My husband has lost something.

[Goslowlysideways]

He is tearing up the house. He knew where it was and now it’s not there. ‘Someone’ has moved it! ‘Someone’ has tidied it away!
It was definitely in the place and now it’s gone!
No one can rest until it is found.
It’s definitely not his fault it’s just that ‘SOMEONE’ has moved it.

He has obviously taken it to work and will find it in the morning but not before all the shouting and swearing.

I was looking for this thread earlier but someone had moved it. Who put it back, because it definitely definitely wasn't here earlier, I looked.

This sounds like my dh and both my teen dds.

It drives me insane.

There have been similar threads before, and I think that most men are being lazy and expecting partners to do their looking for them.

I stole a phrase off one thread and now loudly declare that my vagina is not a homing device. The DC now look properly.

However, my ex would start to look for something he deemed crucial late at night, and I couldn't just leave him to it, as he was very cavalier with my stuff and would move and chuck my stuff around in a very PA way.

It was never anything important, just him being an arsehole, trying to upset me.

We’ve just gone through the other version: I needed something, asked him if he had seen it and without even a millisecond of thought he said “no”, end of conversation. That’s the difference between him and me, I would have stupidly started to look for the thing for him, doesn’t cross his mind to try.

I am constantly asked for information that I don’t have which it is just as easy for him to find. So he will have his phone in his hand (with, to my certain knowledge, two weather apps installed) and ask me what the weather will be like tomorrow. Or his constant favourite, what time B&Q opens (a fact I have supplied at least a million times since it reopened after lockdown, often several times in a single hour).

At this point I should say that I have an older brother who is not like this at all, he’s very effective at finding things; he’s not married though, so doesn’t have a wife to ask. He’s a mine of practical information too.

A man-look didn't have the right effect in our house so we call it the year2-look after children in my class.
Dp gets called Uncle Podger as well. If you haven't read Three Men in A Boat, read it just for the Uncle Podger segment, you will recognise the type. Unfortunately it's laugh out loud in the book, real life - not so funny...

I can’t relate, because DH is incapable of looking for anything properly. He’ll ask me where something is and I’ll tell him, then he’ll stand with his hands on his hips, gazing around the general area but not actually moving anything to look for it. He’ll then declare that he can’t find it

I genuinely thought this was just my dh! We have a hierarchy in our house re who is "best at finding things". After me, it's our toddler who is oddly brilliant at finding things/ remembering where they are. Dh is only above one person, our hopeless 5yo.

I was literally reading this thread this morning as i found dh's face mask he's supposedly been looking for for over a week. It was in "the bag", the bag we take everywhere and where it was supposed to be but he'd definitely looked there at least twice.

... although there is one item in our house that i can never see even when it's right in front of me, and dh can, and has to point it out. It's very strange, like it has its own alternative dimension forcefield around it (it's the teabag jar)

@Goslowlysideways, this thread reminds me of the recent one, My Husband is Tired 😂😂

I was once hauled over the coals because I had lost his smart casual grey trousers, shirt and jumper and he needed them. I MUST have done it because they weren't in his drawers or the washing basket and only I did the washing so where else could they be? I was bemused about how I could have lost them inside the washing machine but obvs it MUST have been me - never his lordship, oh no.

I don't know (or care) what he wore for whatever occasion it was, but about 10 days later he found said articles in a bag in the boot of his car where he had put them when he went bowling before work with some mates.

Never got an apology - it was a Funny Story - Oh how I laughed not.

Yesterday he insisted that there was no halloumi in the admittedly very full fridge. It was actually very near the front, just behind a tub of butter.

Ah, now, this is one time that our extreme height difference comes in surprisingly handy. I (shortarse) can see the underneath items through the glass fridge shelves from below. He (telegraph pole) can see the ones on the top.

[quote Annasgirl]@Goslowlysideways, this thread reminds me of the recent one, My Husband is Tired 😂😂[/quote]
I'm sure he will be tired after all this exhausting looking

@Goslowlysideways Did he find it today?

Sorry.
It was at his office.

Obviously

The ‘someone’ who moved it was him!

What a complete knob - I hope you pointed this out to him. (If not, tell I said so ).

Since then he has lost his car keys (he put his mask on top of them), his wallet (also under the mask) and couldn’t find any f*ing scissors in the whole house.

Fun fun fun.

I have a house full of people on the autistic spectrum so pointing is not an option as they just don’t get it.

But my god I feel this whole thread in my heart-I am so going to charge for looking from now on.

Ha! Glad to know I am not alone.

Remembering where things are is my special power.

That, and having a place for everything. DH is finally learning this trick. MIL however spends half her life looking for things.

Her bank card, car keys, dog lead, handbag or shoes, in fact, the list is endless. She joined us on holiday this year, I silently observed this for the entire week.

omg OP, Chemenger, Drinkfeck and others!

It's my DC who are the worst. I continuously point out that looking involves picking things up and looking underneath them. But the ability to do so eludes them. I usually find whatever it is in seconds...

We call it Man Searching. Sung to the tune of Jive Talkin' by the Bee Gees.

This thread is quite lighthearted but this is one of the things that really broke my relationship.
My ex would lose things, then he’d rant and rave about how someone had moved them. I remember he’d be asking the toddlers over and over ‘what have you done with Daddy’s keys?’. Then he’d stomp around slamming things and aggressively moving our stuff around. Occasionally this would escalate into a full on tirade about my organisational skills and general failures as a domestic goddess. Then inevitably, he’d find the item in some ridiculous place that was nothing to do with any of us.

He needs St. Anthony on speed dial.

I used to have the same problem; I worked in a hospital pharmacy, and 'topped up' the medicine cupboards on the wards. The number of times a ward rang to say they'd run out of something just after I'd been up there was unbelievable. I swear, if it didn't jump out when they opened the cupboard they said they hadn't got it. Me; "It's in cupboard X on the left". Them; "Found it!".

@Titterofwit genius.

Now my children are older I refuse to look for things until they have looked really well.
They are getting quite good at finding things.
@Therollockingrogue thats grim no wonder he is your ex