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Do you ever lose things?

MsMary

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I realized a week or two ago that my favorite teal patent pumps (*waving at shoe twin Aida*) had gone missing! Then yesterday I misplaced the remote for the TV and in the process of searching for it, I found my teal pumps (as well as ONE of my calf-hair leopard pumps) under the bed! I am so happy to be reunited with my blue shoes! But please... tell me I'm not the only one! What fashion items have you lost and/or found?

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Ingunn

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I can't find my favorite pair of brown handwarmers!

milehighstyle (Linda)

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I always end up finding things that I lose (fortunately), even very small things like buttons that fall off or earring backs. Once a button fell off my shirt and I found it in the cuff of my pants. I found a coat button in my driveway and an earring back in my bra (my sports bra, AFTER I had changed into my gym clothes and did a full workout). I found an earring outside my office building in the snow. Once a ring fell off in a store when I was trying things on but I went back to the store and they had found it. Often when I am looking for a clothing item, it's packed away in my off season bins in the basement. Right now I'm wondering where my bomber jacket is (so I can do a bomber over dress look). I'll check those bins this weekend.

hedgiehog

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I've lost a coral blazer....looked everywhere! Not sure where I put it.

rae

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Yes, and I have no clue how I do it. I have a 1 bedroom apartment! I've lost my sunglasses many times, my orange puffer vest, jury is still out on whether my black cami will resurface... most of the time, I lose things when I want to put them someplace "safe." If I just throw it in the laundry or in the daily outfit reject pile, it's fine. o_0

cheryle (Dianthus)

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It seems to happen all the time lately. I am starting to worry about it.

ironkurtin

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Just my sanity.

Anonymous

Not often but yep, I cannot find one of my sweaters:(

Anonymous

Yes! One of my black tee shirts has gone missing. I can only find its inferior sibling!

Kristin SF

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Does my ENGAGEMENT RING count as a fashion item???

Sigh. It's been over 10 years and it still stings. It was small and not crazy expensive, but it was very pretty.

rachylou

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Oh mi gosh. Just this week I wore my lace up boots because I couldn't find the other of my half boots. And there is a patent platform ankle strap shoe sitting in my closet that I was going to give away, but no longer want to, but whose partner I think did find its way into the Goodwill bag and is long gone...

Transcona Shannon

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Yes. Lost my purple leather jacket for about two months - forgot I just shoved it into a rarely used closet when I brought it back from the cleaners. And somewhere there's a HUGE sock party going on with all the missing socks when I do laundry.

MsMary

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Kristin, YOWCH!! I'm so sorry! Wow... this thread was making me giggle until I came to your post! Big hugs to you!

Ornella

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Thank goodness I have landline so I can ring my own mobile phone when I forget where I had put it down. But, bad news if its battery goes flat in the meantime...

Sara L.

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I occasionally lose favorite clothing items and it drives me batty. Usually it's just because the shelves in my closet have gotten a little messy and the item has been shoved behind something. Sooo incredibly annoying when it happens though.

Sona

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lose and find jewelry ..ALL the time!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isabel

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Uh...that would be a yes. Not only do "misplace" things, I find them in the most bizarre places and I do it in plain sight sometimes. Like the time I looked high and low for my new Boden dress. I looked for it in both our cars, our house, my mother's house, I blamed my husband for accidently giving it to the Salvation Army. Then one day, I pulled a black dress from my closet and it was the one from Boden. It had been hanging up the entire time. Then I had to look for the one that wasn't the one I thought it was when I pulled the Boden one out....ugh.

There is the necklace that I bought after Rae posted about it. It disappeared for six moths. Then one day this Winter, I went to put on my snow boots and the necklace was in the boot ! What ???!!!!!!!

But the best is that I lost a gold ring that I adored. I stopped wearing it while pregnant with my daughter ( 11 years ago ). I looked high and low. Then 7 years later I stick my hand in a coat pocket, at there it is. I am not kidding. I had been wearing the coat the entire time too.

