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    Old 04-29-2011, 07:44 PM
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    I always wondered as a child when my mother would point out certain "hiding" spots she used so that when she returned from a holiday, or in her words "God fordbid I should die!" we, her daughters, would know where she had put her valuables...

    Well, I have turned into the biggest "loser" of stuff...I will put stuff away in what I think is the perfect spot, and sure that I will know exactly where I put it..only to find later that I have no idea where it is...examples...

    I put my bracelet in a Christmas oven mitt one year, then forgot about it, packed it up with the Christmas stuff, thought I lost it at the mall, and the following Christmas, found a great surprise when I unpacked the mitts...packed up jewellry in the balloon drapes, then forgot...dropped my rings in a dress pocket, then forgot...and on it goes..

    Do the same thing at work..will have a copy of something...needless to say it will disappear 2 minutes later, then reappear right before my eyes...

    and not to mention quiting things...I know that when i have so much to do it gets worse, and stress makes me very forgetful

    ...am I losing my mind...please tell me somebody else knows what I am talking about...
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    Old 04-29-2011, 07:46 PM
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    I am in same boat and it just goes round and round
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    Old 04-29-2011, 07:47 PM
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    I know exactly what you're talking about!! Maybe we're both losing our minds!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL :D:D
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    Old 04-29-2011, 07:48 PM
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    No your not loosing your mind, I do the same thing with everything in my life - especially the car keys. DH is good to have around those days.
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    Old 04-29-2011, 07:53 PM
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    How about going into the next room looking for something only to look around - and you can't even remember what you are looking for?!
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    Old 04-29-2011, 07:58 PM
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    You ladies have just made my day. And I thought I was the only one.
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    Old 04-29-2011, 07:58 PM
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    Been there done that
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    Old 04-29-2011, 08:01 PM
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    your looking at it wrong. Your playing Hide and seek with yourself in order to sharpen your memory skills.
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    Old 04-29-2011, 08:27 PM
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    Forget things? Who me? Only a billion times a .....what were we talking about?
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    Old 04-29-2011, 08:27 PM
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    Goodness, I thought I was alone in my madness.
    Once when going on a week's vacation, I worried about an expensive set of tableware my DH's mother had just given us. So I put it in a very good hiding place, never to be seen again for a couple of years. One day while cleaning the sofa I stuck my hand down between the back of it and the arms, found all my good silver!! It really was a good hiding place.
    And when a dear SIL died, her kids sold a lot of her stuff but I had to stop the oldest girl from dumping her Mom's sewing machine.
    I had seen her put money in the little part that fits onto the left side of the machine!!! They found quite a little bundle of cash there, and I had them keep the machine for their own daughters.
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