Do you lose things, even if your home is very small?

Driving home from the supermarket [such an exciting life I lead!] I detected a whiff from my feet. Never mind, I thought, I've got a jar of Epsom salts I stashed away last year. I can enjoy a good foot-soak when I get home.  Now, my rented bungalow has 1 bedroom, 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, 1 bedroom & 1 ex-coal-shed office. Search though I might, could I find the wretched stuff? I distinctly remember putting them in a clip top jar. They must be somewhere. Or did I give them to a charity shop [as you do, in an over-enthusiastic clear-out] - things that next day you realize you 'need,' then spend hours agonizing whether it is ethical to ask for them back, or if it's worth 'buying back.' Of course, if you decide to 'buy back,' inevitably someone has bought it Tired face.

Have you lost something you were sure you, 'put away safely'? Ever found things months or years later, just when you realize you no longer need them? Are there gremlins lurking in every home, creatures whose best fun is hiding your favourite things, sometimes 'losing' them for ever?

Parents
  • I am studying for my "A" level in losing things. It's a bit advanced as you have to lose things in clear sight, I am finding it quite easy.  I can also lose things I had only seconds before in my hand, also finding things I didn't know I had lost and even finding thngs that I didn't even know I had.  

    I can spend hours looking for something I have lost/mis-laid. I can rationalize that it is a terrible waste of time but cannot settle until I have found it or exhausted myself. Do you know, if I buy a replacement say from Amazon by the time it arrives I usually have found the lost item. I am sure there are a family of Borrowers living in my house!

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  • I am studying for my "A" level in losing things. It's a bit advanced as you have to lose things in clear sight, I am finding it quite easy.  I can also lose things I had only seconds before in my hand, also finding things I didn't know I had lost and even finding thngs that I didn't even know I had.  

    I can spend hours looking for something I have lost/mis-laid. I can rationalize that it is a terrible waste of time but cannot settle until I have found it or exhausted myself. Do you know, if I buy a replacement say from Amazon by the time it arrives I usually have found the lost item. I am sure there are a family of Borrowers living in my house!

Children
  • I can spend hours looking for something I have lost/mis-laid. I can rationalize that it is a terrible waste of time but cannot settle until I have found it or exhausted myself.

    I have the same problem. Whether it's losing a favourite pen or a lemon squeezer, once I think of it I need to know where it is, even if I'm not intending to use it at the time. It's very annoying but I can't stop myself.