HELP! How can I locate my missing iPod?

I once dropped a ring into a chair and it took weeks to get it out. I had no idea where it went…I thought, it is either in between the cushions or on the floor. It was neither. It was so bizarre…I finally found it in some folds in the very bottom of the chair because it was one with a leg rest that flipped out. Anyhow, could something like that have happened?

With the power of HEART! ~

Go to where you last remember having it and scour around. Move things. Pray.

Try the truly unlikely places; freezer, fridge, medicine cabinet, under furniture, in waste baskets, stuck in a sweatshirt that you pulled over your head…I have found things in spots that were bizarrely improbable.

And I would forget, for now, where you thought you saw it last.

Did you pull the drawers out of the dresser and look through them all?

Do you have Skype on it? If you do you could try calling your Skype number.

And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost my iPod in the house somewhere. It will turn up eventually.

And also, even though I don’t believe in this stuff, you should recite the St. Anthony prayer:

St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please come around.
Something is lost and must be found.

What the hell? It’s worth a try.

Re-trace your step, slowly. Try to look in your room from various points of views. Upside down, Sideways, get on your bed and look down. Go under your bed and look up. Try to look through everything “wide eye”...It could possibly be right in front of you but you haven’t noticed it yet. Move some drawers where it couldof possibly been kicked under. Behind your tv, dressers, even your closet. Inside pockets, shoes, backpacks, or bags. Under your pillow or in between your blankets…also go through your paints and art supplies. Going to the restroom is something done often so I’d look in there too, even your kitchen just in case. But keep your eyes OPEN

Did you look in the paint bucket and the refrigerator?

All the above are good ideas, but here’s another way to go about—and I’m serious about this. FORGET ABOUT IT for a day or two and let your subconscious go to work. Can’t tell you how many times this has worked for me. You might just wake up in the middle of the night and remember where you left it.

@Austinlad Just what I was going to say! Maybe not a whole day but go for a walk or watch tv and then go check again. I don’t know how many times I’ve been amazed that I didn’t find what I was looking for the first time.

Yes, small things, small, slender things like iPod, and tiny, really expensive things like hearing aids, etc. have a way of finding their way under, between, behind and among all sorts of other things and they have a way of popping back to the surface when your not expecting it. The gravity of stuff. I’m a big loser and every time I go crazy and tear everything up looking for something I’ve lost I always find two or three things I’d forgotten I was even looking for. So @desiree333 next time you are looking for your keys, or your glasses or your eyeliner or your shoes, there it will be! Oh! There’s my iPod!

And btw, did you look under your bed? The undersides of beds have their own gravitational pull.

Also, look in the places in your house where you don’t normally go. Sometimes I lose something because I took something with me when I went upstairs to iron, something I almost never do and I don’t look for it, whatever it is, upstairs because I almost never go upstairs but I had been up there and just forgot.

Well I can’t help you now, but both my ipod are jailbroken and have VNC installed on them .When I loose one around the house I just VNC into it and start a song. It’s saved me many times.

I hate to suggest this as it likely wouldn’t survive, but have you checked the bottom of the paint can?

Do you have household pets? My cat takes delight in knocking my iPhone off the table. However, it’s usually connected to the charging cord and has a good protective (and colorful) case on it so it’s easily located. But there were a few times before the colorful case where it wasn’t so easy. It’s amazing how easily a black device blends into everything :)

@Buttonstc Oh shit.. That would be nasty.

Oh yeah, the ipod touch doesn’t have GPS.

@desiree333 I know that you are more than 100% percent sure, which is not only statistically impossible but displaying a level of confidence in your own memory which may not be serving you well. I parked my car Economy Parking lot at the Philadelphia Airport, a lot which contains 8000 cars and forgot where I parked it. I was absolutely certain that I knew where I had put it and looked and looked and looked. It was a nightmare. I finally called the Airport parking people and asked if they could send someone out to help me find my car. We drove around for some time, in the area where I insisted that my care was and couldn’t find it. I didn’t want to waste anymore of the guys time but I really, really wanted to find my car. He said “lets just try looking over here and over in this area” ... and that’s where we found my car. He said that a good 80% of the people who lose their cars in his lot are absolutely certain that their car is here and then their car turns out to be over there, way over on the other side of the, at the other entrance, near the other exit. People’s memories are not always reliable.

