AIBU to ask you to explain missing ironing board

[Purrrplexed]

Hi,

This may seem trivial to some but it has totally freaked me out to the extent I am spending the night with friends. Please help me see reason!

Yesterday, I had a meeting which required a more formal outfit that was nice and crisp. I have an ironing board which is rarely used but ha ALWAYS been placed in the coat cupboard in my corridor by the front door. However, when I went to retrieve it yesterday it was NOWHERE TO BE SEEN. I am disturbed as I can come up with no logical explanation as to why it was missing. The last time I used it was 3 ish weeks ago.

• I live on my own in C. London
• My visitors arrive on foot, tube etc
• I would notice if they walked off with the ironing board- it is 100% not in the flat.
• Why steal a rarely used ironing board

-I live in a secure building with the concierge (until 7 pm)

AIBU to ask you to please explain this. I'm really unnerved. Am I crazy? What would your natural reaction to this be?

I need to leave this thread. Home from home ad popped up. Straight away I started looking round for the missing ironing board.

@SneakyGremlins I'm not religious, so do the non religious poem. The st Anthony thing works and it worked again two weeks ago when my bf's DD lost her bank card. How and where he found it, freaked him out lol

In the fridge?

It's eating the Smarties pig I lost the other day. 😠

@DanielRicciardosSmile

I think so too. Bloody ridiculous!

That would freak me out too. I had a weird experience where a pair of earrings and a bottle stopper, that I specifically left in a certain spot on a table, vanished from my house overnight. I was the only one at home, kids at their dad's all weekend, all doors and windows locked, no one else has a key - got up and they'd gone! Never found them either in over a year. It sounds stupid as it;s just a couple of small valueless objects, but I can't help being freaked out over things just vanishing into thin air. I have carbon monoxide alarms.

Does the concierge have a key to your apartment, or anyone else?

Now I am worried about your missing ironing board. I am wasting so much time here on Mumsnet! Hope you find it.

A few years ago Dp and I (only ones in the house at the time were sat on the sofa.

Dp gets up to get make us both a coffee leaving his phone on the arm of the sofa.

I can confirm I saw it there.

A few minutes later he returns with the coffees and his phone has disappeared.

We looked under the sofa, pulling it out then upending it. I put my hands down the back of the sofa and ran my hands along several times, there was hardly anything in the room let alone near or next to the sofa but we searched everywhere, even in rooms that he hadn’t gone into, upending beds and mattresses.

The phone was nowhere to be found.

I cleaned the living room each week pulling the sofa out to sweep/hoover/mop behind it. Put my hands down the back of the sofa to pull out anything that had found its way down the back or side of the sofa.

Over 2 years later I come into the living room one morning and guess what is lying in the middle of the living room floor.

The phone.

To this day we don’t know where it had been.

Ask the landlord and change the locks! ( Or buy another and I bet it turns up as soon as you do!)

Buy another ironing board. The first one will then turn up to spite you. absolutely this ⬆️

You have slipped into a parallel universe where the only aspect of your life that is different is that you don’t own an ironing board.

As an emergency stop gap lay a folded towel down on a hard surface and use that as a make shift ironing board, just make sure not to use something that has a veneer coating with a steam iron as it can make it go all cloudy (like DH did to our dining table).

Are you just an irony troll op?

Disclaimer: Lame joke rather than troll hunting.

Mrex

those sleeping pills sound fantastic, where can I get some for DH

I thought about this, as I do think that I would love to wake up to a freshly cleaned house. Pity though that I am single so would have to make a post as to how a cleaning fairy got in during the night.

It didn’t bring joy so it mari kondo’ed itself at night out of shame

And I've just lost a 500ml bottle of Coke.

Thanks for your input. I've only just now been able to get back to the thread.

In response to some of the posts:

• I've checked with the letting agent and concierge- no one says they've entered the flat
• To get into flat you have to use 2 different codes
• I live in a gated development that is fairly well to do (I probably have the cheapest flat) so I can't see anyone taking it unless they're klepto

-I live on the top floor with 3 other flats- so there is no real "passing traffic"

• Only my fwb and sister have slept over in the past 3 weeks - neither have keys
• The flat is cavernous and bare as I haven't bothered doing anything to it
• I searched for an hour with a mate. We took EVERYTHING out of the cupboards and moved all the big pieces of furniture

Maybe your “fwb” thought that your ironing board was one of the benefits?

There was an episode of the Twilight Zone about this years ago!

This is 100% going to turn up. And it will be in a place that you have previously checked too.

It's maddening, isn't it. Searching for things in an uncluttered environment is worse than when everything is -a right old mess- somwhat untidy.

Then there is the compulsion to keep searching.

Strikethrough fail grrr

Haven’t RTFT but are you certain you actually had an ironing board? I was once convinced I had a toasted sandwich maker until DD pointed out that I hadn’t. However, she had bought one a couple of years previously and told me, obviously then I confused hers with my (non-existent) one.
She reminds me of this when she wants a laugh.

I don't have much furniture- only what was here when I moved in.

This is a VERY similar layout to my flat- only the kitchen/living room is off.

(I can't find the old listing for my flat for some reason)

And I don’t even much like toasted sandwiches.

Is it attached to your tit? That's where I found DD1 when she was a baby.

I think the most likely scenario that has been put forward is that I may have mindlessly placed the ironing board outside my front door where someone has picked it up assuming I was going to take it to the bins (would have to ask neighbours and concierge to verify this)

However, I do use the door latch 80% of the time when I come home.