Specifically a brand new dt swiss sram one that was left on a coffee table?
Bike down 🙁
Toy box ?
Have you checked up thier nose yet?
In my house it’s always in the boot of her ride on car.
A box that is used for putting things in and taking things out. A shapes box?
Down the toilet
18 month old has a thing for dropping stuff, down the toilet at the moment.
Freezer , mates little lad put a set of keys in theirs .
Toy kitchen is the go-to hiding place for car keys, wallet, phone etc in our house.
Haha! If you don’t have any joy, I’ve got a new 240s spec one (stainless bearings) that I’d swap for a Shimano one as long as it’s not ****ed.
Under the bed
Sillyoldman that could well be worth doing. Mine is also that spec and the Shimano one is all good.
In 1987 i hid my mum's contact lenses in a a vintage manual meat grinder and promptly forgot where I'd put them.
Couldn't find them for months.
She, as a single mum wasn't happy and had to pay for more. Check the manual meat grinder on the shelf.
In the hole on the front of the sub woofer.
Up the car exhaust
It will either be in the wash bin or the kitchen bin.
Absolute mystery. We've turned the house upside down.
Chilled76 - if you don’t find it in the next few days, let me know (email in profile) and I can send you my freehub and endcap in return for yours.
Keep a close eye on their poop over the next day or two.
In the hole on the front of the sub woofer.
Was going to mention that. 🙂
Inside the cardboard of a loo roll. 😆
Hosted Christmas at our house for the first time in 2016, both families over, my wife’s sisters have 5 kids between them so the house was busy. My wife is getting dressed, can’t find her watch- she’d seen the then 3-year old looking at it before. Could we find it?! Looked everywhere. She swore she’d not touched it... Took the whole Christmas to get her to admit where she’d hidden it!!
Based on that experience; look down the side of the chair cushion in the bedroom.
It'll be downstairs, she can't go upstairs without us due to a stairgate. I've come to the conclusion I've got to empty the wheelybin bag I put out earlier today. Rubber gloves time in the light!
Two thoughts.
1. Are you sure it's the toddler who's hidden it rather than you "put it somewhere you'll definitely remember" and then forgot it?
2. Leave something else unusual on the coffee table, hide and see where your little person hides that !
My son has a large bin wagon with "working" scoop and stuff. He once lost his soft toy after two hours of tears his and ours and essentially searching every room of a fairly zen house in increasing frustration I had a brain wave and found the toy in the toy ! It was almost an exact fit.
So any toys you can put things in ?
Have you actually tried any kind of 'persuasive questioning'?
Or even bribery? 'If you tell me where youv'e put it, I won't sell you', That kind of thing?
Actually, if the t 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.
Check the bike the wee tike might have done the old boy a solid and fitted it for you
Dropped it down the leg of some wellies?
Dropped down the inner of a partially unfurled umbrella?
check the bins? laundry baskets? washing machine or dryer?
it won't be high !!
In the hole on the front of the sub woofer
This!
The amount of times I've had to get a rod with a load of tape on the end to poke inside and remove certain items.
On the door mat outside the front door/ between the letterbox draught excluder and the outside flap.
Fridge, freezer, microwave, oven, etc?
You sure you've not built it onto your hub?
Bookmarked for reference.
I'm going to ask her today, commuting in a minute and won't see her till I get home. Trouble is she doesn't really talk, she's got a few words but most of her development compared to peers has been advanced physical not verbal.
I have literally turned the downstairs of our house inside out and it is no where.
It's funny that a number of people are saying about subwoofer, first place I looked was in the port of my floorstanders!
Thanks for all the suggestions. So far, no cigar!
Posted through the letterbox to the outside world? My phone and tv remotes regularly do this.
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Favourite is empty slots in the wine rack (built in kitchen unit)
Next up is Washing machine, tumble dryer, Bin or Toilet.
Downside of sofa is also a favourite, apparently its a car park.
Take shoes and socks off, walk around.
It'll impale the sole of your foot in no time.
buy another one.
leave it in the same place.
follow toddler round for a bit.
you now have two freehubs.
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:
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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 - MemberJust 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