Have you lost something lately? How about your identity?

Hi bounce, Chill out, easy for me to say, but you can do it. Bounce out of your worries and try to think of what makes you happy. Don't strive to lose more energy by dwelling on your loss. After all, nothing is ever really lost. Things either get misplaced or get into the wrong hands. You miss your memory stick? Memory resides in the brain. Your resume? You knew how to make one, you can make more. You have not forgotten how to do it. You may be unable to recall it for now because your brain is preoccupied with worry. But mind you, "worry only gives a small problem a bigger shadow." You have the original copy of your passport, the check has been voided and your kids are alive and well. With a 12-inch knife at the parking lot, a guy caused my purse to change residence into his hands. In it were my green card, social security card, reading glasses, driver license and credit cards. I called the cops immmediately so that a police report could be made, thereby protecting myself from identity theft. It was a huge hassle, going to immigrations, social security, DMV, etc, but what could I do, that's life. Things could be worse, but let's look at the brighter side of life. Bounce, don't worry, be happy!

I would be a little worried in your place, especially since my personal info was out there somewhere I was unsure of. Maybe you will get as lucky as I did last week when my son lost an envelope containing 50.00 in cash.After retracing his steps to no avail we concluded that the money was gone. All that was on the envelope were the words avon money from a customer of mine. Two hours after I wrote it off as lost the door bell rings and an employee from one of the local grocery stores is standing at my door telling me he had found the envelope on the street and had gone door to door in every business on our street to see if someone had come in looking for it. Employees at the other store remembered my son coming in and told him where to find me. He apologized for opening the envelope hoping to find more identification and refused any reward. When I told his employer what a great guy he was I was informed that this young man's money troubles are considerable and that he has spent the last month without power due to his circumstances. Talk about renewing ones faith in man kind?

I haven't lost anything that important ... yet! I'm so sorry to hear about your troubles. I don't worry about identity theft. I hate my real name , they are welcome to it , lol!

hi bounce yes I lost my checkbook one day in Von grocery store and somehow the person who found it wentto the store to get my name and address then wandered around our complex until he found my apartment and asked me if I was Patsie Hatley and of course I assured him I was. He said, I think you will be needingthis and held out my check book to me. I was so surprised and so pleased to met a really honest man. I shook his hand and told him i really appreciated his bringing it to me as I had not known I had dropped it.

Hello! Well I am sorry you lost your memory stick. I don't like those things as I am afraid I would drop them and lose them. Well All I can say is monitor those bank accounts of yours, and maybe when the stick got dropped it was kicked and then discarded, or too damaged to get anything off of it? Or maybe a good samaritan will come along and bring it back to you?

I am in the process of losing my wits what with having to do all the domestic chores as I have no maids though a temporary phase but it is driving me crazy. I have always had help around and now suddenly having to handle everything is not my cup of tea!!

lol.... I have always lost time and energy... spent it on something not worth while and didnt realise it till too late.. sign. How many space are there in your memory stick? you can always get those with passwords nowadays... I like to think that someone who picked it up might just use it as another memory stick of his/her own... LOL... in this technology stage, people might be naive enough to just use it as what it is, a memory stick. so if after a few more days of lookout, and nothing suspicious or weird to your bank accounts, i think you can conclude, that it is just being used as another memory stick to contain some other important stuff... Or you may just find it in your next spring cleaning! LOL.. haha

my resolve?

hi! when I saw the title of your discussion the answer just came to my mind, and I wanted to say:" Go and see my last discussion about that being yourself and you will find the answer" , but when I read it, i saw it is something different than that what I thought it is. And so till now I have lost my identity just once, several months ago, when I lost my passport/ID card, and I was really worried about it, because there are different people, from all kinds, and I really didn't knew who can find it and what ca he/she do with it. and I am really still hoping that it will not happen a thing, i mean some thing bad with it!

I haven't tried that. What you lost is very valuable and if it could go to the wrong hands you will be in big trouble. I hope that anyone who has seen your stick will just erase all the info on it..That's much better than the one who saw it pretends to be you...

I lose alot of items every month. (Not big special items) Try to think about what you want more than what you don't want