What did you lose. . .

[CaliforniaNow]

that absolutely disappeared into thin air and no one has seen hide nor hair of it since nor do you have even an inkling of where it could be.

[Elayne Bullis]

a turquoise stud earring - I am still holding one to the odd one.

[CaliforniaNow]

Most people's stories aren't that awful; they're just stupid stuff.  Although I did know a woman who had linoleum pulled up and dumpsters emptied trying to find a ring.

Much less traumatic - I got a bundt cake pan one Christmas.  I never even got a chance to use it.  I put it on a pantry shelf.  Everyone saw me.  There was only the immediate family present plus grandparents.  No overnight guests.  No weird relatives.  All of us are very close.  A week or two later, it was gone.  My mother and I covered the whole house and her house looking for it.  Crazy!  So, I did get that cake pan, right?  Yes, dear, I gave it to you.  Now whenever anyone says, "Where's the whatever?", I say, "It's out there with the bundt pan, remember?" 

[flippr 2.0]

i like bundt cake,i haven't had it since i was a kid

[Grandma Helen]

I haven't made a bundt cake in years, but they were really good.  I especially liked the lemon pound cake ones.

[Lifesighs]

So many things disappear, I have sox with no mates, jewelry regularly, silverware, envelopes where does this stuff go?

[truckie]

Theres a big fish out there that keeps steeling my hooks and sinkers...bastard

[imaginethat]

I had an earring that kept getting tangled in the towel. It was a simple gold earring...small hoop.. one day I was at work and for some reason I checked. It was gone, just gone...  I looked everywhere for it.

I also have a ring story. I worked in a restaurant as a manager. I had done some extra cleaning that day. When I went to the bank to make a deposit, I looked at my hand on the steering wheel. The diamond from my engagement ring was GONE! I was just sick. I looked in the car, the lot, the restaurant. Then at home, I looked in the shower, the bed etc. I had given up. My brother-in-law came over and thought about it. He walked over to the recliner where I had a habit of falling asleep, and lifted it up...THERE it was!! My diamond! My ring was so worn that I had the diamond reset in a new ring. I was very very lucky.

No lost bundt pans though. lol. lost socks and things like that are common enough to me......one of my favorite gloves got lost though.

[imaginethat]

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[Coconut Lover]

I  have lost too many precious and non-precious things to list!!  I think a 4th dimention exists inside the 3 we know about.  I live alone  and am not *forgetful* about where I put things.  Still I sometimes go to get something and find it isn't where I left it.  I look everywhere - multiple times - and it just isn't anywhere to be found.  Then sometimes, not always, the item will turn up out of the blue!  And it's frequently right out in the open somewhere, or right where I looked multiple times.

Then there are some things that never return.

[CaliforniaNow]

I'm not sure that living alone has anything to do with that thing being where you've already looked.  I've seen people say, for instance, "It's a staple gun.  It's red.  It's about this long.  It's usually. . .oh, there it is!" as if they weren't talking to themselves and actually just happened upon it.  I think they were really reminding their temporary mental block of what a staple gun looked like so that it could recognize it, already there.  People just get so busy and have too many jumbles going on at the same time.

[CaliforniaNow]

Where do kids' freckles go when they grow up?