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Oh, yes. I think mine is 6 years old and visits every Friday night.
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ditto for amma remark !!
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Yep. I call them Nargles. They even follow me to work. :-)
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I have them in my house
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Very good idea. I like having lots of necessary notions when I need them. :thumbup:
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
I have a ghost named Emily who loves bright things. (and it is only a 20 year old house and we built it).
Came home from being away one time and there was a ball of bright orange yarn on the sewing room floor. I thought maybe I had left it on a shelf and it fell, but it was a good six feet away from the shelves, and there is a rug. Can't see it rolling that far. Then I found the rest of the yarn it had been with, had left it in a drawer. Just today she left a line of 5 bright red hawthorns in the driveway for me - there are no hawthorn trees within 200 feet. You may have something in your house that belonged to "Emily". My previous house had a resident spirit, it was a man. He had been killed in the house. He was friendly and kept us safe. He was only seen by two people but made himself known to a lot of us. She is mostly good though, doesn't hide things. Sometimes I can feel someone touching the top of my head, think it is her. |
Originally Posted by diane Sneed
I bought some rotary cutting blades[ Harbor Freight] and I was soooo excited about my big bargain[$1.49 a pair] that I put them up so only I would know where to locate them and guess what? I gotta go buy more. I sometimes scare myself!
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Originally Posted by akgranny
sigh ....... i thought i was just having senior moments but they're too frequent -- am i passing from older to elderly?
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As a matter of fact, I am searching right now for a pattern book with the eagle wall hanging I am working on. I know where I left it, but absolutely can't find it! Maybe Ramona's ghost, George, has my book.
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OHHHHHHH that's what their called! Thanks for letting me know! :)
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I arrived at forgetful one day in 1990, (I was 32) when I had a brain injury. I don't say this for sympathy, (who needs it?) I tell you this because it has been real entertaining watching my friends reach the 50's and complain about being forgetful. I just tell them "welcome to my neighborhood!". I was told by my doctor that what I have, is a form of amnesia. You are more than welcome to borrow my excuse if you need to! Mwwwahahahahah! :lol: It could be worse, we could all be losing our hearing instead...What?
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Me too! I am always losing my scissors. I think I need one of those pincushions with the pockets for them!
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Originally Posted by LastGrandma
Originally Posted by mzsooz
Originally Posted by Ladybugnana
Absolutely! I had just bought a new seam ripper that had a bigger handle because my hands are beginning to hurt. Turned around to use it and it has vanished. I thought it was the cats or Zach, but not in any of their hiding places. I have yet to find it!
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Ohhh! I thought I was loosing my mind. The Greemlins explain what is going on in my house. Last week I was making a block, the Bear's Paw; I had 1/4 done and when I finish the second forth and was going to saw them together, guess what! it is nowhere. I cleaned up my sewing room, put away everything and nothing. It is gone and couldn find it till today.
I do have the brother of the one that stills socks. One of every pair and I lost a shoe since last October; hi hill, so it is a she! Last one, lost my EQ manual, since July. Are you saying the Gremling will return the items? I hope so! |
Once it was called Alzheimers, then it became Old Timers, and I now I settle for Sometimers
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lol we always said casper was living here with us,
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I quit worrying about these things long ago , I have so many WIPs that if something goes missing i just go to something else. I put all my marbles in a jar on the shelf next to pics of grandchildren so that I always know where they are, even if I cant find anything else when I want it.
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Originally Posted by LastGrandma
in their quilt room/area???
I can spend a lot of time looking for scissors, my fabric marking pen, a ruler, etc., and never find it. After I give up and make do with something else and continue on (struggling), the lost item never shows up. The next day I can walk in and TA DA -- there is the item in plain site!!!! I swear I have Gremlins who hide things and then return them the next day. Any one else have this problem? |
My gremlin stays busy all the time. He once took some "challenge" fabric and hid it from me. Took me almost 2 years to find it - it was tucked in between other fabrics right where I had looked several times (other people had looked for me, too). I am always finding things are not where I know I put them down...sometimes they show up the next day, but sometimes they don't show until I buy a replacement!
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the conclusion i have come to is my house is built on top a big black hole that would account for everything that comes up missing especially socks!!!
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Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Yes, I have live-in Gremlins myself. I have a live-in ghost,
i call him George, who moves things around when I forget about him. Even my cats sometimes walk around in circles, rubbing the legs of someone who is just barely here. Last week George took my rotary cutter and cutting pad from where I had put it, right after using it. After I'd ironed the backing to the fabric, marked and cut it out, started looking for it where I knew I'd put it for safe keeping, but I still haven't found it to cut the square backing for the applique figures. I'm going to have to cut most of it with sissors, and maybe he will see how angry I am and put it out in plain sight. That's my story and I'm keeping it!! I'm like this , I can't really call mine a Gremlin for mine is a full pledged Ghost, wall banging and all and has been with me in every house I have lived in since my twenty's , so yes when something goes missing I know why . It is just my husband and I here so I can't blame it on a cat for we have on indoor cats are no children still living at home either.. :-) |
Yup! The weirdest one for me was the bobbin cover on my sewing maching. Husband had called me out of the room in the middle of my replacing the bobbin. When I returned it was nowhere to be found, even after Swiffering the room 3 times, even in nooks and crannies not routinely hit. Went out and ordered a replacement (with a spare at the insistance of husband). (Of course I got the last one in the store..the man actually took it off their machine....and ordered more). Low and behold, two days later the original cover "sat" on the floor near one leg of my cutting table and I'd swear it was grinning and laughing in it's own way. So, now I have two spares!
