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.

I frequently misplace keys and purse so I’ve put iTags on them. Life saver!

can I second the PP who said backs of drawers - I've "lost" tickets and passports but found them after methodically taking out the drawers and found things fallen down the back.

was it in an envelope? Slipped down the back of somewhere? Check under sofa cushions too!

In a handbag or bag hanging somewhere?

Bedside drawer?

Trace your steps backwards, if you can recall (or someone with you) what you did. So, if when you were tipsy you then had crisps/potato chips/chocolate afterwards where did you get them? Did you pick up a book/magazine/open a cupboard at the same time?

Could the notes have slipped down back of sofa, back of bed, underwear drawer etc?

Good advice, could you give me some similar advice please?

My classic one years ago was I'd somehow shoved a passport somewhere in my then bedroom, had no idea where and I'd been on a few short European city breaks and transatlantic breaks and one sun/sea/sand holiday. I'd searched high and low and was just on the phone to the passport office to order a new one, when I was sorting through something in my bedside table drawers and it had slipped down, wedged in a very narrow gap between them!

From then on it always had a proper safe place to live!

Oh gosh I do this all the time. See things and think whose left that there and out it away. DHs Breitling watch was out somewhere safe as he left it out and I was worried it would disappear or get stolen if someone sneaked in the house. So I put it away, even though we have a safe, I hid it somewhere else. Fortunately he doesn’t wear it much as it was missing for about six months.

I’d hidden the watch in a hurry under a pile of
towels in the airing cupboard and intended to put it in the safe later. It was only when I made an effort to tidy up the bedding and towels that I found it.

This is me.

I usually find the missing thing is very close to the first place I instinctively looked. So in the drawer I thought but folded into clothes for example.

If not, try to recreate your thought process. Sit at the table with some money/jewellery/something valuable. Imagine you want to put it somewhere safe - what is the first and second place that pops into your head.

Stand in the middle of each room and look around. Don't actively search, just look around the room - look at each object. I found my wedding certificate this way... in a moment of madness I had decided to stick it into one of those adhesive photo album things. No memory of doing it but as i l looked at the photo album, it came back to me.

Top of the fridge? Just remembered I put things there sometimes so they can't be seen or accidentally picked up.

My tip is one I got off her. Go to the place you'd hide the cash if you were given it now. Often works.

Also - deep breaths and don't think too hard. New places to look will pop into your head! Good luck OP!

Did you check your knicker drawer?

I recently did similar but luckily not with money. I had bought a new bulb for the oven, but because I hadn't the old one with me at the time, I'd bought the wrong wattage.
So I took the old one, the new one in its box, and wrapped them together in the receipt, intending to return it the next day.
Next day, couldn't find any of it.
Looked EVERYWHERE.

I found it 2 weeks later, in my medicines bag in my handbag.

I would have put it in a cereal box.

I hope you find it soon.

Behind / underneath the drawers
Handbag
Coat pockets
Laundry basket
Shoved in a pile of paperwork
Under something - e.g. cutlery tray, chopping board

It will almost certainly turn up OP but where will be an interesting question.

I once did this with a whole side of venison! Was also a wee bit tipsy!🤭

Found it under the sink 4 days later! 🤮

I know this sounds a weird thing to do - but really, it does work! BTW I don't actually "pray to St Anthony", but I do "ask the universe", and it has always come up trumps for me!

A pp beat me to it, but I recall a very similar thread a couple of years ago. Envelope, money, anyway, I see it's posted above. Might help?

Hopefully you've found it but if not, go drawer by drawer with your husband. Take each item out, say what it is and hand it to him.
If you go through all the drawers like that and still nothing then go through the house room by room doing the same time. Work it like a grid.

"Put it somewhere safe" in this house is code for "yeah, nobody's ever going to see this fucker again" 😁 and the only thing that works for me is the above.

Meant to say, don't put anything back in the drawer until each item has been taken out, announced and put to the side. When the drawer is empty, announce everything back in again.

My friend lost £400 once that she was saving to buy something. It turned up in a dressing gown pocket a week later. And when DS was tiny he lost his blankie toy which turned up carefully stuffed in an empty light bulb box.

Best suggestion is to methodically work room to room, don't check drawers in the kitchen, then the bathroom cabinet, then the wardrobe for example. It's too easy to skip somewhere.

My friends thought we took their house keys with us when we left, searched everywhere .... they finally found them in the box for the bbq utensils

I have not read the whole thread, but have you tried in your pillow and under your mattress?

Another vote for a prayer to St Anthony!

I've completely lost, and subsequently found months, years later, 3 things in bizarre places.

1. Passport - found in my bedside unit - it had fallen down the back and was wedged on the rim of the wood that goes underneath the floor/bottom part! Only found it as I moved said drawers for the annual dust and vacuum of all heavy items 😳


2. Driving license - found years later in an envelope containing papers I had taken to the bank for a small re mortgage loan and would never need again.


3. Totally forgot what I lost and found, but it was very bizarre and I would never find it in a month of Sundays! 😆

Do you remember what the envelopes looked like? Sometimes I look for what I remember it to look like, but actually when it turns up I had remembered it all wrong and had therefore seen and discarded it many times! So maybe you’ve actually already come across them but have discarded as they’re the wrong size or colour envelopes you remember?

Have you pulled the drawers out and checked underneath the bottom ones?

I once lost precious jewellery that I had put Somewhere Safe, for two whole years...
It all turned up when replacing a desk. I'd stashed the bag behind the desk... not much of a gap between the desk and the wall but there it was.

So, look behind your furniture too!