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misplacing something... and finding it again

SeaMaiden — Mon, 10 May 2021 16:52:25 GMT

About 7 years ago I stopped blow drying my hair.. just let it air dry as I grew it out long.... I put my blow dryer away at the time...

so about two months ago I thought I might pull the blow dryer out and try drying my hair lightly, as I read in a recent Koren study saying that it was better not to leave your hair damp as far as THAT causing damage to the hair....( you can google it)

To make a long story short... I could not remember WHERE I put the blow dryer 7 years ago.. I looked high and low for it... for days and days... and just assumed I must have donated it for some reason?... 7 years is a long time....

So this morning I am in the bathroom and something suddenly told me to look in a bag I have had hanging on the bathroom door back for a LONG TIME. The bag contains odd and ends... hair ribbons clips and such in it... well much to my joy there was MY BLOW DRYER!!!

I just found it interesting that that is the one place I never looked... and why I suddenly had something tell me to look in that bag this morning is a mystery. The brain is a mysterious thing!

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Still Raining — Mon, 10 May 2021 17:42:52 GMT

Found two parts down in the garage last week.

Now I am trying to remember when I tossed the handle. Or is it just MIA?

Decided to just keep the two parts 🙄

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Kachina624 — Mon, 10 May 2021 17:46:45 GMT

Sometimes it's like Christmas around my house. I find so. many nice thing I'd swear I've never seen before.

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Brisky — Mon, 10 May 2021 17:48:29 GMT

I love it when something just turns up. I lost a watch one time and I looked everywhere for it. I gave up.
Then one day It appeared in my couch where it had fallen into the crevice by the arm of the couch. Good day!

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qualitygal — Mon, 10 May 2021 17:54:09 GMT

I think one sure way to find something, is to replace it! LOL

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SeaMaiden — Mon, 10 May 2021 17:58:00 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
I think one sure way to find something, is to replace it! LOL

@qualitygal I would have replaced it except for the fact I had a back up blower in my husband's bathroom...

the one I was looking for was a really nice T-3 brand so I really wanted THAT one.

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drizzellla — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:07:37 GMT

We have a pepper mill. So of course we bought a bottle of pepper corns.

The pepper mill was empty, so we looked all over the kitchen. We looked over several days. Could not find it. So we bought another pepper grinder.

Well Saturday, I was determined to find the pepper corns. I knew we didn't use them up and it had to be somewhere. I took everything out of the spice cabinet. Not in the spice cabinet, not in the cabinet over the stove, not on the counter. Somehow I looked on the shelf of my husband's collection of honey and there it was.

Not sure how pepper corns got mixed in with jars of honey but at least I found the bottle. Now we have a new and large pepper grinder (7 oz) and a bottle of Pepper Supreme (10 oz).

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QVCkitty1 — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:17:00 GMT

I misplaced my keys once and was beside myself. I looked everywhere, and was obsessed. That night I dreamed about those darn keys and in my dream they were in my clothes basket. Actually in my clothes pin bag. In the summer I hang our sheets out to dry. Well that's exactly where the keys were, I guess when my mind relaxed all was revealed. Who knows, I'm just glad I found those @#$& keys.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:56:20 GMT

@SeaMaiden wrote:

I just found it interesting that that is the one place I never looked... and why I suddenly had something tell me to look in that bag this morning is a mystery. The brain is a mysterious thing!

Now that I've grown old and stupid, I struggle with forgetting where I put stuff. But as to your last paragraph, I have that happen a lot. I can look for something and I'll look in every spot 3 or 4 times. I'm pretty specific about where I put stuff but now that I forget a lot, some of it eludes me.

But I'll suddenly just get a weird flash of where to look and there it is!

This is probably something I go through a couple times a week now.

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CelticCrafter — Mon, 10 May 2021 19:02:15 GMT

There is only 1 thing I put away for safe keeping, so safe that 14 years later I still haven't found it.

The other thing I put away and haven't found is my hot glue gun and glue sticks. I don't know what I was thinking when I decided to put it someplace other than my sewing machine cabinet where I always kept it.

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Puppy Lips — Mon, 10 May 2021 19:05:29 GMT

I had my DH make something for our grand daughter for Easter. As I was putting together her basket, I could not find it. Could not remember where I put it. So I had him make it again. Then as I was about to wrap up her "big" present, (a tie-dyed beach towel with her name embroidered on it from Lands' End,) I found that I had put the first thing he made in the bag with the towel. I had put it somewhere logical and safe, which apparently was the wrong thing to do!

