You all are so funny! I almost forgot that I wanted to wear my navy J Crew skirt the other morning and could. not. find. it. even though I KNEW there was only one place it could be, and that was hanging in the closet with its skirt friends. I looked and looked and LOOKED, and finally found it had fallen on the floor in all its crumpled-and-unwearable linen glory. I hate when that happens!

I'm also always losing things. And then I find them in the strangest places. Best story ever - when I was fourteen or so I lost one of my earrings, but I didn't know when or where. Two years later my little brother found it at the playground in our neighbourhood when he was building sandcastles. In the ground in that huge sandbox. What were the odds?

I cannot find one of my two black bras. I cannot imagine where did it go!
I am not even counting how many orphan socks I have in my drawer! Actually at least for those I know where they go - I have caught my kitty fishing them out of the drawer if there is at least a tiny crack left open and then drags them under the bed proud of his hunting skills. I am sure I will find a lot of dead socks under that bed one day...
Actually it gave me an idea: maybe my poor bra had the same fate - it was in the next drawer?

I have currently lost my wedding ring!

Oh yes! I lose things all of the time - usually on my very messy desk at work!

But as for wardrobe items.... I "misplaced" my favorite black purse for over a year - I even wrote a response about it in a thread by Ingunn last summer. I found it about a month ago shoved in the bottom of a wardrobe with a bunch of other purses. I cannot even remember why I put it there! Shocking.

I've also lost one of the diamond earrings my husband gave me on my wedding day. All I remember is that I was staying after school to supervise an event and I had been on the phone with a parent for a very long time - somewhere between the phone call and dinner at the event that earring went missing. The school custodians even combed the garbage looking for it! This was 1.5 years ago and I still haven't told my husband - I feel too guilty about it. I'm hoping that because I found my black purse, I'll eventually find my earring. Fingers crossed!

I am currently searching for my left black Ann Taylor pump-I have looked everywhere. Not really sure how I lost only 1 shoe, and I would like to tell you that this was the 1st time this had happened to me, but I don't like to lie.

rings ...that's why i don't use rings have lots two out them from my very own hand both of them were my mon and she had them over 25 years and one was a real amber very expensive ring ...i always regret...and my jewerly tent to dissapear ...Shoes ...i lose shoes too thankfully i find them quicker than my sons shoes !!!! those are little and very hard to spot!

I don't lose things too often but I have left a scarf on the bus, misplaced various bits of clothing which have turned up stuffed behind drawers and the like, and recently had a rather large and heavy earring fall out of my earlobe at a conference. No idea how it came loose but fortunately someone found it and turned it in. My Mom once managed to knock the diamond out of her wedding ring while helping me carry some furniture into my old apartment. I wouldn't let her leave until I had combed the staircase and finally found it!

I have a big turquoise ring I got from my Mom that has an interesting history. She lost it at a summer vacation cabin when she was a teenager, and found it again when the family went back to the same place a few years later!

I am missing a small-ish black velvet 'travel' jewelry box. Last fall, in preparation for a European cruise (first time I've gone on a cruise in Europe), I decided not to take the black box and tucked it away - somewhere in the house. For the cruise I packed some inexpensive costume jewelry into an old makeup bag.

The problem is that the black velvet box contains a pair of beautiful gold and pearl earrings that my Mom had specially made for me, and I haven't even had the chance to wear them yet. I really love those earrings and was so pleased to receive them - but they're in that travel box which I can't find!!! There is also a beautiful necklace in there that my husband gave me for an anniversary present *last year* (anniversary is March 27th).

Very distressing. I shoved that box somewhere weird, because I'd arranged for a house-sitter/ dog-sitter, and I figured it wasn't a good idea to take any good jewelry with me on my trip. Normally, I'd have put that box into my night table drawer, but since I had someone staying at my house - I stuck it somewhere else, and I don't know where it is

I have to find it - meeting up with Mom at the end of May, and I'm sure she's going to wonder why I'm not wearing the beautiful earrings she had made for me, and my husband is sure to be wondering why I haven't worn that necklace he got me last year ....GAH.

I even lost track of this thread.

I know I am not much fun but I don't loose fashion things:) I do however frenquently mistake Master 10's stretchy black pj pants for my black leggings and nearly toppled over while madly trying to put on his pj pants thinking they were my leggings... "what how can they have shrunk this much, etc".

Oh, Mander, you reminded me that my mom lost the diamond out of her engagement ring not long ago. She looked all over and couldn't find it, then had my dad sift through the contents of the vacuum cleaner bag, and there it was! Amazing!

This just reminded me that I also lost a really nice 18K gold necklace I'd ordered with an adjustable tension bead clasp... it could be *any* length. Sigh... I have pretty bad metal allergies so sometimes I'd have to take it off part way through the day. Could have sworn I put it in my purse, but it disappeared. Still unhappy with myself now.

I only lose what my BF so helpfully 'puts away'. Argh. I am fastidious with my things - even my underwear is folded and in a row.
(I couldn't find my work apron for over a month and a half. It was in the kitchen in a lower cabinet behind Le Crueset lids and cans of Spam. Of course, where else should it be?!)