Lately, my husband has been causing problems. My son is only 11 but is the same size as I am. My husband hung a couple of my long sleeve T shirts and the only sweatshirt I have in his closet. I looked everywhere for that freaking sweatshirt. Then on Monday, as I waited with my son for his music lesson, I noticed he had a sweatshirt very similar to mine. I asked where he got it. He told me that it was new from his father. I took a closer look and it was my sweatershirt !

And finally, one day I was looking for my eyeglasses everywhere. I couldn't leave the house because I can't drive without them. Then after about 90 mins, I realized that while I looked for them I could see really well. They were on my face. That still cracks me up to this day and it has been about 15 years since that happened. So you can see this has been going on a very long time for me.

And you thought this response would be short. : ) And if you want to ask this question again, I have more examples. LOL !

abc

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I used to travel weekly for work. To this day, I cannot figure out where in the heck I could have lost my favorite black lightweight Gallery brand jacket. I loved that coat and must have left it somewhere...a hotel, client site, nightclub I wish I had a good story to go along with losing it, but not really. To this day I sometimes think, man, I wish I had that jacket. Who the heck knows what city it's in!

Thistle

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Socks, but only half of the pair. I have a huge box of singletons. No idea whatever happened to their mates.

Anonymous

I haven't, but I have an older sister who would lose her head if it wasn't screwed on. She's very smart, but can't seem to keep track of her belongings.

Anonymous

Yes my peace of mind. My mother always said the minute you have kids you lose your peace of mind. Aint that the truth!

Carole

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I am constantly looking for "this" or " that" in my closet. I feel like I am constantly organizing and putting things away, but I still manage to feel so disorganized. I think it's a sign from the universe to purge and simplify which I am willing to do...but never quite get around to:(

Raisin

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I am a bit OCD when it comes to keeping track of items. I can't stand it if DS loses a piece to something, or a mitten or whatever. So no, I don't often lose items. But you can bet I'm stressed out when I do!

catgirl

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All the time!

catgirl

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All the time!

RoseandJoan

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Honest truth...

One night last week I wanted to do my Zumba DVD, looked in the box and it's not there, checked the DVD player and it's not there, tore my cupboards apart and it's not there. Scratched my head...sobbed, defiantly turned the drawers out and NADA it's not there.

The next day Teah could not find a glove and was quite upset so I told her the story of the Zumba DVD...she giggled uncontrollably before saying 'silly Mummy I put it in the fridge'.

1,2,3,4,5. I'm still looking for that glove.

Tina

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That's hilarious RoseandJoan!
I almost lost my wedding set one day. I had put it in the indent of the door armrest in our truck while I put hand lotion on. My husband pulled into the carwash and while he was washing the truck, I got out (I don't know why). As we drove home I reached in to get my ring, it was gone! I searched frantically, then I panicked. We went back to the carwash and they were just pushing the mud into the drain and there in amongst the muck - my shiny gold ring!! I was so relieved I could have cried.
I'm a bit like Raisin in that I am an organized, everything in it's place person. However, I'm sure one day they will prove that cell phones have the ability to relocate themselves:-).

Saretta

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Like Thistle, I have a vast collection of single socks, Socks Without Partners...

sinead

Oh, yes and yes. Lost a handbag and sweater for months. Somehow they ad been folded into a seldom used quilt and when I got it out, they fell out. Obviously, the quilt wasn't folded as much as it was "wadded up" ( used during one of my daughter's sleepovers). I don't think teens have the time to make actual folds.
And I have left so many gloves all over Seattle that I now buy the same kind of inexpensive black knit pair and just keep matching up the orphans.

Suz

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Julie - laughing so hard about Teah putting your DVD in the fridge. Silly mummy!!! Of course zumba goes in fridge!! Too hot to handle otherwise....

I lost (but did not find) the diamond to my mother's engagement ring.

I also lost a raincoat for two years. It turned up in a box of rugs that we had shipped back from Vancouver but had not opened because they did not fit in the new house....

Many of my socks are dancing with Shannon's at that sock hop.

I have also lost my gardening shoes under a chair in our back room. Shoved them under the chair skirt when someone stopped by, and forgot all about them until months later (sheepish grin) I moved the chair to vacuum.

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