What have you acquired, but have no idea how?

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We have a 6ft step ladder. I found it in the boiler cupboard a few years ago and everybody denies owning it. DP knows nothing about it. I asked neighbours in case we'd borrowed it and forgotten and they said not theirs.

We'd had no builders etc. in for at least 8 months and honestly I think we'd noticed a 6ft high step ladder in the boiler cupboard before that time was up.

It's an extremely useful ladder as we have high ceilings but it's origin remains entirely unknown.

Bruises in strange places!

A 13 week old foetus. I had sex once in a year and I'm in my mid 30s FFS.

DD2. No idea how she happened.

Point proven I can't type either!

A pair of shoes, in my size and the exact style I was looking for. I have been searching for the exact style and heel height since forever and a day and then last week I found them in my hall shoe rack. Never been worn. 😱

@OoglyMoogly i just did that with a new pair of trainers, bought some from eBay in style I knew fitted & wanted bit different colour. Then ordered £200 pair as a treat, they never arrived so got a refund. New eBay pair were just what I wanted, just £180 cheaper. Must’ve orders them in my sleep!

I would happily take some nice aftershave or a new pair of shoes.

In my case, it's about 20 crappy, blunt canteen style knives, the type my DH would declare 'you could ride bare arse to York on that'.

Seven years ago I lost five and a half stone on the cancer diet, I have put four pound on in seven years, I have acquired a sense of style and pizazz, three years ago I developed breast cancer, I now have the funkiest silvery purple short hair that is quite frankly stunning. Think Christine La Garde on a good day.

I have also gained an ability to believe in myself. #modest

I know jealousy is an ugly trait but I am beyond jealous of your acquisition!

Lol this was exactly what I was going to say.

A set of steak knives
Half the cups and the pans in the cupboards
All the teaspoons

Beer glasses turn up on occasion, but I think I know who brings then home.

A very, very old tea towel with aWelsh recipe on it. It appears and disappears intermittently ( currently mia) No idea where it came from but it’s moved house with me for at least 40 years.

( envious of the Mont Blanc pen, though)

A towel with ‘Hospital Property’ in large blue letters across it. No one has stayed in a hospital long enough to acquire a towel and no one remembers liberating any towels from any hospitals.

A collapsible colander. Arrived in the post addressed to me but I definitely didn’t buy it and no one has ever admitted sending it. I’ve asked everyone.

Several cats have moved in over the years. I have a lovely black cat who was a stray.

When I was a teenager, a pair of cat siblings moved in one summer when it was too hot to keep the doors and windows closed. My parents just gave up putting them out 🤣

26 fondue forks - not matching ones either. wtf?

About 37 single, odd socks.

A blowup football pattern chair once appeared in our house. Nobody knew where it came from!

@Pumpkinsanddaisies I once bought a multipack of 5 bikini knickers from M&S. When I got home, turns out that three of them were Asda full briefs.

This. Not mine, doesn't live here, thinks he does

inheritance from a relative I thought hated me. Biggest surprise of this year and still trying to work out if it's sone elaborate hoax!

A pair of Asda mens underpants when I emptied the washer They were pristine, like they'd never been worn. DH said they weren't his and were not his style and probably my too small; top bog and wrong style for DS. We don't live near an Asda, nor does dh work near one and is too lazy to buy his own anyway . The only thing I could think of was that someone at ds's school had a second pair for after swimming, left them in the changing room and ds scooped them up with his kit.

The ability to talk to anyone. I was incredibly shy as a child and could barely look at people never mind talk to them.
Now I chat to everyone and find out all about them.
It has taken me 60 years though.

How lovely! Your sleeping self is very kind to you! 😂