You'll find it.

Most recent for me was a pack of .38 caliber rubber bullets I bought long ago,

and failed to sell at our club's swap meet in September.

Couldn't find them amongst the unsold stuff I brought back, until I quit looking.

They turned up. Eventually.

What was yours?

AirPods. Somehow both fell out of the case (weird, since I only use one at a time). Batteries drained before I realized they were missing - last seen in my house. Couldn't figure it out and looked for a couple of days before shrugging it off, figuring I'd have to buy new ones.

Mrs.BurtonRW found them in a totally bizarre place (on the floor behind a small space heater) at the end of the week. Still don't know how they got there. I can only imagine that I had my hands full, dropped the case, both popped out, I didn't notice, and then forgot I had dropped them. That's definitely what happened, but wow - my memory is slipping.

-Rob

I misplaced a bunch of magazines while I was trying to come up with a better way of organizing them! Lost all 3 P320 mags and both of my Ruger SR 22 mags. Plus some others. I looked and looked for nearly a year. Finally gave up and bought more. I found them a few weeks later

I guess one day I will put an ad in the classified section here - if I dont lose them first.

lost my Emerson CQC-7BW last year at work. I'm self imployed with 1 employee so i know it wasn't stolen. The last time i used it i was opening some boxes in the warehouse. When i get home i take my wallet and knife out of my pocket and i put next to my laptop.Reached for my knife and it wasn't in my pocket. Looked high and low. Still have not found it so i ordered another one. It will probably show up one day.

Welding tip for my O/A torch. Not where I usually kept such things, looked high and low off and on for weeks.

Some extended time later (about a year) I got to the bottom of my barrel of oil dry and tipped the rest out on the spill and clank! there it was.

Must've knocked it off the bench and into the open barrel.

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Also have a nice set of Xelite tools - various screwdriver bits and a full set of nut drivers.

One handle and the 1/4" nut driver came up missing. Again with the high and low off and on for weeks.

Some indeterminate time later, I was rummaging around on the top of a gym locker I use for storing welding gear and knocked it on the floor.

Not a clue what I was doing when I left it there.

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Have a small (about a quart) galvanized container intended to be hung on the wall and used for a hand shower. Completely useless for it's intended purpose but its an antique and a great place to stash the spare key to the garage. It hung on the same spot on the wall in the mud room for 20 years or more.

It's gone. Looked everywhere even remotely possible that it might be, nada. Looked in some completely ridiculous places also nada.

Still missing.

Where I lived in Dayton, I used to cut the grass for my elderly neighbors. I needed to use my Leatherman to make a minor mower repair. It then disappeared. The search for it was unsuccessful. I bought a replacement. Over a year later, I found it in plain sight lying on a concrete wall next to the sidewalk.
Always in the last place you look!

The worst for me was when you are working on your gun, drop a spring on the garage floor.
Can't find it.
Pissed off - go inside immediately and order a new one online which includes a hefty shipping cost.
Then go back out to the garage.
...and FIND it.

Years ago when I had my own business I made a daily deposit at my bank.

One day I was not able to get there in time and my deposit was over $6,000 dollars.

I went home, wasn't sure what to do with it, so I decided to hide it someplace where a burglar would not be likely to find it quickly.

The next day I could not find it.

I looked everywhere, could NOT find it. A few weeks went by and I was about resigned to figure it was lost forever.

Then one day I found it.

Right where I left it.

In the microwave oven. (which I rarely used).
.

Several years ago I lost my favorite EDC folding knife, a Benchmade reverse tanto. I looked everywhere. My wife bought me another knife for Christmas that year to replace it. Next spring, I found it when the snow began to melt. I was hanging Christmas lights and must have caught the pocket clip on a light cord and it dropped into the snow bank next to the front walk. No damage whatsoever from a winter in the snow.

A .357 Sig barrel for my P239. I had not even used it other than to ensure it dropped into my .40.
Several yrs. passed and then it was time to clean one of the junk drawers. There it was, in an envelope. Happy Day.

