I swear it wasn’t there when I looked….. and now it is!

[PeachJoker]

Ok, I’m doubting myself now….

Needed my tweezers this morning to do my eyebrows. I have one small drawer for my makeup and other bits. Looked for teeezers and they weren’t there. Took out the little organisers things I have (3) and emptied the contents out, still no tweezers. Checked my bedside table and my dressing gown pockets in case I had it it my hand and put it down somewhere. Nothing. Asked teenage daughter if she had borrowed them, she said no she has her own.

Got distracted with making lunch and laundry etc. Came back upstairs and opened the makeup drawer, the tweezers are sitting right on the top!!!!

Am I going mad?!?!

Happened to me with the kitchen weighing scales. Im still baffled and talk about it regularly.

😂

I'd guess teenager DD had borrowed them but either though she'd be in trouble for not returning or had forgotten she had and later remembered. She then put them back while you were busy to avoid admitting she'd had them all along.

Could be worse. I lost mine and found DH using them to pull bones out of a salmon.

Things that go away by themselves can come back by themselves. It’s the rules. Or Borrowers.

was walking dogs on the beach - needed a poo bag and knew I'd put a roll in my very shallow pocket when I left the house - reached inside pocket for the roll there was nothing there. Literally turned both pockets inside out - was completely baffled - thought they must have fallen out, retraced my steps couldn't find them. Went home, hung coat up and hand brushed against lump in pocket and there was the roll of poo bags just sitting in my very shallow pocket exactly where I'd put them.

This exact scenario happened to me the other day, no idea where they were hiding in the tiny little drawer, but they reappeared there like an hour later.

Not the same thing but just 2 weeks ago the strangest thing happened here. I woke up in the middle of the night, went to the toilet, and the toilet seat was up. I could not understand it. I was home with 2 of our children, who both use the other toilet. (I checked with them the next day, they had not used the toilet that I used.) My husband was not at home at night (but in another country!) I was the only one using that toilet and still, the seat was up. No one could have gotten in, we even have security cameras that I checked because I was going crazy thinking about how this could have happened. I still don’t have my answer!

It's funny now that my eldest two dds have left home I have so many pairs!

I wish I could find the purse with 100 quid in it that I always left in the same place. I use it to pay the grass cutting man. No one else lives here. I even emptied the wheelie bins. St. Anthony is on strike at the moment!

I hope it turns up sometime like you all found yours and I'll be delighted with my windfall!

Same thing happened to me with a passport. I had all the drawers out and tipped out all contents at least 3 times. DH did the same. A week later I opened same drawer and there it was. No one else in the house.

I knew someone years ago who explained such events in the following way:
There are aliens living in another dimension who can see into ours, and are fascinated by ordinary everyday objects in our dimension, so much so that from time to time they take an article into their dimension to look more closely at it. They don't touch it or interfere with it in any way, just look at it for a while, then put it back exactly where they found it.
I laughed long and loud at him, but, even now, if I can't find something I know should be where I am looking, I find myself muttering 'damn aliens', especially when I find it just where it should be, (but wasn't when I looked earlier).

I feel your pain. I lost my rolling pin 6 weeks ago and it still hasn't surfaced

I had similar. Went on holiday and took a pair of Converse trainers with me, the hi-top ones. When I got back, I was taking everything out of my suitcase to put in the wash or away in their usual places and realised I hadn't seen the Converse. Went through the case like a dose of salts, no shoes. All my footwear had been taken out and put away in the wardrobe, I searched there too, but nope. Realised I must have left them in the holiday apartment and was both puzzled (because we "sweep" the rooms when we're leaving, to make sure there's nothing of ours left there) and a bit gutted. But it must be so because I'd looked everywhere.

A couple of weeks later, I found a Euro adapter that we usually store in our suitcases. Took it up to the loft, pulled out my suitcase - and in it, as you'll now anticipate, were my Converse shoes.

Still have no answers.

Glad to see I’m not the only one this is happening to.

I’ve also just remembered that my colander has gone AWOL, it’s huge and definitely not something you would miss if it was staring at you. I emptied all the kitchen cupboards thinking someone had stuffed it somewhere, but it’s not in the house!

Aliens from other dimensions, if you’re reading this, I’d like my colander back please!

My Mum used to wear her a Ruby eternity ring. She took it off one night, put it on her dressing table- where she's put it every night for years- and it was gone the next morning. Couldn't find it anywhere. I turned up later that morning to take her shopping and she was really upset about it so I had a look as well- under the bed, dressing table etc- but no sign.
Came back from shopping and it was sitting in the middle of one of the cushions on her sofa......
She'd sat on the sofa to have breakfast and it wasn't there then, and it certainly wasn't there when I first turned up

"St Anthony, St Anthony, won't you please look around? Something has been lost and it really must be found". Usually I find the thing in 2 minutes, but occasionally up to 5. I'm not RC but he doesn't seem to mind.

I always find things I have lost. That’s after I have bought a replacement.
I’m sure there is a black hole somewhere.
Actually, someone told me to pray to St. Anthony 3 times. Finder of lost things.
i have tried it. I think it just takes the pressure off for a short time, you calm down, stop looking, and there it is.

I blame the Invisible Gorilla

We call that the house ghost.

Happens with bits and bobs every now and then. DS1's glasses for example, we turned the house absolutely upside down looking for them, then one day I walked into the living room (which we barely use - we sit in the kitchen normally) and they were neatly on the floor in front of the dresser (not somewhere you'd naturally put them down, the settee's at the other end of the room).

Currently I'm missing my favourite bottle opener, it'll turn up soon I hope, sat in the cutlery draw or something.

Spoon rest. I looked. Hubby looked. Nowhere to be seen. Missing for months. bought a new one, chalked It up to one of life's mysteries. A few months later I open the utensil drawer and there it is, right in the middle!

Happens to me loads. Drives me potty.
I think sometimes my brain goes bonkers and fails to recognise something that's right in front of me.

My eyes do their part and transmit the information but my brain just shoves it in a corner or something.

What works for me is for example if I'm looking in my bag and can't find an item I count out count in I suppose you could call it.

So pick something up, say what it is out loud and put it to one side (NOT back in the bag)

Repeat item by item then turn the bag inside out, check lining, zipped pockets, feel it all to check for lumps then repeat putting everything back in item by item.

More than once I've realised the vanished item is there in my hand as I'm saying out loud what it is. 🤣

It happens all the time, it's nothing to worry about, just that sometimes when a new dimension is formed the memories seep into the "wrong" version of reality. In the reality you were in, the tweezers weren't there. In the reality you are in now, they are there. Your experience in one reality has inadvertently transferred into the other.

Just feel sorry for the person in the other reality where the tweezers were there, but now they aren't.

Sometimes you just can't see for looking.

I’ve had this a few times. Most memorable was the bottom cup of DD’s stacking cups, the biggest, red one. Went missing for ages, then one morning went downstairs and it was in the middle of the lounge rug.
Also, couldn’t find my mum’s ring after she died, looked everywhere. Then looked again in a certain spot and there it was.