Have you ever lost an important object and just could not find it?

I once lost a USB drive through a crack in the wall. Where the wall met the floor, since the apartment was old…it had ALL my pictures on it. I was devastated. It was lost into oblivion :( so hugs to you!

I went for a walk on 3/17/09 with my son, to the park. We took the family dog and were enjoying a great day. I had found a jacket of mine and decided to wear it since it was sort of chilly. On the walk on, I look down at my wrist to see the bracelet my husband got me and gave to me on our wedding day was gone. I had just gotten it resized, since I have abnormally small wrists, so I was extremely heartbroken. I searched all over the park and sidewalk..but I have yet to find it. I doubt I will. It was Tiffany’s, so if someone found it they kept it. I hope it never fits them because it was custom fit to me :(

Yep. It happened to be in the last place I looked.

I apologize, I couldn’t resist that.

@casheroo

That blows. I’ve never lost anything like that in a public place, it’s always been at home, so it’s a much easier place to look for something.

The problem with mine is that the fact that it could’ve fallen in the garbage can kind of demotivates me from looking for it. I start looking for it and then I think “what’s the point? I’m looking for nothing; it fell in the garbage and is gone forever.” I hate that. :P

Oh well, I’m never giving up. :)

My keys have been missing since March and are still nowhere to be found.

The number of things I have lost numbers in the millions (okay maybe only the hundreds) but two that stand out are:

1). I once found a piece of fossilized jawbone that looked human, and had two human-looking molars in it. One was loose and I could pull it halfway out. I was about 12 when I found it, and it sparked my interest in aercheology immediately. Then it disappeared, and I have never seen it since.

2). I found a small gold nugget (roughtly the size of a pea) in the creek behind my house. I was about 16. When I showed it to my uncle, who was an amateur expert on such things, he declared it was real gold and not iron pyrite. I lost it (or had it stolen) shortly afterwards.

Both had value not only in a monetary sense, but also for sentimental reasons.

I lost my keys about a year ago.

I had just gotten 2 new jobs in private homes, so had just gotten their house keys. They were on the key ring along with my house keys, my boyfriend’s house keys, my car keys, bike lock keys and a few others. We went out to dinner, stopped at a gas station, and went back to his house. The next morning- no keys. I retraced every step and called everywhere I had been. They were never found. Explaining it to my brand new bosses sucked.

After about two weeks of searching everywhere I could possibly think they could be, and even some places they couldn’t possibly be (hey, maybe I drove home from that store without keys! I’ll call them!) I gave up.

You cannot know for sure that something is truly lost until you looked in every individual space, no matter how unlikely, that is as small as the object you are looking for. You can’t just look in a drawer, you have to look inside of everything in the drawer that could hold your object.

Start in one corner of the room, where the corner meets the floor, move along the floor to the next corner, move up one inch and go back to the first corner and continue until you have covered that wall and every possible space on shelves, behind books, in shoe boxes, in the pencil cup. Methodically search EVERY SQUARE INCH of every possible space the object could be. Pretend somebody hid it and it is there, you just have to find it.

Search everywhere.

My sanity.

I still haven’t found the front door keys I lost in 1979 on the way home from school. I don’t know how many times I combed the streets between the bus stop and my house that afternoon. And did I ever get in a heap of trouble for being irresponsible!

@jeanna is there a reward if we find it?

The IRS recently informed me that they lost my returns for two different years. Unfortunately, it turned out that I had lost them, too. Then, I discovered that my son cratered the hard drive on one computer that had the file on it for one year, and the file for the other year on my main computer refused to load.

I looked for the paper copies in the house for two weeks full time before I broke down to try to recreate them. Fortunately, I figured out why the one file refused to load (my anti-virus program decided that one of the essential dll files was bad news and quarantined it, so I unquarantined it). I had saved a copy of the data file for the other year on my main computer and discovered that I could get a new copy of the software (the CD, of course, had vanished, too), so that got resolved.

Overall, it took me thirty days to solve the problem.

OTOH, I have lost several sets of car keys and my wedding ring somewhere in the house and I haven’t seen them in years. They may turn up when they are holding the estate sale some day, but maybe they won’t.

@evelyns_pet_zebra Sure, but I’m afraid I lost that as well…

We have a paper stuck on the refrigerator entitled “Land of the Lost”. It is a list of lost items that we are looking for. Sometimes the item it will show up in the freezer: keys were in my hand while putting groceries away. On the list now are: TH-79 radio missing for 2 years, Fiskars 2 years, We found the watering can in the barn. and the Chev Malibu title in the Buick.
The Land of the Lost page is a testament to our forgetfulness.

My wife bought me a silver ring for our ten year anniversarry. I lost it six months later. It drove me nuts because I rarely lose track of anything (I’m ridiculously organized).

I was very sad about this because my wife put a lot of thought into it.

Two tears later I was cleaning out our linen cabinet and found it in the bottom of the bedsheet drawer.

I have no idea how it got there.

When I was little I had a teddy bear, and one day it just dissapeared for some reason.
I looked everywhere for it and it never turned up.
It turns out my little brother had thrown it in the trash.
From that day on I hid all my stuff like that and nothing went missing since.

~All these events are evidence of small local black holes that objects (and even people) sometimes fall into. Some of the objects appear in different points in the space time continuum, some appear at future times, some just disassemble into component subatomic parts.~

BTW, I have a long history of losing small pieces, keys, bluetooth earphones, etc. I have learned that the best practice is duplication.

One thing that irks me is when I set my keys down, and I sort of remember vaguely where it is…then someone in the house decides to help me avoid losing them, and then moves them to a totally different place!

Well I recently lost my camera which SUCKS because everyone loves taking pictures
and we still can’t find it and it was missing a couple days ago.I remember me and my little sister were taking cute pictures then I gave it to my mom since we had to go to a picnic and now I’m really sad :,(
we’re still looking :|

I lost my remote for my stereo about two years ago. I wish I could find it because it would be oh so helpful to have when I’m laying in bed all comfy and don’t want to get up to turn on some tunes.

My kids when they were 2 years old. We were window shopping before Christmas. They seemed to have looked at a different window when it happened. Took me 15 minutes to find them. I asked them not to tell Mom, but you know how 2-year-old kids are…

I lost my mind 17 years ago when the first kid came along. Haven’t found it yet but I’m still looking.