Anything. My roommate and I used to laugh at how often this happens (cuz really, does it do any good to get mad about it?). As soon as you give up and buy a replacement, you find the lost item. It's that asshole Murphy sticking his nose into your life again. I just dodged another one yesterday though. 2 1/2 months ago I moved out of Oregon, and after getting here I haven't been able to find the ziploc bags that all of my pistol magazines were packed in. I was just about to give up and start ordering replacements when I decided to have one last final look though the partially-unpacked boxes. In the bottom of the last one, that was labeled so as to give absolutely NO indication of it containing gun stuff, I found those bags. Maybe my change-of-address notice hasn't reached Murphy yet.

ETA: There was a recent one. A year or so back I bought a used Winchester 1886 on which the previous owner had replaced the buckhorn sights with peep sights (globe front and tang rear). The front came with an envelope containing several extra inserts in different diameters. I had lost track of where I put that envelope, months ago. I was getting ready to try and order replacements from Lyman. When I was packing to move, I found it sitting on the back of the top shelf in the safe.

And now I've misplaced the Benchmade folder that I always keep clipped into my pants pocket. I know it has to be in the house here SOMEPLACE. I hope it turns up before I get impatient and buy a new one.....

Bag of turkey dog treats. The wife and I looked all over for it, turned the place upside down and finally gave up.

When I took the fake christmas tree down, we found the bag inside the box we keep the fake tree in.

We have no idea how it got there.

As an aside, some sage advice from my Mom.

It's in the last place you'll ever look.

Lost a nice Fenix flashlight in my work truck. I thought one of the other
drivers stole it. Months later when my Kleenex box was empty I found it in there.
Had already bought a replacment, you can never have enough flashlights

or, buy a replacement, as soon as you do that things magically appear....

If I listed all the stuff that disappeared and I found later this would be one long post.

Did misplace a P938 magazine, the extended one, after I traded the pistol in, guess what I found...

It aggravates me when I cant find my gear. So did this situation: For quite a while, I shared a patrol car with a goof who was a SWAT member. He got all kinds of cool high speed, low drag gear, while the rest of us sucked the hind teat, gear wise. The SWAT unit was issued Oakley sunglasses. Which the goof left in the car. First time it happened, I personally returned them to him. The second, third and fourth time, I put the shades in his in box in the squad room. So, I asked him if he wanted them left in the car for some reason. He told me he just keeps losing them. Next time I found the shades, I put them into my gear bag. A couple days later, a brand new pair of Oakleys was lying on the console. I collected them too. It was rinse and repeat for about month. I then took my Oakley collection and dumped them onto the Swat Commanders desk with an explanation of how I became Oakley rich. The Sarge had a typical apoplectic response. Turns out the goof had lost other SWAT gear, too! The goof got suspended from the team for 30 days and booted out of my car. The best part of this story was the Sarge let me have a pair of Oakleys to keep. Finders keepers!

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Originally posted by HRK:
or, buy a replacement, as soon as you do that things magically appear....

....

That's just the speedier version.

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Originally posted by HRK:
or, buy a replacement, as soon as you do that things magically appear....

Not for me. I bought a hole saw to install a doorknob for a new door in the house. Did the job, put the saw away.

Forward around 10 years, wanted to do another new door, couldn't find the saw, bought another. Did the job, put the saw away.

Fast forward another 10 years or so, one more door to do, couldn't find either saw, bought another. Did the job, put the saw away.

A couple of years later we sold the house and in the process of moving found all 3 saws sitting together in a cabinet in the garage around 7 feet off the ground that I swear I've never been in.

Esee Izula 2
Looked for several months. The wife replaced it on my anniversary. I found it a few weeks later in a bag of clothes we keep for donations. It apparently fell out of my pants pocket when I placed my jeans on the cedar chest for the evening.

If I lose something, I order a new one. Within a week or two, the original shows up somewhere.

If I'm really lucky, I did not open the replacement and I just return it.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
They turned up. Eventually.

What was yours?

Ruger P90T