Just going to put it away somewhere safe........

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Anyone put something away "safe" but then completely forget about it?
My friend has form for this and chatting to her yesterday I can't understand why she keeps doing it.😖 I know it drives her DH up the wall but it is like she can't stop herself!

I have seen her do it.
An important letter arrives (hospital appointment) and she tucks it in-between two random books in the bookcase "to keep it safe" but then it is later a frantic rush to try and find it.
She is just as bad with lottery & scratchcards. Tucks winners away "to keep them safe until I can get down to cash them" but then completely forgets about them. Numerous scratchcards have time expired but this week she'd suparsed even herself. She opened a book and inside were a lottery ticket & winning scratchcard dated 2019.
Can only hope the ticket was not for a big win.😳

She can do similar with gift cards.
Tucks them away "so I can treat myself" but then they are found in a random drawer or rarely used handbag a couple of years later.

How do you know it drives her DH crazy?

Me …. Usually my passport or bank card - since I now use my phone to pay for everything…. I drive myself batty… when I eventually find them it makes sense… but I need a consistent place but each time is different as I tell myself the wonderful lie “I’ll remember I put them there as this is much better !!”’

I have three specific ‘safe places’ I’m likely to put something so I’d know it was in one or the other. I had to find my cars log book this week. DH was stressed as he couldn’t find it. I knew with certainty it could only be in one of two places, and I found it after looking for 10 mins

Because he was there when we were chatting/laughing about it and she freely admits it winds him up.

I once hid my jewellery in a safe place because it was a family member's funeral - details of which were in the local newspaper. It has been known for houses to get burgled during funerals as they are known to be unoccupied at a specified time. It took me 6 months to remember where that 'safe' place was!

This happened to me with concert tickets once. I was still living at home at the time. Tore the house apart. They eventually reappeared about 15 years later when my DM had her kitchen redone. They had fallen down the back of a cabinet

How to perform the fret rite of banishment.

Just when you think you've grown up. "Suparsed". Made me laugh. God I'm pathetic.

Get her a smart looking box and put a post it on it saying “somewhere safe “. Then when she puts that somewhere safe never listen to her scatty loser stories again.

I’ve put 2 pairs of special earrings somewhere. NO idea where

Where!? Hoping it deluge my memory!

I do this all the time.

Somewhere safe = lost forever.

😂

I 'lost' a bag of Christmas gifts once. Found them on the garage racking the following March.

I once bought pink headphones, despite hating pink, to avoid them ending up in my safe space.

It used to be a running joke about safe spaces means gone forever.

Take a photo of where you've put it and save it in a folder on your phone. Not fool proof of course and depends why you're hiding it.

My mother is terrible for this, which is possibly part of the reason that I remember exactly where every single item is in my own house. 😂 I also remember every place I’ve seen something so back when I lived with her she could mostly skate by on me possibly having seen it and being able to tell her where it was.

Now she just lives with the chaos of never knowing where she’s put anything. She would always jokingly say “I’ve put it someplace VERY safe!” which was code for “somewhere completely and utterly illogical where she would never think to look.”

Sounds like there's an easy future Christmas or birthday present for her if you have the kind of relationship where you can joke about it and you do gifts....

Get her a ring binder with plastic pockets and dividers or something. Decorate/label it as 'x's "safe" space', label up the different dividers with bills, gift cards, whatever. Or just a box and everything can go in together 🤷🏼‍♀️

You can get binders and boxes which look like books, so it's disguised/leans even more into it being a safe place kinda joke.

I'm always putting things away 'somewhere safe' 🙄

These days I take a photo of where that safe place is so I can find it again later

Weve stared messaging each other when we have something odd that needs sage keeping. Latest was the car pass for a Music Festival. Put it in our phone diary "car pass on noticeboard" then got the notification the day before we needed iy.

Safe place for important tickets, medical letters, bank letters until they can be filed, lottery tickets etc is the calendar with pockets.
Honestly it's a game changer, anything important and paper goes in there.

Other stuff I'm less good at. I lost some course notes for something I'm teaching in a few weeks. I was given a paper copy last year and thought I'll keep that safe with the other bits to go with it. Looked last night... Nope, can't find any of it!
After searching for 20 minutes I thought maybe I'd photographed it before putting it away. Thankfully I had! So now I'm typing it up so I never lose it all again.

DH is just as bad and he also fails to use the calendar...

My engagement ring is somewhere very safe. In January I fell onto my hand and my ring looked slightly out of shape so I stopped wearing it and made a mental note to take it in to be checked. I cannot for the life of me remember the safe place I put it in. Gutted

For everything that's really important I have designated safe places (passport, house keys, bank cards) because otherwise ADHD means that it could be ANYWHERE. Important letters I take photos of when they arrive because I am prone to throwing them away in an excess of cleaning zeal. I have also been known to take photos of the designated 'safe places' too.

And I STILL manage to lose things!

My Mum used to 'just tidy up' and we'd never see things again. In an effort to curb my spending i asked my husband to put away my card somewhere safe, when I needed it back he couldn't remember where he put it, I had to order a replacement, we found it when we moved out.

I put stuff away in a safe place - then in code I put the location of it in my phone as a lockable note.