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Did anyone know where my daughter left her jeans?

109 replies

NeedToChangeMyLightBulb · 13/12/2018 22:45

Apparently they were ‘there’ but now they’ve gone- I’ve been out all day and at a work dinner so only just got home... I have no idea where these rouge jeans have gone and she’s having a melt down as she NEEDS them for Xmas jumper mufti tomorrow.

So aibu to assume you moved them? If so please tell me where they are so I can go to bed and she can stop her breakdown and my neighbours can stop thinking we live in a mad house.

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NewLevelsOfTiredness · 14/12/2018 08:34

Wasn't me, but my 4yr old SD is likely responsible. Unless you're in Scandinavia you're very far from us but I'd still put money on it being her.

Cedar03 · 14/12/2018 08:43

Has she checked her coat pockets? That's where I found the back gate key yesterday After I'd wasted an hour looking for it

Last time I helped DD to find an item of clothing it was lying neatly in the drawer where it lives "well I didn't look for it there"
Otherwise it will be on the floor 2 inches from where she is standing or in her bed.

Yulebealrite · 14/12/2018 08:45

I found my keys in the toy washing machine once. Does that help?

Maybe try the real washing machine or tumble dryer?

LakieLady · 14/12/2018 08:53

Do you have an airing cupboard? I found DP's grey joggers in there yesterday, nearly a week after he'd been adamant that they weren't. Not concealed, either, they had a shelf all to themselves.

Mind you, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he hadn't known what/where the airing cupboard was.

UpstartCrow · 14/12/2018 08:57

Appear wise by telling her they'll be in the last place she looks.

Frankswife87 · 14/12/2018 09:04

It was a brother in my case! He was convinced they were boys jeans, yup low riders with a floral pattern on and the label said nutty chick on. I also forgot to mention I was a size 16 at the time and 5ft 4 Vs my skinny as a rake 6 ft brother but he really thought they were his! He had the nerve to say I wondered why blokes were whistling at me Grin

VioletCharlotte · 14/12/2018 09:35

If she's anything like my DS, they'll be scrunched up in the bottom of a rucksack that's buried in the bedroom floor.

Haisuli · 14/12/2018 09:37

I think you might have fallen foul of the trouser monster. It visits my son too. He puts his trousers in the wash and they never ever come back apparently. It is very sad...

DiscontinuedModelHusband · 14/12/2018 10:19

"dad looking" in our house means actually finding things

everyone else just scans the area immediately in front of their faces, and if the required thing is not there, it's "lost, what have you done with it?"

dd and ds2 are reasonably good a finding/not losing things.
ds1 is an absolute disaster. his solution for clothes all over his bedroom is either to put it all in the washing basket (including the pile of washed/ironed clothes that's been waiting to be put away for a week), or to shove it all in his wardrobe. lazy git.

DannyWallace · 14/12/2018 10:22

Ok this is really annoying me!!
Where the fuck are these jeans??! Are they not found yet?

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 14/12/2018 12:34

to put it all in the washing basket (including the pile of washed/ironed clothes that's been waiting to be put away for a week)

This happens in our house too!!!! Along with a heap of damp towels that have been festering in dark corners of his bedroom and have each probably only been used once judging from the sheer number of them.

diddl · 14/12/2018 14:16

Have they been found??

starryeyed19 · 14/12/2018 15:15

As the legendary Marian Keyes once wrote

THE WOMB IS NOT A LOCATING DEVICE

cooblanket · 14/12/2018 15:40

apologies, we were in the midst of an apocalypse.

GrinGrin

minisoksmakehardwork · 14/12/2018 18:29

Have they appeared yet @NeedToChangeMyLightBulb?

We have a 'dd1' look in our house. Nothing to do with her being a girl and everything to do with her method being to walk into a room, glance around without moving anything and declare it's not there (stall amazed she found the pull ups).

Dh on the other hand is a trained searcher so uses a very methodical way of searching. If he can't find it, it really is lost. We are still looking for a tv remote. Or rather, have given up and got the spare one out. The lost one will return when it sees fit.

thighofrelief · 14/12/2018 18:43

My mother used to have a very helpful reply when asked where anything was.

Hanging from my bottom lip.

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NeedToChangeMyLightBulb · 14/12/2018 21:16

They’ve bloody vanished!!
I’ve looked bloody everywhere!

She’s no longer stressed about them, but I am!

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NeedToChangeMyLightBulb · 14/12/2018 21:17

Please send sniffer dog or similar.
Our dog hasn’t been forthcoming enough.

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NeedToChangeMyLightBulb · 14/12/2018 21:18

Or even better, send new bloody jeans.

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fringegrin45 · 14/12/2018 21:19

Not under the duvet? Down the side of the bed?

fringegrin45 · 14/12/2018 21:20

Or here's a thought perhaps they were not there in the first place!

SoupDragon · 14/12/2018 21:21

Our dog hasn’t been forthcoming enough.

Hmmmm.... I wonder why that is?🤔

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NeedToChangeMyLightBulb · 14/12/2018 21:21

Now cursing fact she only has one pair.

To whoever suggested it’s Brexshit related, I totally agree.

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Onestep2 · 14/12/2018 21:25

Maybe they have went where all the socks go to die?? Or have you checked her cupboard to make sure they haven't fallen into Narnia? Maybe mr Tumnus is kicking about Narnia in them?

fringegrin45 · 14/12/2018 21:25

I need to know where they are! Can we come round??