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An embarrassing discovery....

Staysfit

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I have been diligently tracking my wears since January. I only missed one day, and as much as I try, I cannot recall what I wore. No one took any pics of me on their cell phone that day either! ——However, as I was reviewing my tracking, I noticed something missing. Where were all my grey cashmere sweaters?! I hadn’t used any of them! Strange since it’s winter here! I flipped through a few times and confirmed that I hadn’t put one on. Then I went to my closet. I looked for them on my shelf. Gone! Vanished! I had a moment of fear and panic. Where could a stack of grey cashmere sweaters go? I started to hunt. I eventually found them. They were hidden in a closet in a remote section of my house. I have no clue how they ended up there??! So, I have gone almost the entire winter without wearing these sweaters. (If you know me, I have a lot of cashmere, and grey is a good color for me because of my hair and eyes, so there are lots of them.....).

Maybe I will leave them in my closet so they are ready for next winter!

Do you have any embarrassing closet moments?

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Kathie

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I had a near duplicate of a pair of black heeled Oxfords. Over the summer, I was cleaning out shoes, and grabbed what I thought was the older pair, that were worn out. Two months later, I discovered that I had managed to give away the right shoe of each pair. Yep, embarrassing.

Katerina

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Recently, an almost new pair of glasses have gone missing (not reading glasses, but regular prescription pair, nice colourful frames...). Kind of a cliché with missing glasses, but I don´t wear glasses so often and they are all are normally stored in the same drawer. Odd. I will probably find them in the freezer or somewhere like that

Helena

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Lol, isn't it amazing how clothes grow feet and walk away ... this happens to my children's socks with startling frequency ...

Glad you found them, and perhaps it was a great chance to play around with something different for a while!

cindysmith

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I have such limited storage for clothes that I am often finding garments I had completely forgotten I owned. Seriously, I'll find something and be surprised to have it, because I didn't remember having purchased it (which is so much worse than finding things I thought I had passed on, which happens too).

At least you remembered you own cashmere sweaters and knew to look for them.

Sisi

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Aw, I had a very embarassing moment some years ago. A much beloved puffer jacket had disappeared. I pestered shamelessly and repeatedly the laundry owner asking her to check and re-check and check again (fortunately we have a friendly relationship, when we were children she lived nearby and we often played together). No way. After a month or so I found the puffer jacket in a bag of "retired" clothes. Then I realized what had happened. I remembered that one day I had tidied up my closet and I had 2 bags near me, one for discarded clothing and one for clothes to take to the laundry. Evidently I had put absent-mindedly the puffer in the wrong bag, then I had "temporarily" stored the bag into the closet and forgotten about it. I had not the courage to tell this to my friend, but next time she saw me she immediately asked: "Has your puffer ever showed up?". I had to confess ....

Well, I'm happy that you found your sweaters!

This thread is promising to be be very funny!

Beth Ann

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I hear you --- I lost my only puffer a few weeks ago. I thought I leftit at church, but no luck there. I have no idea where I left it. This is the reason I so rarely wear a coat -- I'm usually commuting by car, and taking that coat on and off a million times a day, and I sometimes forget to put it back on as I leave. Sigh.

Glad you found your sweaters!

Suz

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Happy you found your grey sweaters!

And yes, I've had strange moments. Like the time I lost a coat for 2 years!!!

It was a favourite, a very useful London Fog red duster rain coat with a quilted black liner -- you could wear the parts separately or together.

We'd moved. We thought we had unpacked every box...and we had indeed opened each box. One box contained some rugs we had no space for, so we'd simply opened, looked inside, and put it under the bed for storage.

When my stepdaughter moved back to our city, we offered her those rugs for her apartment. Opening the box I found we had shoved my coat in there, apparently to fill up the last bit of space in that box....

Liz A.