Due, no doubt, to the perversity of nature, I’ve always had a lot of success finding things after buying a replacement. Try it?

@Nullo Yes! I completely forgot about that technique. Works almost every time. Yes. Buy a new iPod and 1–5 seconds after it is no longer possible for you to return your new iPod you will find your old iPod! This technique works for all sorts of things, not just iPods.

Good answer!

@Nullo, my husband used that technique to find his Rollex watch. It worked about a week after he bought the new one.

My wife “misplaced” her $6,000 dollar dinner ring. She swore she took it off and placed it in her jewelry box, just before running a load of dirty clothes. We searched and searched, no ring. After two weeks of searching, I finally called my insurance agent. they mailed me a check to cover the loss. On the afternoon of the received insurance check, I decided to take a shower, before going out. As I reached for a clean towel, guess what fell out into my hands? Yep, her dinner ring.

Point is this: my wife did not correctly remember what she did with her dinner ring, so maybe you are mistaken and your IPod is somewhere else, where you live.

Make a 3rd search.

It is still in the house. You will find it.
However, it was not lost, the puka has taken it.

This also happened to me recently. It was a 5th gen IPod like you stated.
I looked everywhere. Slid hands into every couch and chair. Turned some upside down. Looked high and low and all in between. I knew it was in the house and that I had not lost it. Went on for weeks and drove me crazy. I would always be looking in places I know I looked a few times. I eventually gave it up for gone. I went to buy a new one and the 6th generation ones were in, so I bought that. 2 days later I was sitting in my leather chair and slid my hand down the side and there it was.
When you completely accept it is gone and start to think about replacing it, is when you will find it. The Puka will return it once you are in this frame of mind.
My Great grandmother used to tell me this fable and tale. There is a puka (unsure on spelling) that plays these hide and seek games with your items Once you give in to loosing the item, it shall be returned.

^^

If you mean the Irish mysterious hobgoblin, it is “pooka.”

@gailcalled thank you for the spelling.

@blueiiznh It can also be spelled Púcaúca.

I found it in the pencil case I keep my paint brushes in. The scary thing is since I was painting when it disappeared I dumped out that pencil case 4 times onto my floor. All of the sudden last night I was frustrated so I went through my art drawer and emptied it again. The iPod was in there!!! I seriously don’t even know how it happened…

And no I didn’t pull out my drawers because how does an iPod propel itself off the dresser and into the small cracks between the drawers?

@lillycoyote: Wrong link. Thisúca is what you want, I think.

Another weird thing is that when I found the iPod the time on it was wrong. I went to change it and the date was set to December 31, 1969. I then tried to change the time but it kept scrolling back to 7:00 PM. I was really eerie and odd.

@blueiiznh My mum told me that she “thinks” it’s an imp that took it. She had a friend named Sheri who was a psychic. Apparently Sheri told my mum that she feels the presence of imps in my house. Of course my mum doesn’t believe it but after what happened to me I don’t find it far fetched.

@desiree333 that is sssssssooooooooooooooooooo crazy! I think your mamas friend is right.

Should of looked through your art supplies like I said :P that’s great that you found it btw.

Does that mean you are going to need an exorcist to come out and clean up your house? Glad you found it.

And no I didn’t pull out my drawers because how does an iPod propel itself off the dresser and into the small cracks between the drawers? The same way it hid in your pencil box the first 3 times you looked for it.

@xjustxxclaudiax she said she looked through them at least 4 times before she found it.

My husband just found my car keys in the trash.

so glad the imp returned it…

@Gail

Weren’t you just recently asking about “confirmation bias” ? Might this be a good example regarding the existence of imps or pukkas or whatever?

@Buttonstc: Possibly, but I would make the case for the clear proof of the existence of the God of lost socks and right-hand gloves.

:)

@LOL. The Pooka/Puca got us both on the link. :-)

Mischievous little creatures, aren’t they?

The link doesn’t seem to want to work unless you put it in straight up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Púca