Ever put something away so you wouldn't lose it...and lost it?

Oh i think this is just normal I haven't got any kids and i do this all the time too, a few months ago I bought a set of little scewdrivers so I put them somewhere and do you think I could find them the other day when I needed to use one i just don't know where I put them...

I know that I have also misplaced things before, and they seem to be lost for a long time before I finally find them again. Since I moved and live with my fiance though, we never misplace things. He is a cleaning machine and his mother as well, they love to clean and yet I never have liked to. Well now that I live with his mom , him and his father I get into the habit of not putting things off.

i used to do them in childhood. i had a pack of beautiful sticker. i knew cousins will aks for it if they see it. i hide it and lost it then.

Yes! I'm quite forgetful, plus I'm not much of neat freak. SO sometimes, I keep future presents or paper bags or books and when I finally need it, I can't find it anymore! It has happened so often that I've decided not to put things away anymore. As long as I need it, I'll just put it on a table top so that I can always see it. :) That way, nothing gets misplaced hehe.

before i do this. but not any more. cause i am more disciplined now. i make sure that i will remmeber where i had placed those things that i had kept away so i could locate them when i willl need them. so i will not have hrad time locating them inside my home. cause i hate it when i to dig down my things just to find the thing i am looking buried beneath those piles of old things that i had kep inside a very big plastic bag. i am more orderly now. every thing has its own place now in my home. and locating is not any more a big task me. it is actually fun to get those things when i needed them cause it is a breee to locate them and use them again.

oh yes i have done this before one time i put away 20 dollars and then i thought about it one day and could not remeber where i put it. i was so mad, it took me 2 days to find that money and then i found it in my socks and then i was like oh my gosh i remeber putting it there now. it was so funny. one time my dad put the remote away cause me and my sister were fighting. then he forgot where he put it and we could not find it for like 2 months!

yup..that particular infection has affected 2 of the 4 ppl in my household lol! grams puts things away so they are "safe" and then later can spend days and weeks trying to find it. i put things away cause i dont want to lose it, its important and this is a safe (oh dear theres safe in me too!) place..where it would be only logical to look for it when the time comes and i need it. like usb cords, or program disks lol! though i must insist that when i lose things it is usually because someone else has decided that it needs to be over here in THIS pile, or its not safe where i left it and must be hidden in the bowels of "over there somewhere"..truly its not me, i swear...

thank goodness.. i had always thought i am the only one with this 'problem'... good to know.. somewhere, there is another mommy with a similar problem.. i think i tend to forget where i kept the thing i found, because.. i normally try to hide it from the young ones.. example.. found a my long-lost brooch under the sofa.. 'kept' it somewhere where my youngest wont find it, play with it and lose it again.. then finally - i myself forgot where i kept it (to hide it)... seems like i hid it from myself.. heee...heeee..heeee.... nowadays.. whenever i am cleaning the house.. i wear something with pockets.. anything i find.. i'll put straight into the pocket.. at the end of the day.. empty everything in the pocket in a specially made 'junk-box' - i'll just look into it if i feel like i need to look for something.. dont even bother to sort the things inside it..

Yes. I have to hide things daily from my 6 year old son. He thinks almost everything that is mine is his sometimes and I'm constantly hiding things so well from him that I often forget where I hid it at when I later try to find it. I usually hide my vitamins and sharp objects he's not allowed to have. Still to this day I can't find some items I have hid so well and I had to go back out to the store and re-buy the same things again!..LOL

I do this too. I'll think I'm being so smart putting something somewhere where I'll never forget. And then I do.

OMG yes. And The joke is this happened many times when I was younger. Now that I a older it does happen, but I am careful about hiding it too well.

Yes, I do this a lot to. I'm still looking for my glasses that my I lost when my brother was visiting. I fell asleep on the couch and I took off my glasses and laid them down somewhere. That's been over a few months ago and I haven't found them yet LOL. I have been using an old pair of glasses for now. I really hate that though because I can just put something away and I will even say to myself "I have to remember that I put it here" and then when I go to look for the thing, I can't remember for the life of me where I put it. Ugh...It's awful!

This happens to me all the time. My problem normally happens with my keys. I will put them up and then I forget where I put them. I try to put them in the same place at all times. However it does not seem to work all the time. I think I may need to eat more fish I'm told that this will help your with your memory or maybe I can purchase some fish oil. I'm told that also helps your memory.

It really happens to me especially when those are small knick knacks. If I found it, I would save it for future use, but when its already time to use it, Gosh i cant find it. I guess we really need to be organized. ex. put all small items together, sort them accdg to their use , etc.