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??

QuestionableMouse I remember your thread about your tweezers.

I would imagine that they’ve all ended up in my house. There’s so much crap here, we’re in such a muddle, there could well be the contents of a thousand wormholes from other people’s houses and I’d never notice.

You have a vortex! All you need to find is the end through which all that is sucked in, comes out.
It could be in my ex husband's Beetle glove compartment? That was where all our lost stuff turned up!
Or my mums bathroom in Cheltenham? Another place stuff turns up.

If anyone comes across my lovely, perfect black skirt I'd like to have that back. I spent loads on it and wore it twice before it went missing. Also a gorgeous red coat that I bought and wore for 2 weeks before it vanished without trace from near Mum's front door.

A few years ago,I was going out for the day and made myself some corned beef and pickle sandwiches to take with me. I wrapped them in cling film,put them in a small plastic bag,then put them on the small table in the hall,near the front door,so I wouldn't forget them. I DID forget them,because they disappeared. Obviously,I realised that I'd forgotten them come lunch time. But I thought I would get home and find them still sitting there. But no. They had gone. I literally searched everywhere for them. No one else was in the house at the time,we had no pets at the time(so no opportunist dog or cat helping themselves). I resigned myself to the fact that,wherever they were,they'd make their presence felt before long. It was the middle of summer and I knew it would only be a week or so before they started to 'hum'. But nothing. Not a whiff. To this day I do not know what happened to them.

Can you take a look for my nice new jeans while you're at it? Straight leg, faded blue, fit me very nicely.

I am always losing things but the most memorable, and most annoying, were my daughters brand new trainers which vanished overnight, my very special angora jumper (only worn twice ) and the christmas tree.

I have my suspicions about the trainers and my spiteful ex but the other two are a complete mystery. The christmas tree is large, very large, how the hell can it vanish?

I'm fascinated by all these missing things! It just does not make sense!
Especially since I basically lost the exact same thing two nights in a row......

Yep, all bins checked. I even made dp check the outside bin 😂

I know where all this missing stuff is. It's in one of the three repeat three cake carriers that I have lost in the LAST EFFING FORTNIGHT!!!! Sorry to shout, but it is the full banana cake, it really is.

My Systema one is in the house, I put it away, thinking that it was the ideal place to put it because it was so obvious that it would be there. No idea where there is now.

The big pink one with the smaller blue one, no idea at all. Not at DM's, not in my DS's car.

But they would all make ideal depositories for all the car keys, etc that have disappeared.

Everything could be on my kids' bedroom floors.

There's so much mess in there it could take months to uncover everything

My mum once lost some pj bottoms and a Hovis loaf, while we were on holiday - in a caravan. She was still talking about it 30+ years later.

I did read somewhere that a woman was so fed-up of losing stuff that she bought a large box with a lid and labelled it ‘A safe place’ for all the bits she needed to keep.

I've lost a Kindle charging lead and a Victorias Secret lipgloss. No sign of either of them. I've just had to buy a new charger!

@MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig, I figured they'd turn up when I was packing up to come home, but no. I never saw them again.

I had a silicone cake "tin" disappear from my cake tins drawer in the kitchen. I searched the whole kitchen. I would never have removed it from the kitchen, but just couldn't find it. I bought a new silicon "tin" and it also disappeared. My husband eventually figured it out. They are soft and the drawer was quite full. They both were pushed out of the back of the drawer into the space behind. There they were!

Keys - - socks: the sock goblin. We have threatened to feed our sock goblin to the cat. Teaspoons: the teaspoon fairy. Not sure about the rest! Have also tried praying to St Anthony on more than one occasion. My dad used to reckon we had a ghost called Jerrup who used to hide things for fun.

Well the urgency is over, I have a new pair of contacts!

There's still no sign of them though. And we had a new bed delivered today so our bedroom has been totally clear. I checked every last corner and found nothing, bar a rather large family of dust

Socks and ring still awol, but the mysterious Rawl plug is resolved. It was in DHs jeans pocket, and DD randomly brought his jeans downstairs.

I know where everything is.
It's on the magic table!!

A double mattress from the spare bedroom, absolutely no memory of getting rid of it.

And four forks.

11 pairs of socks. I bought them about four months ago and I can find one pair.

The iron. Nearly a year ago. Keep thinking it will turn up (our house just ain't that big!), but so far nothing. Where the hell could it be??!

So far this year I’ve lost:
A now tv remote (this is probably in the Bermuda Triangle sofa but I cba to undo all the bits of it to find it as the damned box doesn’t work anyway)
A fire stick remote (it just vanished. Hadn’t had it in weeks but kept it with the others. Gone)
At least a tenners worth of pound coins from trolleys in Lidl (I take them out and put them in my pocket so I can put them in the console of my car. They never make it to the car)
Half of a twin set of rompers for DD (they were a gift, opened and put away as a pair, one is still completely missing having never been worn and will now be too small!)
The charging station for our landline phone (I packed the whole thing, handset, cables etc all together in a bag when we moved. I have everything but the base station, we only moved three miles in one afternoon!!! I’ve now bought new ones after much annoyance)

I’m sure there’s more but my brain is too sleep deprived to notice!

I have lost my plastic measuring spoons BUT gained 5 different desert dishes.
Nobody know where they come from apparently.

A study was done on missing tea spoons.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322240/

A study was done on missing tea spoons.
What about increasing tea spoons. As well as dishes increasing we have had an influx of spoons!
I left home 34 years ago and acquired cutlery from family when I first got my house all those years ago but I'v never gone out and bought any. Over the last year spoons and forks have arrived. I have 23 teaspoons and 17 forks!! I don't want them.