I managed to bury my keys yesterday on the plot. Couldn't find them anywhere, had to resort to using a metal detector - found them in the end though, my Dad said I was like a terrier digging for them! I always seem to lose things over there, or rather 'misplace' ( :P) them and think I've brought them home, then I spend ages tearing the place apart only to find the suncream by the shed the next time I'm there...
Am I the only one with this infliction or are there OTHERS out there too....??!
Mainly my sense of time!
I agree with losing your sense of time.
But also I think my dibber has legs. Whenever I put it down it walks away somewhere and I spend a couple of minutes trying to locate it. The trowel is the same although I did buy one with a bright orange handle so it has to find proper camoflage to really hide from me!
:D
I did much the same with my keys once; they fell out of my pocket and totally disappeared. I got new ones cut, and finally found them three years later. They must have fallen into a bonfire I was having, looking at the state of them. They'd then become buried in thick couch grass, been dug up with the turf, and ended up in one of my soil mountains where I eventually found them.
Hopefully not lost in the garden but I just can't put my hands on a necklace at the moment. I usually wear it during the summer months and have looked everywhere indoors. I have just recently found the 3rd door key to my late mothers flat. Found it in a pocket of a coat not worn since the colder weather. I once lost my engagement ring and eternity ring. Despite on the search for months I eventually reported them missing to the Insurance company. I found the rings few days later inside a box of tights where I had hid them for safe keeping. I would never find anything lost outside with the height of our weeds.... :-[ :-[
Whenever I go to the plot (and usually when working in the garden), I remove all jewellery except my watch. Actually I change my watch for a cheap one, just so I can keep an eye on the time since I have to be somewhere at a certain time most days (picking the OH up from work).
Since our plot is a secure site, and we need the gate key to get in or out, when I arrive at the carpark area, just off my plot and visible from there, I put the car and allotment keys in the glove box for safe keeping. So far it's worked OK for me. In fact I usually leave the boot lid open too.
I do agree however that various tools we all need around the plot when we're working, definitely seem to have the ability to wander away and hide.
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!
Lost my phone yesterday - only realised when I got home. Spent the best part of an hour looking for it.
Fortunately my mum rang me (usually it's an 'unfortunate' event - but this time it was fortunate) and I heard it's tinkling tones coming from the chicken shed.
Found a few unidentified numbers dialed on it was well. I reckon they'd been phoning Chicken Chatlines and surfing Poultry Porn sites. They all pretended to be asleep on the perch when I found the phone. Very suspicious indeed.
I once misplaced my 4yr old son as well. He was stuck up an apple tree.
Quote from: Trixiebelle on May 03, 2007, 16:27:06
Found a few unidentified numbers dialed on it was well. I reckon they'd been phoning Chicken Chatlines and surfing Poultry Porn sites. They all pretended to be asleep on the perch when I found the phone. Very suspicious indeed.
:D :D ;D
Would you believe it, I misplaced my keys again this afternoon, had a knock on the door to tell me someone had found them and were they mine, then back to the plot to retrieve them. They say things happen in threes said the lady with my keys... let's hope it doesn't apply to this!!
Glasses I am always losing glasses. I only use cheapie magnifiers for close work not regular ones yet but I am alwys misplacing them. I went into the Poundshop the day before yesterday and bought 8 identical pairs. Office,bedside,coffee table in living room,study,sewing room, handbag ,dashboard of the car and lottie. The clerk in Poundshop thought I was nuts.
I have already misplaced the office ones.
XX Jeannine
Trixie, your chickens are not communicating with my cat are they, he keeps using the computer!!
There must be at least 5 pairs of secateurs and several trowels somewhere in my garden! And it's not a big garden! ;D
I lost a watch when picking the runners in my first year on the plot. It was one of those silvery clip straps and reckon a jay or magpie made off with it as I never found it. Proper leather strapped one now! :)
my mind, at the moment..everything I look for, i can't find..poltergeist activity !! :o ;D
I too lost me mobley on the plot, and it rained overnight! :o :o ( I don't get many calls on it so hadn't realised I had lost it!)
