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For your average slob, putting something in a “safe place” is the absolute worst place to put something you’d ever like to see again.  You’d be much better off putting important items in terribly thought out places where you can’t possibly miss them.  That said, for slobs, no place is foolproof, and it’s best to just start getting used to the idea of losing things.  The upside is that many of these things will turn up again someday when you least expect it.  Losing things is good for us…it helps remind us that things are not life, they’re just stuff (to quote American Beauty).  And, if you’re not buying that crap, remember that anything lost becomes new again the moment you find it.  So think of losing things, not as a loss, but rather as the gaining of lots of new and exciting surprises. (Which you may have already paid to replace*)

For some ideas for safe-ER places for your important documents, click here.

Over the years I have become quite convinced, and I continue to find proof, that there are cruel little gremlins who like to follow me around and hide my things.  They don’t do this to organized people…they only think it’s funny to play these jokes on people like you and me.  They wait until I have just about lost my mind looking for the thing, had a nervous breakdown, or bought a new one – then they return the item to the exact spot where I have been frantically searching for days, months, even years.

This is no joke people!  These little buggers are mean as sh-t!  I once lost a favorite coffee table book on animation.  I looked for this thing forever.  I mean years.  Finally, I bit the bullet and purchase a new copy.  Literally the NEXT day, the book reappeared right smack dab in the middle of the bookshelf I had searched a thousand times.

One time when I was in high school, I lost my wallet.  I tore my locker apart looking for the thing, searched campus, and finally made an announcement a school assembly.  Later that day, I open my locker, and there it is!  Not hidden under anything.  Just sitting there dead center in my locker on top of everything.  Gremlins, I tell you!  It’s the only logical explanation.

Last night they struck again.  All summer, my favorite flowy green dress has been missing.  Parties, weddings, and trips came along for which the dress would have been perfect.  I searched every inch of my closet – nowhere to be found.

Yesterday marked the VERY FIRST cool day in months.  So what happens? I open my closet, and there on the FIRST HANGER in the very front of the my closet is the sleeveless green dress.  Now that it’s too late in the year to wear it, my favorite dress reappears as if it had never gone missing.  And it’s not like it was wedged behind something or hidden under a huge pile of clutter.  No! That’s the burn!  It was right there in my closet, in the front, on an actual hanger!  Nothings EVER on a hanger!  What was it doing there?

So let this be a lesson to you.  Keep your eyes peeled, because you never know when your gremlins are going to strike.

Find out how to outsmart your own gremlins with these tips.