# Okay, which one of you jokers snuck in my house and stole my TV remote? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576 "2019-12-09T01:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/121 "2019-12-11T20:18:03Z")
Carnac, indeed. Ooh, I wanna clap on/off thingy. I also wanna Chia pet and some Flexsteel glue. I got one of those place anywhere battery operated lightbulbs.(looks like a real lightbulb) It sticks anywhere (that’s a bold faced lie, btw). It eats up triple A batteries like a kid eats skittles. Just pass on the copper cookware. Trust me. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/122 "2019-12-11T20:22:40Z")
I did NOT break into your house to steal your remote! I broke into your house to watch your TV and then FORGOT to leave the remote when I left. Oh, sorry about the mess I left after eating your food. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/123 "2019-12-11T20:30:13Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > I did NOT break into your house to steal your remote! I broke into your house to watch your TV and then FORGOT to leave the remote when I left. Oh, sorry about the mess I left after eating your food. 😃 How’d those diabetic meal-replacement shakes taste? Yep, they’re bad, bad, bad! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/124 "2019-12-11T21:00:18Z")
My bedroom TV remote went missing one day. Turns out, it was “change the sheets” day and the remote was under my mattress pad Why are remotes with audio locators not SOP? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/125 "2019-12-11T21:17:36Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > My bedroom TV remote went missing one day. > > Turns out, it was “change the sheets” day and the remote was under my mattress pad > > Why are remotes with audio locators not SOP? The very question I want answered. You tech-y types: how hard would it be? One of you figure it out, sell it to a big electronic firm and I’ll help with the art work and logo. We’ll make a bundle. We’ll have to watch out for for the replacment remote Lobby. They’re vicious. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/126 "2019-12-11T21:38:54Z")
Have you thought of getting Tiles? (There are probably other options out there, too.) They attach to any device–like a remote. You download the app, and when you lose the device, you can find it with your smart phone or tablet…if you don’t lose your smart phone or tablet. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/127 "2019-12-11T22:02:52Z")
I’ve heard of those. When I kept losing my phones DIL searched and found out about them. I’m doing better at keeping my phones located. I have lots of devices and a bag full of chargers and things. I put all phones, panic button, tablets and monitor reader and this bag in the same place. DIL checks me everyday. I NEVER want to disappoint her. She gets steamed when I screw up. (:)) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/128 "2019-12-12T02:54:13Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Seconding the warmer tones. One of my two bathroom sconce lights burned out. T I replaced the bad bulb with the daylight kind. Yikes!! New bulb was a harsh WHITE. Clearly these bulb guys need to get outside more. Ain’t no daylight that white on Planet Earth. > > Have DIL get “Soft White” bulbs. Soft…like Charmin. 🙂 I replaced my kitchen fluorescent tubes with daylight LEDs. My kitchen is BRIGHT now, and I love it because I can see everything, even under the cabinets. In other words, consider the space in which you are using the bulb. Some places, that sort of light is a wonderful thing. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/129 "2019-12-12T04:52:46Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Have you thought of getting Tiles? (There are probably other options out there, too.) They attach to any device–like a remote. You download the app, and when you lose the device, you can find it with your smart phone or tablet…if you don’t lose your smart phone or tablet. Or get some of these. [https://m.kohls.com/product/prd-3885816/nifty-3-pack-remote-control-finders.jsp?skuid=67190160&ci\_mcc=ci&utm\_campaignMENS%20GIFTS&utm\_medium=CSE&utm\_source=google&utm\_product=67190160&CID=shopping30&pid=googleadwords\_int&skuId=67190160&storeIds=688&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=CjwKCAiAxMLvBRBNEiwAKhr-nGIir69jcCuijo1GWsVdFsCQt9K1\_qdjO0RN5zVS4w6IJLUc3dhXdhoCSh4QAvD\_BwE](https://m.kohls.com/product/prd-3885816/nifty-3-pack-remote-control-finders.jsp?skuid=67190160&ci_mcc=ci&utm_campaignMENS%20GIFTS&utm_medium=CSE&utm_source=google&utm_product=67190160&CID=shopping30&pid=googleadwords_int&skuId=67190160&storeIds=688&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=CjwKCAiAxMLvBRBNEiwAKhr-nGIir69jcCuijo1GWsVdFsCQt9K1_qdjO0RN5zVS4w6IJLUc3dhXdhoCSh4QAvD_BwE) Stick one on your remote and just whistle to find it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/130 "2019-12-12T05:43:29Z")
Okay, I want that for Christmas.^^^ ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/131 "2019-12-12T21:08:11Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > […] I’m afraid to touch the thing. I have an allergy to electronics. They break when I get too close. […] Maybe we have a different understanding of how allergies work, but I would think that your electronics are allergic to you, not the other way around. That’s fine, BTW, happens to me as well. Concerning the remote: did you not go into the kitchen with it? Did you not put it in the drawer you opened, because you needed both hands to lift that heavy pot? And then closed the drawer? It’s still in the drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/132 "2019-12-12T21:37:15Z")
Yep, I was being fast and loose with my descriptor of an allergy to electronics. In truth they just hate me. I know, I know they are inanimate objects they don’t have feelings. But, they just commit suicide if I’m too familiar. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/133 "2019-12-12T21:43:04Z")
Oh, I see I am late. Should have kept on reading before posting. Pity. Now that you have two remotes, will you keep us posted if they procreate? Tiny remotes are sooo cute, I want to know all about them. With pictures, please. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/134 "2019-12-12T21:47:57Z")
Have you considered installing an app for your remote on your smartphone. Here’s the [DIRECTTV Remote App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.att.dtv.shaderemote). Then you only have to worry about misplacing your phone… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/135 "2019-12-13T05:03:06Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Oh, I see I am late. Should have kept on reading before posting. Pity. Now that you have two remotes, will you keep us posted if they procreate? Tiny remotes are sooo cute, I want to know all about them. With pictures, please. I’m keeping them separated. I fear they’ll elope and I’ll have buy another remote. Ungrateful things that they are!! ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/136 "2019-12-13T12:46:37Z")
I found a product called a phone leash on Amazon. It would work on remotes as well. That would allow you to attach a remote to a TV set, or to a piece of furniture. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/137 "2019-12-13T14:07:36Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m keeping them separated. I fear they’ll elope and I’ll have buy another remote. Ungrateful things that they are!! Many elopements are because they already started the process of procreation but beware of the little ones, you go to grab them the wrong way & they change the channel or the volume on you. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/138 "2019-12-13T16:09:35Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m keeping them separated. I fear they’ll elope and I’ll have buy another remote. Ungrateful things that they are!! You just don’t want to have to care for the resulting 4 key fobs… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576/139 "2019-12-13T18:30:21Z")
Oh, god! Not the fobs! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-which-one-of-you-jokers-snuck-in-my-house-and-stole-my-tv-remote/844576.md?page=6)