To ask, what have you lost at home?

[mummymummums]

and where do they go????
My example: 10 days ago DS age 9 had a bath. He reappeared wrapped in his Disney Cars bath sheet (yes bit young for him but he still loves the towel) went to his room, reappeared in his pjs for a story. He didn't go downstairs. I read the story and then went to bathroom - no towel. Asked him where it was, and he looked blank but said he hung it up.
10 days later and despite extensive search of his room and upstairs there is no sign of it. It's not anywhere, really not. Even if he'd deliberately hidden it, which I'm sure he hasn't, we'd have found it as I know he did t go downstairs.
Now I know there will be a rational explanation but it's a big thing to 'lose' between two rooms, and we extended search to whole of upstairs. No doubt at some stage we'll smell the mildew
Anyone else lost seemingly unloseable things? And did they ever reappear? So I feel less mad

Years ago I lost a shoe- a nice pump from Next, hunted high and low for weeks.

Honestly kept the other one for years thinking it will turn up, anyway never did so threw the odd one away.

Roll forward to the beginning of this year when we were doing some works in the kitchen - low and behold offending missing shoe is under the kitchen cupboard, sealed in behind the kick board. It has been there for 9 years!

DD lost her Soldo bank card for the account we were product testing for MN, she hadn't even used it! She left it on her top bunk when she went to school, we've never seen it again!

A sharpening steel from the kitchen. You know the long type that looks like a poker? Our kitchen is the size of a rabbit hutch with one cutlery drawer. I've since spring cleaned the kitchen and its nowhere.
Endless books.
Odd items of clothing. I dont own anything expensive, I dont remember anything being pinched off the line so its baffling..

😂 Ladybird

I lost one of my moonstone drop earrings years ago and despite redoing the flooring, and having to do a thorough cleaning before the new one went down, I never found it. I suspect it fell into the bin. I bought a replacement pair, but they arent quite the same sobs

I also lost a brand new chunky crochet hook. I thought it went where all small things go, down the side of the sofa, but despite searching, and actually our sofa construction meaning nothing can get lost down there, I never found it. Until, last week, 6 months after moving into our new house, I was emptying a box of my EDs stuff, and what should I find on the floor, but that very same hook!

I hope you all find your lost things.

My fitbit.

My son was playing with it and it's now gone.. months have passed.. by the way this is the second one I have lost at home, but I found the first one But I have no how finding this one

I once lost my watch only to find out weeks later that my daughter had dropped it behind the radiator, and it was stuck on the bracket that held it to the wall.

I once lost an expensive gold necklace.

I wore it to a Posh Do, and I remember taking it off immediately I got home. We were going away for 3 weeks, and leaving immediately after the Do, so everything was already packed. All I had to do was change into something more comfortable for travelling in.

I remember thinking I must put the necklace somewhere safe, in case we got burgled while we were away. "Safe" in this context means something like in the freezer or washing machine, or a packet of cereal (you get the idea).

We got back from holiday and I forgot about the necklace for quite a while. Until I wanted to wear it again. And I couldn't find it.

I tried searching the house several times over the course of the next few months, and resigned myself to thinking I'd put it somewhere so ridiculous I'd probably thrown it out with the rubbish. So I thought I'd check the terms of the insurance policy to see if I could claim for it.

While I was looking for the policy I came across the necklace. It was safe. IN THE SAFE.

I lose something every single day, they do usually turn up eventually but it can take a while. We moved into our house 2 days after DD was born, and I have only this weekend gone finished unpacking and moving stuff into the attic, so there has been high potential for stuff to go walkabout. Very chuffed I found my vintage omega watch, which I thought had been lost forever in the sea of unlabelled boxes and storage bags.

It's not always just misplacing things though, our friends preschooler has a habit of hiding things and then not remembering where she has put them. Her mum has lost 2 phones because of this, and she hid our charger for our baby monitor when they came for a play date which caused havoc for a few days until I found it hidden in one of DPs boots.

My DH lost one of his hearing aids a couple of years ago. He searched everywhere he could think of, car, garden, and asked the pub staff if anyone had handed it in. No luck. He was resigned to having to pay for a replacement (but this kept getting postponed because, you know, he's a MAN).

Some months later I decided to have a clear-out of the glory hole cupboard which we use several times a day because it hosts the rubbish bin and a row of hooks for keys. The hearing aid was on the floor, nestling behind a dustpan & brush.

My Marbles...

My glasses. Still very upset by it, because they don't make them anymore.

