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She's half-inched my debit card

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kenobi · 12/01/2011 10:54

My darn baby has rifled through my wallet and stolen my debit card and £25. And my nectar card. May be she's going on a shopping spree in Sainers? It's been 3 days now. I've checked in all the obvious places, plus her toy box and in the DVD player.

Where would a 13-month old hide something? I only live in a small London flat. Seriously, I need suggestions! I am rubbish at looking for things.

Also I had this really uncomfortable lump in my boot this morning and it turned out to be a piece of cheese, FGS.

Is it just me or are babies WEIRD?

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Poledra · 12/01/2011 11:32

Oh crap - BIBA.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 12/01/2011 11:33

Have you had the bin out thoroughly? DD threw my brand new, never been worn glasses in the bin when she was learning to tidy up her mess. It has also been the resting place of a couple of bank cards too. Lovely job looking through all the old rubbish, but better than cancelling cards and having them renewed.

PatPending · 12/01/2011 11:39

If she was a little bit older Kenobi I'd suggest she may have buried it in the garden.

This was a favourite hiding place for toys when my DCs were little Hmm

lurkeyishere · 12/01/2011 11:39

My eldest once posted £300 out the letter box I was lucky my neighbour was passing and picked it up and knocked the door with it

PatPending · 12/01/2011 11:42

lurkeyishere - Shock Shock!!

Thank heavens for good neighbours!!

Original poster
kenobi · 12/01/2011 11:46

Still made me giggle Poledra. Plus also, fab website

Pat - Seriously? You see, that proves my point, babies are weird.

Lurkey, have another Shock!

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MrsTumbles · 12/01/2011 11:58

I check all my shoes regularly after I was about to go on a night out with DH and found a bit of mouldy banana in one. God knows how long it had been there.

DD's favorite hiding place was the washing machine, which we didn't mind too much as we could always find things, until she worked out how to switch it on...

chinam · 12/01/2011 12:07

DD once put my wedding ring in some play dough, then into a cup from her tea set and then into her toy oven. I searched the house for months trying to find and was on the verge of buying a new one when she found it again. She has now "lost" DHs watch. God only knows when/where that will turn up.

ENormaSnob · 12/01/2011 12:15

Check all bins.

Ds2 keeps on putting everything he picks up in the bin.

TwoWeeSausages · 12/01/2011 12:17

DS1 once posted my house keys through the letter box.

Not that bad you may think but he posted them outside after locking the front door and they were the only set. So we were locked in.

Had to phone my sister to come and let us out.

Since then I have never left my keys in the lock.

Mummy2Bookie · 12/01/2011 12:19

Any luck kenobi?

suiledonne · 12/01/2011 12:23

My then 18 month old lost my mobile phone in the house and over 6 months later we still haven't found it!

Did you try in the hood/basket of buggy?
That's where lost things often turn up in this house.

IAmReallyFabNow · 12/01/2011 12:25

Posted through the letter box, out to the garden.

In the oven.

In any number of drawers.

In places you are convinced your baby can't get to/open/lift.

ChunkyBrewster · 12/01/2011 12:27

Recycling bag? Our baby monitor almost got recycled; luckily our neighbour was going past the bins and could hear me cursing about where it was from deep inside a black bag. If DD hadn't switched it on before tossing it, I'd never ever have found it and it would have driven me mad trying to figure out where it had gotten to!

I agree - babies = WEIRD!!

Takeresponsibility · 12/01/2011 12:38

Thank God I don't have a baby monitor. The idea of random neighbours hearing conversations that go on in this house is bone-chilling.

Last night it was about molecular structure and the possibility of people walking through walls and would it be more feasible on a low gravity planet!!!

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deepheat · 12/01/2011 12:50

Give her the wallet again. Then spy on her. They're creatures of habit. Obviously yours has a criminal habit. I blame the parents Wink.

Poledra · 12/01/2011 12:53

Takeresponsibility, what interesting conversations you do have in your house.

Last night, my neighbours would have been more likely to hear effusive congratulations to someone who managed to do such a lovely big poo on the potty, and some banshee shrieking at a small child that they were told to pack their stuff for sports club on Sunday, and how should they (the banshee) know where the kit is?? Blush

SkipToTheEnd · 12/01/2011 13:08

I second the idea to give her some old cards and see what she's done with them.

My DS is 20 months and hid my internet dongle - couldn't find it anywhere so when he grabbed the new one I followed him and watched him 'post' it into the back of the fridge.

Have you checked her cot? That's a current favourite place in this house. He stashes all sorts in there which I have to rescue at bedtime! Lift out the mattress and have a proper look.

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kenobi · 12/01/2011 13:09

Hi Mummy2bookie, can't look until this pm unfort. Am itching to check out all the places now.

Though I am bin-phobic so if she's put it in there, it's gone. (I retch putting the bins out, pathetic I know).

Chunkybrewster that is brilliant. She must have thought she was doing mad when she heard the binbag talking to her.

Takeresponsibility - I would be proud - PROUD - if my convos were like that. In our house it's more like what we're having for supper, the state of DH's bowels (you know you love a man when he goes on about his IBS and you indulge him) and utterly, mindnumbing mundanities like that.

Ooooh deepheat, clever...

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deepheat · 12/01/2011 13:22

Kenobi Not just clever, it actually works! We spend a lot of time at my in-laws house. The TV remote went missing for a week and we all assumed that DD had put it somewhere. Stumbled across the idea of giving her the DVD remote and spying. She walked straight up to the printer attached to the computer(which doesn't get much use), opened up the flap where the paper goes and dropped it in. Went over to have a look and the two remotes were sitting there next to each other.

welshbyrd · 12/01/2011 13:26

Try DVD/Video players, the things I find in mine is beyond a joke, spoons, dvd cases,once even come across a half chewed mini cheddar Hmm

JamieLeeCurtis · 12/01/2011 13:27

She's probably just been doing some developmentally -appropriate posting. Clever girl Grin

KaraStarbuckThrace · 12/01/2011 13:27

My DS managed to get hold of and rip up the paper copy of my driver's licence when he was about 18mo. Luckily found all the pieces and taped it back together!

welshbyrd · 12/01/2011 13:32

Loving the criminal idea LOL

My very dear niece, once ripped up £30, from my sisters purse, because the notes were to big for her new bob the builder purse. Grin

DD age 7, stuck maternity pads to my patio window, over looking a main road Blush

You have this all too look forward too Grin

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