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06greatwife — Mon, 10 May 2021 19:10:09 GMT

Kachina624

it's like Christmas at my house sometimes too! Sometimes I think I could hide my own Easter eggs and still not be able to find them.

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RedTop — Mon, 10 May 2021 19:54:23 GMT

I am very OCD with my belongings, and losing things is not much of an issue with me.

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Q4u — Mon, 10 May 2021 20:24:26 GMT

My Mother gave me a bracelet that meant a lot to her and for the life of me, I couldn't find it! I'm pretty good with my stuff but not finding that bracelet really hurt me. I have sold on eBay since 2003 and one day I had a little jewelry box I was going to put up for sale. Looking it over, all the little drawers were empty and shaking it provided no sounds.... something (thanks Mom!!) told me to actually take each drawer out of it and look where the drawers had been. and there it was, my Mom's bracelet!! I'm so, so, so happy I found it!!

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embgm — Mon, 10 May 2021 21:18:37 GMT

My son says "nothing is ever lost till mom can't find it".

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Nonametoday — Mon, 10 May 2021 21:57:05 GMT

I bought some tree-root killer toward the end of the year last. I did not use it as the season waned and it turned cold and well, you know the rest of the story. I was going to use it today because I have a vine with a root somewhere between Mexico and Texas growing in my hydrangea bed and I wanted to kill it. You are supposed to paint it on. There is a brush with it. It is in a large container. I cannot find it. Do I buy more or just wait and let my gardener keep chopping it as it grows, hoping that one day I will find. Sure as I buy more, I will then find it and I don't need much and like I said, it's a large container full.

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coffee drinker — Mon, 10 May 2021 23:42:09 GMT

A good many years ago, I could not wear my wedding band. Something with the gold, I thought. So I stopped wearing it and put it away for "safe keeping." A while later I wanted to try wearing it again, but could not remember where that safe place was. Then I dreamed it was in a box in the upstairs closet. Woke up, went upstairs and there it was. Honest, this is true -- and I was able to wear it again -- no rash either.

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Nonametoday — Tue, 11 May 2021 00:01:28 GMT

@coffee drinker wrote:
A good many years ago, I could not wear my wedding band. Something with the gold, I thought. So I stopped wearing it and put it away for "safe keeping." A while later I wanted to try wearing it again, but could not remember where that safe place was. Then I dreamed it was in a box in the upstairs closet. Woke up, went upstairs and there it was. Honest, this is true -- and I was able to wear it again -- no rash either.

@coffee drinker What a great dream. Not a nightmare at all. Sweet. Glad you found it.

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jannabelle1 — Tue, 11 May 2021 00:12:55 GMT

You're all giving me hope that I will find my mother's wedding ring....not her original ring, but one she had made after my dad died, using her diamonds and also one that was my grandfather's. I'm positive I had it in my jewelry box because I only wore the ring once in awhile, but it's just not there. Did my former cleaning lady maybe take it? Did I put it somewhere else? I've hunted and hunted, and just can't find it. Breaks my heart, but I'm not giving up!

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Nonametoday — Tue, 11 May 2021 02:06:20 GMT

@jannabelle1 wrote:
You're all giving me hope that I will find my mother's wedding ring....not her original ring, but one she had made after my dad died, using her diamonds and also one that was my grandfather's. I'm positive I had it in my jewelry box because I only wore the ring once in awhile, but it's just not there. Did my former cleaning lady maybe take it? Did I put it somewhere else? I've hunted and hunted, and just can't find it. Breaks my heart, but I'm not giving up!

@jannabelle1

I lost one in a similar way. I took my rings off at the sink to keep them from coming off while using dishwashing soap, and put it on one of those little ringie thing holders with a kitty cat and a tail. I was in a hurry to go to work the following morning and did not wear them. Thought about my rings all day. That night, in all my haste in doing things, never thought about them again. Then the next (and I also had a housekeeper) I did not even find the ring keeper thingie. No rings. We removed the refrigerator, took everything out of the cabinets, looked everywhere. Up to that point, my housekeeper was very honest so I did not want to blame her, I never like blaming people. Years went by. We decided when we moved we might find it, as when we picked up the sofas (we had 3 at the time because we had a big house), things would fall out like a lost key, change, etc., that had slipped into the neverlanding places of the sofas. Never found my rings. Still have not found them in several house moves. Did find the little ring thing behind my toaster. Not sure why I would have put it behind the toaster. I thought that strange. Gone forever. Many years ago.