Help! I hid my daughter's switch and now I'm in trouble!

[supercalifragilicious]

So the story goes like this:
My pre-teen daughter was being naughty, didn't do as she was told (nicely), chatted back in a super-cheeky way, rolled her eyes, lied and then didn't do as she was told again. So I got very cross and took her Switch... And hid it somewhere in the house, told her she will get it back when her behaviour improves.
Fast forward a few weeks... I cannot find the bloody thing... I took apart the whole house... left no thing unturned. It's just gone. It's so strange. I usually remember where I put things. This time, it's like I have a black hole, it's like someone erased the memory of me hiding it. It's like I have an amnesia to this specific moment in time when I was hiding it. I know I hid it but I don't know where.
Since it was also my husband's Switch I am now having to buy him a new one... If I can't find it (deadline set to a week).

Any ideas of how to retrieve this memory please? Any strategies for finding lost subjects? I don't want to buy a new one, it's expensive!

Top of the kitchen cupboards, fridge. Breadbin, underwear drawer, inside wardrobe, in a bag you were using around that time, dressing gown/hoodie pocket.

I hate when you lose things but take it slow go room to room and check everywhere no matter how random or unlikely. If possible get someone else to look, the amount of times I've completely not seen something right in front of my eyes where I've gotten into a flap trying to look for things. And don't let yourself feel pressurised by the time deadline its only going to make you more stressed and unable to look effectively. They can wait, it is there somewhere.

Pray to St Anthony - works every time 👍🏻

If you are me it is behind books on one of the high shelves on the bookshelf. Ours was gone for months.

I am having the same dilemma. Hid a bag of gifts somewhere and now can’t find it. Have been through the whole house and still not luck. Hopefully we both stumble across them in the coming days!

@Northernsoullover
In or on something green, fuzzy, like the fabric of a snooker table?

Did you put it in your car somewhere?
Take it to work?
Give it to a friend to look after?
Have you got a shed/garage/outdoor space?
Have you checked the kitchen cupboards behind the food?
In the cupboard with towels and bedding in (shake out each piece of fabric, you might have rolled it in one)
Have you put it on top of a cupboard and it's slid down the back?

@supercalifragilicious

Thanks all for suggestions - will double check all high up places.

As for her hiding it - not likely, we would catch her playing it. She wouldn't be able to resist. She's been moaning about it being gone, too.

It doesn't have a parental control so I can't check when it was played last.

does she play with friends on it or have friends on it, if so you could ask one of them to check on theirs when she was last on. might jog your memory of when you last had it. other than that, kitchen cupboards under sofas, in bags that have then been put away? car?

I literally took apart the whole house. There are only two explanations:

1. It is not in the house (for whatever reason)
2. I don't see it when I look at it.

Which one is more likely?? Maybe I am going crazy.

Talk with someone about everything that happened leading up to and either side of hiding it. That works somehow- saying it out loud for someone else to hear.

Remember the actions she did that led to it being taken, where was she sitting, what room? Ask DD where you went after telling her off, chances are you hid it within the first few minutes of telling her off which is why you cant remember.

Washing basket?

I tend to hide such things at the bottom of my knicker drawer, somewhere the DC would never find them

Check her room.

In an unworn coat pocket,
in an unused bag hanging up
Under the sofa,
in the middle of the piles of paper on the breakfast bar
In your knicker drawer
🤷‍♀️

Your husband probably has it 😂

Google a 360 image of Switch and look at it from all angles then search again!

Probably crazy idea but if you know roughly when abouts you hid it, look back over your phone those days.
Any photos or text messages/emails you were doing that day all might help you work out what you were doing/where your mind was at and trigger a memory that might help 🤷‍♀️

Could it have fallen behind something? So if you hid it up on a wardrobe, has it fallen behind the wardrobe?

But I also agree with PP that you need to go back through that, and take it step by step as to what you did, is it possible that as you were taking it away your phone rang and you answered that, so put it down somewhere? and now it has junk letters covering it

Check your router for recent switch activity. If it hasn't been used in weeks, there should be no entry or at least very old entries.

Your WiFi router, I mean

My DH has done this so many times to the DC. We’re still missing their tablet from 5 years ago cannot eye roll hard enough.

Anyway he usually hides things in the garage so try that.

My mum would say you have to pray to St Anthony, the patron saint of lost things! Try it, it’s worked for me. He may not understand what a Switch is however, having been dead for a long time!

Don’t replace it! DH and DD will have to find it. Next time she’ll remember not to be cheeky.

You didn't hide it in a car, did you?

When I lost dd's phone it was under the arm of the end of the sofa. The sofa was fabric and the ends lifted up so you could zip them off to wash.