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Yep, I accidentally gave away a pair of Lucy yoga pants my husband had gotten me for Christmas thinking they were an old worn out pair of Old Navy ones... only to discover the Old Navy pair in my drawer the day after I donated the bag of clothes

Anonymous

Oh yes, and more than once. It happens most with clothes bought at the end of a season that get put away for the next year. Totally forget I have them. I can say it doesn't happen now that I've reduced the size of my wardrobe

UmmLila (Lisa)

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For me, it might be a good thing if I had to go through an entire season without grey sweaters. It would help me to lose dependency and grow as a person.

Suzanimal

I haven't lost anything but I had an embarrassing moment with a found item. I headed up to Helen, GA with a friend to do some Christmas shopping and didn't have a hat because I forgot how much colder it is in the mountains. I happen to remember my nephew (home for Christmas from college) had left his Christmassy looking stocking cap in my car so I ran back, grabbed it, and put it on. I noticed people kept looking at me and smiling but I just thought everyone was in the Christmas spirit that day. My girlfriend and I didn't figure out what they were smiling about until she snapped a pic of me and posted it on FB. A few minutes later my nephew called my cell to ask if I had taken a close look at his hat. I hadn't. The pattern was reindeer having sex. That's probably the most likes and comments any of my FB pics have ever gotten. I was walking around Helen, GA with that stupid hat on all day and there's even a FB pic of it for posterity.

Firecracker (Sharan)

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That's pretty funny! I was making plans recently for a striped shirt that I had held onto for years, even though I wasn't wearing it. I loved the fabric and couldn't part with it. So I was planning how I was going to use it in a sewing project. When I went to get it, I couldn't find it. I guess it finally did get into the donate pile last time! I went to Goodwill to get a shirt for my project.

Runcarla

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My only pair of white jeans went missing at the end of summer and I turned the house over looking for them. I may have left them at my mother's place the last time I was up for a visit. (She says 'no'.) Two new white jeans have been added as part of my spring refresh, but I am still hoping the first pair will show up.

krishnidoux

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This is indeed worth looking into! How strange but luckily you realized this and found them. Someone for sure thought it was ok to move your clothes but it wasn’t, because as a result you didn’t have then when you might have needed them. Or another possibility: could it be you’re a sleepwalker and you secretly hate these sweaters?

unfrumped

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I will “ lose” items when they slip off hanger or if on a different size hanger that hangs lower than the others.
The problem is, i KNOW this so will go through the closet rod item by item , look on floor, etc maybe 3 times, be totally frustrated and perplexed, and the next day Take “ one more look” and there it is ( slipped off hanger or is on a different size hanger that hangs lower). But I could not “ see “ it the times before.

jussie

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My closet is packed too tightly so I often can’t find things- have to look frantically through a few times then all of a sudden it’s sitting there on a hanger right in front of me lol same as unfrumped.

Joy

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I think my beloved LeCanadienne black booties were tossed in the trash. I can't find them but remember putting them in a bag to take to a cobbler for new soles. One day I had to do a quick car clean out and thought I put the bag in the garage but it hasn't turned up in a long time. I am still hoping those boots will turn up, but so glad that you found your sweaters.

Barbara Diane

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Currently I have no idea where my puffer is. Once I “lost” my raincoat for many months, looked everywhere, etc. My kids only went to the after school program a few times a year when we needed coverage for some reason. Towards the end of the school year the lost and found box was out near the door. On a lark I checked the box in the highly unlikely case my kids had left something. They hadn’t, but there was my raincoat.

Laura (rhubarbgirl)

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I misplaced my Fitbit recently, then found it after a couple days in the crisper door of the fridge. (???)

Karie

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Been there, done that. I have a lined, hip length heavy raincoat that I’d misplaced for about 9 months. Now, mind you, I actually have grown to really dislike this coat - it’s extremely functional and well made (why oh why won’t it wear out?!) but I have come to loathe the drab gray color of it. Just when I thought I had the perfect reason to buy a new one, it turned up in my mother-in-law’s closet! Now if I could just misplace it again...

