osewme

If I know for sure that I have it, I will search until I find it. I may not search the whole day but I will go back & try to find it during the following days. Generally, 9 times out of 10 I will be able to find it....unless it's in the garage (which I refer to as the black hole!

Tartan

It depends on what I am looking for . Super important, I enlist help and tear the house apart. If it is annoying but not life altering, about an hour.

platyhiker

I often have trouble finding things, and will regularly call on my husband to find something I *know* is there - for example, where is the soy sauce in the refrigerator? I've realized that part of my problem is that I usually have a strong mental image of the item I am searching for, and sometimes my memory is not quite correct, so I can scan a group of objects and not recognize that one of them is the item I am searching for. If I can calm down, and *slow* down, and look carefully at all the objects before me, and really *see* object for what it is, then I am quite likely to find what I'm looking for.

Like Iceblossom, I sometimes have objects that I deliberately put in "safe places" disappear for years. Sometimes I can find those objects if I try to think of the most likely "safe places" I would use for that type of objects.

Peckish

I agree, this is usually why I have to find stuff for my husband, because he *thinks* he knows what the item looks like.

I've realized that a lot of my issue with trying to find stuff is that we simply have too much stuff. It's visually overwhelming. So I've been trying to whittle down the things we don't need or want anymore. In the process of going through things, tidying and reorganizing, I've found things I was looking for before. Sometimes stuff gets put in weird places because that's the only place to store them. If I clean and reorganize every month or so, it's a lot easier to remember where I saw an item.

Onebyone

I'm cleaning the fridge today. I found several hot wheel cars in the door bins, the ones my six year old grand has been looking for. I guess the younger grand thought they were too hot. LOL

maryb119

I have looked for a pattern or piece of fabric, only to give up and buy more. Then. low and behold, it turns up.....right where I put it. It is always after I replace it that I find something.

Macybaby

It's a lot easier for me to find things since we moved. There were too many buildings to look into when we lived on the farm!

Though when we moved a year ago, I found a few things that I'd searched and searched for. One of them was the drawer to the table for the patcher. I knew I had it, I also knew I'd have not tossed it on purpose. It turned up in DH's reloading room. Why it got put in there to start with - who knows. That is DH's room and I wasn't allowed to put any of my sewing collecting stuff in there. So of course, that was the one place I didn't look!

I don't look very long for stuff in my sewing room, I go on to something else because I know it will show up. It is annoying when I knew exactly where it was in the old place, but I have no clue where I decided to put it in the new place. I like to occasionally go through my drawers to see what is in there, not to find something I lost, but to remember things I bought that I'd forgotten all about.

granky

Kitsie...LOL! When my sister first got her dentures, she and her hubby went out for a night on the town. Back then, men wore suits and hubby took his suit coat off and hung it on the back of his chair. Later, my sisters lowers started bothering her, so she took them out and slipped them in hubbys pocket...except when they got home, there were no dentures! Some poor soul got home and found a strange pair of dentures in his pocket....they never found them.......

joe'smom

I had a recent triumph looking for a pattern. I had just had it the night before, but in the morning, it wasn't with the fabric where it should have been. I searched in great frustration for most of the morning, then gave up and went to see if they still had it for download on line (they did not). The next morning, I sat and thought about it, and retraced my steps picturing what I had done since seeing the pattern last. I then remembered that I had gathered some patterns I wasn't ever going to use into a give away bag, which I had tucked under the table by the front door (since one of our dogs loves getting into anything I leave in bags). Sure enough, I had inadvertently put the pattern in the give-away bag.

This happened again the other day, but it had been some time since I had seen that pattern (torn from a magazine) so I had no clue where it might be. Fortunately, I remembered the name of the pattern, so after running out of places to look, I googled it and found someone selling it on eBay! What a world we live in.

sandy l

It depends on how badly I need what I'm looking for. If I can't find it right away, I figure I put it in a "safe" place. Only problem with that is, any place in the house could be a "safe" place