How fast can you lose something??

[jymbee]

Finally I got back in the closet and mimicked taking the roller off and found it on an overhead shelf which I cant remember putting it there at all.

Typically I finally remember where I left something I've been looking for-- only after I find it.

 

[Oaktree]

I often go back and forth between the saws in my workshop and the project site on my property. I keep one tape measure next to the saws in the workshop and another on my belt or at the project site. But it seems like the tape measures always try to migrate to meet up at one or the other location, so I will have no tape measure nearby when I actually need to measure something or make a cut. Pencils play that game with me too.

Tape measures & pencils...yep, same here.

Also wrenches...crawl under a vehicle, use wrench, and somehow between when you set it down and reach for it again, it manages to wander off.

 

[wotalota]

Look for things and can't find them but they show up right after buying a replacement. Bought some chicken for the weekend, it is on the grocery receipt but, it had escaped by the time I got back home. I have had the right hand from a pair of gloves for a couple of years now, but no sign of the other one.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I'm sorry, what was the question???

 

[newbury]

Tape measures. I have 2 in the truck 2 in the garage 2 in the shop and lose them all the time. Usually in plain sight.

I've about three good Stanleys that cost about $10@ and maybe a dozen or so HF freebees. But then I work between 3 houses and 5 workshops.

I often go back and forth between the saws in my workshop and the project site on my property. I keep one tape measure next to the saws in the workshop and another on my belt or at the project site. But it seems like the tape measures always try to migrate to meet up at one or the other location, so I will have no tape measure nearby when I actually need to measure something or make a cut. Pencils play that game with me too. I need to start attaching stuff to my body with one of those chains old ladies use for their glasses.

No, for tape measures, pencils and such you just need to keep a dozen or so of each. And remember it's not a game, like workers they need to gather together at times to discuss how the boss is treating them. I frequently will search for an item only to find 2 or three within a yard of each other.

Its when you lose something and you have sort of blamed your wife , that gets you in trouble, especcially when you then find it and you need to somehow make it look like it was in place that your wife left it..........
That didn't work out so well a few years ago , when my wife and I could not decide who had lost the cordless phone . We had a pair of them and one went missing, I assumed the wife had lost it. Six months later I am up on the roof fixing the flashing on a roof vent and I see the cordless phone sitting on top of the brick chimney where I had obviously left it when I was reparging the chimney. It had went thru one winter of snow and ice up there even.

It was too funny for me to try to blame it on the wife.................so I confessed. :ashamed:

I think it's better to immediately admit you I lost whatever is missing, even if I was out of the country, then after several occasions when SWMBO finds the lost item where only SHE would have put it she has to doubt if it was you.

My instance yesterday was looking for some Ziploc 2 cup plastic containers. I had bought about 4 packs weeks ago. They disappeared after she cleaned the kitchen. I asked if she knew where I might have put them. After about 15 minutes of declaring she hadn't moved them she found them under the range stored in a roaster pan where I can barely get to. She finally admitted she put them there.

Remember, it's better to go into the doghouse when you want to and be asked to come out than be put there when you don't want to be there.

I try and keep my doghouse well stocked and wired

 

[TomSeller]

When I lose something where I am working, I start cleaning up and putting things away. Most of the time I find what I am looking for. I am down to 2 houses, 2 shops, 1 barn shop and 3 vehicles. So it is getting easier.

 

[bigtiller]

I looked for over a year for my pocket knife. I found it right where i left it, on top of the air condenser unit by the back door.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

My latest two are a can of food grade sealer for the kitchen cutting board, and a brand new can of calcium carbide purchased for an old carbide lamp. Found the lamp in with my camping gear over the weekend, which naturally had me off looking for the carbide, and came up empty handed. I've seen both in the last month or so, but I've just about run out of places to look. Probably one of those times where they'll show up when I'm looking for something else...

 

[skidslide]

I've got a pretty bad scatterbrain. Lost my car keys at the wrecking yard getting a kickdown cable i needed for the car, got up and realized the keys weren't in my pocket. Found them in the car i was getting parts from (Don't know how, i didn't even go inside of it) I was so relieved, i took my part and left. Bout the time i was pulling up the drive, i remembered i left my entire Genius Tools tool set sitting under the front bumper of that car. Got lucky when i called they were just closing and they found my tool set. Next day i swing by to pick em up and only half the set was missing. Could have been worse right?

Tape Measures i lose all the time, same with pens also

 

[SPIKER]

My latest two are a can of food grade sealer for the kitchen cutting board, and a brand new can of calcium carbide purchased for an old carbide lamp. Found the lamp in with my camping gear over the weekend, which naturally had me off looking for the carbide, and came up empty handed. I've seen both in the last month or so, but I've just about run out of places to look. Probably one of those times where they'll show up when I'm looking for something else...

Just dont rub down the cutting board with the carbide and pour the sealer into the lamp lol

My latest is I had some scrap type R thermocouples (Platinum and Rhodium) both very expensive & missing I DID find the several lbs of industrial silver so still searching for the rest of the stuff... The common scrap was turned in last week on earthday.



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