I lost the enveloppe

[LaCouleurDeMonCiel]

When we go on holiday I hide our valuables in case we are burgled. For a stupid unknown reason I decided to change hiding place at Christmas. Well you guessed it, I can’t find the enveloppe containing our passports and some cash.
I spent all day yesterday looking for it, the difficult part is that it could be anywhere, between the pages of a kids books in a storage box, inside folded bedsheets… at the moment I’m going through all my kids old school books / artworks.

The worse part is that I had DD(9) with me when I did the hiding thinking one of us would remember but ofc she has forgotten as well.

Wish me luck for another day of searching! Or if it happened to you please share the success stories!

Time to invoke Saint Anthony. 😇
Dear St. Anthony please come round
Something's lost and can't be found.🙏

Cleary stupid to keep cash, I agree. Re valuables though… the wine label from the dinner where DH proposed, the first note my daughter wrote me ‘i luv you wid ol my hart’, a stitched hankerchief my late grandmother gave me on my wedding day. Just knowing I own these things bring me joy.

Yes definitely try St Anthony. Come back on here to tell us when you have found it 🙂

Your parents must have had a pretty shitty safe if everyday burglars managed to break into it. Don’t get a crappy “hotel safe.” Get a proper safe. My safe took 4 guys to carry into my house, 4 inch thick steel with two locks. It would require someone actually knowing what safe I had and coming with the correct equipment to get it out or cut into it.

I’m a jeweller and work from home so have a lot of high value stones and metal, but I bought the safe when I was 18 before I needed it for work. Just seemed like a good idea.

When we were teens, DM used to sometimes confiscate our things (video games, controllers etc) temporarily as punishment for whatever misdemeanour, and hide them. She used to get very um... 'creative' with the hiding places as we inevitably would go hunting for the stuff rather than just accept our fate and apologise.

The funny part was, the hiding places were too good, and she would genuinely forget where she'd hidden them! Sometimes it would be months later and she'd be hiding something else and would come across an old confiscation and sheepishly give it back, even though we were supposedly being punished

It'll turn up OP. At least you know for sure it's in the house? You'll either come across it tidying up one day or the hiding place will appear vividly in your mind one night at 3am

These pesky brain farts!
I feel your pain.
Good luck!

DH and I had a motorhome, first thing we had fitted was a safe, it was bolted onto the vehicle chassis, impossible to open if accessing the vehicle via storage lockers and to get to it from inside a burglar would have to get past a GSD with impressive teeth, a very heavy bed frame and mattress and the dog food that was stored on and around it. ( the safe, not our bed)
Please buy a safe , it’ll save you a lot of time.

I am surprised that people hide passports. Would a burglar even bother taking them? I have to keep mine in the same place all the time. Otherwise I'd lose it for sure.

Problem is if you choose such random places then your stuff could be anywhere. Nothing helpful to add other than to wish you luck!

Cool fact about our brains, even when you stop searching you've set off a search within the brain which keeps whirring in the background. That's why random stuff comes to us after the event.

This is probably isn't helpful to you right now, but when you are doing something unrelated, it will just come to you. Hopefully before you need your passport though 😉

Have you checked the flour?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TcchlvjbAxQ&pp=ygUaYmxhbmNoZSBnb2xkZW4gZ2lybHMgZmxvdXI%3D

In a drawer but fallen down the bag

Op this
is me too!

I've done this with my back up hard drive. We have a safe but I got it out to do some backing up so I could dispose of an old computer. I have a vague recollection of hiding it somewhere when we were going to be away overnight and now I have no bloody idea where it is. And my old laptop is still hanging around. I'm normally quite good with this sort of stuff but menopausal brain fog has got me!

Are you sure they've not fallen down the back of something? I recently found something I thought I'd lost as it fallen down the back of a chest of drawers and got stuck in the loose chipboard bit at the back rather than fallen straight on the floor.

Clearly you have little of material value then!

Oh wow your hiding places are waaaay more out there than my brain can handle I don't think I can help
But wishing you lots of luck!

Indeed. I'm not very sentimental and pretty much everything is digital if it is anyway. Photos of items ect all in the cloud. I don't keep much crap.

Pray to St Anthony and go get a cup of coffee or do something else.

@LetMeGoogleThat is right. I seem to remember that our brains remember things by association so if you are thinking about the wrong “association”, you are going to get nowhere, and are stopping your brain from retrieving the memory from the correct place. Think about something else (St Anthony) and do something else for a bit while your brain gets on with it subconsciously.

Of course, I could have misremembered that explanation😂 or it’s an outdated hypothesis but it is definitely a thing! If you stop thinking too hard, it may well pop into your mind.

Found it!!!

Inside the box of a toddler blow up bed. During my search I took this box out of the cupboard it was in and put it aside for charity, stupidly didn’t think about unfolding the bed inside.

I’m so relieved, thanks everybody for the support :)

Somewhere there was an article of putting them in the freezer or food cupboard in a similar tin .Maybe?

Pleased. Blimey that doesn't sound like a good hiding place though. Maybe think of a more definite one? Eg A drawer. A cupboard.

For us, All documents, anything of value, goes in a small filing cabinet we've got in the cupboard under the stairs where the Dyson hoover, eufy, washing basket lives.

Oh be assured that next time I hide something I will tell DH / make a note on my phone / take a picture. I have wasted most of my weekend and DH had to do all the childcare etc while I was looking so is mildly grumpy - not help by all the bin bags / charity bags I am now taking downstairs. Silver lining, I decluttered quite a lot!

Glad you found them, I don’t bother hiding passports they just go in the drawer with other important documents , I am much more likely to have issues losing them in the house when needed if I try to hide them than someone robbing the house and taking them .