DH has and hidden something valuable "for safety"

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Light hearted...sort of, because this is getting worse.

He has form for this, despite us having two secure safes in the house. He is quite anxious about being burgled.

He has hidden his watch somewhere in the house. We've been looking for two days. I am very tidy and organised. He is tidy but not as organised and has a lot of stuff.

This is driving me mad. My mum has said a prayer to St.Anthony for me😂

He chooses really weird places..I once found the (only) set of keys to our safe inside the cardboard box of a light bulb...which he had forgotten about! And he hid my car keys between the beach towels in the airing cupboard..We have an agreed spot for my keys now.

Can any one think of a weird place we haven't looked?

In a cereal box?

Taped to the underside of a table?

I need to know now.

It's by some old DVDs.

Check his wrist

Not helpful to you, but apparently you shouldn’t hide car keys. Most burglars will leave once they’ve got your car keys, leading to less damage and loss overall.

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My DM used to keep all sorts in her freezer from jewelry to documents (in zip lock bags).
I do sometimes hide stuff if we're going away for a while but I always take photos of where I've hidden them so I can quickly find them when back home.

In future get him to take a photo of the valuable item on his phone then you only have to scroll through the photos.

I suspect that if they were forced to do this in a very public place that might help prevent future reoccurrences

I once hurriedly stuffed a load of Jewelry and cash at the bottom of the washing basket as we were having house viewings that day and I’d be out. I totally forgot I’d done it. A few weeks later Dh noticed and we assumed someone had stuck their hand through the window and stolen it all ( we lived in a basement flat). Only when we moved 6 months later did we find it, still under the shirt at the bottom of the washing basket that was still awaiting hand washing 🤣🤣

I came on to say Tile and someone had beaten me to it. They are really really good. I have them on two sets of keys, my pocket camera and the binoculars. You can tell what I lose a lot, or need in a screaming hurry...

And if you press the button on a tile it will call your phone even if it's on mute!

Tell me how many people have been late for work cos they can't find their phone... 🖐

(The binocs are because I'm a birdwatcher and often need to see what just landed on the feeders, before anyone wonders! )

I can’t get past the fact that he hid YOUR car keys!

WE are looking? Stop helping him. It's his watch and he has mislaid it because of his stupid obsession.
And tell him not to touch your car keys.

I put something once into a box of tissues so the item slipped under the remaining tissues in the box. Entirely forgot about it until the tissues ran out.

My mum never found her beautiful eternity ring having stashed it somewhere in a hurry going on holiday. She got ill and has passed away now and we went through all her things with a fine tooth comb but never found it. So I've stopped emergency stashing.

Fridge/freezer,
in the middle of the toilet roll tube/holder
inside pillowcase
in a shoe in the wardrobe
in an ornament/vase/decorative teapot etc.
in the toilet cistern
in the piano if you have one

My DD once hid her car keys between 2 saucepans in the cupboard 🤷‍♀️

Nanny kept her valuables in an old saucepan at the back of the pan’s cupboard (or the cupboard of doom as what came out would never go back in without an almighty shove).

Tell him, next time he hide something to take a pic on his phone and save it in a separate album so he knows where things are

My mum did this with some lovely jewellery of mine. She stashed it in a couple of pairs of old rolled up socks and didn't tell me. I went through my drawers having a spring clean and threw them in the bin .....

DMil hid her good rings in a casserole dish in her larder, but she had the sense to remember where they were and tell us.

DH is a hider ... often tells me where he's put something important before we go away, it's mostly a few specific places though on occasion we've had to wrack our brains. The best one, imo, was in DDs old dolls house, in the corner of what's now the box room covered in an old throw to keep the dust off.

I often email myself a clue about hidden things, but have to be careful I understand it 🤦‍♀️

I came here to say this - my ex used to hide my keys too (in different places every day) and it escalated massively.

It's his stuff op, leave him to it.

in a sock
in the drawer of doom
in a clock

Might he have dementia?

Tiles/airtags are great for keys - not because we hide them but just that they're not always in a predictable place.

Apple Watch is great because its either on my wrist or charger and with it I can find my phone and AirTags

We've got a spare tag at the moment, I might suggest to DH he puts it with hidden stuff if he chooses an odd new hideyhole.