Isn't it amazing how you always find lost things in the last place you look!

There's no reason to struggle with misplaced keys. There are inexpensive keyfinder devices available. You attach a small fob to your key ring - it responds with a loud noise when pinged. Some use a bluetooth connection, some are RFID. Most are under $30. Some have a limited range - like up to 60 feet, some work over several hundred feet.

There's nothing that will make me panic more than misplacing my keys. Normally, they are always in one spot. It's only when I get distracted that they migrate to a place they shouldn't be. We bought a newer, used car over the holidays and it has keyless ignition. I'm slowly getting accustomed to never looking for keys as the fob lives in the bottom of my purse. No need to ever take it out.

Losing stuff is the worst! Especially the time lost and panic as you try to find those things!

My DH is the king of lost keys. We have a saying around here that if he's keys aren't lost, he's not here. It would be funny if it weren't true.

I am so glad your mystery is solved, and you got your keys back to where they belong. I hate it, when stuff like that happens.

Moni

Lol Bob - I bought some for my husband who constantly misplaces his keys and his phone... TWO Christmas' ago... and he still hasn't gotten them out of the package although he claims he's going to do that tomorrow...

I hate it when I put my keys somewhere out of place. I bought a bulk of TrackR Pixel disks at Christmas for stocking stuffers and one left over for us to use. It's still on my desk :-)

Glad that you found them, Rose!

Things happen. DH sometimes will lose his, then he thinks I moved them. Yea, right!

I try to always keep my key in my bag, or next to it. Other keys are now on the TV stand.

I had a treadmill that has an emergency key that has to be in place for the machine to work. I lost it. Looked all over. I finally ordered another one. I was cleaning the basement and somehow the key landed in an opened box of tissues.

We once bought a new car but couldn’t take delivery right away because they couldn’t find the keys. Took them two days to find them.

We bought our DD a fire box for her important papers. We told her do not lose the keys. Yes, she lost the keys. She's forever losing things.

I bought a new door handle/lock set for the back door appx. six yeas ago(?), put the keys in a spot where I'd always know where to find them. A week later I forgot where I put the keys and still have not found the set. So my back door is unlocked when I go away just like it had been for years before the new handle.

I contacted a locksmith once who said he'd come down for a $60 service fee plus the cost of the new keys. Still haven't done it. Nor do I feel like buying another door handle and pay someone to install it. ha

Rose, I'm glad you found them. I hate when I do something like that.

Really timely. My sister is visiting us from Montana and took my van to the store. Now we can’t find the keys! She leaves tomorrow for home. Luckily, I have another set, but will worry about losing that set now. Maybe she will find them when she gets home and goes thru her luggage. They have to be somewhere, she drove back here from the store!

I hate it when that happens. The secret is to have a spare key and stop looking for the lost one. It will appear.

Dh loses keys and cups of coffee. I lose my phone. I go find his keys and he calls my phone. So far, it works for us.

Hubby and some guys went hunting and I gave him my key just in case and he put my key on one of the wheels in case one of the guys needed to get warmed up. Well he drove off without retrieving the key. Didn't realize it till he got home and asked for my key back. It was long gone, ground into the dirt.

I'm convinced that there are gremlins...

Glad they turned up. I don't think I've ever misplaced my keys but DH does it every day. Instead of being frustrated, he seems so bewildered - "why aren't they in my hand?" He often puts things down where he happens to be without realizing it. I did lose one of my contact lenses though just the other day. It must have "jumped" when I tried to insert and although I searched all over the surfaces nearby I couldn't spot it. I have a back up pair and have ordered a replacement. Last summer I found DH's keys (twice) out on the lawn (?). A miracle I even spotted them. He would have found them at some point with the lawnmower.

A few years ago, on the morning I was leaving for a 4 1/2 wk vacation, I realized that I had forgotten to put two sterling baby cups I use as bathroom cups, in the safe. I grabbed them up and "put them in a safe place". One was my late husband's own baby cup, so it was very, very special to me.

When I got home, I could not find the two cups - I had no idea where I had "safely" put them. I looked EVERYWHERE for these cups - any place that made any sense to stow them. I did have a neighborhood college student watching the house, but it seemed unlikely that he had made off with a couple of sterling baby cups. I was devastated.