Marina

Well, I don't have a lot of clothes or space, so I never lost or forgot any clothes in my own closet. But I had been in the opposite situation. I once went to a yoga class with "oddly large" gym shorts just to realize, in the middle of my class, those shorts weren't mine. I have a roommate so I assumed they were hers, but they weren't hers either - some random gym shorts just appeared in my closet, out of nowhere (I still don't have a clue where they came from).

Anonymous

Oh my goodness you ladies make me laugh with some of your posts on this thread. Thanks I needed that after starting my day at 7am shoveling 20 inches of snow!
I am so glad you found your sweaters, hopefully you will be able to get at least one wearing before you have to put them away for the season.
I hate when I lose something and think I am losing my mind! I had a summer shirt I loved but really needed to let it go. Before I did, I got this brilliant idea to "copy the pattern" in hopes I could replicate it. Put it on the pattern paper, then got distracted. Later that day I had to put it away- rolled it up in pattern paper. Holiday season came and had to store craft things away to make room for company. Summer came- no shirt and no memory of pitching it. Thank goodness a gf needed to borrow a roll of pattern paper. Mystery solved.

Joyce B

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At least you found them. I have a BR open cardi that was a workhorse until I put it away and now I cannot find it

Greyscale

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Joy, I've lost two designer items and a favorite white shirt through that same problem of plastic bags (perhaps) mistaken for trash. I used to use old Gap plastic bags to carry clothes when I was traveling back and forth between SF and Santa Cruz. My best guess is that something was thrown out or maybe fell onto the sidewalk near my car. It's been a few years and I haven't quite given up on finding them... New rule for myself - no clothes in plastic bags.

Staysfit

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It has been great to read all these replies after a stressful day at work. Now I find myself wondering if I sleepwalk?!

I suspect my DS may have rearranged some things in his effort to pack for University this summer. He’s the most likely person to move a large stack of grey cashmere sweaters from one place to another without any recollection of doing it. He also is the type of person who would abset mindedly move someone else’s belongings and forget to tell them. He will be the first to apologize, and it’s true as he frequently says “I can’t remember what I can’t remember”.!

I’m going now, to check my freezer to see if I can find anything interesting that I may have left there. My Fit Bit is still on my wrist, but I recently found a clean pair of socks. In fact, socks seem to end up in my freezer fairly often because I am often holding a clean pair as I open the freezer to grab ice for my water bottle after I do my Pilates workout. I must be pretty tired then right!

krishnidoux

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Ah. Sons. Explains it all But he was well intended. SO hilarious about the socks! That could well be your trademark.
(My DH's tradeark is forgotten cup of joe in the microwave... but yours is much cuter!)

Gigi

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I am often not too bad about culling items I'm not happy with, but I'm not good about taking the bag of culled items to Goodwill. I had a bag of clothes to donate that was sitting in my bedroom for a year. A couple of weeks ago, I decided I couldn't stand the clutter and was resolute about taking the bag to Goodwill. I did a quick once-over of the clothes currently in my dresser and threw a few more pieces in before taking the bag to Goodwill.

Just a few days later, I was looking at some fashion inspiration pics online and found an outfit that I wanted to copy. It used a red t-shirt almost exactly like one I already had, but I didn't wear the t-shirt much because I didn't care for it. Excited to have a use for the t-shirt, I went to my dresser to find it and create the copycat outfit...only to find that it wasn't there. I apparently had edited it out of my closet and threw it in with the Goodwill donations, which I FINALLY had taken to Goodwill after a year.

Barbara Diane

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Thanks for sharing everyone. This has been fun.

Sisi

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And then there is the story of my colleague of many years ago who lost a pair of lace panties (the only "pretty" panties she had). All of us in the following days kept asking her if she had found them. It was a mystery that lasted a long time. Then one day she had a light-bulb. It occurred to her that a few days before the disappearance she had replaced her washing machine. A technician had come to bring the new washing machine and take away the old one. Where, apparently, the panties had remained attached to the basket after washing. We all laughed imagining the face of the technician when he found the client's sexy panties inside the old washing machine!

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