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To wonder where on earth the phone chargers go?

14 replies

pinkelephantsanddietcoke · 06/10/2019 22:21

When you have a teenager?

Seriously. He swears blind he never ever, EVER takes them out of the house to his friends houses yet they just magically disappear.

We have one left. ONE. To charge mine, DH's phone, teenagers phone and younger kids iPads.

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summersherewishiwasnt · 06/10/2019 22:25

Omg yes! The rate they fucking evaporate is amazing! My dh keeps threatening to superglue the charger in the socket.

pumkinspicetime · 06/10/2019 22:27

FFS, this drives me nuts!
Then they stop bloody working even when they are proper Apple ones.

BillywilliamV · 06/10/2019 22:28

Same place as the hairbrushes probably!

SpoonBlender · 06/10/2019 22:30

Amazing, isn't it?

I commend appropriately shaped/slotted ones of these as replacements:
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=anker+usb+plug+charger&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

At which point you'll discover all five missing original chargers in the bottom of a PE bag or something, but hey ho.

Actionhasmagic · 06/10/2019 22:32

Sock monster has branched out to chargers now

pinkelephantsanddietcoke · 06/10/2019 22:33

Haha@summersherewishiwasnt my husband wrote his name on one with a sharpie. It still went missing!!!!

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Slappadabass · 06/10/2019 22:36

I found 4 in my daughter room, and she swore blind she didn't have any of them.
Wouldn't be so bad but she has her own charger and her plug has two USB charging ports on it!

NearlyGranny · 06/10/2019 22:38

Secret is to have an android phone so your charger won't fit their iPhone! 😉

Elphame · 06/10/2019 22:41

Switch out a couple of sockets for those with built in USB sockets. Very easy to do and they are pretty cheap.

Makes life soooooo much easier as you just need cables which are cheap and easy to get. I use bright pink ones which are harder to lose

Toddlerteaplease · 06/10/2019 22:45

It's the teaspoon thief.

pinkelephantsanddietcoke · 06/10/2019 22:47

We seem to have plenty plugs though. It's the cables that grow feet and wander off!

Seriously considering android phone next!

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Lyingonthesofainthedark · 07/10/2019 08:31

I colour code mine now- white for them, black or green for me.

northerngirl2012 · 07/10/2019 08:45

Oh totally, they actually do then return the 'broken' ones too. They plug them in beside my bed and deny all knowledge they've taken my charger.

I've tried to buy highly coloured ones too, thinking that'd make it easier. its as if they're invisible in a teens hands.

Stealth charger stealing, should be a GCSE subject, mine would easily get a 9.

LakieLady · 07/10/2019 09:11

They're all at my house.

We have a huge array of chargers, many of which don't fit any phone either of us have ever owned.

I think they're mutating and breeding.

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