to buy a metal detector then return it once I find what I've lost?

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DS(4) has lost our camera in a little wooded area near our home. I'm tempted to buy a metal detector to help me find it. WIBU to return it afterwards?

YABU.

I was hoping you wouldn't say that ...

Borrow one fron local treasure hunters?
Or bribe the scout group to look?

That just sounds like good sense to me.

couldyou hire one?

Yes.

Could you hire one?

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unless you think he has buried it, why do you want a metal detrector?

how do you know he didn't swap it?

is it worth a claim on the household insurance?

Hiring's a good idea, I didn't think you'd be able to hire one....

Contact your local metal-detector club and ask them to come out and help you find it. My Dad belongs to one and he's had lots of fun finding chucked-in-a-temper engagement rings and all sorts of other stuff.

I thought you might hope I wouldn't say that

But seriously, it is like buying a dress to wear to a party and then trying to return it. If you need one, buy, hire or borrow one.

Sorry!

Ask on Freecycle :)

You wouldn't be the first person to do it, nor the last, but there are other options.

A camera is pretty big and there aren't many loose leaves around yet, so I'd be suprised if a metal detector would help much.

I'd do whatever you are going to do today though, it's supposed to rain heavily later on.

It's a little digital camera, about the size of a cigarette packet.

I've sent my 7yo and all her little mates into the woods to find it.

I'll probably go and hire one tomorrow if it doesn't turn up. That'll keep the kids occupied for a while.

SMYTHS
then give it to your 4 year old for christmas!