How fast can you lose something??

[TomSeller]

Cleaning up the shop to get rid of old magazines lifted a book on bottom of the stack and saw box of shells so dug deeper and found the long lost pistol.

Still cannot remember placing it there

If that happened in my house, it would undoubtably be my wife who put it there. Not that I don't absent minded set things somewhere, it is just that I put things in their place. Except my gloves, they get left on a random fencepost.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The other side of the problem is finding things that you didn't know you had.

Every time I clean up the garage, etc, I find a part or bagged bolts, screws, etc. that I have no idea what they are for or from.

Bruce

Same here. That's why I get the parts guy to write the part number down on the package before I leave the counter. And now I'll make sure the brand name for what ever it's going into is on there, too! :thumbsup:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sometimes the longest part of a project is finding the tools. Every now and then I run across one I forgot I even had.

 

[PILOON]

On the dash of my car I have 2 clips to hold 'to do' lists, like milk, bread bank etc.
My door being steel has a magnet that holds notes to remind me of a date or event for the day.
I mark the garbage and recycle bin dates on the calender as soon as the list is published. (darn city, we will have 3 bins coming May 1st as well as fines should we leave them roadside more than 12 hrs*)

*they now will have 156 chances to improve the city budget!

 

[newbury]

A buddy of mine often reminds me,

"It ain't gonna get no better!"

Nah, it get's better. While trying to find something you get distracted and FORGET you were trying to find the item. Then later you find it and remember you had been looking for it, but don't know why.

There's a reason I have 12 tape measures... several hammers... and so on. If you can't find a tool, then you ain't got one... I buy another one so I have it!

Just started with reading glasses... bought 4 pair to start with... got one left. Best is when I "find them" on my head!

That's my mode of operation. Tape measures, pencils, hammers, screwdrivers, gloves. Most all free or real cheap from Harbor Freight. My workshops, although connected, span about 100 yards. I try to disperse the tools near locations of potential use, but I got tired of walking from one corner to another to get a screwdriver I didn't know I was going to need.

Reading glasses are special. I've been using them for about a decade, gradually getting stronger. I've got strengths of all spread around. Frequently I'll break one and have to go to a lower strength, or need more magnification on something and use two at a time. I try and keep two in every vehicle.

My wife is half my problem. When she sees something I left somewhere she puts it in a drawer or on a shelf. No rhyme or reason as to where. <snip>

She must be related to SWMBO. It's gotten so the first thing I do is ask her if she's seen X, and usually the answer is "Oh I put that in ...". A place I'd never look.
Took the hammer to the laundry room next to the tape. I'm trying to train her to put the items on the kitchen table, but it's only been 31 years.

 

[TomSeller]

On the dash of my car I have 2 clips to hold 'to do' lists, like milk, bread bank etc.
My door being steel has a magnet that holds notes to remind me of a date or event for the day.
I mark the garbage and recycle bin dates on the calender as soon as the list is published. (darn city, we will have 3 bins coming May 1st as well as fines should we leave them roadside more than 12 hrs*)

*they now will have 156 chances to improve the city budget!

I put everything in my iPhone and have it remind me. Could not live without it.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Wife lost a great camera, we were sure it was taken by someone when she was moving some boxes. Five years later we open a box and found the camera with all the five year old photo still in tact and the camera still worked after we charged up the batteries. She lost a new Iphone thee days after buying it - I think she threw it away when she dumped all the junk mail at the post office.

I always find what I lose when I stop looking for it, but by that time I already bought another one. I did a tool check a few months ago and I have 6 of many hand tools. Yes I lose them, but only because I can't learn to put them back where they belong. For me usually after miserable project I never take the time needed to put things away. I just gather them up and put them in a box - then the box gets moved around and there in lies my problem. Then I drive to home depot and buy another one because I need that missing tool NOW, and it takes too long to track it down.

I just found $200.00 in a pair of pants I last had on three years ago ( last time I dressed up ). The bills were nice and clean after going through the wash.

 

[newbury]

My worst recent "lost but not" episode was when we were first moving to Mississippi (2011, we are still moving). SWMBO collects "Pocket Dragons"

she has a bookcase full of the figurines on display.

EVERY pocket dragon comes in a box and we have a full 60 gallon black trash bag holding the boxes with the foam inserts.
During the move the bag got displaced, and our adult children had been helping with me in charge.
I had lost the bag!!
Without the boxes she did not consider the dragons worth much anymore. I was in the proverbial dog house for 2 years, until she found the bag in a closet only she used.

Now if something is misplaced "it's with the dragon boxes".

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Nah, it get's better. While trying to find something you get distracted and FORGET you were trying to find the item. Then later you find it and remember you had been looking for it, but don't know why.

That only happens to me when I'm really lucky. Usually I don't remember something's lost until I need it again, and have to start the whole process all over again...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

She lost a new Iphone thee days after buying it - I think she threw it away when she dumped all the junk mail at the post office.

iPhones have software built in that lets you track their location from another iPhone or computer, but you have to remember to turn it on.

Last time I lost mine I got to watch it travel all over town before I could catch up with the nice policemen that had found it...