Weirdest place your missing item has turned up?

[Anonymous]

I need some inspiration before I go accusing the cleaners. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

The refrigerator. And cabinets. Anyplace where I would have absentmindedly set it while doing or looking for something else.

Rather then accusing the cleaners, ask if they saw it and moved it. It's possible they moved it while cleaning in order to get it out of the way.

[Anonymous]

This isn't my story, but I always enjoyed it: a co-worker was looking for her glasses for several days and couldn't find them anywhere. They finally turned up in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator.

[Anonymous]

How big is the item? that could help us suggest places.

Here are some suggestions without knowing the size:
in freezer/fridge.
check every kitchen cabinet and drawer
if you have small children, check inside of pots, cups, etc.

laundry room. check inside washer and dryer

check under couches. under cushions, inside of any toys, toy bins, etc.

check coat pockets. inside of gloves and hats.
check behind pieces of furniture (like the table you throw your keys on...did it fall behind there?)

[Anonymous]

Inside my tennis shoe (work entry key card).

Inside some pocket of the purse after the third search.

Someone I know found his watch inside a golf bag pocket the following year!

Oh, found something that was missing for days inside a diaper bag! Diaper bags has a lot of pockets. Don't forget to check the stroller...

[Anonymous]

My cousin left her cordless phone in the fridge overnight.

[Anonymous]

I once lost a beautiful necklace my husband gave me for Christmas...I was so upset because I could not figure out where the heck it could have possibly gone (I remembered taking if off at home so I knew it was not lost while out and about). We found it the next year when unpacking Christmas decorations...somehow it had gotten tangled up with something and was packed away for a year!

[Anonymous]

I lost my phone and ran to the last 3 stores to see if it was there, in the parking lot, etc. A day later I found it on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet. I had put away a bottle of medicine and had the phone in the same hand. I shoved them up there and did not realize I let the phone go.

DW lost keys in a snow drift. Got them back in the spring.

[Anonymous]

I lost my keys in the plastic tote I keep gift bags in. I didn't find them for two years.

[Anonymous]

My wallet in the freezer.

[Anonymous]

Doctor recently removed a ball of glitter from my right ear.

[Anonymous]

After searching for 30 minutes in my pockets, purse, car, etc., I found my ipod in the basket where we keep shoes in mud room -- it probably fell out of my pocket when I was taking my shoes off.

Before you accuse the dry cleaners or anyone else, think very carefully about exactly where you were and exactly what you were doing the last time you had the lost item. Upon returning from vacation, an acquaintance of mine couldn't find her "good jewelry". It wasn't in any of her regular hiding places, so she concluded that her cleaner had stolen it and fired her, even though the woman had worked for her for years and nothing else had ever gone missing. Months later she found the jewelry in the laundry room and remembered that the night before leaving on vacation she had hidden it there after getting thoroughly swozzled at a book club meeting. But the story didn't end there -- a couple of years later her jewelry was taken by thieves who waltzed right into her unlocked house. I always wondered if the cleaning lady heard about this.

[Anonymous]

In my lovers car. That's why I take everything out of my pockets first.

[Anonymous]

My mom found the diamond from her ring in the bread box about 5 years after losing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After searching for 30 minutes in my pockets, purse, car, etc., I found my ipod in the basket where we keep shoes in mud room -- it probably fell out of my pocket when I was taking my shoes off.

Before you accuse the dry cleaners or anyone else, think very carefully about exactly where you were and exactly what you were doing the last time you had the lost item. Upon returning from vacation, an acquaintance of mine couldn't find her "good jewelry". It wasn't in any of her regular hiding places, so she concluded that her cleaner had stolen it and fired her, even though the woman had worked for her for years and nothing else had ever gone missing. Months later she found the jewelry in the laundry room and remembered that the night before leaving on vacation she had hidden it there after getting thoroughly swozzled at a book club meeting. But the story didn't end there -- a couple of years later her jewelry was taken by thieves who waltzed right into her unlocked house. I always wondered if the cleaning lady heard about this.

Did she tell the cleaning lady why she was fired? I think if she did, she should have also apologized once she realized she had been wrong.