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Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Yes, I have live-in Gremlins myself. I have a live-in ghost,
i call him George, who moves things around when I forget about him. Even my cats sometimes walk around in circles, rubbing the legs of someone who is just barely here. Last week George took my rotary cutter and cutting pad from where I had put it, right after using it. After I'd ironed the backing to the fabric, marked and cut it out, started looking for it where I knew I'd put it for safe keeping, but I still haven't found it to cut the square backing for the applique figures. I'm going to have to cut most of it with sissors, and maybe he will see how angry I am and put it out in plain sight. That's my story and I'm keeping it!! :wink: :wink: |
Originally Posted by MaryStoaks
Originally Posted by akgranny
sigh ....... i thought i was just having senior moments but they're too frequent -- am i passing from older to elderly?
Huh, maybe MY gremlins are ... ants! Jan in VA (living in the country among the pastures) |
Originally Posted by ptquilts
I have a ghost named Emily who loves bright things. (and it is only a 20 year old house and we built it).
Came home from being away one time and there was a ball of bright orange yarn on the sewing room floor. I thought maybe I had left it on a shelf and it fell, but it was a good six feet away from the shelves, and there is a rug. Can't see it rolling that far. Then I found the rest of the yarn it had been with, had left it in a drawer. Just today she left a line of 5 bright red hawthorns in the driveway for me - there are no hawthorn trees within 200 feet. She is mostly good though, doesn't hide things. Sometimes I can feel someone touching the top of my head, think it is her. I live in the kitchen out-building of a 200 year old Virginia plantation, 14" thick plantation-made brick walls, huge thick yellow Southern pine floors and ceiling joists, non-working fireplace....not a ghost in sight or otherwise. Sometimes in the winter, though, I swear I can smell the odor of cooking fires, sort of like barbeque smoke, pleasant. Jan in VA |
The gremlins are at my house also. Not just my sewing room.
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Originally Posted by ptquilts
I have a ghost named Emily who loves bright things. (and it is only a 20 year old house and we built it).
Came home from being away one time and there was a ball of bright orange yarn on the sewing room floor. I thought maybe I had left it on a shelf and it fell, but it was a good six feet away from the shelves, and there is a rug. Can't see it rolling that far. Then I found the rest of the yarn it had been with, had left it in a drawer. Just today she left a line of 5 bright red hawthorns in the driveway for me - there are no hawthorn trees within 200 feet. She is mostly good though, doesn't hide things. Sometimes I can feel someone touching the top of my head, think it is her. I live in the kitchen out-building of a 200 year old Virginia plantation, 14" thick plantation-made brick walls, huge thick yellow Southern pine floors and ceiling joists, non-working fireplace....not a ghost in sight or otherwise. Sometimes in the winter, though, I swear I can smell the odor of cooking fires, sort of like barbeque smoke, pleasant. Jan in VA |
Get the Sears 12'tote it has a place for every thing!!!!
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I think there must be an army of gremlins in my house :wink: :wink: :wink:
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Just yesterday I wanted to replace the blade in my rotary cutter and could not find the open package of blades. I know I have two packages and one was already opened. I could only find the unopened package.
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Since my children were small, I have always reserved a drawer(usually somewhere in the kitchen) and we all called it the Bermuda Triangle. It was intended for "odds and ends",small items that nobody knew where to place them. From single socks to strange looking little parts of unknown things, it was never known who put them there. My grandchildren are teenagers and know about the Bermuda Triangle. I believe the gremlins that live here also do, as well. It was often the first place one of us would check out when we couldn't locate something we were searching for.
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I call him George. He hides things in plain sight and also steals one sock from each pair.
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Originally Posted by bsktkeeper
I think I have a pack of them . I can't for the life of me find the manuals for my sewing machines. Even the new one I got last week. Maybe my daughter will find them after I'm gone. Sure do need them at times and don't know how to replace them.
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When we were growing up we had a ghost named George in our house. He was a gentleman who had died in the house before we lived there. As we grew we blamed everything on George. My younger sister moved out and George followed her, I guess he liked her. I wonder if George is still around...
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I have an entire colony of gremlins living in my craft room... they are very messy too!! They leave all sorts of supplies everywhere!!
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HILARIOUS! Thanks for the giggle.
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Sounds so familiar.
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I have house fairies. Just as bad as gremlins.
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Not sure if I have the house fairies or the gremlims, maybe both!!
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Yep, I seem to have a lot of those lately. God bless.
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