Pray to st Anthony for me - lost car keys

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Somewhere between the car (directly outside the house) and here the keys have gone missing. This morning I thought my toddler had pulled them out of my hand and they'd slipped behind the shoe rack so I borrowed DH's but now I've turned the entire house upside down, including going through every single coat and trouser pocket, every shoe, every toy box, the freezer.
The only place I haven't looked is the recycling as we already put out in a neighbour's bin (with permission) due to ours being full this week after hosting a brithsy party. If it's in there then it's gone for good I guess.
I've retraced steps, walked through my day, everything.
I don't believe but I've also prayed to st Antony.
DH is pissed with my about the cost of a replacement - which is fair - plus the amount of hassle it will be with one set as we often leave it somewhere are the other picks it up etc due to our complicated work schedules with the kids and school runs/clubs.
Gah!!!
Perimenopause brain and the mental load is destroying me and things like this keep happening. DH is being a little unsympathetic tbh and I feel like a shadow of myself. I never used to do this sort of thing

I have implored St Anthony for you.

Thank you! I can't sleep for thinking about it - which is ridiculous I know!

Saint Anthony’s intercession requested! I once lost a set of car keys - found them long after we had got rid of the car. They were in a random pocket of my daughter’s rucksack. Good luck!

I once found a car key in the boot, hidden slightly under the felt. I must have dropped it, then left the car unlocked, then used the other key sometime later to lock the car. No idea how but I've never been so happy to find something!

I'm not a believer, but I do love Terry Pratchett so I will rattle some drawers to invoke Anoia, Goddess of stuck drawers and lost things.

😂 you never know! Whatever works right?!

Good luck St Anthony worked for me last week when I left my suitcase on the train. Also put it down to mental load and perimenopausal brain.

Ha! Thank you

I've already checked the boot! And all round the car

Double check the back pockets of your jeans. I've taken to shoving stuff in my back pockets because there's actually room in there, but always forget them when 'going through' pockets!

Crawl around at toddler level - I had a little munchkin put my car key on the dining chair that was tucked underneath the table once. That took a while to find! Toddlers love to put things inside other things so any toys that open, toy microwave maybe, or other boxes, toy handbags? What made you think they were behind the shoe rack anyway - there had to be a reason for believing that?

Dear St. Anthony please come round.
Something's lost and can't be found.

What about inside the shoes?

I'm trying to imagine the setup - was it before leaving for work yesterday morning? Or had you come back from somewhere? You said they maybe went missing between the car and the house - could you perhaps have left them on the car room while wrangling little one in/out of car seat? I've done that before now!

My toddler was having an epic tantrum as we were trying to leave the house and I thought they'd slipped out of my hand - I thought I felt them along with the house keys, althoubdidnt see them and didn't hear them fall either.

We were already running late ans when I couldn't quickly find them I asked to borrow DH's set and assumed they'd be quickly discovered when we had time to pull all the hall furniture out.

We've now turned literally the whole house upside down and can't find them. I've checked all shoes, all coats, trousers worn in the last week, play kitchen etc etc et

I definitely had them on Monday evening at 5pm and locked the car. Then entered the house. They should have beenin my coat pocket with the house keys (which were there)

Last definitely had them on Monday after work, didn't leave them on the car m roof as in short and can't easily reach it, wouldn't be a place of ease for me

Thought j felt them in my coat pocket )where they should be) yesterday morning but didn't fully pick them out ands see them in my hand so may have been mistaken. When I needed them as we left the house to do the school run they had disappeared. Assumed they'd.slioooed out in the hall and would be easily found but no where to be seen

We once found car keys in the letter box. Toddler had lifted the flap inside the door and left them on the ledge then the flap hid them

Have you checked that there isn't a hole in the lining of your coat pocket and that the keys have slipped into the lining of the coat. I once lost a pair like that

St Anthony will come through. I once couldn’t find a watch I thought was in a jewellery roll, checked it - not there. Asked St A for help, next day it was in the same jewellery roll I’d already checked 🤯

Logically though- is your car the sort that won’t lock if keys are present in it? At least you can rule out they are in the car? Do you have key insurance as part of your car insurance if they don’t turn up? Places I’d check - random side pockets of handbag/toddler’s bag, toddler coat pocket, toddler’s bag (mine once took my keys and put them in one of her bag ‘to be like mummy’) toddler toy box, the flowerbed next to front door, side pockets of car, the car door cills (sometimes black keys can blend in with a dark carpet).

I do hope they turn up for you. Drives me mad if I lose something because I’m generally quite careful with stuff.

We found a set of car keys in a cool box after months of looking- I'd been unpacking the picnic after getting out of the car. So have a look in other things you'd have bought from the car at the same time.

This! We once found my husband's car keys six month later in my toddler's handbag!

Mine were found (months later) on top of the washing machine (under the shelf so a one inch slot).

Found by accident too as I'd obviously chucked them there (and they slid out of easy sight) in a rush as I filled the machine and then hurried off to look for my missing keys 😳.

Have you checked the laundry basket?

Has the lining of your coat split? I've had that happen before and my keys were down by the hem

My toddler put my keys in one of those sit in cars, he’d managed to stick them in the fake petrol hole, of course when I asked him if he knew where my keys were he said he didn’t know. Good luck in finding your keys.

I am happy to pray to St. Anthony for you. You have reminded me that I am using my spare key and no. 1 key is lying somewhere in a grass verge about 100 yards long. I do mean to try to rake through the grass some time before Christmas but haven't done it yet.

I have said the prayer for you.