One of the more frustrating aspects of moving and unpacking is the tendency I have noticed of my putting things away in places so they won’t get lost, and then forgetting where I put them.
I made certain when we packed up our pictures and wall hangings in ND that the hanging-up hardware was put into sealed bags and accurately labeled. Upon unpacking them in MN I tried to keep the hardware filled bages in one place.
This week I intend to finished hanging up the wall decorations and have done with them. One main thing I wanted to hang is a Zapotec rug. I knew I had the hanging hardware in a marked bag, but do you think I could find it? It wasn’t with any of the other picture hanging hardware. I also knew that neither I nor Husband I would have tossed it out. That meant that I had moved it somewhere for “safe keeping”. Sigh.
I spent much of yesterday going through drawers, arranging and straightening closets and cupboards, and searching any possible place for the rug hardware. I resigned myself to go to the hardware store today to find suitable hanging brackets when, at 5:45, I finally ran across the bag in a bookshelf in the guest room where I intend to hang the rug. I had put the bag there for “safe keeping” but didn’t remeber that I had put it behind a three ring binder. You can see the hardware in the header photo. Today the rug goes up!
When have you lost something after you put it away for safe keeping?
Trail Baboon 
It’s with your missing sock.
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It’s practically a daily occurrence. That’s how we spend our retirement.
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Yes!
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Oh, let me count the ways! I’ve actually started writing down where a new location when I move something, but I didn’t keep it up, and now I don’t know which notebook that was…
And Husband has lost a small collection of tools he swears he’d put on a shelf right by the garage door. I wonder if it got taken when we left the garage door open one day… there are only so many spots it could be in, it’s a small garage.
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p.s. Don’t miss late posts yesterday – some fun stuff…
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I did. So nice to see Sally Rogers pop up. I used to go to her concerts when I was in grad school.
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Rise and Shine, Baboons,
Right now I am trying to locate the receipt for the Invisible Fence dog wire we had installed 3 years ago before our puppy got so sick. I never did get her trained to it. McGee is now old enough to be trained on it, but I can not get it up and running and I need to call the guy who did the work. The receipt is now missing, but I KNOW I have seen it.
The rest of the list is long and constant. Batteries, keys that never got replaced, cans of paint. Husband is losing his shoes and other belongings quite often. It does not help that puppy’s favorite thing is to drag off loose shoes and socks to his lair, growling and whipping them from side to side.
It is all with that sock John Dyer mentions.
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and the Tupperware lids.
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And electrical cords.
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My wedding ring. I think the ex took it with her for some reason.
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