to be tearing my hair out over this..

[headinclouds101]

Okay - I confess i am a nightmare for hiding small valuables in a "safe" place and having no memory of where I've put them. Sometimes the things turn up. Other times (gold bracelet that has not been found six years down the line) they do not.
This one is worse than most. Pendant I hid when we went on holiday a few months ago cannot be found - I really thought I'd remembered location this time - but either am mistaken or have since moved it and blotted doing that out that memory too. Perfectly possible knowing me! DH is going to notice soon and be mad. was a very expensive present from him - distincive looking and i love it.
Have looked in all of my hidey holes. Any tips for bringiing back memories? I have even thought about hypnosis if anyone has ever tried that.I feel the answer must be in my subconcious.
Am about to turn the house inside out - but tbh that has never really worked for me before when I've lost things.
Words of wisdom gratefully received.I am totally stressed out about this...

Why do you hide things away at all? Why not keep them all in the same place?

Maybe you've got a poltergoost that's messing with you?!

Seriously though, IME the more you think and stress about it the less likely you will remember where you put it. Ususally when I stop thinking about something, the memory will just randomly pop up. Maybe forget about it for a week and see?

Ask St Anthony, he is the patron saint of lost things. Or ask your house gremlins.

I do this all the time. I am currently missing a diamond tennis bracelet that hubby bought me two years ago. I know its somewhere safe.. I just cant remember where.

I would just be honest with him and tell him you hid it in case you got burgled while away because you would hate to have it stolen, and you cannot remember where.

Better to do that than him have to ask. He may have already seen it and be waiting for you to admit you cant find it.

why not get a deposit box at the bank for stuff like this in future? Or have a safe put in at home?

mutznutz I have no good explanation for why I do this. You are right - in future if I must do this I should confine myself to one place.
I do normally have only a few places I put things though - and it is not in any of them.
My memory issues are really worrying me. The strange thing is I have an excellent memory for facts, numbers, dates etc. yet I can move physical things around and have utterly no memory of doing so. I don't know anyone else with this peculiarity...

Clouds, I can totally sympathise and understand. I am exactly the same. I can be 100% sure I know where I last left something. It often gets found eventually somewhere completely different.

I think my habit comes from my dad as he had loads of different hiding places all over the house for valuables. After my mum died and me and hubby cleared the house we had to literally look under ever floorboard, behind every skirting board, and any other place imaginable, and I am sure we probably missed something.

charliesmommy I would say that you must be my sister - except that i inherited this from my mum, not my dad. Same scenario though.
Seriously am thinking about investigating some kind of therapy - not just for help resolving this but to help change my behaviour patterns.
Hope you find the braclet!