More Missing Stuff

@akalinus (44366)
United States
December 15, 2020 1:37pm CST
About three weeks ago, I bought a bottle of aspirin. I took it out of the package and it just disappeared. So I bought some more a week later, and it is gone now too. I am also missing bananas, pretzels, and other stuff. We have had this problem off and on for years. My son and I have searched and sometimes the missing item shows up in a place already searched or is never seen again. What do you think is going on here? Does stuff ever disappear in your house?
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• United States
15 Dec 20
Friendly neighborhood ghosty? Oh and yes all the time.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 20
What puzzles me is when the item shows up where you already looked a hundred times. How does that happen?
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• United States
15 Dec 20
@akalinus I wish I knew because that's the way it happens with me too. I'll take everything out of a drawer looking for something and it's not there, only to look again another day and it be there.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I wish I knew why that happened. It makes me frantic.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
15 Dec 20
Is anyone coming into your house I mean not that you would not notice a person there, but just wondering.
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• United States
15 Dec 20
@akalinus Okay then well maybe a sprite then
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
16 Dec 20
@akalinus *sigh* Fine, then... I'll stop hiding things at your house, Jo Ann... Or leave you a note, telling you where I put whatever I happened to move. *grinning and giggling.*
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 20
If they were, it would have to be when I was not home. I have double locks on my door.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
16 Dec 20
Ghost who walks..I always thought we should have something attractively designed to wear in neck and push every small thing likely to be lost, placed in it. At the end of the day, we can go about with the last routine of placing things in their place.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
16 Dec 20
@akalinus So much the better. Everybody would try harder to remember to keep things in place. It would be like those garments that workers wear and keep tools. I quite like those. We don't get them out here.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
Around here, that would be a big load around the neck.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
@vandana7 I am taking an organization class online. I hope it helps.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
16 Dec 20
I think you need to install a camera and that should solve the mystery.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
16 Dec 20
@akalinus I think they have simple ones that just sit on top of things. Like what they use in a nursing home to check on staff.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
@BelleStarr I will have to read up more about how to use and install the cameras.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
I have been thinking about that. They are expensive but my main worry is that I would mess up installing one. I am not tech-savvy at all.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
15 Dec 20
I will misplace things often.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 20
I think this is not misplacement. I searched my room thoroughly to look for those two bottles of low dose aspirin. If someone came to my door and said they were hungry, I would share what I have.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 20
@CarolDM You are okay. I think mysterious things happen here. It goes on for a while and then stops for a long time. It always starts up again.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
15 Dec 20
@akalinus Sorry.
@LowRiderX (22901)
• Serbia
16 Dec 20
@akalinus That it happens to me when I don't think about what I'm doing, but automatically 'do' ... I really don't believe in ghosts.. Glad to see you active here, I didn't come for a while because of obligations, work and life in general. Stay safe!
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
I was gone from here for a while too. Life gets busy. Welcome back.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
19 Dec 20
@LowRiderX It happens to everybody. There is too much to do and not enough time to do it.
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@LowRiderX (22901)
• Serbia
18 Dec 20
@akalinus I absolutely understand that..
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@Raine38 (12387)
• United States
16 Dec 20
Either you have "borrowers" in your house, or stuff are just getting misplaced. I misplace things all the time when I am pre-occupied and very busy. There are even times that I will enter a room to fetch something, but when I walk in there, I will forget what I came in there for.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
I don't know what to think. I forget why I went in a room too. If I stand there for a couple of minutes, I remember what I wanted to do in that room.
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
16 Dec 20
Yes, but there's nothing other-worldly about it. The stuff usually turns up sooner or later, often in unexpected places.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
But it is usually in places I already searched.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
16 Dec 20
Uhm... I think someone is a bit unorganized... I'm not thinking any one person in particular, of course... just thinking that people in general... *grinning at you* Everything in my house has a place. It goes in that place and if someone, say Pretty, moves it and doesn't put it back, she hears about it... until it is back where it belongs. Usually, she rolls her eyes at me and then goes and gets the item and puts it back where it belongs, telling me, "You could have just looked around for it. I didn't hide it from you. I was using it." But that is the point of everything having a place. I don't HAVE to go looking for it. I KNOW where it is supposed to be and I want it to be there if I need it. Although, when Pretty was little, we had a ghost living in our house that liked to move things on us or hide them. It used to upset me. Then I learned that if I ask him to return the things he hid, he would do it.
@sallypup (69155)
• Centralia, Washington
15 Dec 20
That is strange. Sounds like you have a hungry thief.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 20
I live by myself now. I would know if someone was in here with me.
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@thelme55 (79311)
• Germany
15 Dec 20
Maybe there is a ghost living in your place and keeps on hiding your things.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
A ghost or maybe a bad little elf that likes to play jokes. I don't know, it is just maddening.
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@Shivram59 (50131)
• India
15 Dec 20
@akalinus My mother often says if you put something somewhere with your left hand, you may forget where you had put it.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 20
I don't know which hand I used to open it. That is interesting. Tell your parents I said hi.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
16 Dec 20
@Shivram59 It is an interesting thing to think about.
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@Shivram59 (50131)
• India
15 Dec 20
@akalinus Thanks.If you are a right hander and put something with your left hand, it is almost natural where you put that thing.I don't know if I have explained it clearl.You know my English is not perfect.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
23 Dec 20
That's weird when it did happen regularly. A thing may be misplaced once ir twice but not as always or frequent.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
24 Dec 20
Yes, thanks. It is pretty weird, especially when it is something important like a check or a wallet.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
31 Dec 20
@Nakitakona Absolutely but stuff disappears sometimes anyway. Right now, there are three flippers missing from my kitchen. Flippers are what we turn pancakes, eggs, or sandwiches with. Three missing is just weird. Who would take them and why?
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
25 Dec 20
@akalinus Yrs it is. That's why you must be careful always. .
@TitiaG (251)
• Netherlands
4 Jan 21
Happens to me all the time LOL, and to my hubby too. Couple of weeks ago he was looking for his cup of tea which he just had poured while we were talking. We looked everywhere and then a while later he opened the fridge and there it was It's very common to 'overlook' things. Most of the time you find them back when you're actually are not looking for them. Sometimes I'm looking for stuff I'm certain I had, but have forgotten I threw it away because it was broken. I've searched for my paper shredder for two days.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
4 Jan 21
Excuse me for asking, but how do you lose a paper shredder? Mine sits near my desk and has never moved to the best of my knowledge.
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@TitiaG (251)
• Netherlands
5 Jan 21
@akalinus I hardly ever use it, only when I clear out my personal administration once a year. So I stash it out of the way. I completely forgot that it had broken down last year and that I had thrown it away and never bought a new one.