I am another of those annoying people that never loses anything because I take care to put things where they go. But I lost the diamond out of my engagement ring a few years ago when ten pin bowling. Luckily I realised when we were still at the bowling alley and I had everyone playing on our lane crawling around on the floor looking for it. And I found it! Under the ball return. I didn't get it fixed for two years because I was too scared to wear it in case the diamond fell out again. But eventually I got it fixed and they told me that the setting was faulty and there's no way it should have fallen out, so now I'm happy to wear it.

I took the ribbon belt off a dress to wash it then when I went to wear it again I couldn't find the belt. I knew I'd put it away "somewhere safe". I tore my dressing room apart looking for it and found it tucked in between two unopened pairs of tights in a drawer.

The only thing I can recall losing and never finding is a pair of sunglasses. I was sure they were in my car somewhere but even crawling around with a torch didn't reveal them. That car is long gone now so the sunglasses are too I guess

Velvety, sit down and close your eyes, breathe calmly and repeat to yourself : I will find that jewellery box. You can use this prayer to St. Anthony of Padua that I use:
St. Anthony, St. Anthony
Please come down
My precious jewellery box is lost
And can't be found
Dear St. Anthony, I pray
Bring it back, without delay.
My Jewellery box's lost and can't be found
Please, St. Anthony, look around.
(memorize it, shorten it if you want, and repeat it)

(In French I use this):
Saint Antoine de Padoue,
Vous qui retrouvez tout,
Aidez-moi à retrouver
La /le________ que j'ai égaré.

It works for me every time! It must relax my brain in a certain fashion so that suddenly, I get a flash in my head, Look there! And most of the time, there it is. Or I find it shortly after.

If you had a house sitter you probably stuck it somewhere where they would not find it either, but it must have been somewhere unusual. Your brain forgot about it for either 2 reasons:

1) It's either too well hidden and your subconscious is asleep, knowing no one -including you! - will find it;
2) It was placed somewhere where there was a risk to be thrown away if not recovered immediately, and your subconscious is protecting you from the truth because it would hurt too much. Like in the garbage, with food or in the laundry.

But 2 would be less likely if you had a sitter. I hope this helps you.

Krish - Thank you for this prayer! I just said it to find my diamond earring. I will keep you posted!

Krista;
Might that earring have been on your *phone ear*? I sometimes pull off the earring on that side because it interferes with hearing or is irritating my ear. In your situation, I might have placed the earring in a desk drawer, or more likely, in some obscure deep pocket in my bag, because I knew I would be leaving soon.

I lose everything. I once thought I had lost my gray cropped cardigan in a move. I found it about a year later on my the closet I moved into. I'm still not sure how it got there.

Often. Just about every time I put down my eyeglasses I seem to have misplaced and lost them, searching blindly for them, going from room to room. Embarrassing.

I misplaced a pave diamond ring 18 months ago I feel in my heart of hearts that I will one day open a drawer and it will be winking up at me, but for now... <sigh>

Donna - The earring I lost was indeed on my "phone ear" but I just never thought to remove the earring before the phone call. I had a good look around my desk and in my desk drawers today, though! I still have hope

I don't usually lose clothing items, unless DH *helps* put the clothes away. Even though our kids have been doing their own laundry since they each turned 13, he forgets, and allocates some of my clothes to them for some reason (usually socks or T-shirts).

This past winter it grew cold and I was looking all over for my black yoga pants. They had been hanging from a skirt hanger in my closet all summer, but suddenly they were missing. I accused my daughter of borrowing them. I accused DH of putting them in my son's closet. I was furious, I was hopping mad. I was cold. Then one day I opened my dresser drawer to get out a black camisole and there they were, in the stack. It was then that I remembered I had "re-organized" my closet and stored away the pants, when they were out of season. *gulp* I had some apologizing to do!

Krish,

Thank you so much for the prayer - I just saw your post tonight, just as I'm getting ready for bed (Monday evening). I'll try the prayer - and thank you for the suggestion, much appreciated!

I know the box is around here *somewhere*! Hopefully, it didn't end up in the trash or anything (unlikely, but you never know I guess).

I think there's a lesson in here for me. It's the idea that just because I'm doing something new to me, doesn't mean I should throw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. I've always been very trusting and assume the best of people, places and situations. Somehow, last fall - because I was going off on a big deal (to me) trip and doing something new - I changed my own routine and even my perceptions about things. Hence shoving that box in some 'safe place' somewhere. (insert 'roll eyes' icon-smile thingie).

Thanks again, I will try the prayer - it can't hurt!

I lose things all the time, but my fashion loss is a cobalt blue glass heart that I bought myself 15 years ago. It has been lost and found before, but this time it has been gone about a year. I cannot understand why that one necklace keeps running off!

Velvety and Krista, hope this helps you! It has helped me many times recently.
Velvety, I so understand you. Good for you to take a lesson away from this. Letting others stay in one's house is a big deal. There is a trusting issue, but I think most importantly a privacy issue too. Sometimes we just need to keep some things for ourselves. As long as we don't keep them from ourselves doing so! Don't be too harsh on yourself. I'm sure you will find it.