Was quite a paleaver to get me Mum to time it so that I was up there when it rang........found it, in one of my ditches, and miraculously it still worked!
Also forever loosing plant labels, I personally think the foxes pick em all out and hide them at night! ;D
Jeannine, it's my glasses too. My lot get really fed up as I need them for driving and each time we come to go out I can't find them. I come in and must take them off absent mindedly and can never find them. I wish I could get them at the pound shop the same as you!
Manics, my mind too, especially when I am looking for my glasses! But other things too, am forever going into the wrong room and wondering why I am there. I have to have lists of jobs to do as I keep forgetting things. Am alright when it comes to gardening though, thank goodness! Obviously too rushed everywhere else but relaxed in the garden or at the lottie. ;)
Best birthday gardening gloves! I miss them so much. They were leather.
Bummer. Secatuers by the dozen. Only buy cheepies now.
tulippa don't worry about you glasses sweetie, we are OK with that one, I grew up with a Mum that kept losing her teeth,I found them so often in her coat pocket among the Rennies and sugared almonds I ended up as an adult with a phobia about all three!!! XX Jeannine
The few marbles I had left after having kids.... ;D
Everything - except the 28lb I really need to lose ;)
Quote from: ninnyscrops on May 03, 2007, 21:19:35
I lost a watch when picking the runners in my first year on the plot. It was one of those silvery clip straps and reckon a jay or magpie made off with it as I never found it. Proper leather strapped one now! :)
Now way back in 2005 I thought it had a silver strap, but it didn't! If my memory serves me a little better I changed the linked strap as too much soil seemed to gather in it.
Sadly, a plotholder has lost his wedding ring but the metal detector guy dug this up, just by our head lady's plot, I must have been nattering for too long ::)
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Don't think I will get it going again though!
Ninny
I dropped mobey on the lottie. Knew it was there because I have been talking to someone.
Waited until after dark and very lucky it had falled face up and I could see the little flashes in the dark,
Actually I am always loosing things. I try to buy fleeces with zip pockets.
One that some may remember from a long while back,
I lost my top set of teeth, stop laughing, for them amongst us that do have dentures we know what its like to get a tomato seed under them, much like half a builing brick. Anyway i could not get it out so i thought i would wash it out under the tap..
Put my teeth onto the palm of my hand picked up the end of the hose turned the tap on and wached my teeth fly off into the middle of the potato bed. I had the blaster attached to the hose.
So off i went on hands and knees under the tatie tops looking for the teeth, every now and then popping up to see if anyone is watching, no one about, good, back down being very carefull not to kneel on them, other wise it would be soup and soggy bread till i got new ones.
Great i found them stood up with them in my hand and as i turned this voice said " have you not got a spade" it was me little old scrounger Percy the old bugger had been watching me all the time.
LOL!
chortling at this thread,don't know what I've lost ,can't remember...memory... ;D ;D ;D
Common_Clay... you're marvelous!!
Thanks so much for starting this thread not only because I've thoroughly enjoyed reading everyones posts but because I now feel less worried that I am the only one who frequently loses things...especially his marbles!
Today it was a small pair of scissors that I had in the greenhouse. I used them to cut some tomato ties then wandered off to pick sweet peas. I'm sure I had them when I went into my parents bungalow but where???? I reckon my mother swept them up and now claims they're hers. ::)
Like Jeannine it's usually glasses that vanish while my back is turned (or bent over). I find pairs amongst rows of carrots and other things. They slide out of my top pocket. I tried hanging them on those string things that wrap around your neck but, when I was teaching, children complained of being clunked in the back of the head as I lent over to check their work. ;)
Once, when lost, my glasses turned up perched on top of my head. I so miss having hundreds of children around to keep an eye on me. ;D
PS Jeannine the root of your phobia or sugar almonds and Rennie's had me hooting with laughter! (Sorry!!!!)
Me too....I lost a pair of scissors my favourite sharp gardening ones I'm usuallyso careful with, things like ghat lost on my plot are usually never seen again. I think someone snoops around for lost stuff and collects it up.
