Sure. Here's the thing, if you go out and get something to replace them after giving up on finding them, they will fall on your head the next time you come through the door.
Sometimes that is my fast trick for finding something
Most recently it worked on my bottle of spray baste.
I've been pulling metallic fabrics out of my stash for the last year and thought I'd gotten them all. I keep finding little bundles stuck in here and there.
And then sometimes my husband's selective hearing comes into play. Like "
don't put that in the storage unit" turns into "
put that in the storage unit"...
But my other good trick is to put something "some place safe" only for it to disappear for the next five years.