THREE YEARS later, I was cleaning out the downstairs hall linen closet - editing some old pillow cases. And what should appear but the two silver cups! I have NO idea why I stuffed them in this closet - they were from two 2nd floor bathrooms and there were many places I could have put them up there. I was greatly relieved to find these special things.

It's funny - people either appear to be ones who constantly lose multiple things, or they almost never lose anything. I'm just too big of a control freak to lose things regularly. But I'm also super-organized - a place for everything and everything in its place.

I never lose my house keys - they're always clipped to a tether in my purse. My car is keyless, so the fob also stays in my purse. The purse is locked in a metal box inside the house.

About five years ago, I "lost" my car keys, yet had the eerie feeling that they were not lost even though I'd looked everywhere for them. Three years later, I went to the local CVS and felt compelled to ask if anyone had turned them in. FOUND!!!

Maybe try doing what my mom did before Christmas: she lost her car keys. Looked everywhere. Had to drive to Coquitlam (over an hour away from where she lives) to the dealership who set her up with new car keys. An hour after she got home, she found her old keys in her purse! The lining had torn and they fell between the lining and the outer leather!

3 years later that's really good nannygoat :-)

I used to have my keys attached to my phone or vice versa. If I lost my cell phone I would just phone it.

But now my fob is broken:-( . So far I've kept pretty good track of my key for my car but it's a matter of time :-(.

I just realized I told everyone online that my back door is unlocked when I go away. lol

LOL, Schoolhouse!

I can't imagine leaving anything unlocked.

My husband lost his keys once. He was running late for work and couldn't find them anywhere. This was unusual so I helped him out.

I finally found them, outside, in the keyhole! He had apparently unlocked the door, pushed it open and left the keys hanging there. I was torn between laughing and being freaked out. Anyone could have opened our door or stolen his car overnight.

He's never ever allowed to make fun of me for losing things anymore!

Found the keys my sister, Lynn lost. She had set them on the pile of recyclables and they were in the recycle bin.

Now, if we could just find DH’s keys he lost last December!

Didn't you just feel like crying, or drinking, when you found them?! You are not alone, it happens to everyone. The anxiety is awful.

But it doesn't happen to everyone!!!

I bet any adult who owns, and uses, keys on a regular basis has misplaced them at some point in their life. I rarely lose mine but it has happened.

Make that any "person"! As a child, my daughter misplaced and/or lost her keys so often that I finally put them on a strap around her neck! Which I still do today for myself......

I don't want to jinx myself but I have not lost any keys. When I come in the house, the keys go into the dish next to the door. When I go out, the house keys are in my purse and the car key is in my pocket. Always.

When I was a teenager and had contacts, I dropped one once and could not find it anywhere on the floor. The next day I found it on my fuzzy slipper!!

I lost my keys once and they were finally found in the phone book! (Back when we still used phone books.)

I've misplaced but never lost any keys. So, the big question is when should you be concerned about memory issues being revealed by the lose of keys or other items?

Misplacing your keys is normal. Looking at them in the palm of your hand and not knowing what they are for is a concern.

One summer morning I drove my DH to the commuter train, stopped to buy groceries, came home, and went about my household chores. When I got ready to meet DH's evening train...no car keys. I retrieved the spare set and met his train.

As I was making dinner, I found the keys. They were behind the milk in the fridge. *Then* I remembered hurrying to get my groceries into the cool house, especially the milk. I'd had to make room for it on the shelf and had set the keys down to do it. I would never have thought to look in the fridge!

chi, I do that with my glasses. Often. Except I set them on the spice rack, the baker's shelf... places that make no sense.

I've misplaced my phone today. Or, last night. I still have no clue as to where it is. Can't call it, either. My house is in a largely-cell-phone-dead-zone.

artemis, your phone may have an alarm that sounds off when you yell for it...

I believe you can also track it through whatever platform it's running....gmail for example.

Mine just sends out a high pitched tone when I say a specific thing (android)

Penny, thanks for the suggestion. I tried, but no response. I think it ran out of juice by now... it tries to connect to cell service but can't very often here, and so eventually gives up its charge.

Maybe St Anthony will intervene for you :)