Where the fuck is my fucking pillowcase?

[JanesSadLittleLife]

1 of a set of 4 pillowcases has gone missing between the washing machine and the washing line. I've looked inside the duvet cover, in the washing machine. Under and around the bed in case I dropped it when carrying the load to the machine. Under the protective cover I threw back on the bed (the dogs lie on it) in case I missed it.

Then I checked around the house, under the sofa and in the bathroom as we have a 9 month old cockapoo who steals and moves stuff. I checked the garden because it's quite windy and light stuff bowls down the garden (lost a beanbag once).

Then I checked the places you sometimes put stuff randomly when you're menopausal, so I looked in the rooms I haven't been in, the tumble dryer I haven't opened, the washing basket which is empty, and in the fridge.

Does anyone know how to do that thing where you summon the universe to find stuff, or whatever it is? How does one lose a pillowcase without trace???

That rhymes. It's hot.

[JanesSadLittleLife]

Bollocks, forget I said cockapoo, I meant "mongrel/crossbreed".

[WimpoleHat]

Inside one of the other pillowcases? Or deep in the corner of the duvet cover? Or still on the bed in error - are you sure it actually made it into the machine?

[WimpoleHat]

(I hate losing things. This sort of thing would drive me mad, so I am very sympathetic…..!)

[dudsville]

Did they fall behind the bed?

[darkmodeon]

In the other pillow case

[dudsville]

Also, did you hang them out where mean spirited passers b6 might have seized an opportunity?

[GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut]

Definitely sure it's not inside something hung on the line? I lost a t shirt the other day and checked inside everything as I hung it up. Only found it once everything had almost dried and I could see there was something wedged in the duvet cover that I'd already checked.

And it's St Anthony I think, but I don't know the words. Something about something lost being found.

[UsethisUsername]

The washing machine ate it - mine does this with socks.

[irritatedandhotandsweaty]

Do you have a radiator behind a door? I often put things on our living room radiator and lose them.

[GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut]

Could the dog have eaten it? I knew a very chewy Jack Russel that would eat fabric. Seemingly without any ill effect at all

[Theunamedcat]

I've managed to lose an entire PILLOW and pillow case today your in good company

[Bemyclementine]

Still on the pillow?

[darkmodeon]

@Theunamedcat

I've managed to lose an entire PILLOW and pillow case today your in good company

Look out the window and check you haven't lobbed it

[JanesSadLittleLife]

A whole pillow @Theunamedcat , impressive. I appreciate the moral support (and the sympathy @WimpoleHat , I have to keep pausing the search because it's driving me insane).

All 3 pillowcases are on the line, empty. I do all the buttons up on duvet covers before they go in, but checked and double checked anyway - empty.

Checked the pillows, definitely all naked.no rogue cover underneath or down the back of the mattress, or under a snoozing border terrier.

Retraced my path from machine to line, in the laundry basket and under it. Asked the pooey curly cock dog if he'd eaten it - he's fond of chewing rocks and sticks, but to date he only hides socks and never eats them.

St Anthony, that's the fella.

I may have to set up a JustGiving page to crowdfund a replacement set. Bloody M&S you know, 400 thread count. Like tarpaulin when it comes out of the wash.

[whataboutme77]

@JanesSadLittleLife

Bollocks, forget I said cockapoo, I meant "mongrel/crossbreed".

Sorry op but this actually is all your fault for owning a cockerpoo in the first place! 😆

My money would be on the dog to be fair, I'm guessing that they are lining his bed or tucked in a little corner by the side of the shed somewhere.

[JanesSadLittleLife]

@whataboutme77

Sorry op but this actually is all your fault for owning a cockerpoo in the first place! 😆

My money would be on the dog to be fair, I'm guessing that they are lining his bed or tucked in a little corner by the side of the shed somewhere.

100%, I utterly regret getting the curly fool in the first place, wish we'd got another terrier. JK, I love him really but he is an absolute twat. My other dog agrees, especially when he's getting bummed around the garden.

Neither of them like beds, but I have checked their usual haunts and hiding places and no sign of it.

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

I think you should just embrace the bastard nature of bedlinen by buying several pillowcases that match your bottom sheet. So when you make the bed the bottom pillows are sheet coloured and the top pillows match the duvet cover and the left-over pillowcase is a spare for when another one inevitably goes missing.

Bedlinen only does this because it likes to feed off the negative energy of the stress it causes you, that's why duvet covers are so hard to put on, it enjoys all that swearing. If you sort out a workaround I can guarantee that the missing pillowcase will magically turn up again.

[JanesSadLittleLife]

You're right, if I order a new pair it is so going to show up isn't it.

I keep tottering around the house and garden muttering "how can this be, how can this even happen, how can this be" before having a little sit down to distract myself with MN.

[FeelinSpendy]

Did you definitely put it in the machine? I’ve had this before and would swear blind I’d put a certain amount of things in the wash but one has turned up, still dirty, in the wash basket or under new the fitted sheet I’d put on the bed etc.

[Teabutnotasweknowit]

While you're looking, would mind keeping an eye out for my lovely dove grey bath sheet? I bought 4, can only find 3 now. I'll have a dig around for your pillowcase.

[JanesSadLittleLife]

FOUND.

I just looked up St Anthony and said - aloud - 3 different versions of the prayer for lost things.

Wandered back into to the bedroom and there it was - neatly rolled up and pressed down into the waste paper bin (which is on the dressing table because of stupid cock dog's rubbish fetish). Underneath the labels from some socks I cut off this morning.

I can only imagine I was doing too many things at once at 6am when I stripped the bed and got ready to take the dogs out super early...

[JanesSadLittleLife]

Do the prayer @Teabutnotasweknowit !

[WimpoleHat]

FOUND

Yay!

[JanesSadLittleLife]

Yay, but what the hell is my brain doing.

Menopause.

[Theunamedcat]

😂 I also prayed to St Anthony and my pillow case was I the washing machine with the rest of it im assuming I simply forgot I had taken it off the pillow 😅