When you lose something do you tear the house apart?

Depends what I have lost. If it is something very precious and I am panicking I will probably tear around madly for it. If that doesn’t succeed, I will spend some time mentally back-tracking to see if I can remember when I last saw it and finally, if all else failed I will start to methodically go through things and yes, probably tidy things as I go.

If it was a discount card or something like that I would look in key places and quite possibly use the opportunity to tidy drawers etc. as I went.

This is going to sound stupid, but I really don’t lose things. I don’t know why I always remember where I put things, but if I don’t, I know they are in one of two or three places, and that’s where it always is.
Things that go missing (like bobby pins), I know my cats stole, so there is no sense in even trying to find them.
If I am going through something for any reason, if I’m not in a hurry, I like to organize… unless it is my husband’s stuff. His stuff is a mess and very disorganized, and I don’t bother with trying to fix it.

I don’t often lose things and I get very irritated when I do. I search in all the likely places and then the unlikely and when I come across junk I don’t need I make a mental note to throw it out later. I am focussed on finding what is lost and I don’t allow myself to get distracted.

Yes, I rip it right down to its foundations and whoever is with me stands and stares in blank amazement!

If I do that I never find what I’m looking for. I like to go really calm and then look for it slowly and thoroughly and shazam, there it is.

The only things I ever really lose are my phone and my iPod, both of which I lose pretty much at least once a day. I don’t tear the house apart because I know I probably just left them in a stupid place, like in the bathroom or under my duvet. I just walk around the house retracing my steps until I find them.

I am very organized. If I lose something, that is a sign to me to clean up.

by the way, your glasses are in the bathroom drawer

Did you check your head for your glasses. I lose mine all the time up there. LOL
Or the car?
But I do tear up the house sometimes. I’ve conquered this lately by deciding to use, looking as a reason to organize better as I go looking. Before I know it I find it. Sometimes the sad thing is I quite organizing once I find it. :(

Yep, I make a huge mess when I am looking for whatever it is that I am missing. But then again my mom taught me that you have to get dirty in order to get clean.

I try not to tear the house apart, that way I never find anything!