What to do when you lose something

Last week I couldn't find my 1/4 drive socket set. Something I rarely use. As it was quite ancient I thought I would treat myself and get a new shiny set. Came today so I decided to put it away, right next to the one I'd lost. absolutely never fails.

;O)

Martin

Try moving house. In packing up your workshop, you'll aways find things you haven't seen since the last time...

Last year I purchased a shiny new wall paper stripper after hunting high and low for one I thought I had bought years ago but no sign of it, after finishing with the new one I looked for a storage space in the garage & found an ideal spot next to the wall paper stripper I already had but couldn't find.

Tony

I do that with things I had in my hand only minutes before!

Welcome to the club !

Would somebody please return my 2 plates of 8mm Al alloy plates - I don't need them but its been bugging me for some time now.

Martin...

If ever the gremlins steal something and hide it, the first thing to do is give the workshop a good tidy up...they don't like that and will put it in the place where it should have been in the first place.

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I can lose things in plain sight.

I know it is on the table right in front of me but I cannot see it.

It can be quite alarming when it suddenly pops back into my ken

It's quicker to order another. Maybe that speaks volumes!

Martin

Hi there!

"I can lose things in plain sight.

I know it is on the table right in front of me but I cannot see it.

It can be quite alarming when it suddenly pops back into my ken"

I think the technical term is reverse hallucination, been having them for years!!!

Pete

My downfall is that I see tools advertised and think that would be a good tool to have so I order one and it duly arrives and when I go to stow it away in the workshop I find one that I must have bought earlier but for the life of me I cannot remember buying it. Dave W. ❗️

I'm pleased it's not just me then!

This topic has cheered me up no end by telling me that others share my problem. I used to be able to put a tool down and pick it up again a short time later. Like some others this is no longer always the case and it drives me mad. I know I had it a few minutes ago, remember laying it down, then go back and find it gone. I run about looking everywhere to no avail then give up in disgust. The next time I go into the workshop, there it is in plain sight. I think as you get older your in-house gremlins get more cunning in their attempt to annoy.

Doug

I needed a large metric Allen key. Expediency lead to me grinding a fraction off a larger imperial key. A few years later I had to do the same job, but couldn't find the ground down key, so I ground down another to get the job done. Then I found the first ground down key, AND THE SET OF METRIC KEYS I HAD BOUGHT AFTER THE FIRST OCCURENCE.

It's when you put something down in the middle of a job and it takes you two hours to find it again

so you go round and round in circles knowing it's within reach becoming less and less calm as the minutes tick by

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A few months ago I decided to re-instate a digital bedside clock which I had put away “Somewhere safe”. Needless to say it was nowhere to be found despite frequent searches. Not to worry, I need a project so I’ll make one up using an Arduino. About a week later and all I needed was a 9 volt PSU to run the new project. So, I delve into my cupboard where all the PSU’s etc. are, not much luck with a PSU but I did find that digital bedside clock in there🤨. What a waste of a week, but I suppose it kept me out of mischief.

I keep the bending spring I had to buy new next to the one I couldn’t find.

Mike

I have owned a good Stead screwdriver,for over sixty years,last week I changed the heating thermostat,put the screwdriver down,now cannot find it and still looking.

I do this all the time too, glad it's not just me. And they turn up in the most ridiculous places, where nobody in their right mind would put them

I did read once that it's an evolutionary thing. Men are genetically adapted to see things far away, and movement, as they evolved as hunters. Women, on the other hand, are more suited to close-up work as they were the ones doing the planting and cooking, etc. So that's why I can't see things that are right in front of me. SWMBO would disagree, but science is science.

So.. where can I get a long-range Myford and a hundred yard long Vernier caliper?

Rob

My grandad complained for years that I had nabbed his good phillips screwdriver when we were restoring my Morris Minor. About five or six years later I took the glovebox out to get to some wiring and there it was, tucked into something holding a clip back. It had done about 35,000 miles jammed in there.