check the garage, she might be doing a sneaky stealth balance bike build using stolen parts.

keen to here the answer to this, my garmin etrex has been missing for months now 😥

Friends toddler posted all her credit cards through the gaps in the floorboards.

However, you’ve got bigger issues if you can fit a free hub through the gaps in your floorboards…

Shoes, it was always in my shoes. He thought it was great fun to hear me scream as another piece of lego embedded itself in the bottom of my foot. We once lost him after he crawled under the footrest of a reclining sofa and fell asleep right under the sofa. That was a frantic few minutes. 😯

My daughter’s favourite threat for a while was “I’ll put Blu Tak in your shoes again.”

My youngest puts things under sofas and in one of the pull out toy boxes we have in their play room.

Actually, if it was our house, it would have been “tidied” away by the wife. By tidied, she means shoved somewhere out of sight that she’s since forgotten about because it wasn’t significant to her, despite the fact it might very well have been for her bike.

Ah, “Hidey Tidying”! My wife’s a dab hand at this as well.

“Has it been hidey-tidied?” Always use the passive voice to soften the accusatory tone.

In my experience, it’s either in the bin, or chucked over the fence. My lad didn’t like the place being untidy. We lost all our cutlery because every time he had a yoghurt, the spoon would go in the bin.

Make a game of it.

Google a picture of their favourite toy, get them to go and get it and give them a sweetie when they bring it to you.
Do this a few times with different toys or common household objects and then try it with the hub.

I like it pp. Noted.

I wouldn’t hold out much hope!

I grew up on a farm. When I was very young, like three or four, I took the weights off the weighing scales that my dad used for potatoes and buried them! The scales looked a bit like this:

Fifty years and more later they still haven’t been found 😯 Just how deep can a four year old dig?

Dropped in the fish tank?
In her favorite bag with her favorite toys?

Sure your Mrs hasn’t moved it? Mines always moving my stuff and denies touching it.

Still haven’t found it. I’ve even wasted a pair of nitrile gloves going through the bin. Totally at a loss!!!

Down the back of the radiator? That’s where Funk Jt tends to hide stuff. Luckily I grew up with a much younger brother and sister and as soon as Mrs F got pregnant I invested in tall furniture. Anything I don’t want to lose goes high up 🙂

Sofa cusions off and shoved down the crack?

Our five year old still does this. She can list off a load of places she hid various bits but inevitably several go AWOL. Shoes and under furniture are her favourites. Our 17month old did hide the eldests favourite teddy in a pram and them pull the cover over it!

Op, you don’t have a Victorian style open fireplace do you? Plenty of scope to post into the void behind the insertt.

Just found it. Yeeeaaaaaahhhhhhg!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cupboard in the kitchen hidden amongst some crap that made it unapparant

Lol! Result!

I hope that ‘no pudding’ has commenced……

in a shoe

Good news.

Sounds more like hidey tidying than a toddler cache.

Have you facilitated the blamestorming session yet?

Cupboard in the kitchen hidden amongst some crap that made it unapparant

Mistaken as a pepper/salt pot?

High or low cupboard?

My Mrs asked me a few weeks back where I had put one of the baby bottles, I hadn’t.
I found it in the cupboard with all the crap that she had put away earlier in the day from cooking.

But I had obviously put it in there!

No it was a low cupboard, definitely toddler tidying. Wife is actually pretty good as I have a bike related draw and anything she hidy tidies goes in there.

I have a bike related draw

I hope you win.

You could keep your prize in a drawer.

chilled76 – Member

Just found it. Yeeeaaaaaahhhhhhg!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cupboard in the kitchen hidden amongst some crap that made it unapparant
So you didn’t look properly then! (Thats what my OH always says to me!)

Cupboard in the kitchen hidden amongst some crap that made it unapparant

I do like a happy ending.

I spend significant time looking for things which have been lost (by someone). They’re almost always in the first place I look, about the third or fourth time I look there.

Washing basket, always the washing basket. Only to then be found in the washing machine.

I can’t believe nobody suggested looking in the VCR…

#oldgit