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[jaxs mom]

I left mine at a restaurant once. But I used find my iphone and remotely added a message to call me if found with my home number, to the lock scren. The restaurant was closed for the afternoon but I went back when they reopened for dinner and got my phone. 

The security of your phone and it's contents is understandable. You should password protect it though. 

[mstyrion 1]

I understand you were upset. I would be too. My cell is my only phone, so I am very careful with it.

Not too invested in technology.  For me, my Smart Phone is just right.

[handygal2]

I have my own idiosyncrasy when it comes to carrying my cellphone, and also house keys/car keys. With the exception of workout leggings, all of the pants and shorts l wear have pockets. My phone goes in the right front pocket, and keys in the left. I don't like carrying them in my handbag. (What if my bag is snatched?!) When l'm wearing clothes without pockets, having those two items in my handbag makes me nervous, lol. To me, losing them would be even worse than losing my wallet.

[Lipstickdiva]

I would be panicked too if I lost my cellphone.  First of all, it was expensive and I don't really want to replace it right now.

Second of all, there are numbers in it that I don't know.  I also have photos on my phone I certainly don't want to lose. 

No one calls me on my home phone anymore, it's all on my cell phone. The only reason we even have a home phone anymore is because it would cost us more to get rid of it.   

[chrystaltree]

That's so funny.  I was one of the last people I know to get a cell phone and the last to get a smart phone.  Honestly, I had to be phone shamed into getting a smart phone.  At first, I only used my cell to make calls and text people.  Even the smart phone.  And then came Facebook...and then...Instagram....and then Pinterest...lol  And there was no stopping me after that...lol   Oh, yeah.  My pictures, my videos, my music..lol   If I lost my cell phone, I know I'd not just panic....I'd have breakdown...lol  I actually can't stand for it to be out of reach.  And I don't even use it as much as most people use there's.  

[software]

My smartphone is like a mini computer.   I have certain apps that I find very useful, including one where I can just makes lists--so handy, no more little pieces of paper everywhere.   

And all my phone numbers are recorded in it.   I've had the same number for over 20 years!   But not the same phone, of course.    I would be lost without my phone.   So I have come up with some tricks to be sure I always know where it is.

Whenever I want to know anything or do anything, I reach for my phone.    I keep in touch with family all over the country by text & voice.        When I first  got a phone years ago, I just left it in my car.   It was for emergencies only.    After 9/11, I started carrying it on me at all times.   I later learned that so many people were able to call loved ones before they perished.    

And BTW my phone is password protected.

I understand your anxiety.    Glad you found it.    I lost mine ONCE.    I was moving into my new home and it fell out in the driveway of my old place and it was after dark.   It was a bugger to find!  No one wants to hunt a phone at the end of the day in the DARK.

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@Shorty2U wrote:

Well I never thought in a million years that I would get so panicked over losing my cellphone as I dont use it near as much as others.. But I did...lol...

I went to get it out to look on Instagram last night before bed. It was gone.

I dumped my purse (not once but 3X). I searched the house high and low (even the trash and fridge), thinking am I senile? Could I have put it in one of those? lol..

I finally thought- I wonder if its in the car? Did it fall out of my purse? But it was now 130 AM and the car was in the driveway (not the garage) and I thought i am not going out there at this hour. (Too dark, no street lights).

So, I left my husband a note to please check the car when he gets the paper in around 5 AM.

I went to bed, didnt fall alseep until 250 AM because I laid in bed thinking what if I lost it at the store and someone has all my info? What if they see my pictures? Oh no, my Ringo concert videos are still on my phone!. What if they hack my facebook, snapchat, instagram and email?

I thought that will teach me not to depend on apps that pop right open on a phone, in comparism to signing off and on via my laptop.

Long story short; I got up at 830 hoping DH found my phone. Well DH left me a note with the phone that he found it in the car.

What a sigh of relief, and that willl teach me NOT to put my phone in that little outside compartment on my purse to "keep it handy"  From now on it will be kept inside my purse in a zipped compartment!..lol..

But I never thought I'd get this upset over a CELLPHONE. (Sigh, its happened, I have joined the masses. lol)

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[minkbunny]

So glad you found it, Shorty. I, too, HATE to lose things even if it is only temporarily.  Lost a set of keys earlier this week (they were in a bag I had packed to take to my husband's therapy session but we ended up re-scheduling that appointment for a different day - I just never took them out.)  They were spare keys to the office and the front and back door but I hated not knowing where they were.  While on the exercise bike one night, it just came to me.

Now, the phone wouldn't bother me.  I put five dollars on my cell phone every sixty days and even that rolls over.  Cannot be bothered with it unless there is an urgent need to connect with someone when I am out shopping or something (where to meet up, etc.)  We have to have a house phone for 911 and my husband has an unlimited use cell phone so I mainly use mine for a back up alarm clock.

Again, glad you found yours.

[jlkz]

@handygal2

A few years ago, DH went biking off season on the boardwalk at the shore.  He kept his cellphone in his jacket pocket in case his office or a client called.

Long story short: the phone fell out of his pocket.  He had me keep calling the cell as he retraced his bike route, hoping to hear the cell ringing so he could find it.  Never heard / found the phone.

Moral of the story: he now keeps it in a zippered pocket or Velcro-tabbed one.

When he bought the next cellphone, there was no arguing about buying the insurance option!

[jlkz]

I will never use those slits on the outside of handbags for my cellphone....they can slip out too easily.

May be the new smartphones won't even fit the slots !

[Shorty2U]

Thanks for the replies. I see I am not alone in losing the phone.

I forgot to say, I have a prepaid smart phone (from QVC).

I dont know how or if I can set this to be password protected?. I have to check it out now that you all mentioned it.

I also now sent all my pictures to my laptop to get 90% of them off my phone. But I cannnot send all the videos becuse its says some are too large to send. So now i have to figure that out. lol.