Help - Lost $2400

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As per my title, I have lost a serious amount of money. And no - not on the horses, I've just actually lost it , physically!
It was cash from an online sale and they definitely gave us the money. Last night ( I may have been a tad tipsy) and I decided I should put all that cash away and not leave it in the dining room on the table.
Woke up this morning and I have NO IDEA where I put it!
Before people accuse me of having dementia or something , I am known for this within the family and my mother is too.
Growing up, if you asked mum where something was and she said " oh, I put that in a safe place" well you knew you weren't going to see that for a while. She is now 88 and just starting to forget other things!
We are both completely capable in other ways - just exceptionally good hiders.
I really need to find this though as we need the money!
I have a memory of putting it in a drawer , but I've checked every drawer in the house, and then I thought maybe I'd put it between the leaves of some books. I own hundreds and hundreds of books. Here's hoping I didn't do that. DH will be home in an hour and I've searched everywhere.
HELP PLEASE. ANy ideas no matter how odd appreciated.
ETA - $2400 aussie - I havent checked the cash rates but roughly 1500 pounds!
Not exactly "oops dropped a tenner out of my bag running for the bus type thing.

Um know this isn't really an AIBU but am desperate for ideas.
I feel I am unreasonable for being so incapable!

Make it
YANBU - heaps of people lose things - it will turn up
YABU - you are a total git.

Fallen down the back of a drawer?

Check the oven!

Our drawers have a gap under them so if you pull them right out things are hiding in the well. Have you tried that? If you’re a drawer filler it’s likely dropped down.

I just found my car keys locked in my car from yesterday morning. They'd have been there the entire day with the car unlocked until DH went to get stuff out of the boot using his keys last night.

I 'lost' £500 in the house somewhere. Its been 2.5 years !

As a PP suggested, you need to get back to the same state of tipsiness. There is actual research showing that alcoholics who hide drink and money while drunk and who can't remember where it is when sober can remember when drunk again (I'm obviously not suggesting you're an alcoholic 😁).

It's to do with context. Our memory works better when we give it as many cues as possible and being in the same mental state helps.

Take out the drawers and check behind. Stuff always gets stuck there.

I once hid my post office savings book. When I moved from that house I looked under the carpet in my usual hidey spot and it wasn't there. Never found it until 26 years later I was getting books ready to take to the charity shop and it fell out of one. Unfortunately the PO didn't give me compound interest. Then the time I had a small business and had rather a lot of cash temporarily- more than I was insured to keep in my safe, so I hid £750 in a paper bag right at the back of my best dinner service cupboard before going on holiday. Totally forgot about it on my return, though I couldn't understand why I was finding it a bit tight paying all the bills that month. Finally discovered it a few years later when I was cleaning out the cupboards- didn't use that china very much - before renovating the kitchen. It came in very useful as I had actually closed the business by then.
Oh, and the time I put £500 in a plastic bag in a packet of frozen peas in the freezer. Good job it was in plastic as it fell into the boiling water I chucked the peas in.
Good luck!

Consider also that you might be misremembering the size/colour of the envelope. I have done that before, turned the place upside down looking for a white A4 envelope, only to discover that the brown A5 one that I kept ignoring was the right one.

It sounds more like dyspraxia to me tbh op. Are you also a bit clumsy?
My DH is dyspraxic and makes everything disappear, he doesn't even have to move to do it. Sometimes he doesn't even remember touching the thing he lost let alone where he put it.

Stop looking in the more usual places you would put money and think about the most ridiculous ppace you could put money in your house, that's what I have to do if my DH moves anything.

This happened to me - but I lost £3500 of cash from my workplace and genuinely had absolutely zero memory of being given it because I was so overworked and stressed.

They were on the verge of accusing me of stealing it and I was adamant I never received but turned my flat upside down -

Turned out I had put it in an envelope and tucked it inside a book for safekeeping!!!!! Could not believe my eyes. I was mortified.

so.... check the books?

Freezer drawer? Bureau drawer? I'd also put money on an overstuffed drawer and its fallen behind. This is where 70% of my lost items appear. Remove all drawers and have a good look behind.

So need to cook dinner now

Check it's not in the oven before you turn it on!

Try all your handbags that you dont use day to day.

I'm a hoarder and in the support group the most common place to find large amounts of lost money is in the back of a wardrobe in a handbag.

In a similar vein try looking in your shoes... animals and drunks oddly like to hide things in shoes lol.

When my X-FIL died, I was tasked with disposing of his car.

Going through the cabin to remove any personal items, there was a tiny little "secret compartment" next to the ashtray, kind of where you might keep a few pound coins for parking etc.

There was £500 in cash in there. When I gave it to his widow she remarked "oh yeah, that was his secret get-out-of-jail money"

I didn't ask why he might need that!

Entirely the kind of thing I do, on the bright side if you cant find it neither would a burglar.

God I do this all the time 🙄

Look inside shoes, inside folded up t-shirts/underwear
Inside pillowcases
Slid between pot and plant
on top of kitchen cabinet

Oh no, I hope it isn't in one of my 'safe places'!!

Hope you find it. I was mad searching the last few weeks for a baby hat my great gran crocheted me (I'm 37 weeks) finally gave up and found it in the pocket of a hoodie I could have sworn I checked! So hopefully it turns up.

Also a big believer in St Anthony 😂

Try each drawer again, slowly....you might have stashed it in an envelope or under something ? Happens all the time in this house ! (Not that amount of money though - sorry)
Good luck

If you've got any large mats or liftable carpet check under those.
I once put £100 under a carpet. Was single and lived in a dodgy area and it was a lot of money in those days,
Moved a few months later and forgot it was there. When I remembered I was living abroad and too late to do anything about it.
Whoever removed that carpet would have had a nice surprise.

Do you have young children? If so, it's under the lift up seat on their ride on truck.

Along with the remote control, your keys and your phone.

A relative recently lost some money, bank cards, etc, that eventually turned up in the linen cupboard between some sheets. The bank documentation had been long since cancelled by the time it all resurfaced, but it was nice to have the cash back.

The main point to hang onto is that you know it's in the house somewhere, so it WILL turn up. Hope you didn't need it in a desperate hurry?

I have dyspraxia and I am constantly losing things. Sunglasses, earrings, bank card - they always turn up but not anywhere I think I've been. I am also terribly uncoordinated and clumsy, but less so when I've had a drink 😉

My vote is for behind the bread bin.

Sorry haven't RTFT, but my sister's method of finding lost things has a high success rate in my experience.

On some level your brain does know where you put it. That's where you started looking. Go back to where you started looking, and look harder. Could it have fallen off or got covered up or you're looking right at it and not recognising it? In case it's the latter, maybe your DH will have better luck. So, look really really well in and around and under all the drawers.

Oh my god, this is me. Get drunk, 'hide things' in a safe place, can't find them in the morning - husband is never impressed. Although he is usually able to interpret my drunken way of thinking and eventually find them. It's giving me anxiety now just thinking of how it makes me feel when I do this!! My hiding places are very obscure.