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There is a Bermuda Triangle-esque space in my house. WHERE HAVE THESE FUCKING THINGS GONE???

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alifromtheforest · 23/09/2018 12:02

The first things to go missing were DP car keys. He left them in the utility room when we were abroad, came home and they were nowhere to be seen. NOWHERE. We searched and searched and searched with no luck. It was/is baffling.

Two nights ago, I removed my contact lenses and put them in their case. It's about 2 in wide and 1in deep. It's coloured. It's a distinctive shape. I woke the next morning and couldn't find them. I had a clear memory of exactly where I removed them but they had vanished into thin air. We searched high and low for hours, my eyesight is very poor so being without them is debilitating. We didn't find them, which is very, very odd.

Then DP came across an old pair of lenses so I wore those, took them out the night before last, put them in an identical case. I woke up the next morning and guess what! They've vanished too!! I couldn't believe it. Again, we have looked high and low for these things and I mean EVERYWHERE. There are TWO of these missing things somewhere.

I have combed the bedroom. I have searched under the bed, under the sofa we have in there, under cushions, I have checked all the bed linen (both on the bed and in the drawers), I have methodically been through every single item of clothing that we have stored in there, I have cleared surfaces and searched through every bag, pocket, jewellery box and make up containers. I have emptied tables, I have checked stupid things like light fittings 😂 But nada.

Downstairs has also been ripped apart. We've looked literally everywhere, removed all the sofa cushions twice, looked under all tables and sofas, all bookshelves, in the dog bed and I even emptied the tea and coffee jars to go through those!

Myself and DP have now given up. These things are nowhere to be seen. We are flummoxed.

Does anyone else have their own personal Bermuda Triangle??

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CadleCrap · 23/09/2018 12:10

If you find them, can you let me know if my kindle is there? Fucked if I know where that went. It never left the house and we have moved since i lost it. It never turned up

IreneWinters · 23/09/2018 12:12

You have a boggart. You need to ask nicely if he will return your missing items.

Or you have a cat. Or the neighbours have a cat who has found a way in. Asking nicely will not help in this scenario.

Or the dog has a secret stash you have yet to uncover. Try searching in the flowerbeds.

What did you do with the dog while you were abroad? Untrustworthy dog/house sitter? With bad eyesight?

Or DH is fucking with your head.

Could be mice. Or borrowers. Or an attic dweller. Or a portal to another dimension.

HemanOrSheRa · 23/09/2018 12:15

They are hiding with all the blutack, rolls of sellotape and pens that go missing from our house. Where are they all?

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itwillbealrightpromise · 23/09/2018 12:24

Socks. I've bought two packs of 8 pairs in the past two weeks. Where are they now? Fuck me if I know.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 23/09/2018 13:15

You have a klepto ghost.

I had one too. It was always random shit that got thieved.

tillytop · 23/09/2018 13:23

With us at the moment, it's important letters such as hospital appointments, etc. Even my PIP certificate has gone missing!!

tillytop · 23/09/2018 13:25

We once had a swingball go missing. It was in the locked garage! Confused

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 23/09/2018 13:27

I bought some cystitis treatment at chemist, did some shopping, put it away then went to take first sachet of gunk. Disappeared.
Looked everywhere.
Gave up and went out to buy more.

Three weeks later found box of cystitis sachets in with spare light bulbs. Of course

HerRoyalFattyness · 23/09/2018 13:30

My bracelet went missing from my wrist!

As in i went to bed with it on, woke up with it gone. Striooed the bed, emptied the bedroom...nowhere.

yawning801 · 23/09/2018 13:33

Can you ask it if my memory is in there too? I'm losing everything this past few days, I went to Sainsbury's earlier and found myself looking at the sticky toffee pudding and wondering what the hell I was doing in that aisle!

Other things that might be in there include: my hairbrush, my cat (finds herself lots of little hiding spots), the pasta stirrer thing, the balloon whisk, endless keys, glucose tablets (don't ask) and a little clutch bag that I really liked and has recently grown a pair of legs and walked out.

ginghamstarfish · 23/09/2018 13:34

Yes, happens here. Latest is fitted sheet gone missing ... not in linen cupboard, not in laundry bin, not in washing machine. Even checked that I hadn't put two on the bed together!

TheLionQueen1 · 23/09/2018 13:37

You should read 'A place called here' by Cecilia Ahern, your post made me think of it! Maybe it's there...Grin

Roomba · 23/09/2018 13:41

Posted about this before, but a pair of earrings and a metal bottle stopper thing. Know exactly where they were - bottle stopper was in bottle of fizz in the centre of my dining table (forgot to stick in fridge before bed) and earrings were next to the bottle (v clearly remember moving them to there as they were near edge of table and I didn't want to knock them off). Next morning - bottle with no stopper and earrings vanished. Only me in the house, all door and windows locked, no pets.

Neither have turned up and I've searched everywhere over the last few months! Only had half a small glass of prosecco, so def not drunkenly moved them and forgotten.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 23/09/2018 13:44

They’re with my glasses, which I’ve been looking for for about a month.

LongSummerDays · 23/09/2018 13:59

My prescription sunglasses which fell off my deckchair, I heard them fall but when I looked for them seconds later we're nowhere to be seen. Totally vanished. Never seen again.

tillytoodles1 · 23/09/2018 14:08

I lost an earring, searched everywhere. One day I was hoovering the bedrooms and as I walked back downstairs, I saw it on the floor in my daughter's room.

Belletower · 23/09/2018 14:27

My keys are probably there too.

Sat them on the table in the front room where I always keep them after locking the front and back doors. Came down in the morning to absolutely no sign of them.

Trouble was, I was locked in! My house has those kind of locks that you can only lock with a key, and my Ex has the spare set. He had to come and set me free Blush

alifromtheforest · 23/09/2018 14:55

I'm glad I'm not the only one! It's just so bloody frustrating and impossible!

I literally cannot think of anywhere else to look. Seriously - there must be an entity in this house..... it is 14th C....

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SleepingStandingUp · 23/09/2018 15:08

When you find them, can you send back my keys and cow key ring that must be there too!

AdorableMisfit · 23/09/2018 15:18

It's cutlery in this house. My favourite fork (It was pointier than all the others), a steak knife and one kid-size knife have vanished without a trace.

QuestionableMouse · 23/09/2018 15:23

@Belletower please don't take your keys out of the lock. If your house caught fire you'd never get out.

Crocky · 23/09/2018 15:33

If you find them have a look and see if my forks are there. We are down from 12 forks to 4 😕

SLoisachtal · 23/09/2018 16:00

If it's any help to all of you, I suspect my DP has been round to your houses to 'help you tidy up Hmm. Whichever one of you has got him, you're more than welcome to keep him, because once he's gone from here, for good and all, then at least I'll be able to find my stuff again Grin

SneakyGremlins · 23/09/2018 16:03

I've lost two meat knivesHmm

Mundotothemax · 23/09/2018 16:05

My bracelet went missing from my wrist!

As in i went to bed with it on, woke up with it gone. Striooed the bed, emptied the bedroom...nowhere

@herroyalfattiness the same thing happened to my friend!

Her lover later found it tangled up in his dreadlocks Grin

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