I hate, hate, hate it when I forget where I put something! I spent the last hour looking for a bag

[ohiosmith]

silver of silver coins I've been saving since the 60s.

[TrogL]

1. It isn't there until you perceive it

[ohiosmith]

3. Deep!

[Brother Buzz]

2. I hate it when I forget where I put the list of things I don't wan't to forget

[ohiosmith]

5. I shoulda made a list!

[Brother Buzz]

6. Listen, just follow the pencil trail

All those pencils and socks you lost over the years are hanging out with your silver hoard, bank on it.

[ohiosmith]

10. I miss my socks!

[Brother Buzz]

12. I saved all my sock lint over the years

I plan to knit clones one of these days.

[OriginalGeek]

4. Simple!

it will be in the last place you look.




Yeah, you can be a smartass and keep looking after you found it but your heart won't be in it and it won't count in the real universe.

[ohiosmith]

7. But it wasn't!

[madinmaryland]

8. Urp! Thanks for dinner at the Olive Garden!! Authentic Italian food!!

[ohiosmith]

9. Maryland! Of course!

Fucker!

[madinmaryland]

11. I also got a box of red wine!!

[pinboy3niner]

14. Okay then, as long as it's the good stuff

[Ikonoklast]

13. Did anyone know that vending machines take old silver coins just as readily as the new ones?

Mmmm, this soda is refreshing.


Urp.

[ohiosmith]

16. You are so wrong!

[Ikonoklast]

18. I bought seventeen bags of Cheetos, nine Snickers bars, and half a case of Coke with those coins.

And I still have a enough left to go to the Arcade at the mall!

[marzipanni]

15. Close your eyes, breathe slowly and deeply,

letting your abdominal muscles relax. Picture the bag as you lifted it. Say to yourself,
"I remember holding the bag of coins, and then I carried them to..."

Just putter around doing something else and a thought of its location might pop into your head.

[ohiosmith]

17. Good idea! Thanks!

[ashling]

19. Sometimes I will spend what seems like hours

wandering around looking for something and periodically forgetting what I was looking for:

- DAMN! what did I come into this room for? -

and when I find it, I set it down on my way back to where I was going to use it and then have to go through the whole process of realizing that I can't do the thing-a-ma-deal with out that thing-a-ma-jobber that I had gone to get in the first place. This goes on for, well for way too long ...

and then when I realize that my glasses were on my head all along, its time to go to bed.

[Major Nikon]

20. At least you can fucking remember what it was you were looking for

[ohiosmith]

21. Me: Have you seen my bag of silver coins? Wife: They're in the bottom drawer of the desk in the back

room. Me: Why would I put them there? Wife: That's what I asked you when you did!

[csziggy]

22. My Dad lost two bags of silver coins

But he found them when he finally emptied out the old house before it was demolished.

He'd put them in the old safe - one of those big things about the size of two coffins that looked like it should have been in an old West bank. He was just going to let the safe get hauled off along with the remains of the house, sure that he had emptied it, but my sister insisted he check it. Not only did they find the coins, they found other family 'treasures' such as my grandfather's photos of building dikes - possibly in New Orleans, maybe in an Army base in Louisiana - before World War I, letters and journals from a hundred years ago, and other odds and ends Dad had forgotten existed!

Then Dad remembered that before he bought the safe it had belonged to the first African-American owned funeral home in town that is now a museum of Black History for that area. So he called them up and offered it to them as long as they came and got it. They were excited to have the original safe to put back in the building.

I hope you find your bag of coins! Think about where you might have put them where they would have been safe.

[ohiosmith]

23. How cool is that? I did! See post 21.

[csziggy]

24. Yep - saw that right after I posted my message

I'm glad you found your coins!

[RebelOne]

25. There have been so many things that I thought I had

stored away in a safe place, but when I went to find them they were not there. Someday when I am cleaning closets and drawers they will turn up.