[trbnt]

I “tucked away” $500 I had brought to a gun show last week and didn’t manage to spend.
Now missing..
I have thought I should draw a map where I hide stuff but no doubt I would hide the map ..

I did find my nicest watch while I was looking for the lost magazine- progress of sorts.

 

[Shark1007]

Maybe I can get a ride with you.

 

[kje54]

 

[FDM1]

I did it too many times then I started putting reminder notes in my wallet then my phone with hints. Hard habit to break though when the intention is the best but the memory fades.

 

[Chance-dg]

My brain is officially labeled Abinormal, I don't know when the shift occurred but I have noticed it more and more lately. If it is obvious to me, it has been apparent to everyone else for a long time.

I don't think Prevagen is the answer, I would just forget to take it.

 

[SourwoodTom]

Building a new house, should move in this summer.

Really can't wait to move (although it is a terrible experience) just so I can find all the stuff I've misplaced over the last 30 years in my current home.

You young guys reading this thread won't understand, but all the "more experienced" guys certainly will......

 

[Ammo08]

Years ago, my wife called me at work and asked what was in the big green can in the closet in the spare bedroom. I got home, there it was. 240 rounds of 3006 in en bloc clips, sealed in a big tuna can. I forgot I had it. Must have there for 4 years, good South African ammo.

 

[trbnt]

I got a yell from upstairs a few years back.
“I found a gun”.

The wife was going through a box of Christmas wrapping paper….

We have a nice arrangement- I don’t ask about the number of dogs around here and she (mostly..) doesn’t say anything about guns.

 

[AustinWiseGuy]

Ok, I was on the cell phone once with my wife, wandering around the house looking for my cell phone to look up the time and date of some future appointment.

 

[MikeFlorida]

I'm right with you guys. I was unaware that the problem was so wide spead.

When I was a boy, I left on a table a screw for something I was working on and when I returned a few minutes later it was gone. I searched all aroung my room, under things, and there was no screw. In my mind it was a case of "spontaneous disappearance." When we moved, no screw was found.

As an adult, I misplace items as many of you have described. Like the screw situation above, I kept an adjustable power supply (10" x 7" x 5") I built on a shelf in the closet for years. It was just under a shoe-shine kit. I took the power supply out for some design work and put it away. It is hard to believe that an item so large cannot be found. It has been a few years and I have looked everywhere. I can't find the device. I believe it is another case of "spontaneous disappearance."

I hardly ever throw things away and that device has a sentimental as well as a practical use, so I would not have disposed of a device useful for recharging all types of batteries. My wife does not touch my electronic stuff. So where is my power supply?

Mike Florida

 

[Scott emc]

Am I the only idiot that does this.
I just went out of town for the weekend and there was this oddball magazine sitting on my bench.
Hard to find, expensive etc so I figure I will just put it out of sight in the off chance some idiot breaks in and pockets it.

Two weeks later and that magazine is missing in action.
I have NO ideal where I might have thought was sufficiently ‘out of sight’.
So another episode of turning the house upside down to find the damn thing.

The worse ever was a BHP I stashed somewhere- it took me two years to find it..

I keep hoping on one of these searches I’ll find something another home owner here stashed up in the rafters.
THAT hasn’t happened yet but I’m still missing a case of 5.56 and an oddball magazine..

I loose safety glasses for some reason. I now have 8 pairs so I can just grab another pair. Knowing they will all come back on there own. 🤣

 

[philk]

A while back I found 1000 LPP’s I forgot I bought. Another time I was thinking I needed to get some spare Tripp mags for the 10 mm, bought three and went to paint mark the numbers and found three more just were I left them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[kilowatt3]

Sorry I'm late replying to this thread. My cat likes to play with wires and my computer mouse, so I had put my laptop in a dresser drawer for safekeeping. Couldn't find it for a few days.

To answer OP's question - No, I never do that.

 

[JRPM]

Am I the only idiot that does this.
I just went out of town for the weekend and there was this oddball magazine sitting on my bench.
Hard to find, expensive etc so I figure I will just put it out of sight in the off chance some idiot breaks in and pockets it.

Two weeks later and that magazine is missing in action.
I have NO ideal where I might have thought was sufficiently ‘out of sight’.
So another episode of turning the house upside down to find the damn thing.

The worse ever was a BHP I stashed somewhere- it took me two years to find it..

I keep hoping on one of these searches I’ll find something another home owner here stashed up in the rafters.
THAT hasn’t happened yet but I’m still missing a case of 5.56 and an oddball magazine..

Just a preview of coming distractions - wait till you get old...

 

[MontanaMike]

This thread gives me a good belly laugh. Now that I am in my late seventies, I notice that I can lay a wrench on the bench in front of me and it is gone when I reach for it again. But when I was younger, I could lose much larger things. For example, I traveled a lot by commercial air, often rushing to the airport and barely making a flight. This was in the pre-security days and I often had my office secretary come get my vehicle if I would be gone a couple of weeks. I got a special award from my office when my secretary found my Chevy Blazer parked in front of the terminal doors with its door open and the engine running. Twice in one summer.

Likewise, I had a red Chevy pickup for my personal daily driver at one time. My company gave me the same exact model to drive except it was white. I found myself wandering around the WalMart parking lot in Gillette, Wyoming, about to report my vehicle missing as I had walked all over the lot without finding my red Chevy pickup. Fortunately, I tried the red horn button on the key fob and a white Chevy pickup about three parking spaces away started beeping at me.

 

[JRPM]

I still can't find my winter pants that I put away earlier this year.

Then again, I have family and my house gets rearranged on a regular basis.

My family has learned to make sure I can find pants 🤪

 

[IslandStorm62]

I do it all the time. I remember using a special tool on my Harley and when done I put it up on the shelf. A year or so later I needed to use it again and I just could not find it at all. So I bought another one. When finished using it I proceeded to put it on the shelf where I could find it again. I put it right next to the first tool I couldn’t find earlier.

10 mm wrenches are the worst tools for hiding on you. I swear I have bought like 20 of them but I can’t find one when I need it. But after I buy another one they all come out from hiding.

Hang one next to your beer bottle opener in the garage. Next time you get frustrated looking and reach for that beer 'lo and behold' 🍻

 

[Tbone75]

I am 63 and have lost things my whole life like that. It never gets better.

Friend of mine hid 4000.00 2 or 3 years ago , still missing. Back when he drank a lot. He quit drinking right after he hid it , so ??

 

[OLDGRAY]

Just glad to know that I'm not the only one...

 

[Walt3]

Am I the only idiot that does this.
I just went out of town for the weekend and there was this oddball magazine sitting on my bench.
Hard to find, expensive etc so I figure I will just put it out of sight in the off chance some idiot breaks in and pockets it.

Two weeks later and that magazine is missing in action.
I have NO ideal where I might have thought was sufficiently ‘out of sight’.
So another episode of turning the house upside down to find the damn thing.

The worse ever was a BHP I stashed somewhere- it took me two years to find it..

I keep hoping on one of these searches I’ll find something another home owner here stashed up in the rafters.
THAT hasn’t happened yet but I’m still missing a case of 5.56 and an oddball magazine..

Mine was a Beretta M9. A little too safe from burglars for over a year. It took a $100 reward before one of my granddaughters found it where I stashed it .