Behind a radiator? A towel i can imagine disappearing like that. My daughter hid a shoe for months (she kept moving it around) I only realised it wasn't hopeless to search when she went as far as swapping them around!
They also zip tech inside cushion covers and pillow cases.

I had an ipod touch when they first came out. One day i just couldn't find it and looked everywhere... drawers, down sofa, cupboards, kids rooms.
I found it about 6 months later in DDs toybox, right at the bottom in a small Disney princess handbag!
Also wedding and engagement ring disappeared from bedside table and could not find anywhere. Walked in DDs room one day weeks later and they were just there on the floor!

I lost my phone at home about 8 years ago, it was a brand new pearly white blackberry. No idea what happened too it, never found it despite many many deep cleans and moving furniture etc.

I lost my keys. I unlocked the door, came in, locked it behind me and thought I put it on the hook we have on the hallway. Next morning, nothing. I just couldn't find them anywhere. DH offered to come home from work to let me out but luckily our estate agent had a copy and dropped it off for me.

DH found them this week (about a month after I lost it) inside a shopping bag that normally lives in his car

My DMiL came to visit. After she left, and within half an hour, she phoned "I've left my reading glasses behind!" My DH and I looked everywhere downstairs (she hadn't been upstairs) absolutely no sign of them. Three years later, when we are packing to move, I found them buried at the back of the cupboard under the stairs! My DH denied "tidying" them away but they didn't walk there in their own! But why would you do that and not remember within half hour of doing it!!

About 4 months ago I lost my lovely and expensive new cath kidston glasses

Searched high and low, confessed to teen DD who also searched (but not DH who is clearly related to victor Meldrew))

Last week DD closely followed by DH walked into my bedroom with the missing glasses

apparently DH thought these flowery specs were our 13 year old DS's and so had put them in his glasses case on his desk 4 months ago

He hadn't noticed I was wearing my purple old glasses in all that time I do love him but wish he would not meddle sometimes

Twatteryflowers if it's a standard plug hole a milk bottle top will fit it.

Teaspoons...no other item of cutlery...just pigging teaspoons for some as yet undiscovered reason!

My favourite jacket. It's the perfect between-season jacket which I want to wear every time I go out at the moment but just can't find anywhere despite extensive searching. There is nothing available to buy as a replacement which comes even close to its perfectness. Hopefully it will still be in fashion if it turns up in a few years (going by the theme of many on this thread!)

Needalifeoverhaul teaspoons get left in yoghurt pots then chucked into the bin together, i find.

Socks get stuck inside pillowcases and duvet covers. I have little string bags for each person to put dirty socks into, they go straight in the washing machine together, come out together. No more lost socks.

I have lost a little zippy bag with DS' toothbrush and toothpaste for school. Saw it last week, thought 'ooh, must put that in his bag for school', didn't and now can't find it. It'll turn up no doubt.

Loads of things but the one that sticks in my mind is a Christmas tree bauble.

The Christmas we moved into our new house, I was so excited to have a big real Christmas tree. I went to Selfridges in London with my mom and bought a box of expensive (for me) white glass baubles.

When I was putting the tree away, one was missing. There was a space in the box for it.

I have cats, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that one has been chased somewhere but there is no sign anywhere. I asked my DH, but no, no sign.

I know it's really trivial but it drives me batshit every Christmas when I put the remaining ones on. WHERE THE FUCKING FUCK IS IT?!

My DM and Dsis refused to come into my first house alone anymore because their things would inexplicably disappear and reappear in odd places. They would walk in and purposefully put their keys on the side table but come time to leave, they would have to search high and low for the keys. We'd find them in the bathroom, kitchen countertops, and even on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.

I had the police come and do a full check of the house and attic to make sure no one could get in as my own meagre student possessions would also randomly move or disappear from where I left them and I assumed it was someone taking the piss. Either that or some immigrant family living in my attic! .
I changed the locks, bought extra window locks and everything. Mum even gave me one of her dogs to live with me who ended up so nervous at my house (but quite happy when I was there) she chewed the walls! I once arrived home to find my oil burner in the middle of my living room floor (it had been on a window sill) still sitting on its coaster with the oil/water still in. The dog could have knocked it off but not without the water coming out.

Now if something goes missing I don't automatically assume it was me forgetting. Fecking Casper.....

My mum used to have a drinking straw in her iron so she could easily pour water into it.

They kept going missing. We'd hunt high and low and never find them.

Then one day I walked past and noticed my cat batting the straw until it fell out, then chased it around the floor until it ended up under the mat.

I lifted the mat and found at least 15 straws!