loosing things

[Dan_Shade]

I am pretty much what is categorized by most people as "unorganized", but in reality, I know where most things are at, they just are not kept in an orderly fashion.

I misplaced an order of small bearings and points to make some wooden tops for some of my friend's kids....

I've torn my place apart, and can't find them.  I'm going crazy!!!

[Jasperfield]

They're not in your pocket are they?

That's usually the case with me.

[isawlogs]

 Ya that back left pocket sure can hide a lot of stuff ....    I spend more time looking for things then actual work with what I am looking for , sometimes , when I find it I can't remember what I was going to do with the thing I now have in my hands , so back to the left rear pocket it goes . 

[stonebroke]

Just wait until you get a little older, things don't get any  better.

Stonebroke

[Dan_Shade]

that's what worries me, it's already worse than it used to be!

[Coon]

this sounds alot like me I can't see things for looking.  A few days ago I could not find my safety glasses for the life of me.... had some grinding I had to get done and needed them.  I had had them just twenty minutes earlier and I looked everywhere I had been.  Just could not find them until I heard a loud snap when I sat down for coffee..... seems I had hooked them onto my right arse pocket so I wouldn't lose them...... I needed a new pair to scratch anyhow. 

Brad.

[sprucebunny]

Yup.

I spend a lot of time 'hunting' 

I recently reorganized my garage and that hasn't helped. Buying another one pretty much garuntees finding the first one 

Glad to know it isn't just me 

[bandmiller2]

Don't feel bad I spent 15 min. looking for my pipe and it was in my mouth.Frank C.

[Jeff]

I spent 6 hours and completely gutted my little barn looking for the correct cam for my sharpener. When I sold my old sharpener I removed it and put on the original, saving this one for the sharpener I bought from Lou. My blades are all ground with this profile.  I never did find it, so I never did get to sharpen blades. I swear I put it on a shelf in there 

Dan, are you coming to the pigroast so I can razz you about your top tips and you can help me find my cam?

[Cedarman]

Everytime I find something I am looking for it is always and I mean always in the last place I look.  It would save me a lot of time if I looked there first.  Any suggestions?

[Dan_Shade]

I'm going to try, Jeff.  Gotta figure out the plan to get there :-)

[Dan_Shade]

cedarman, you just need to start looking in the last place you set down the lost item...

[Ron Wenrich]

I had a guy tell me that things are always in the last place that he looked.  My reply was why would you keep looking if you found it?

I usually can find something, if someone else hasn't moved it.  But, I'm having a hard time with names. 

There was something else I wanted to say, but I can't remember what it was.  CRC syndrome. 

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Everytime I find something I am looking for it is always and I mean always in the last place I look.  It would save me a lot of time if I looked there first.  Any suggestions?

Cedarman,

• Be thankful you're smart enough to quit looking for it once you've found it???
• Keep a list of places you've found things before and look there first???
• Hire a kid to find things for you???

Hope these suggestions help...

Herb

[Jeff]

Names is something I have trouble with too. Once I have it, I have it, but its new ones that can be a problem.  Pigroasts can really give me memory troubles.  I'm usually so focused on everything that needs to be done, and my head is so full by then, that new stuff absolutely sometimes refuses to register and its horribly embarrassing.

A few years ago was a case in point. I still don't remember who it was, but I remember the incident and I felt bad about it and still do.  I saw a couple faces I didn't recognize as I was on my way to do some sort of task. I stopped and introduced myself, chatted a few moments, then was on to the task at hand.  Tammy was right behind me and let me know that I had already been introduced to the couple about a half hour before that.  I had zero recollection of it  

[Cedarman]

I love name tags in big letters!!
PC, I appreciate the help

[T Red]

I'm right there with you.

I bought a copper (hard to find, 125$) head gasket for an R John Deere about two years ago.  It would be easy to bend and mess up.  So I put it somewhere that would be safe until I needed it.  I've been looking for 2 months now.  Short of removing everything from my shop I don't know what to do.  I have wasted way more than what it's worth in time trying to find it.

Tim

[Don_Papenburg]

I concour with Bunny ,  I have found that it takes less time to buy a new item . Then as you step back in the garage or shop the Item you just bought /needed is sitting  in plain sight .  But if you had spent time looking for it  you would have missed supper and been a couple of hours past your bed time.

Urban saw,  I think the kids you hire  to help look , might just be part of the problem in the first place.

TRed  , Look in the flat cardboard box with jumping deere on it .  If it isn't in there  look up them urban sawyer kids.

[fat olde elf]

During my recent "loss of balance" problems I had two Specialists check me out. One was an ENT doctor. He did a complete exam including a brain MRI.  He said I was "age appropriate" Suggested I see a Neurologist. He did an initial exam and ordered an MRI of my lower spine.  The results were "age appropriate". He did a second more extensive series of tests and I was still "age appropriate". Balance came back and I decided that every thing I do, feel, lose, find, make, tear up, buy or discover is "age appropriate" I will be 73 in a few days. Say your prayers........... 

[Papa1stuff]

I had a loss of balance problem a few months ago, Set up in bed one morning and fell over backwords,My problem turned out to be in my ears,something about fluid in the wrong place .
Got it straightened out and no more problems since.
Check with an ear Doc!!

[sawdust]

Joan and I have different storage techniques. She has a filing system and I have a piling system, both work.
I admit hers is sometimes more efficient.
sawdust

[4genlgr]

the wife and i have the same style cell phones except that hers has sparklely nailpolish on it so we can tell them apart - the other morning before she left for work i put mine on the charger after she left the son called my cell and when i answered i unhooked it from the charger - we talked while i got ready to leave and the last thing i reached for was my cell phone which wasn't there-- "DanG your mom took my cell with her--she did--yup its not on the charg** maybe i shouldn't go anywhere today - maybe not"

the mind is the second thing to go, i don't remember what the first thing was

[thecfarm]

If it's not as big as the garage,I can not find it it the garage. Unless I use it every week.I do have a memory problem. I HAVE to put my glasses,watch,wallet,keys in a certain place every time I remove them or I spend at least 5 minutes trying to find them and have no idea where they are.

[pigman]

I don't  ever remember  loosing anything. Sure, I have lost a lot of things, I just don't remember.

[isawlogs]

  Sawdust , I have seen Joan's storage techniques , I think filing was a typo . 

[sprucebunny]

Marcel, Sawdust was meaning his wife, Joan 

My Ex says I already have my Pile-it's license 

File-ing is only done to saw chains but pile-ing can happen anywhere !

[IMERC]

of all the things I have lost it's my mind that I miss the most...