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

[alifromtheforest]

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??

Mundotothemax

I don't have a dreadlocked lover...mine is bald. If it turns up in someones dreadlocks im in big trouble

Anyone seen my stripey top, perchance?

You’ve probably looked right at them at least twice, and been so distracted by looking for them that you didn’t see them, iykwim. Happens to me all the time

Angelo Can't be the case with my knives, bright green and bright purple..

I lost some jewellery once.

DH and I went away for the weekend. I was wearing a pair of earrings and necklace to travel. On the evening I had a shower and changed necklace and earrings to match my evening outfit. I put the jewellery I had been wearing into the bag that contained all the other pieces of jewellery I had taken for our 3 night break.

I slept in that jewellery and wore it the next day, but on the evening after my shower I went to change my jewellery to match that evening's outfit. But the bag containing the other jewellery was gone.

DH and I searched the entire room, every pocket of the cases we had taken but it was entirely gone. There was a possibility I'd accidentally binned the bag (it was just a small plastic bag) , although I had no memory of binning anything. There was a possibility it had been taken by the cleaner, but it was clearly cheap costume jewellery so not likely, and not worth risking someone's job over.

Two years later, two whole years later, the jewellery resurfaced, still in the same plastic bag. Weirdly it turned up in a suitcase that I hadn't taken that weekend. A suitcase I had used several times since the weekend I lost the jewellery. A suitcase that had never contained that bag of earrings.

Weird.

Back in the day, on MN, people were urged to pray to St Anthony - the patron saint of lost things. You could all try that?!

Actually, I might try that too, to try to work out where DP has 'tidied up' my stuff. He never throws anything away, I'll give him that, but I've got no damn idea where he puts things - and he can't remember either

Fire stick remote, one slipper, eyebrow brush, gold necklace and every single hair grip I’ve ever bought. Gone.

We defintely have a boggart. Or toddler DD has a secret stash.

Possibly a cross between boggart and toddler... 🙄

If you find my apple headphone adapter thingy, let me know! It’s never left my room, but is it there? Unless it’s burrowed under the carpet as I’ve looked everywhere!

Toddler forks, just vanished from the cutlery drawer

See Douglas Adams “Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.

And as theories go this was all very fine and pleasant until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables, whereupon he was aken away, locked up, wrote a book and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.”
As the universe is huge maybe other household objects have their own planets to quietly slip away to...

I often thought that our insulation mat taken away from the children years ago to be put somewhere safe (1m x 2m x 0,03 m brightly coloured) and gone since then, went away in search of the matrassy lifestyle. Though it was not called Zem.

I hate it when you put something down, or know where it is and it just vanishes! had a new lipgloss once, put it down on my dressing table, few minutes later I check and it was gone. I checked it hadn't fallen in the bin, and I remembered about it years later when removing the furniture, as maybe it would turn out to be behind it all that time. Nope! Mystery.

I lost a pair of expensive tweezers in my uni accommodation. Took the place apart and never found them. Even when I moved out and had the room totally empty they still didn't appear.

I wouldn’t worry OP, they will be back soon. I always find that whatever mystical place my “things” run off to.... as soon as I buy a replacement, the original one then decides to come back and reappear

I had this with a hand towel. We have 4. Each week 2 go in the wash and 2 get put out to use. Suddenly 1 went missing. I improvised for months and then I found it. In moving a heavy piece of furniture that rests against a wall I'd "temporarily" placed the hand towel between it in the painted wall to protect it! Hope everyone's stuff turns up but love the long list of possibilities posted by Irene!

If you come across our double electric blanket in your travels, let me know. It's not small...

We've also lost a hand towel, a beach towel, a pillow case and some running kit.

Starting to think someone is taking the odd random item off the washing line to fuck with our minds as these items have disappeared over a couple of years.

Oh and the very thin quilt that I wanted to use this very hot summer.

Could someone be sleep walking and moving stuff?

I went through a spell of finding the toilet roll in slightly odd places around my flat. I dismissed it until one morning I woke with the memory of placing it in the middle of the living room. And there it was.

Probably with the top I bought in the summer. Had it delivered, tried it on in my bedroom, it's never been seen since

In this house its sellotape, nail clippers, bottle opener that always go missing. So we have a sticky, short nailed alcoholic ghost I think.

OP, if you have a bin in the bathroom, did you look in there? I've often absent-mindedly ditched something then thought "What the hell did I chuck that away for?!?" Contact lenses would be included in that group

Also ballpoint pens, no matter how many you buy, it's always hard to find one. Also, teaspoons, I had a set of small ones from Wilkos that DS used for his lunch yogurt. Started off with six, now there are none... yet DS always brought them back in the lunchbox. Where did they GO?

I'm missing a silver ring with cubic zircona and emeralds in (lost in our old flat, five years ago and never found even though we scrupulously emptied every corner of every room). I'm also missing a yoga sock and a black sock with a unicorn on it.
Did find a red rawl plug on the stairs today - anyone lost that?

Latest is fitted sheet gone missing

Your fitted sheet and mine have clearly eloped. Mine is a king size so not easy to misplace and yet, it has not been seen for over a month. I only have 2, which means I’m actually down to 1!

They have slipped through the space-time continuum & will turn up in the middle of your kitchen table one day. That's what happens here, although the framed picture I have been looking for all weekend hasn't done so yet.