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?

Neither can I.

OP, stop helping him. His watch, he hid it for some unfathomable reason, his problem.

Hiding your things is not on at all though. I'd lose my rag with my DH if he ever started doing that.

The burglars are going to have a field day, now that you have given away all your safe places where you hide your valuables 🙆‍♀️ half of these places I would never I have thought of

Apparently, Robbin Williams, stated hiding his watches- not long after he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia 😩

None of them are in any way remarkable. That's why homes that have been burgled look like a bomb's gone off in them, with vases chucked around, clothes and shoes all over the place, even fishtanks upended and fridges ransacked - they aren't going in there for snacks, it's because people hide valuables in them.

A relative bought his wife's Christmas present and hid it. Couldn't find it. That was the beginning, and ultimately progressed to both Parkinson's and Lewy Body.

Step away from the exasperation now, and look at the big picture.

Is he doing this a lot?

Has it come on recently, or has he done it as long as you've known him?

Are you noticing other odd new behaviours - that may not be being done to annoy you?

Start making notes. It's horrible to have to do this - but it's one of those 'in sickness and in health' things that has real meaning. Early identification could be beneficial.

Or - and we hope it is - he may just be like that.

I wouldn’t make a good burglar then, be stood 1/2 hr, thinking where can I look first 🤣
I hope to god it never happens to us, must be devastating 😩

Omg, my DH is like this when we go on hol. Last time it caused us to miss our flights home out of Spain. He'd put our passports behind a picture frame in the bedroom of the apartment, without my knowledge, then declared at airport check in "oh shit, I've forgot the passports!" When I said not to worry, I left them I'm the inner pocket of our hand luggage, that's when he told me he'd taken them out and hid them behind the picture "in case of burglary, because in Spain burglars take stuff through windows using fishing rods 🙄

I was livid, because we'd had the conversation beforehand and I'd said NOT to hide our stuff because he was being ridiculous considering the apartment was several floors up from the ground, had locked double glazing, protected by metal shutters, protected by wrought iron grilles, not to mention a million locks on the front door, a burglar alarm all inside a complex that needed a code to get through the main entrance with on-site patrolling security. This place was already as secure as Fort Knox!

Oh goodness we do this and then forget where things are hidden - we hid the key to the safe and forgot where we put it for 6 months ( eventually discovered it at xmas in an antique vegetable dish on top of the pantry. This week i found a pair of £2.5 k emerald and diamond earrings I hadn't seen for 8 months. I had resigned myself to having lost them so was delighted. other hiding places are in a unused stove in a spare bedroom under some logs, a container in the fridge and in an invisible gap on top of a wardrobe. I was held up in an armed robbery at home many years ago and understand the merits of splitting up your valuables in case of burglary/robbery but you do need a good memory. Husband also hides the car keys all the time, usually inside a pair of boots under the stairs which drives me crazy. We live rurally - not like when we were in London and they had to be stored in faraday pouches within a faraday box which was also hidden.

🙄😩

I have friends who have watches and engagement rings worth thousands and I’ve always said I’d never be able to relax with things worth that much. I have a couple of sentimental rings, but they are only 9ct gold, so not of any monetary value and lots of other cheap or costume jewellery, so any burglars can help themselves to my box of Elizabeth Duke crap, in saying that, that’s if they can find it. I tidied it away somewhere and have looked and looked, again and again and fuck knows where it’s gone! There must be something in our natures to squirrel and hoard any resource of value to us, I think we all do it to some extent. But yeah also with anything of your partners, if they lost it, they can turn everything upside down with St Anthony and have a back and fourth with him “FFS Ant, it was right here! “Well it’s not now is it you mortal twat!” And so on…..

How old is he OP? It couldn’t be early signs of dementia could it? I only ask because my mil was a bit like this and she had Alzheimer’s. We were finding money, jewellery and other trinkets and valuables all over the house even long after she passed.