Where would you put an iPhone to keep it safe?

[MommytoA]

Been looking for my DDs phone for the last few hours and it's no where to be found. We know it must be in the house. It's turned off, find my phone isn't locating it. We have looked in all the places we would normally put it to keep it safe ie kitchen cupboards, bedroom side tables etc. Any ideas? Where would you put something to keep it safe? This must be the safest place ever as we can't blooming find it now 🙈

Wherever DS and DH have already looked

Probably fallen somewhere / behind something

Clean washing basket.
Ironing pile.
Pile of towels.
Bathroom.
Coats.
Trousers.
Bags.
Chairs.

is DD young (as you usually put it somewhere safe) and possibly snuck it upstairs to the bedroom with her?

Could it be charging?

Failing that it's probably fallen down the sofa cushions/side of the bed ect

Or it's somewhere random like the fridge because she went to make a sandwich and absent mindendly swapped the butter for the phone (i've done this :D )

Is it lost or has she hidden it? Your OP isn't clear but the answers are very different!

When was the last time you’ve seen it? How does she usually use it?
I literally go around with mine all the time so once I left it on the chair outside, once it fall down into the washing basket ( I was taking a shower) , it’s under my pillow or nearby for the night, once I was doing my bed and it went inside the duvet cover, once I left it in a car and once I did sewing with DD and put it in her sewing box. I wouldn’t mention all shelves in the kitchen and inside the wardrobe numerous times.

Between books on a shelf (or even between pages)
down the sofa
in the bin
in dds pocket/bag
under an ipad
in a safe (lol)

Window sill, by shoes, in kitchen, bathroom, bed

Behind the shoe cabinet. In your T shirt draw (not dds yours) under the tv, in the fridge. (My kids leave stuff in weird places)

Dressing gown pocket

Check bags and pockets of coats
Back of sofa
Window sill
Caught up in bed sheets and blankets
Kitchen worktop
Bathroom surface
Mantel piece

Buried at the bottom of the underwear drawer.

Put in a pocket of clothing/ coat which has been put away back in wardrobe? Or in laundry bin?

Down the side of the sofa cushions.

Down the back of a radiator that they’ve placed it on when in the bathroom and its fallen behind

Is it tethered to an Ipad? You could send a signal to find

My major questions before carrying on with the search
How old is she?
Has she had it outside the house?
Have you threatened to confiscate it?

Down the back of the sofa / under the sofa / bed.
On a window ledge in the loo.
In a bag. No not that one, another one.
In the washing basket.
On top of the piano.

pocket of any coat or jacket that is hanging up in a cupboard. any cupboard.

Does she remember what she was looking at on it last, and where she was? I've got a habit of leaving mine on shelves and ledges if I'm doing housework. Down the side of the mattress is a good one, or can she have put something on top of it eg a book?

Pocket of dressing gown is my favourite place for lost things.

My daughter would pull out her bottom drawer and hide it under there if she was deliberately hiding it.
But missing ones are usually found down the side of sofas, cushions or beds.

DD lost her iPod many years ago. We looked everywhere even in her bed but it was only found when we had actually taken the mattress off. Have a go at that 😀

My sister told me a genius way of finding lost things. Get your daughter to return to the first place she started looking for it, and look much harder. Maybe it fell down behind something or had other things placed on top of it so it can't be seen.

On some level her brain knows where it is, and that's probably the first place she looked. This method works for us about 80% of the time.

Or is it you who would have stashed it? Where did you first look?