If this has been done lately, I apologize, and I admit I didn’t do a real search.
For me, it’s sunglasses and lighters. I have currently lost 3 lighters, and 2 pair of shades in the last two weeks.
That is my usual loss ratio.
I occasionally buy high dollar shades and Zippos, but have concluded it is a lost (pun intended) cause.
Now I just wear cheap shades and use matches. 
I am always mis-placing my keys in my apartment. Sometimes I find them within in a few minutes sometimes I have to give up after an hour of looking and just try again later. Another thing is my cell-phone. One day took me about 3 hours to find it. I looked everywhere (including in the car) and I basically just gave up and was about ready to just say screw and buy a new one then my roommate went out looked in the car and found it in about 3 seconds. I felt pretty foolish.
Tiki, just last week I left my buddys’ cellphone on the back of the truck, and it got lost. My fault totally, and I paid $105 to replace it. He didn’t have insurance, but I was obligated. Dagnabbit!
I am a master of losing stuff.
Ouch. I had insurance on my phone so it would have only been $30 to replace. Still that’s money I can spend on me or my computer.
Keys
Wallet
Sunglasses
Shoes. I swear, I am always forgetting where I took off my running shoes
Keys
Shoes (I tend to take them off when drunk and forget to take them when I’m leaving)
TV remote control
Sunglasses
Aside from the usual wallet, keys, cell phone:
[ul][li]Watch. Can’t keep track of the bugger. Typically, the likelyhood of my finding it is inversely proportionate to my need to be on time.[/li][li]Car. I’ll wander around the parking lot forever with my alarm-thingie in the air pushing the button hoping to hear the beep. Sometimes I realize I’ve been looking in the wrong lot the whole time.[/li][li]CD’s. Both my big CD case and my individual CD’s. Again, the likelyhood of my finding them is inversely proportionate to my desire to listen to them.[/li][li]Dignity. Can’t seem to hold on to the stuff.[/li][/ul]And let’s not even talk about just plain forgetting stuff. I’ve been halfway into a three hour drive and realized I wasn’t wearing shoes.
Last October our house was flooded, following a problem with the stopcock for the mains water supply.
The insurance company organised a visit from a leather upholsterer in order to check out possible damage to our sofa.
There was no structural damage to the sofa, but the upholsterer’s representative found 27 disposable cigarette lighters lying on the inside of the frame.
Furthermore, if anyone should ever start a What’s down the back of your sofa? thread, I have several items to contribute which were not only lost, apparently, but we didn’t even know we had.
At least two of these items cannot be mentioned on a Family Message Board for fear of causing offence.
I can never find my rolodex when I need it. Usually, it’s sitting on my desk right in front of me, but somehow I just don’t see it. Like my eyes slide right off of it. I think the Pentagon ought to look into this as a possible design for the next generation of stealth aircraft.
Lets see, at least once a week I lose each of the following: my cordless phone, my cell phone, my keys, my sneakers, my 2 cable remotes, my vcr remote, and my wallet. I tried to stay better organized with a planner, but I lost that too. I’m a freaking mess.
I tend to misplace my wedding ring… and, no, not because of naughty liaisons. My band is wide and it traps water against my skin, so every so often, I need to let my finger air-dry for a while. You’d think I’d pick a “usual” place to leave my ring, but somehow I haven’t figured that out. I’ve found it in my wallet, in the little change pocket of my jeans, on various shelves and tables…
At home, I am constantly misplacing shoes.
I lose sunglasses, of course, and pens, naturally, and jewelery.
I’ll also lose books, buy another copy, then discover, when I’m spring-cleaning, that I now have four copies of the same book.
At school, I never seem able to find my attendance book or the disk I keep my grade records on.
But lose permanently?
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[li]keys[/li][li]sunglasses[/li][li]prescription glasses :eek:[/li][li]shoes[/li][li]pens[/li]whatever I’ve just laid down while working and need right now
My keycard for work. I’m always leaving it in my jacket pocket, then going out to smoke without it. Luckily, I take my cell phone out with me, so I can call a friend to have them let me back in the building.
Does my mind or my temper count?
Important documents of all kinds. Thankfully they usually turn up eventually, but what a waste of time!
Pens and work access card.
Recenly, my watch has disappeared. But it’s not so much lost as hidden by my cats.
My medication. I have OCD, and an anxiety disorder (fitting for a comic, huh? Performance anxiety). I take Paxil to alleviate the anxiety problem, and I’m always losing it. It’s normally right next to my computer, but it happens to migrate to other rooms of the house. Or I’ll leave it in the car. or it’ll be in the pocket of a jacket I haven’t worn since NKOTB were still together, and popular. I think the cat does it.
My keys. On average, I lose them once a day. You’d think I’d learn to put them in the same damned place each time, but ohhh noooo. I don’t have a cell phone, which is good, because I’m sure I’d misplace that (or forget to take it with me) constantly as well.
Keys.
Also, anything the size of a credit card. My work ID, my library card, my insurance card, my ATM card, my Blockbuster Gold Membership card.
Make it the size of a credit card, and I will lose it.
Also, I must buy at least 50 nice pens a year that I don’t keep for more than 10 days apiece.
I couldn’t find my shoes one morning and had to wear my boots. Spouse called me at work and asked me “What are your shoes doing in the fridge?”