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odd things that vanish

87 replies

Wotz · 04/03/2008 18:15

For today its

emory boards
blue tack
elastic hair bands

do you think I might have a mice with bunches, neat claws and posters up under the floorboards like the borrowers?

OP posts:
hedgehog1979 · 04/03/2008 19:59

my house/car keys when DH has used the car,
remote controls
Oh and apparently (according to DH) our Sanity

MrsSeanSlater · 05/03/2008 00:08

Socks. I bought DS1 6 new pairs a couple of months ago. Now I can find just one of them. Not even a whole pair, just the one sock. They were nice too.

MrsSeanSlater · 05/03/2008 00:10

Oh, and DVDs disappear between the living room floor boards, courtesy of DS2. Not the ones you get free with the newspaper but the expensive Disney ones that cost £20.

stuffitllama · 05/03/2008 00:13

once a camera vanished from our house and turned up in the holiday suitcase of someone we'd not seen since before some of the pictures had been taken

it was bloody weird

readytopop · 05/03/2008 00:24

Ds posted my engagement ring between the floorboards once....

I was lucky there was one that had been screwed down when the heating was fitted about 6ft away, so that came up, and we hoovered it up, but what a palaver!

Koshka · 05/03/2008 08:36

dummys. Must have a black hole underneath the cot and sofa. must have bought about a million since ds was born, and he only has them to sleep at night!

DoubleBluff · 05/03/2008 09:22

Scissors.
Socks.
DS1's pyjamas, about four pairs have compltely disappeared.
Tupperware lids.
Window lock keys.
USB cables.
Bookmarks.
The receipt for the thing you need to take back, can only ever find receipts for the things I bought 5 yrs ago.

jessia · 05/03/2008 09:23

Socks - oh yes! We blame it on the sock monster.
Sellotape
Red/green pens (about 50% of my job involves proofreading - and I work at home)

and a sort of thread hijack: releasing CDs/DVDs etc without cases (e.g. stuck to newspapers/magazines/in stupid little plastic pouches in the backs of kids' books etc) should be an executable offence

ChicaLovesHerLocalGreengrocer · 05/03/2008 09:28

Agree re tupperware lids, teaspoons and socks. Good idea to keep an odd sock bag - I'd never thought of that.

purplemonkeydishwasher · 05/03/2008 09:35

pens (but only when you are on the phone and NEED one)
sello tape
DS's toothbrush
and weirdly the other day I couldn't find the chicken stock cubes. checked everywhere. none. so we bought 1 box. we now have 3 boxes. how?

KerryMum · 05/03/2008 09:38

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IdrisTheDragon · 05/03/2008 09:38

Pens
Socks
Teaspoons
Scissors (of all types)
Knives (this is a recent one)
Plates
Toy cars (more specifically whichever toy car is the favourtite of the day)
DH's watch
DH's inhalers

KerryMum · 05/03/2008 09:39

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LilRedWG · 05/03/2008 09:42

In our house at the moment it's the knives. Last week it was forks. There seems to be a world shortage and then all of a sudden they are back in the drawer.

Kindersurpise · 05/03/2008 09:43

Armadillo
Do you live in my house?

Maybe we should get together and do a Tupperware lid swap?

I have a bag of over 30 single socks. I think they are having sock sex in there, and having lots of baby socks

saltire · 05/03/2008 09:46

We get all the above things going missing in our house - and of course it's all my fault, because I should know where everything is

IdrisTheDragon · 05/03/2008 09:52

DH's inhalers always turn up. I have told him he should drill holes in them and hang them round his neck. Or have one of those things you can whistle at and it beeps on them.

They generally appear in the place you had just looked in. Or are in the car and I have to go and get them when DH is already in bed and needs his inhaler.

Belgianchocolates · 05/03/2008 10:13

Socks, definitely socks. Odd ones preferable. My theory is that the washing machine could actually work without electricity, it just uses socks for energy.
But also tea spoons, why them, why not forks or knives?
Tupperware lids

My dd's winnie the pooh cup once dissapeared for 6 months and then suddenly appeared on the living room floor . The remote did a similar thing. I'm sure we've got a black hole there that occasionally coughs things back up

midnightexpress · 05/03/2008 10:19

doublebluff - feel free to come to our house - we breed farkin cables. We have boxes and boxes of unidentified cables which DP assures me 'might be useful one day'

We also have hundreds of little wooden passengers for the bus that DP bought for ds1 (are you spotting a theme here?). They live in every available drawer, cupboard, under furniture anywhere except in the actual bus.

However, we have no:

teaspoons
pairs of socks (singles only)
functioning remote controls (though plenty of broken ones)
flaps from lift-the-flap books (where's the cuddly bunny? Oh look he's here, there's no flap for him to hide behind)

lou33 · 05/03/2008 10:35

single gloves

mistlethrush · 05/03/2008 10:42

Single socks (recently sorted socks out and had 23 singles)
Tweezers
Rolls of sellotape (even though we bought a pack of 10 from Costco )
Any important paperwork that needs to be returned.

DoubleBluff · 05/03/2008 11:05

I am conviinced I have a poltergeist.
i go in the kitchen drawer for say the masher.
Masher not there.
turn drawer upsied down.
Close drawer.
walk away.
Open drawer again.
Masher there on top of everything else.

ArrietyClock · 05/03/2008 11:08

'Tis me .
I'm a Borrower...

forkhandles · 05/03/2008 13:49

teaspoons
tape measure
and that little screwdrive needed to change all the sodding batteries in toys

willow · 05/03/2008 14:46

DH when it's time to wash up. Does that count?

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