I last used my 1 yr old Milwaukee M18 drill a week and a half ago when I took down the old front porch railing.

Checked everywhere and I cant find the sucker. Pisses me off. I'm down a battery now too.

I even went so far to review the video from my Ring doorbell. I think I can see it under my arm when I take stuff into the garage.

My question is how long do I wait before I buy a new one. I know the old one will show the minute I buy one.

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My question is how long do I wait before I buy a new one. I know the old one will show the minute I buy one.

I just did that last weekend with a hammer.
Damn if I didn't get home from the hardware store and find the hammer I thought I lost.
I waited a day. I also blamed the dog for hiding my hammer.

I lost an 8mm socket from my US made Craftsman set recently. I made it one day before I ordered a replacement on Ebay. I couldn't stand knowing one was missing from my otherwise complete set.

I'd wait a bit on an expensive drill though. At least a month!

We lost (lost!) a whole Shark Cordless Vacuum.

The pet dander version:



I blamed the cats, but they're not talking.

Searched for days and eventually bought a replacement, the other one must have been taken by the sock and tool gnomes to their secret lair.

NEVER happens to me. LOL -

Ok.... twice this month and it's just the 8th. Luckily, they were small (under $25 type items) and I found one before I purchased the replacement.

I lost a Beretta 92 compact for about 18 months after a move. Wife found it right where I left it in the guest bedroom inside a mini safe

There's gotta be someone else living in my house, because nothing ever seems to be where I just set it down....

I "lose" stuff all the time like that. I've found it usually happens when I have the thing in hand, go to look for something else, or get distracted into taking care of something else, absent-mindedly lay the thing down somewhere, then carry on to yet something else.

Drives. Me. Nuts.

I love it when I'm working on something, a tool in my hands, and find I need another tool. Do I lay the tool I have in hand down where I am? Of course not! I take it with me while I go to fetch the other thing. Then lay the tool I had down, fetch the other thing, get back to my work site, then wonder where the tool I had went

And, or course, since I laid the tool I originally had down somewhere absent-mindedly, I really don't know where it is. Sometimes I find them in the oddest places.

Then there's the tool I go looking for, an image of what it looks like in mind, and cannot find it. Only to find it later and discover what I was looking for does not look like what I'd thought it did, which is why I did not find it.

One day I had the above happen to me, it was a prick punch, and said "I am not going through this again." Got in the car, went down to the hardware store and bought another. When I finished with it I went to put it in a specific spot in my toolbox... right next to the one I earlier could not find.

The best, though, is times like what happened a few weeks ago. Couldn't find the tool I'd just had. Cussing, swearing, pissed-off and my wife asks "What are you looking for?" "I'm looking for <thing>," I tell her. "Like that?" she asks, pointing to the floor right in front of me!

You didn't put it on the bumper of your truck like the guy who did the same with his 36mm wrench before the wife took the truck to get ice? I know that guy regrets his loss.

Ask someone else to look for it.

I suppose I'd wait until the day comes where I have to have a drill or my chores will not get done and I can't put off that chore any more without problems arising :-)

I have an excellent pair of Zeiss mini binocs that sit on my dresser awaitng use.
They disappeared and I tore the house apart looking for them. I had last used them in Presque Isle Park and thought I lost them there.
I considered making an insurance claim, since replacing them is $$$.
Then I had a loose bolt on the headboard of my bed and when I removed the mattress and box springs, there were the binocs! With tiny teeth marks on the neck strap.
My cat stole them!
Do you have a cat?

Order a new one via Amazon immediately. That way, when it arrives and your old one returns from fighting crime, you’ll be able to easily return the new one to Amazon.

If it's a tool it's a pretty clear thing that one of your kids took it and used it somewhere.

Lost a mag for my P938, been gone maybe 4 years, pulled out the dresser in my closet a few weeks ago to look for something and there it was, along with the dust bunnies and other assorted items...

Catholics, in the know, say a prayer to St. Anthony, patron saint of lost things. When we all shopped downtown, my mother would pray to him to find her a parking space, on the theory that the space was lost and needed to be found. Don't laugh until you've tried him. You might be surprised.

I'm hoping I did not throw it away. I was putting the old vinyl railing parts in a garbage bag. I dont see how I could mix up a red drill and white vinyl.

I'm thinking of of trying a psychic medium.

I take the bus to work and enjoy looking out the window and daydreaming my way to work. In August I noticed a cordless drill sitting on the outside of a window sill at a church on the bus route. I would think about sending an email to the church then, in my typical fashion, forget about it when work nonsense intervened. It sat there for about a month then was gone. I hope someone from the church found it.

I identified since I can, and have, looked for a wrench only to find it is may back pocket. about a 1/2 hour later.

Have a few misplaced items. Nothing aggravates me more then knowing I have something which I can't locate!

Like the 1/4" hex to 1/2" square drive adapter. Misplaced for a few yrs now. Haven't really needed it and refuse to purchase a new one, as then it will show up.
Had it been the 1/4 drive or 3/8 drive adapter, I'd have had to buy another one, as I use them all the time.

I keep saying it will show up one day.

It went wherever my good pair of Felco pruning shears went.

I once lost the brazing tip to my torch set. Looked for it off and on for over a year.

One day I spilled some oil on my garage floor, went and scooped a coffee can full of oil dry out of the barrel I keep it in...along with my torch tip...

see, if you would have purchased a corded one, you could just check all the outlets for a cord and then follow the cord too the drill.