost the diamond pendant necklace my mum gave me. It had been hers.
I first noticed it was gone while I was in the shower.
If it went down the drain I’ll just calmly climb up on the roof and jump off.
But I recently had to go to hospital and the clothes I was wearing are missing too. I think they all must be together somewhere around here - I just don’t know where.
I hate it when that happens.

I lost some expensive perfume MIL bought me for Christmas one year. Found it the next year in the Christmas decorations box!

I've also lost a a banana, Just disappeared!
Also recently a mascara and face powder I'd recently bought just gone into thin air.
I live alone so can't blame anyone else though I do wonder if I've chucked them in the bin whilst in cleaning mode.
Once lost a necklace when someone gave me a lift to a party, was definitely on when I was in the car, when I went to get out it had gone, searched everywhere and it just went into thin air.
Places I've found things are a bracelet inside a tent pocket, it was packed for a year and can't remember what it was but found something my dds boyfriend had lost in his car though he and DD had been searching for ages, cars have black holes I swear.

I hate losing stuff. The weird thing is I keep looking in the same places over and over again, as if I can't believe the object isn't where it should be.

Definitely ask St Anthony. He is very efficient!

But I also think they’ve either got lost in the car somewhere( down between the seats ) or they got attached to something and dropped when you got out. I think you need another look inside the car.

You wouldn’t have bought them in with bits after soft play? Unthinkingly just grabbing whatever you needed to bring in. Perhaps they’re in a spare bag or pocket.