Lose, Search, Find - Is it just me?

[redwitch]

I've learned to accept most negative aspects of me. I blurt out what I think without understanding the repercussions at times. I talk way too much when nervous (which means whenever I'm in a group). I will start cleaning in one room, put something in another and end up cleaning in that room and then finding a book I hadn't finished and sitting down and reading and ignoring the cleaning. I understand that I have a form of autism that makes me not "get it" many times but I try hard. I understand I have ADHD and use that to my advantage. However ....

I do one thing that drives me up the wall and I'm really, truly hoping this is more of a general trait that a "Red/Dee" specific one. If I don't leave my glasses in my car, I lose them and it will take me days to find them. I will search high and low. I'll even look in cabinets and have been known to check the dishwasher. Invariably, I'll find them in some odd spot that makes little sense. Worse yet, I will find them walking by and just catching a glimpse of them out of my peripheral vision (obviously after I have pretty much given up on finding them and having started bugging everyone I've seen lately to see if I left them there). Drives me nuts!!

Anyone have this problem of losing, searching and then finding by accident?

[sschuler1]

I used to do that until I sat down one day and figured out that it was only about three different items that I was constantly searching for...and the reason was because I had never made a permanent spot where those items were supposed to go. So I bought myself a key rack and hung it up. Now I never lose my keys anymore. I bought myself a ring dish for when I take off my rings. I bought a holder for all of our remote controls. (all four of them) Now we never lose those things anymore.

[nONIE]

Its no accident Red, Its St. Anthony at work!

Please St. Anthony, please come around, something is lost and cant be found! Works every time. ;)

[redwitch]

schuler, I normally do put things in exact places -- glasses stay in the car because that's the only place I use them. It is when I put them elsewhere that the problem starts. Doesn't happen with other items, just my glasses. Well, keys on very occasions but I find them right away. The eyeglasses will stay hidden for days.

Nonie, I'll try praying to St. Anthony the next time. It sure can't hurt.

[l2ridehd]

Glasses are made by little gnomes who cast a spell on them before leaving their shop. This spell causes them to hide, move, go to the place you last looked and hide there, and any other thing they can do to make life a pain. And guess what, without glasses to see glasses, how can you ever find them. fortunately I only need them for reading. So I get my glasses at Costco in packs of 3, 5 packs at a time. I put them in my car, desk, night stand, kitchen table, hide a couple pair in places I am bound to look, and spread them where ever else I might be. But I still lose them and over time run out and then its back to Costco for another fix.

[Rokinronda]

OH NO, I must have ADHD. I will start to clean 1 room, go to another to get something, can't remember what I wanted to get, start another project in that room, and it goes on and on and on. When I finally get to the room I started in I remember what I went to get the 1st time and the cycle begins again!! Sunglasses? I have several pairs (6 or so) so that 1 pair are always available. Keys? 2 sets. The remotes? attached to hubbys hip. Now what was I going to do on this computer? Oh yeah, check out cruises! NO! I'm supposed to be working! HAH! LOL

[redwitch]

Reading glasses are no problem. I think I have about 8 pair -- one is even a prescription. The rest are "Sam's specials." Works for me.

It isn't the losing that bothers me -- I'm used to that. It is the finding after days of searching and then finding them by total accident. This is new to me. I usually know where I put things down and can go right to them. As a matter of fact, I make a conscious effort to realize I've put something like my keys in a spot that is not it's norm so I can easily find them. But I can't seem to do that with my glasses and driving without them is not my idea of fun (I can see but not well enough to make me feel comfortable even though the DMV says it is okay).

[graciegirl]

Its no accident Red, Its St. Anthony at work!

Please St. Anthony, please come around, something is lost and cant be found! Works every time. ;)


St. Anthony has finally given up on me. I can just see him telling St. Peter, "That woman is a loser. She is asking me for help 50 times a day. I wish to heaven she would get organized!"

Maybe I will pray St. Jude. He is supposed to help hopeless causes.
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[njgranny]

I've always thought that it was "normal" to find things by accident. It's often when we've given up looking that they "appear."

I absolutely hate losing things and will tear everything apart before some one comes across the item "by accident."