# Objects that vanish, then return

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-that-vanish-then-return/636900>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 6, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-that-vanish-then-return/636900 "2012-10-06T14:26:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-that-vanish-then-return/636900/41 "2012-10-19T17:03:19Z")

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I just take it as one of the flaws of the matrix or a angel took it for some reason, no biggie they always return it with interest.

> [@cmyk](#):
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> Okay, this is a bit interesting, and I’ve tried that technique of looking methodically at each item and naming them out loud, coming up empty handed. But only when I’ve truly lost something. Never when I know I placed it there.
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> Umm… brain tumor?

I’ve tried this with something I knew to be there but could not see, I closed my eyes and just review what I saw and everything seemed to ‘pop’ into it’s proper position, the funny thing is while I was looking the harder I looked to more it was clear it was not there.

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**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-that-vanish-then-return/636900/42 "2012-10-19T21:04:13Z")

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This is happening to me right now. I made three pages of name tags for some kids I work with (always takes me awhile to learn their names when we start up in the fall; name tags help a lot). I printed them just now, and put three pages of labels in the special slot in the printer, which is in another room. I printed the labels … and there are two pages. The first page, and the third page. There are not two pages stuck together - I made my husband check - there is no page on the floor near the printer, and there is no page stuck inside the printer or on the glass (it doubles as a scanner/copier).

I feel like I am losing my mind.

If the second page shows up, I’ll let you know where within the time and space vortex it appears.

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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-that-vanish-then-return/636900/43 "2012-10-19T21:08:28Z")

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The quarters I leave in the elevator grate keep disappearing. Maybe they’ll return one day.

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**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-that-vanish-then-return/636900/44 "2012-10-19T21:12:40Z")

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I had this happen to me once. I lost the thing that connects my camera to my tripod. It was a trapezoidal piece of black plastic with a screw in it. Every time I wanted to use my tripod I looked all over the house to find it. After a year or so of not being able to use my tripod, I finally ordered a replacement from Amazon. Two days later I glance at my file cabinet and there it is sitting next to some papers. The file cabinet was black and I guess it blended in and my eye was blind to it.

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