Quote from: Kea on June 30, 2012, 00:19:31
Me too....I lost a pair of scissors my favourite sharp gardening ones I'm usuallyso careful with, things like ghat lost on my plot are usually never seen again. I think someone snoops around for lost stuff and collects it up.
Borrowers? ;D
Lost my new daughter once .did not miss her until I was back home, only missed her when I spied her nappies, ran all the way back to Woolworth's where I had left her outside in her pram, [you could leave your baby outside shops in those days] she was screaming her head off, enough to say you forgot me. my only excuse was I had only had her for three weeks. left my shopping on the bus once never set eyes on it again.
June.
My mother left my sister outside of the Co-op one day.... it was me who reminded her so we trundled rushed back... she was still there.
Sometimes it is better to say nothing I think. :(
Ninnys, which metal detector did the person use, please? Need to buy one to locate 'treasure' such as missing watches, whatever, not The Staffordshire Hoard....
Wedding ring. :( Keep having to tell my brother who made it for me that I'm just into everything with my hands so forget to put it on.
Quote from: Lishka on June 30, 2012, 12:42:55
Ninnys, which metal detector did the person use, please? Need to buy one to locate 'treasure' such as missing watches, whatever, not The Staffordshire Hoard....
Will ask him next time I see him Lishka :)
Ninny
I lost my car in Morrison's car park, I felt such a fool going down each lane with a trolley full of shopping, I now look for landmarks so I don't forget again.
Oh about losing the car, reminds me of the time I went to a very big boot sale hundreds of cars all parked up in rows. yes you have guessed it, I did not notice where my car was parked, walking around the boot sale I spied an ironing board just the thing I was looking for ,bought it and spent the next hour trying to find my car I am most careful now . did not like the ironing board after all
June.
My sister-in-law used to tie a plastic bag on her aerial so she could spot her car easily.
I lost the diamond out of a solitaire ring twice..once when at the farmers market after unloading pigs..we found it among the hay at the loading dock, then some years later I noticed it missing after preparing Sunday lunch, it turned up in the apple crumble. I eventually had that ring re made!
I lost my gold cross and chain last year. It came off in the house after the clasp got snagged. I never take it off usually. Anyway the next day I went to get it to do te rpair and coudn't find it.
I serached the entire house and it seemed to be gone.
I am a neat freak so everything has a place so I know exactly where eveything is so it was an easy search. It was gone.
I presumed John had accidently thrown it out.
Months later I went to get my bag of hair rollers which only sees the light of day a couple of times a year and it was among the rollers. I had used them about the same time as it went missing so I guess somehow it got scooped upwith them when they were put away.
I was over the moon happy and shrieking with delight.
Things usually turn up.
I am currently missing TWO surgical scalpels though...
XX Jeannine
Eventually, with luck, lost things sometimes turn up.
I found the pair of scissors that I lost last week. Not lost at all just misplaced. I'd put them on the outside window sill of the workshop across the road! Retraced my steps again... and there they were.
It's memory loss in my case not lost items. :( Sometimes it's having too much to do and not concentrating on what I am doing. ::)
My wedding ring three times. First time over ten years ago when I was still working, I had been shredding paper work that I no longer needed in the office, my boss found it. Two years ago in Lidl's car park, a kind lady found it and put a notice in the local rag, then last year in the garden, I had dug an area over thought it might be there, I couldn't find it but Grandson and his Dad gently dug the area over again and there it was. It now hangs on a chain round my neck. It is still slightly damaged where a car had run over it in the car park.
Oh Lord, my son has lost his glasses (so his dad confiscated the computer until he finds them again!).
My car was recently stolen, and although the vehicle was found, they had nicked my key for the water butt tap at the allotment ??? why would you nick that? They also took my drive-trhu supermarket card so I cancelled that just in case.
I have lost so many secateurs! I need to buy a new one before the autumn pruning comes >:(
Some people seem to have rotten luck with losing things - perhaps compensated when they are found again.
My wedding ring (lost nearly 30 years ago) is somewhere on a school field upon which now stands a new school.
It was a chilly autumn day and I had just brought the children in from the field when I discovered it had gone. It didn't turn up despite keeping an eye out for it for the next 30 years. ::)