My mouth can't find my keys...

This is a great way to describe this behaviour SaintAnne! I have most definitely done the same more times than I care to remember and run around frantically while someone at the receiving end patiently tells me to retrace my steps and when did you have them last? etc etc. lol. I am hopeful though that this may actually be some subliminal connection with the netherworld that eventually draws us to our lost items by the use of these repetitive mantras. One of the more appropriate ones being But it was here a minute ago, but it was HERE!" Better put me on the list I think.....

hat sounded like my hubby this morning his ring was missing an he was walking around the house where was it did i put in a safe spot for him well I look around for it after he left calmly an found it on the shelf in the bathroom i guess that is where he took it off at an keys forget about it we lose those every aother day

Been doing it everyday especially when I am busy with my office work on my PC.Where is my pen? where is my pen drive?Where is my coffee etc.

i think most people do the same act...i had always find something using my mouth...i can still remember my mom always say its the eyes that should be searching not the mouth...even if i'm this big now i still find myself looking using my mouth..i think its a typical habit for everybody...

Is THAT what that is called? I do it all the time, mostly when there is no one around to answer. Then I find myself having extensive conversations with myself about whatever it is I am looking for. I walk from one room to the next, asking if I left it here, for some reason. Then I hear myself say, "No, why would I have put it there, that doesn't even make sense!" Then a third voice chimes in, (again, my own) and, says that we are both being silly and it is probably right where we left it. I have to remind that third voice that it probably IS right where we left it, but, Could you be so kind as to tell us WHERE that is? So, if you would like to add one crazy person who carries on a three way conversation with herself to your list, sure, go right ahead!

you are definitely right.mouth can't find things that are MISPLACED.we have same experience my friend. i keep on talking while finding things that are lost.

I see my self right there Sisi! Most of the times I am alone in the house and I keep talking to myself doing the 'mouth search' thing and I find it really effective. You can actually remember the proceedings specially if you are doing it all the time. So one clue talk relates to the other and we could finally get to the thing. And dear, can I enroll myself? Do you find me fit for the job?

[i]Hi Anne, I am this person also but I talk and search! LOL! I guess everyone in my family is like this, asking to everyone but at the same time searching also the possible area where they leave it..LOL! I guess this is our indirect way of asking help from other people when we are searching something! LOL![/i]

Oh, absolutely. I just ask myself where did I put that thing over and over until hub by gets tired of the whining and finds it for me ;-)

Living alone has broken me of that habit, although it's really not a bad idea! Not too long ago I went looking for the couch cover that I had removed from the couch. I had removed it because every time my mother came over here she freaked out that my cats were going to ruin it. But the rest of the family was coming up so I wanted to put it back on. It was not where I thought I had put it. I searched this house from one end to the other and back again about three times, and it's a VERY big house. I was so frustrated and annoyed that I was talking out loud asking the walls "Where did I put that phucking thing???" I would have been better off if I had used my mouth to ask my mother, because she had come over here and taken it without a word to me!!! I could have smacked her I was so ticked off. I no longer put things in a 'safe place' either. I swear, I believe all the things I have ever done that with are all having a big party, laughing their a$$es off while I search and search and search for them. They're slapping each other on the back and sh!t going "Hahahahaha... she's going through that drawer again looking for you Mr. Lawnmower Manual! What an idiot!"

I have used it a few times. My husband seems too do it alot more than me I think just because doesn't want to have to find it himself. My oldest daughter does the same thing i'll tell her to go get something and it would be her and her sister bedroom and she go and walk back out and tell me she couldn't find it.

I find myself doing that all the time. My children and partner also do it to me. I usually end up searching for the stuff myself because i get so fed up of them asking "Where is it". As for hiding stuff i put things in a "safe place" then can never find them again. You can also guarantee that the item i am looking for and am so convinced that i put it down in a certain place is actually somewhere completely different.

My kids do most of the time..are they getting it from me, maybe because I sometimes have the habit. I'm trying to correct it though because I don't want my kids to do the same. The practice is just a waste of time and energy so it should be eliminated.

Its always our low memory to forget where we have kept our belongings and the other people to search a lot for it and later i used to get it where i kept. it happens more time at the need of the hour and it makes me to get late as well