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Any finders about! My phone has disappeared into thin air

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roarfeckingroarr · 19/08/2022 11:53

I've seen MNers in the past who can find things with their amazing psychic finding abilities. I'm desperate for help!

My phone has disappeared in my flat. Only me and toddler have been here. No windows or doors or post boxes in reaching distance for him. I've emptied everything, checked within and under everything. I'm absolutely flummoxed.

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PineappleWilson · 19/08/2022 13:22

what has your toddler been playing with? Check there for dolly having a "surprise" mattress made with your phone.

When did you last definitely have it?

Sprig1 · 19/08/2022 13:24

In the fridge, bread bin, airing cupboard, washing machine, shoes cupboard, coat pocket?

littlenicky61 · 19/08/2022 13:26

Try and retrace what activities you have done today and what you have been wearing -
Could be in a jacket/hoody pocket that youve since taken off.
Have you been outside to hangout washing and left it in the peg back or on a table.
Have you left it in the loo or by the front door.
Has it been kicked under the sofa or chair
Take off all cushions from sofa/chairs (that's normally where mine is as it falls out of back pocket )
Have you been out in the car and left it down the side
Strip the bed /check under bed or in the dirty washing basket

If your child could have put it somewhere then make a game of find the phone and they may reveal where they have put it

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MsChatterbox · 19/08/2022 13:28

I've used the Google thing many times!! Hope it works for you 🤞🏻. Mines usually down the side of the couch or on top of a radiator lol

littlenicky61 · 19/08/2022 13:30

There's also someone you pray to when you lose something - think it might be St Anthony and you say something like

Dear St. Anthony, please come around something is lost and it cannot be found.

everylittlehelp5 · 19/08/2022 13:34

Prayer to St Anthony. Works every time.

roarfeckingroarr · 19/08/2022 13:48

These are all great suggestions. I have searched EVERYWHERE. Even in the bin. I've emptied everything. I've searched in the sofa liner even. Inside bed sheets and pillowcases. Under rugs, fridge, oven, toys... gone.

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roarfeckingroarr · 19/08/2022 13:49

I'm super ill so haven't left the house myself and was just wearing loungewear shorts and a tshirt as it was nearly bed time. Rogue toddler isn't yet two so not particularly eloquent when it comes to telling mummy where he's put her bloody phone

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TugboatAnnie · 19/08/2022 13:53

So has someone phoned it yet? I have read the thread but maybe I missed itBlush

lightand · 19/08/2022 13:55

Someone I know found hers in her dressing robe pocket?

lightand · 19/08/2022 13:56

ooh, now seen someone else has already written the same!

lightand · 19/08/2022 13:58

down into the toilet?

TheHideAndSeekingHill · 19/08/2022 13:58

when do you know for sure you last had it?

garlictwist · 19/08/2022 13:59

If it's not on silent you can just get it to ring by putting your number into a website. Google it. I did this last time I lost mine and there was no one else in the house to call it.

roarfeckingroarr · 19/08/2022 14:00

I last had it at 7pm on Wednesday evening. I was on the sofa and toddles was getting grouchy ahead of bedtime and I know he picked it up. It has now gone, never to be seen again!

Battery was low and it must have died because I can't seem to call or ping it.

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roarfeckingroarr · 19/08/2022 14:01

I've also called off my work phone and no luck

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MsChatterbox · 19/08/2022 14:01

Down the side of toddlers bed? Under their mattress?

LilliaJones · 19/08/2022 14:04

Clothes pockets
Fridge
Kids toybox
Under sofa
By the telly
Sink in bathroom if you've been for a poo and taken it
Side of the bath if you've taken it in the bathroom
All worktops in kitchen
Anywhere you'd toddler plays if they've picked it up
Dining table
In an ironing pile
Handbag
Washing pile

lightand · 19/08/2022 14:10

Behind a curtain?

Feel like the winner should get a prize! [only joking]

roarfeckingroarr · 19/08/2022 14:10

Checked all these places now, including under toddler mattress and rechecked all toy baskets, drawers, bathrooms... gone back

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Rae2202 · 19/08/2022 14:10

Out the window

madmumofteens · 19/08/2022 14:11

Has he stuffed it in with nappies

roarfeckingroarr · 19/08/2022 14:12

The winner is welcome to a prize! I'm tempted to Google whether someone would come over and find it for a fee!

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Cosycover · 19/08/2022 14:12

Inside one of the toddlers toys. My DS had a toy washing machine that he used to hide stuff in.

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 19/08/2022 14:16

Mine was once in the back of those ride on cars that open up, unfortunately he'd poured juice in with it 🙄

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