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To ask if you were a decent hoard of black opaque tights where would you be hiding?

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Dontfuckingsaycheese · 28/11/2021 11:51

I always wear black opaque tights for work - except for summer and when I wear trousers and most importantly when we were working from home - work at a college so several spells of online only. So, I love patterned tights, particularly leopard print. I had a few pairs of these as I stocked up in Peacocks before they closed. Most memorably a new pair in October 2020 as I remember grabbing a pair while I was in town. So I would say I had approximately 4 pairs. They’re pretty hard-wearing. I keep them in my socks drawer (large IKEA white Malm). Though they are in that drawer they were more of the regularly worn so these are in here for convenience and I would swear I had new ones stashed away somewhere, together with some more plain black ones. So they were for the keep for best, ready to feed into everyday circulation when it was their time. I am so sure there was this second collection. Now, over the past year or so, I have worn them very seldom due to lockdowns, returning in spring, then for the past 3 months I’ve been teacher training so I have been wearing the plain ones until I feel more confident. So, I had a bit of a stock-take and I found 1 pair of leopard and no newer plain ones. Only the older plain ones in current circulation. And one pair of diamondy pattern. So WTF are the rest??? I have searched all drawer including down the back and under lowest drawer. To no avail. I would remember outing them surely? And I don’t remember doing this. Like I say - they’re pretty hard-wearing. I don’t even think the one put that is there is the new pair I bought last October. I know this sounds a long time to have tights but with all the gaps in wearing windows I am certain I won’t have got through them. Where are they. Or to ask the title question. AIBU to ask where would you be hiding if you were this stash of tights???

OP posts:
GameofPhones · 28/11/2021 22:41

I found a forgotten stash of tights in a suitcase I had not got around to unpacking.

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 29/11/2021 06:18

@5128gap ❤️ I love you xxx

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Dontfuckingsaycheese · 29/11/2021 06:20

I never wear them on holiday/away. Strictly workwear/fancy days only. On other days I’m working my way through my 22 pairs of leggings!!

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ApolloandDaphne · 29/11/2021 06:25

Maybe in a tote bag hanging on the back of a door? That's where I keep my tights.

SomebodysMum · 29/11/2021 06:31

Could they be at your parents house somehow? If you bought some during a hectic time and were rushing around to care for your dad etc could they maybe have got caught up in something else you were taking over there as you were distracted by all that was going on?

Aphrodite31 · 29/11/2021 06:31

Under some black leggings in the bottom of a drawer or laundry basket.

LunaticLandscape · 29/11/2021 06:33

Have you not heard of dimension D? It's a place things go, usually from the first place you looked (ie the potato peeler from the utensils drawer, or keys from where you always put them. The sound of you cussing when you are rummaging elsewhere brings them back smartish, so they are there looking all innocent when you've given up looking. Then someone else looks where you've already looked and thinks you've gone blind or stupid....

Serin · 29/11/2021 06:42

They are in your DSs room. In a bag that he thought contained his underpants and socks. He probably pulled out a pair of tights a few months ago, expecting underpants, then threw the whole lot into the bottom of his wardrobe in disgust.

Now he has forgotten all about them.

If St Anthony isn't helping you need to call on the big guns and try St Jude.

bookish83 · 29/11/2021 07:10

@Dontfuckingsaycheese

They will be wrapped around someone elses pants! Or in a drawer with socks

To brighten your day though, peacocks are still open! Some shops stayed open and they are online. Stock up! 😬

BlackeyedSusan · 29/11/2021 07:30

Dd's room

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 05/12/2021 17:15

Just as a follow up for closure in case you’re still on tenterhooks imagining me still frantically turning out drawers, wardrobes, lofts and bags. They still haven’t turned up. But I have given up looking for now. Isn’t that when they suddenly reveal their whereabouts? When you’re not looking?
Anyway. One lovely poster on here messaged me and offered me some unneeded pairs that she had safely stashed away. They arrived today and they are lovely. I can’t wait to wear them. Wasn’t that lovely? ❤️❤️❤️ I love Mumsnet ❤️

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Dontfuckingsaycheese · 05/12/2021 17:16

(Sorry! Arrived yesterday!)

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Seashell1234 · 05/12/2021 19:27

Ahhh, that's lovely! Well played that Musnetter!

Now OP's tights, you've had your fun. Now it is time to reveal yourself.

mbosnz · 05/12/2021 19:32

In my youngest DD's bedroom. That's where oldest DD and I go to look for ours, anyways.

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