Birth certificate!
Upside Down Pineapple Cake lip balm!
Contact sheet of prints for one of my old school projects that I need in order to make things right with someone!
Arrrr!
I think we should ask Mr. Von Daniken for his opinion on the matter.
I had a brochure for the Volkswagen Touareg laying around somewhere. I want to give it to a coworker, but I can’t find it. I think my wife recycled it.
I was looking for one of my music CDs, but I found it under a pile of papers. Now I’m just looking for my university ID card.
It’s buried around here somewhere… wades off
In 1968, I lost my plastic toy spaceship, a copy of Fireball XL-5.
Anybody seen that layin around?
Where are my good scissors? All I can find are the crappy ones. I want to clip the coupons out of the Sunday paper.
Oh, geez, thanks for reminding me. I have jury duty on Tuesday. At least, I think I do. Does Tuesday strike anyone else as a weird day to be summoned for jury duty?
I’d better find my summons so I can double check.
Hmm. I think it’s on my desk…somewhere…
The jewel case for Love Devotion Surrender. The CD itself is in the travel pack, but I have no freakin’ idea where the case is.
The garden catalogue that I wanted to give to my friend E.
My #10 bamboo knitting needles. I remember seeing them in my knitting basket as recently as last week, and I’m sure I haven’t knitted anything in the meantime…?
The good news is, I found my 1099 tax form. 
You haven’t put in a return since 1099? Wow, that will be some refund you get!
My voter registration confirmation form. Gah! I don’t wanna have to go to City Hall!
My camera charger. It won’t even turn on anymore, and I want to use it tomorrow at the auto show!
Well, I found the CD case – no wonder I couldn’t find it, I’d put it where it belonged. Well, where it would have belonged if the CD had been in it – the empties for the stuff in the travel case actually go on a different shelf, where it wasn’t.
I order a retainer for my eyebrow piercing, it was in the package, never left the package. It’s gone, nowhere, ran away… where the hell is that thing?
In your eyebrow?
Nope looked there too, I think it was beamed up or something…
Hey hey hey! I don’t have -any- of that stuff…
Hrm… Upside Down Pineapple Cake, says you?
Avast, men! We have a new treasure to sail for!
Surefire rules:
- Put things back in the first place you looked for them. Not the current “correct” place. Your first instinct will thereafter always be right.
- Never set down anything in a spot you haven’t set anything down on lately. If you are near the TV when you have the urge to put down the book, don’t put it on the TV just because it’s nearby. Go to the nearest place you often leave things, even if it’s in the next room.
- Never put anything down on a shelf or the floor, but always on the top of something. Then you can at least scan the tops of furniture in a room to see where things might be.
- If it’s not breakable or spillable, leave it with part of it sticking over the edge. Your eye will immediately go to a purse or wallet that is sticking out from a counter top.
The legs for my friend’s Ikea table. I helped her move yesterday, and she took it apart to do it. We checked both the minivans and my car, but she is now legless.
Never mind…found it!
So you see, there’s hope for the rest of you.