Have you ever lost something in your home, never to be seen again?
We all know the dryer has a portal to one-sock land. And of course the underwear gnomes steal our underthings while we sleep. But lately I've noticed other things wandering off. My mother lost her camera over a year ago. Last seen in the den bt the computer. I bought a pair of earrings in Oct. They were still in the plastic pouch on my dresser. I've looked everywhere. I found the receipt, but no earrings. And thinking back, there are a few other jewelry pieces I've not seen since purchase. Gremlin? Is the Boogeyman a cross-dresser? Does anyone else have a house that's started eating their belongings?
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I lost one pearl earring several years ago and still have never found it. Sunday I lost a brand-new tube of Blistex, only used twice.
@minxa1: Do you have a cat? Some cats like to swipe shiny things to play with. Or, do you have a so-called "friend" who likes your jewelry?
my mind. Gone forever.
Lost the remote to the TV in the living room about a year and a half ago.
Poor remote, must be lonely.
@vbatz89: that remote is probably why your socks always come up 1 short. Perfect sleeping bag for a remote...
An iPod Classic. Tore the house apart. 3 years later and still haven't found it.
Totally. Everytime I do, I always think of the movie, "The Borrowers". Little people live in the walls of a home and they borrow household items for durations of time, and the family living in the home can't find their things - or eventually does when the little people no longer need it and put it back. Main thing I seem to lose are glasses, cards, pens, hairties (major one), and jackets.
Anyone else remember the Borrowers? Came out in 1997. I loved it, watched it countless times with my childhood best friend.
No cat.. But I do have a puppy..hmmm..She is an evil little monkey. I have seen the borrowers-earrings make great climbing tools!
We have a bedroom we call the "black hole". It does not matter who uses the room, we've had about five people use it at different times. Everything gets sucked into it's vortex never to be found again.
@dylanrulezz: I lost my IPAD a couple of weeks ago. Signed into my account on the Cloud, put in where is my Ipad check, and asked it to play a continuous sound once it located in my house. Don't know if IPODs workd the same, but it saved my sanity, as the IPAD was only two weeks old!
I thought it was just I going through the constant search and not find routine - surprised seeing so many others who are not elderly as am I having the same problem. I used to be a very organized person and was compulsive about putting things back where they belonged. I lost that ability too!
I once dropped a ring on my bed and it disappeared! I immediately took the blankets and sheets off and shook them out. I moved the bed and looked all around it. I basically tore the entire room apart but, alas, it had disappeared forever.
White Ipod Nano 1st gen. Must've slipped into something and got thrown out because it has never resurfaced. Small enough that it still may be hiding somewhere but it has been missing for over a year.
Little things, screwdriver bits, sockets, small wrenches. I'm sure they're lurking somewhere, plotting their revenge.
ATTENTION:
I KNOW WHERE ALL THE LOST ITEMS ARE.
Watch the Twilight Zone "A Matter of Minutes" (sorry a modern one but still good)
If you can not watch it check out this spoiler alert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Minutes
Before my wedding, I bought a pair of beautiful pearl earrings. Pearl stud at the top, sparkly drop chain, and a pearl at the bottom. I was having a modest wedding and felt like those earrings were my splurge - I didn't "need" them, but they were beautiful and I loved them. I kept them in their little box on top of the dresser so I wouldn't lose them.
Two days before the wedding, I wore them for bridal portraits. Packed everything up, put them in my bag, took the bag home. When I looked for them on the day of the wedding, they were gone.
They weren't in my bag, they weren't on the dresser, they weren't in my car. I pulled the dresser away from the wall a bit to check if they'd been dropped back there - it was a tight squeeze and they were in their box, so I was sure it'd be readily apparent if they were there. No dice. That was my one wedding panic moment.
We got a new dresser two years later, removed the old one, and there they were.
@sismal: I think of the Borrowers, too!
I've had a lot of things lost in my house - and then not even found when moving, which didn't make sense. A lot of jewelry, which is sparkly, so I can understand it disappearing.
But why did the Borrowers need my daughter's iPod touch? Unless she "lost" it at her father's house. Now that's a black hole...
During my wife's wedding dress shopping, her mother took pictures of every dress to review before making the final decision. She kept all of the pictures on a flash drive that I was forbidden to look at until after the wedding. It was a 2GB thumb drive (at the time like $90).
We live in Idaho now, but the wedding was in Florida, where we met. So we set the thumb drive in my key dish (Where I put my keys when I get home so I stopped misplacing them) to review when we got back. We came back 3 weeks later and it was gone.
It's been almost 5 years :(
Many things including larger items like books, which I doubt the borrowers would find a use for. Scrunchies seem to fall into a special wormhole as well. I can buy packs of them and they will all eventually disappear.
A few years ago, I woke up one morning and about $200 was missing from the top of my dresser, never to be seen again. Hmm, come to think of it, my ex-girlfriend also disappeared into never-land about the same time.
My mouth guard. I had a habit of taking it out while sleeping and placing it on my nightstand, but I was determined to work it out. One morning I woke up and I've never been able to find it. I even completely moved from that house and nothin'.
Dropped a ring in the kitchen and looked for it nearly a week. Realised it bounced between the toekick and bottom of the cabinet. Amazing since there was maybe an inch, or less, of space for it to into.
I lost a 120 GB iPod classic to the inside of my couch. Found it about 6 months later while looking for the TV remote. I plugged it into my computer to charge it back up and all was good! That was a great day!
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