Tell me about how you found a totally lost thing...

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Anonymous wrote:We lost a Tivo remote once for months, and downloaded an app on our phones to replace the remote. It was tedious.

Maybe 6 weeks later we found it in the bottom of a bag destined for Goodwill -- our toddler had put it there.

My toddler son hid his shoe inside a ride-on toy. Didn't find it until we went to donate the toy.

Seriously, the only way to find a truly lost item is to go buy a replacement. Once you do that and it's past the return policy, the item will turn up.

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Funny you ask this OP - my husband dropped off his car to be serviced today and when they lifted the hood, they found his wallet, wedged up near the windshield. He's super neurotic (but always misplacing his wallet and keys) and he totally freaked out when he lost it 3 months ago. We don't have a garage so it has been half baked by the engine, half exposed to all the elements. Doofus.

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Lost my engagement ring - searched the house. We renovated and when they tore up the floor in our bedroom, I made sure I was there as I thought it had fallen down next to the radiator. No ring. 5 years late, I'm cleaning up the basement and I see the ring hanging on this statue stuck in the corner of a wooden bookshelf right next to our work sink. I had been potting plants and stuck it there. Craziest thing.

I have lost jewelry when I traveled because I would hang long necklaces off door handles..

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I don't think you put it in the drawer. Did you even bring it on the trip? I would look in my travel kit or at home in a drawer.

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OP, I hope you find it. I'm sure I will get flamed on here, but I pray about it - I ask for guidance. I clear my mind and pray for guidance to find what I have lost. It works for me.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny you ask this OP - my husband dropped off his car to be serviced today and when they lifted the hood, they found his wallet, wedged up near the windshield. He's super neurotic (but always misplacing his wallet and keys) and he totally freaked out when he lost it 3 months ago. We don't have a garage so it has been half baked by the engine, half exposed to all the elements. Doofus.

OP here - the only other time something like this happened was with my wedding band - I took it off to put sunscreen on a kid and either handed it to my husband or put it in his backpack outer pocket. We tore of up the rental house looking for it. It finally resurfaced 6 weeks later as he put the backpack in an overhead luggage bin on a flight. After that I didn't travel with my engagement ring/wedding band for a long time. And after that I'm also really methodical about taking off my jewelry and putting it away in a set place, so it would have been really out of character for me to leave it laying around or do something weird. Yes, full disclosure- the missing items are my wedding band, engagement ring, diamond earrings, and a not valuable but long necklace that would not easily go unnoticed. They were clearly put someplace all together, but my brain isn't allowing me to figure it out. It had been a long day of travel but still, I remember every other mundane thing that evening, but not this.

Off to tie a knot in a sheet and light some orange candles while I pray to St. Anthony (and cry a little).

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Anonymous wrote:Lost my engagement ring - searched the house. We renovated and when they tore up the floor in our bedroom, I made sure I was there as I thought it had fallen down next to the radiator. No ring. 5 years late, I'm cleaning up the basement and I see the ring hanging on this statue stuck in the corner of a wooden bookshelf right next to our work sink. I had been potting plants and stuck it there. Craziest thing.

I have lost jewelry when I traveled because I would hang long necklaces off door handles..

This!! This is what I was talking about in my post about random surfaces. This is 100% what I would do

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Last time I really lost something (keys) I tore apart the house for a couple of hours then there they were on the dining room table where I would have seen them had they been there the whole time.

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Anonymous wrote:Lost my engagement ring - searched the house. We renovated and when they tore up the floor in our bedroom, I made sure I was there as I thought it had fallen down next to the radiator. No ring. 5 years late, I'm cleaning up the basement and I see the ring hanging on this statue stuck in the corner of a wooden bookshelf right next to our work sink. I had been potting plants and stuck it there. Craziest thing.

I have lost jewelry when I traveled because I would hang long necklaces off door handles..

This!! This is what I was talking about in my post about random surfaces. This is 100% what I would do

My husband FREQUENTLY sets things in random places (I only do it very rarely). And he doesn't ever remember where he left things. And he doesn't learn from his mistakes. I'm trying very hard to get our 9yo son to put his things in places that make sense.

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OP, I believe you're going to find the missing jewelry. Promise us that you will come back and tell us when and where you do!

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Anonymous wrote:You said you searched bags - do any of the bags have a rip in the lining? Perhaps you were searching so frantically that you missed that.

Any children in the house that may have moved the jewelry?

I'd also check kitchen drawers, the fridge, etc.

Ohh, this is a good idea. I've often had rips in the bottom of my purse lining and not realized it until I've turned it upside down looking for my keys or other small item.

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Just wanted to thank OP because I've really enjoyed this chain. It would never occur to me to ask a Q like this on DCUM, or to Google like the sunglasses PP.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I believe you're going to find the missing jewelry. Promise us that you will come back and tell us when and where you do!

I agree.

My mom lost her wedding rings a few years ago. She was so upset because my father had died years earlier. Weeks later she put on a pair of jeans, found a tissue in the pocket and her rings were wrapped in the tissue. She was so happy.

My DH’s expensive watch went missing. We never found it. We believe the cat knocked it off the nightstand into the small trash can and we emptied it without knowing. We removed the trash can so it couldn’t happen again.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there somewhere you are NOT searching/and or it actually WOULDN’T make sense for it to be? Like stop searching for the thing in the most logical place. Start looking in the illogical places, or places for whatever reason you’ve decided it wouldn’t be.

Also I hate giving him credit for this because I’m pissed at him right now, but if I go to my husband in despair/distress and ask for his help, he is able to find the thing 99% of the time. It’s a rare chance for him to be my hero.

It's the fresh set of eyes-- and a brain which also may not be attached to where the thing "should" be.

DH also helps me with this (and vice versa) but it took several years of marriage before my anxious know-it-all behind would stop irritably following him around saying "I already looked there." After he found The Thing about a dozen times in someplace I'd already looked, I learned to keep my mouth shut, lol.

I wish my husband would learn this lesson. He loses things frequently and asks for my help finding them, then snaps at every question or suggestion I make while we look. Drives me nuts!

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I grew up on Lake Michigan. One summer, my mom lost an earring down at our beach. Every day that summer, she looked for the earring whenever she was down there. We'd all be playing in the water, and she'd be walking with her head down along the shore looking for a glint of gold. The next summer, she continued to look for the earring-- and found it!

Persistence, OP!