Constantly losing things

[ghostrunner]

By constant, here's what I mean.

I went to go hook up a rain barrel to our gutter the other night. I needed about half a dozen tools and some parts to get it done. I'm really bad about keeping my tools arranged and I'm really bad about putting it all back when I'm done. It doesn't help that the basement is a mess and the tool area is hard to get to.

But that wasn't the whole problem. I literally picked up three different items in the course of gathering my tools, which I then lost while gathering other tools. I was cursing at myself pretty good after the second time, and told myself I should just take one thing out at a time. Anyway, I do [expletive] like this all the time. I think it's gotten worse after the two kids, but I've always been this way. I'm starting to wonder if it's an actual condition. Or it could be I'm just a natural [expletive] up.

[docellis]

I am constantly losing things because my boyfriend is a neat freak and is always "putting things away". This morning I spent 30 minutes trying to find a pair of shoes - any pair of shoes that matched my clothes. He is out of town but before he left he decided my shoes belonged in a spare bedroom. Not my closet. I do leave my "most often used" shoes near the door and that drives him insane. So I think he sort of passive aggressively puts them out of sight and gets some satisfaction out of knowing it will inconvenience me to not know where they are. It happens with everything - the worst being paper. If I have documents I know are important, I leave them out on my desk. This drives him crazy. And he will tuck them away so he can look at a clean desk.

If left to my own devices, I rarely lose things. But because I clutter doesn't bother me but does bother him, I lose things daily.

[heyzeus]

I've already invented Google House. It'll have a cloud-based inventory of where every item in your house is, and all you have to do is a google search for "nutella jar" or "double headed vibrator" and it'll tell you the exact coordinates in your house where those things are located.

[jim]

You can ask mike, I never lose anything.

[JackofDiamonds]

I've already invented Google House. It'll have a cloud-based inventory of where every item in your house is, and all you have to do is a google search for "nutella jar" or "double headed vibrator" and it'll tell you the exact coordinates in your house where those things are located.

Presumably those two are right next to each other.

[lukethedrifter]

I've pretty much lost everything I've ever owned including, temporarily, my car.

[jim]

I've lost keys, kids, and cars, but never baseball tickets. Funny how that happens.

[TimeForGuinness]

I've already invented Google House. It'll have a cloud-based inventory of where every item in your house is, and all you have to do is a google search for "nutella jar" or "double headed vibrator" and it'll tell you the exact coordinates in your house where those things are located.

...actually with RFIDs...that's probably closer than you think.

[Radbird]

I've already invented Google House. It'll have a cloud-based inventory of where every item in your house is, and all you have to do is a google search for "nutella jar" or "double headed vibrator" and it'll tell you the exact coordinates in your house where those things are located.

Presumably those two are right next to each other.

Well, duh...

[sighyoung]

Your ATM pin # is 1111, and your e-mail password is 1234.