“I'd already taken it out of the fridge and forgot that I did it!!”

Wish I could say I’ve never done that.🥴

Annie, embrace it!

My husband and I play charades/what’s that word every day. I can picture stuff in my mind but can’t think of the word. He’s the same. 😁

We laugh about it all the time.

‘Wish I could say I’ve never done that.’ Oh so true! 😎🤷🏻‍♀️

You are probably like me, thinking of other things while doing something else. You are okay!

That's mild compared to me losing my prized Martha Stewart gardening tool I bought at Kmart 40 years ago. I transplanted a dracaena and went to do another one and the tool I was using is nowhere. We searched the yard, and I even dumped out the garbage can thinking I threw it in there with some branches I discarded. My mind used to be so sharp so I'm finding no humor in this stage.

I think it would be worse if you had adult children living with you....to witness it ALL. Now...you can just sweep it under a rug like it never happened...until next time.

My husband wants me to buy a new cat heating pad, with a timer...because he says we'll never remember to turn it off otherwise. We're idiot proofing the house...against us! 😕

"We're idiot proofing the house...against us!"

Hahah! Perfect! In some ways we are doing that too with automatic light switches so we can't forget to turn them off...and our built-in ironing board that automatically cuts the power if you put the board away so you can't accidentally leave the iron on.

"I think it would be worse if you had abult children living with you....to witness it ALL."

Well, we do have our cats to make sure we don't forget what time it is...they always know when it's time to feed them. Misty gets a pill at noon and so reminds me to take my noon-time pill as well!

Well I lost my laundry room key a number of weeks ago. I know I used it just to re-set the timer for the lights, I didn't even do laundry. I checked every pocket drawer, and I have no idea where it would be. It's still missing, I've been using my neighbour's below me key

Then I went to get my car keys a few days later and they weren't in the little dish. I couldn't find them anywhere. I did find them the next day with the laundry in the hamper. ?

I recently did this with my jewelry. I gave most of the good stuff to my daughter. I don't wear it much anymore but I thought for sure it was missing. Nope, was in a box in my closet. I still don't know what happened to my old wedding set, the one I keep telling myself to make into a necklace or something for my daughter.

Then there's the old lap quilt. It disappeared several years ago. I finally just bought one from a fellow KTer who was posting her quilts for sale on Facebook. I like the new one much better but still wonder where the heck the other one went to.

I knew the ending after "all the fixings out". Been there done that!! Drives ya nuts!

circle the square on the calendar to mark the date, which you will wonder why it's circled ... bwah hah haaa

I can't even count how many times I've done something like that, Annie 😄

This reminds me of that other thread about missing items. I think I mentioned a missing tube of toothpaste that was driving me crazy - well after I bought more toothpaste, I found it last week in the linen closet under a pillowcase 🤨

DH lost his truck keys a few years back (maybe 10). I nagged him for quite a while to get a spare key made before he loses this set. He did and the keys have still not shown up.

He had driven into the garage and went into the house. No clue where they went.

Lily, over a year ago i lost my favorite weeding tool, a cobra head. I had it for around 10 years and it even had a cord on it for keeping around your wrist when using. Looked everywhere in the yard, the garage in a bag where I kept it, the discarded pile of clippings (as you did). It never turned up. It is fairly large and has a blue handle so one would think it is easy to find. Nope. I asked DH for another one for Christmas so I now have one again.

I blame it on the raccoons…you know they like shiny things.

Unfortunately with my tool, it can't be replaced since Kmart has been long gone around here and Martha hasn't sold there for many many years. It's a French tool I remember her saying on her show, and I painted the wooden handle yellow which of course complicates things since there are a lot of yellow leaves in the yard. That's discouraging about your loss. I don't have much hope. Years ago I did lose a long skinny Fiskar trimmer which they don't make anymore. Three years later we found it in the myrtle and it worked fine. So maybe someday...

Has anybody seen my pink sparkly shoe. I can't find it anywhere. I have one of them but not the other and I need it for my Halloween costume. Grrr.

I hope you find your gardening tool and I hope everybody finds everything else including those 10 years lost keys.

There is hope after all.

I was coming home from a camping trip and my jewelry which I brought for the trip went missing. Could not find the jewelry anywhere looked high and low tore the place apart.

We have big Garden pots lining our walkway and somehow my little bag of jewelry that I brought with me slid into the planter.

Time goes along and I mulch the pots every so often. Even though we dug in the pots there was no sign that we could see of anything besides dirt.

We had to move and we emptied the pots completely to move them. Surprise surprise buried very deep was my jewelry missing for 8 years. We probably buried it even deeper when we added more dirt. Shrug.

Here's another one: years ago I was raking leaves & lost my 18k gold thumb ring. No...it's not inside my gardening gloves. Altho....I DID find my 14k gold dolphin ring, that I lost, inside the bag of dry cat food. 🙄I tell you all this, because I'm not getting more forgetful....It's just more annoying now I'm older. 🤣

@lily316 re: your tool. I bought a magnet on a telescoping rod - or you could attach one on a pole. It's easy to sweep areas in search of metal objects (and cheaper than a metal detector). I use it when I've laid down a tool and can't see it , for the weeds or mulch or leaves.

All day every day I can so relate.

Lately I have not lost anything but more along the lines of Annie and the mayo.

(there is a large silver pendant that seems to be M.I. A. though, and I'm pretty sure I will locate it one of these days so Im not overly concerned, but it becomes a consuming puzzle to me).

Well, of course, this is more than just losing things. It's the lesson in humility. I first went to blamed my dippy DH instead of looking to my own dippy self. And the need for learning self-compassion as, as we get older, this is only going to happen more often.

Annie, of course. I was cursing myself a few months back because I couldn’t find my rings. I am generally very careful with putting them in a small tray in the bathroom. Not there. I searched in several places, some more than once, and worried myself sick over losing my wedding ring (a band with diamonds) and another ring which i don’t wear often but had worn the day before. Quit looking and came back to the bathroom later and noticed I had the container with ring-cleaning solution on the side of the sink. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Solved.

It’s these things that get seemingly lost forever for no apparent reason that drive us nuts!

Annie, it worse when you live alone and you have no one else to try to blame for misplacing things-though sometime I wrack my brain trying to conjure up someone else to blame!

Lily keep an eye on Ebay and maybe you will find one! I finally found my bundt cake keeper in the first place I had looked, covered by a towel.

This thread jinxed me! I just lost the little knife I've used for some 30 years for cutting garden vegetables. I use it ONLY for that--and it's not in the house and it's not in the garden or I can't find it in the garden amidst the hay covering the beds. I'll have to buy another cheap knife today.

This entire thread made me feel better. I used to be pretty smart. Now I shock myself with how dumb I can be. Ah, to be young, have a sharp brain, and that 110# athlete's body again.

Part of my issue is I can't dance anymore. They say line dancing keeps your gray matter in tact and I believe it. I was getting so dumb, so I started line dancing and I could feel my brain getting sharper again. But now with my back and hip issues, I've had to stop and my mind is eroding again. :(

My experience with losing my gray matter cells is: My husband left his cell phone at home when he went to the store. He never leaves without it, but that day, he did. When I saw it, I picked up my phone to call him to tell him he didn't have his phone!! I didn't leave the house that day!

I agree with you Annie, that physical exercise and working our bodies hard (or, at least reasonably hard) is good for us.

I too am challenged in a number of ways and can no longer push myself as hard as I used to. Staying active is so important, and it's so frustrating when you feel like you're battling your own body in that regard.

Kathy, did you look down the sides of the front seats with a flashlight for the keys? That’s a common spot in which to lose keys and its difficult to see in there.