[trbnt]

On a more serious note I see I am missing a couple of grip screws for my nicest target pistol.
Grrrrrr….
No doubt carefully stashed somewhere for safe keeping..

 

[jsb30]

Had to clean out two gun safes to find the rifle I was hunting for.

 

[jtcarm]

I need two tools to do a job.

With one in hand, I begin the quest for the other.

Finally find the tool I’m looking for.

Now where the hell did I set the first one down?

 

[japsco113]

When one becomes very busy or just full of small tasks, things go "missing".
I bought two rolls of electrical tape about 2mo ago, don't know where I put them, had to buy another roll.

I know what you’re saying. When pushing 80 I always put things I don’t want to loose in a special place only trouble is I never can remember where that place is. Old age creeping up on me.

 

[Sierra 49er]

It never fails. Everything is where it should be. Then....

A task that is on the critical list of "Do it NOW!!" Certainly, everything is where it should be, right. So out we go, find everything except one key tool that is not where it should be. What the heck? I put it there. Someone borrowed it and never returned it (IT WAS ME!!) That Yeahoo is in deep trouble when I confront them.

So as time passes, the task somehow got finished, and two days after, the tool magically appears right where I left it!

 

[aircarver]

Many years ago, I took down the above ground pool for the last time. I put the automatic pool cleaner in a box and remember taking it to he attic. When I finally got an in ground pool, I went looking for it 'cuz I figured I could use it.

Never found it. Several searches over the years never turned it up. I can't understand where it got to, and it's still on my 'find it' list ...

 

[misterc01]

A better question - who DOESN'T forget things when ..... Uh... What was the quesiton??

 

[Walt3]

I keep all mine organized..........

Why does anyone need that many Crescent wrenches. Aren’t yours adjustable?

 

[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..

Heck. I walk from the basement to the second floor and the only words that come to mind are Alzheimer’s Disease.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I have been OCD organized for many years. I am 77. Every tool has a place and if I use one, it goes back to its place when I am finished.

I created a spreadsheet that I record my guns in. I record gun, purchase price, purchase date , when made, and what optic is on it.

The only time I have a problem is when my wife or kids borrow a tool. I may never see it again. Some times it is a good excuse to buy a better tool. I then tell them that the new tool can not be borrowed and they can find the old one.

 

[tonycee]

Yeah we do lose things when as we get older USARV72! Things like my mind.

A 2-inch Smith & Wesson Military & Police from 1952 turned up missing out of the safe some years back. Stayed gone for nearly two years. Turned up lying on the fabric that covers the the underside of a rocker here. Mrs. BMc likes using that particular revolver and had stoked it up with 158 grain +P SWCs and secreted it at the edge of the seat cushion, along side the arm rest on an evening when I was away hunting. It fell on through the chair and the bottom fabric caught it where it was later discovered.

I was doing a routine maintanence check on the firearms in the safe a few years later. Discovered a bug within the zippered pouch containing the Colt Model 1908 .25. The bug had gotten in the safe, crawled up near a top shelf, gotten in the completely closed zippered pouch, cozied up to the little Colt and died. How he managed to get that far and not manage to extract himself is beyond my ken.

Good ol' RIG saved the day and the Colt's finish as well. No telling how long the bug had been in there. So, I wiped down the gun and re-RIG'ed it.

I had gone in our library room to show the find to Mrs. BMc and remark on the persistence of the bug. That's the last time I saw the little Colt for over a year.

We were about to go out of town and I thought I recalled pulling a few books from the shelf that evening and hiding the Colt behind them. Ended up looking behind every book in a 1500 volume library. Didn't find the Colt, but the books and shelves needed dusting badly.

One day I happened to peak into a box kept in the gun safe that holds duplicate coins from the collection. There was the Colt. Then I recalled how I'd intended to thoroughly wash and dry the zippered case before placing the Colt back in it so just stuck the runt of a pistol in the box for the time being.

Dumb bug!




We moved in late 2021. I also collect vintage watches. Keep them in watch rolls. One of those turned up missing for the first six months after we moved in. I envisioned workmen stealing it, me hiding it during the time workmen were in the house, or me throwing it out during the unpacking. It turned up in a door pouch of the gun safe. I'd been within inches of it regularly and hadn't looked there.

Oh yeah! I have lost my entire primer supply because of the move! Nearly 40,000 of them in all sizes. I've had to buy primers since the move. I know where they are approximately. I still have to unpack the shop and they're boxed up in a pyramid of "stuff" piled in the middle of the floor.

Just wheel me on down to the local nursing home.

Looks like a Japanese Beetle next to that Colt..

 

[Che]

I lost my wedding band during the Christmas holidays. I went to every store that I shopped at including the Gas Station and the grocery store. Nothing in Lost & Found. So I went to Walmart to get a silver replacement.

One year later we are getting the Christmas decorations out and in one of the boxes I find my ring. My Ankylosing Spondylitis and/or side effects have caused my hands and fingers to thin out immensely. So every few years I have to resize my ring. Same reason I have not worn a wristwatch in 15 years or so.

 

[aircarver]

My wife lost her car keys last winter .... couldn't find them anywhere ... OK move on ... use the spare ..
This winter, first cold snap, she dug out the winter coats and found them in one of them ...

 

[40dcoe]

Timely subject. Early this week, I took my Remington 591M 5mm Magnum to the range to shoot for the first time in 30 years. Made possible by Aguila making ammo for it again (Remington stopped ~1987), and my finding it in the trunk of an old car, where it had been since at least 1995, perhaps 1988.

I had written it off decades ago.

 

[gnappi]

Every time I lose / misplace something and believe it to be age related I think back to my early teens when I once lost my keys. I got so pissed eventually I threw what was in my clenched fist at the door... it was my missing keys

 

[flutedchamber]

I just moved and in the process found a 30mm ammo can full of rifle and pistol primers.

 

[Exracer]

I do it too..Sept I bought a pair of 1911 grips to work on when it gets cold out..Well its cold and they are missing..Spent some time this past week going through stuff I forgot I had but no missing grips..Found a few I don't like and alot of other stuff i forgot I had..Yesterday I was moving on without them and needed a 1/4" drive handle for another job and that was missing...Now I'm close to going to hardware store and getting another..I used a ratchet instead..Job done..Now today I was digging out a lottery ticket under papers piled on my desk and the tool appeared..Wow I found it.. And 6" from where that was i found the missing grips...I have to clean up this mess....Old sometimes sucks..

 

[TjB101]

Yikes… happens more and more lately. Correlates to the amount of grey hair I have. Worse is going into a room for something (tool, etc) and not remembering why I just went into the room. Arggghhh.

Contracted Covid on T’Day this year. Both wife and I. Made the above struggles even worse.

 

[OS1880]

All the time. Recently moved LOL now try to find things I put away thinking I would find them easily not the case. Looking for my electric engraver was nowhere to be found. My speed loaders there somewhere but where. The engraver showed up in a box of the wife's Christmas candles, the speed loaders still among the missing. The inserts for my bullet puller missing, ordered a new one wala the old one showed up. Put away things so they can be found easily yeah right.

 

[JJD]

With advancing age, I try to do things that keep my memory working. So far, its pretty much been a waste of time.
Not long ago, I stopped on the way home to pick up groceries. 20 items on list, lost the list before entering the store. Somehow I remembered every item on the list. I was pretty proud of myself, packed the stuff out of the store and just stood there. No idea where I parked the car. Older car, no panic alarm on key fob.
Seems I spend a lot of time hunting small game. Reading glasses, a tool I set down, a screw I dropped, etc. Surprised WA state has not started requiring a Lic for said items.
Good grief.