Tillie, thanks for what you said about my Dad.

{{{hugs}}}

Good luck with your search Karl! 🙂

Wonderful organization skill having a place for every thing and remembering to put everything back in it's proper place. 😀

Sorry to hear of your loss, cindy. I'm glad he was able to enjoy a long life with you.

Not only do we have both dianne and diane, but we've had a second diane (from CA rather than OR) on occasion.

See if you can establish a "home" location for keeping your glasses, phone, and keys when they're not in use. And make sure you put them back there when you're done with them!

OK, back to my own reason for posting. I wanted to add a couple more items to my "Lost" list before they actually turn up in the paper stack.

• Rules to a game that a friend published on his blog.
• A series of puzzles that I've been meaning to show to some friends.

i guess that some of u know why i can be 40 minutes or two&a half hours late cuz i cant find my glasses and by the time i find my glasses, i have lost my fone AND the keys. Most people just think i disresect them& dont care if i am on time. some think i have an unconscious desire to remain a child (read this in Glamour magazine myself.) i am beginning to think there is a dianne AND a diane. i enjoy reading posts of both. today i found nothing but lost my cat to the infirmities of old age.tonight he is not sneezing &his back does not hurt but i miss him so much already& he's only been gone a couple of hours.

WOW!
Buried gold.
4 coupons for free ice cream!!! 😀

Found several credit/debit cards that were near the bottom of the pile of papers on the desk. (None are currently valid, but I'm glad to have closure on them.)

Found an unopened envelope with four of the coupons for a free pint of Baskin-Robbins.

Also found a small magnifying glass which is handy to have with me if I need to read fine print and don't have my glasses -- I think I'll give that one a home in my backpack; I'm more likely to need it while away from home.

I've just found the lease that I signed when I moved into this place in 2000. It was in an old suitcase, along with a few photos and some sunglasses and a few other miscellaneous items. Not a place I would have considered looking for it!

WOW! All that buried treasure! 😀
Great job tackling that area.

I feel the certificate was put there by your Father to remind you that life is precious and that we have no guarantees on how many new days we will get here, and to treasure every day as if it were our last.
(((hugs)))

Some fun stuff now ~~~

I'm going to move that bin so it doesn't become the dumping container anymore. That area still has piles of treasures so back to it. 🙂

While clearing a pile of crap so I could open the door to the garage wider (it's the door we use all the time haven't been able to completely open it in years) I found a folded up piece of paper on the floor in dust, Christmas tree pine needles, dog hair, etc.

It's my father's death certificate. Have no idea how it got there. But it reinforces my feeling that I have to look at every single thing before it gets tossed. 🙁

Found my watch! On the floor next to the couch. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

congrats Karl. I am still looking for my favorite dansk work shoes, they are black sling backs that fit and look great, where are they hiding? I plan to find work clothes for next week. I hang my keys up when I come in the door. Had to buy new keys for car and they have sensors in them so was hundreds of dollars, don't want to do that again. Had extra RV keys made, knowing my track record with keys, has a key for door, one for ignition, one for gas, one for hood, and I am sure more, it was incredible when I lost the gas cap key.
Now that there are less piles makes it easier, but still forget where I "organized things", like I had a cute basket with lid, of summer shoes, and couldn't find shoes because they were no longer all over floor, forgot they were in basket. Found walking shoes buried on deck under clean empty bins yesterday, my excuse for not going for walks is now gone.

I found a pair of shoes that I'd forgotten to put on the list. Which reminds me that there should be one other pair in the closet; I haven't checked for them yet.

Mare, where have you been? Missed you.

This is a brilliant idea!

I have lost an important data stick for the computer and its small. I am looking for it as I go and will be happy if it shows up, otherwise I will try to figure out what's on the darn thing other than pictures.

A lot of things are gone from when I got a new hard drive so am also looking for the older ones in case the stuff is on any of those. Drats!

Hah! I've got a file where I've been listing lost items. Several have already been marked as "found"; the two most recent were a couple of technical books that were somewhat important. There are a couple of items that I know are not in the clutter -- the keys that fell out of a hole in my pocket while I was bike riding (since replaced), and the thermos bottle that I left behind at the cafeteria when I was in a rush to leave. But there are still four items that might yet turn up...

1. My spare pair of glasses. I recall that when I had my volunteer cleaning crew here, someone asked me if I was saving them, and I said yes; but I haven't seen them since then. I hope that they're in the box of office stuff stored in the garage.
2. A disk of audio files that my brother gave me. I recall having seen it within the last couple of months, but I didn't put it "home".
3. The USB cable for my camera. Someone's given me a replacement, but the original is probably in the clutter.
4. My electric razor. It's been gone for so long that I'm reasonably sure that I set it down on top of the car that day, and forgot it was there. But I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does turn out to be in the house.

Haha! Great thread, Barb!

So I'm back to my dime store magnifiers.

LOL 😀

My hoarder loses everything in his hoard.
He spends hours and hours every week just looking for stuff.
I had to buy another set of silverware and steak knives because he lost most all the other ones somewhere in there.
He even keeps having to buy new socks & underwear because he can't find the other ones.
He has a lot of only "one shoe" issues.
Important papers like vehicle titles and the house deed haven't been seen for years.
Keys! Keys are always lost.

He used to always ask me "where is my....?"
My answer was always it's "where ever you put it down". 😉