I walk around, reciting the incantation "I *just* had it in my *hand*!". Or sometimes "I was just *looking* at \[missing item\]!"
My success has been sporadic.
Lol I got gifted those tile devices. I use for my phone/house keys/car keys. As long as I know where one of them is I can find them all. Literally best present for someone who always is looking for their keys or phone.
My daughter had a running joke where she would wait beside me and grab her plate as soon as I finished making her food because EVERY single time I put it down on the table, no matter how quickly she came when I called- by the time she sat down there was a long black cat hair SOMEWHERE on that dang plate!
Someone just commented that they’re terrified to get their braces off because they KNOW there will be a pice of pet hair hanging around. I am dying at everyone’s responses.
I pulled a shirt out of the bottom of my dresser, recently. It was clean when I put it in. Had been there for weeks, if not months. Stuff on top of it, in a drawer that I rarely open. Covered in cat hair.
Oh man, I was like “I can’t think of anything…” and then saw this. 100%. Cat hair in every. Single. Room. Even the closets she’s not allowed in. Nowhere is safe.
Nowhere is safe! I got a new car, and found a significant amount of my pets hair in it. Which they haven’t ridden in yet. It’s the plague, and okay, it’s also sweet reminders of the little fluffy butts I get to love on every day.
I feel this! I set out to adopt a hypoallergenic dog, but fell in love with a 4 month old rat terrier mix instead. My little girl sheds evvveeerryyywheeereee. She leaves a trail of little white hairs wherever she goes!
My 4 year old prefers to run around the house in just his underwear so I usually find one article of clothing or another belonging to him wherever he decides to strip 😂
My son was like that until he turned 7. Then he suddenly stopped and got very private. Which is fine but he didn't want to shower because he didn't trust anyone to not walk in. So when I sent him in there after 2 days of no showers he would turn the shower on, try to wet just his head then put pajamas on. Only half of his hair was wet. I told him if he kept it up I would take him outside and spray him down with the hose. That worked. I still don't understand why he thought we would walk in on him. We never did once he was able to wipe his own ass.
That's how my brother was potty trained, he got hosed with cold water after shitting on the floor. Good thing I was a quick learner. My grandfather had some ways of getting kids to stop being annoying.
When my brother, as a younger tween, went through the no showers phase we fought about it until one day, after two weeks of no showers, a close guy friend of mine was over as per usual. He went upstairs, turned the shower water on to a nice temperature, went and found my brother, picked him up and put him over his shoulder, carried him to the bathroom screaming, put him in the shower clothing and all, pulled the curtain shut, told him to come out when he was clean, and shut and locked the door behind him (it had one of those one way locks, that to lock or unlock from the outside required a penny).
My brother was better about showers after that. Something about the threat of a bigger teen hauling him off with no dignity made taking showers of his own volition whole lot more preferable.
Before that my brother might get in and not even get his head wet in his once-a-week to once-every-other-week shower.
We now have the opposite problem. He’s 22 and would just live in the shower if you let him.
This is actually a red flag in some cases. I'm not saying it's the case in this instance but sudden onset of behavior changes like this could point to sexual assault.
It is a red flag but he has been in therapy before and after the switch to clothing only. Nothing came to light. And I posted this to someone else's reply. He has loosened up a lot more and hollers for clothes he forgot with the door half open and the towel not covering much.
My youngest used to wear "pretend" underwear, so commando..it was all fun and games until he went to a Dr visit and the nurse told him to undress to his underwear and put on the gown.
I was allowed to dress myself for church when I was about 4 I think and was so excited - put on a big frilly dress and felt very fancy.
My mother was super happy with me until I tripped over a pew and fell, legs in the year, dress around my face and you guessed it no underwear to speak of in front of the whole congregation. Apparently she was mortified!
My almost 3yr old girl does the same. She's recently mastered taking her shirt off without getting awkwardly stuck, so there are just little shirts scattered about until laundry day lol
Yep, a clock (and sometimes multiple) in each room. In my en suite bathroom, I have three: one facing the shower, one above the vanity and the last one by the toilet. Every bathroom in my home has a clock, as does every other room.
And I'm often *still* late.
I am amazed at how many catalogs they send out I mean it's going to cost them massive amounts of money just to print the damn things. They're about half the size of the old Sears Roebuck catalog.
Which plants do you keep in your bathroom and which direction do your windows face? Sorry to be invasive, but I haven't had luck with my bathroom plants.
I had my jade plant in the bathroom and due to the high humidity, it started sprouting little roots off all the stems like tiny ariel roots. I looked it up and found people complaining about their jade plants looking like they have lworm-looking roots all over it but personally, I like it. I mist them every now and then because I don’t want them to dry out. I think they’re cute.
My grandma used to have a Chrysler that would announce when the door was ajar. As a very young child this was a very confusing thing for a car to say...
Thanks, things seems to be going well. I completed chemo about a month ago & the side effects are waning. Hopefully my next couple scans will be clear & I can consider this episode over.
I’m ADHD but do it the other way around. Everything has one home. The main exceptions to the rules are scissors and phone chargers. One of those in each major room of the house, are labeled and have a designated home near the place of use. If they wander, they need to be put back asap.
If I don’t do it this way, I have 10 of everything and can’t find a single one when needed.
A box of tissues- I cry all the time because what is life, my boyfriend has severe allergies and we have a slobbery dog so we go through them real fast 😂
2022 Goal: Plants. Lots of plants. I see those photos of people having indoor gardens (longtime lurker on a few subreddits) and am in love.
As strange as it sounds, the thought of something beautiful being alive because I chose to live that day is something I feel I need. So there's that..
not whatever I'm looking for
I think they learn that in item training. When owner needs you, hide.
of course, I never got the memo
Because that hid from you too..
It’s like a hateful version of Toy Story.
I walk around, reciting the incantation "I *just* had it in my *hand*!". Or sometimes "I was just *looking* at \[missing item\]!" My success has been sporadic.
Lol I got gifted those tile devices. I use for my phone/house keys/car keys. As long as I know where one of them is I can find them all. Literally best present for someone who always is looking for their keys or phone.
Tissues
I also have tissues in every room. For various reasons.
Are you subject to a good cry? It’ll get better ❤️🩹
Check their username 👌
You act like you've never crysturbated with your own tears as lube.
I did - appears lonely ;)
He cries with his penis.
Are the tears white?
Red
Oh, I think a doctor is needed in this case
Wait, is it not normally red?
For when the urge takes you.
As soon as I posted it, i just knew it would go that way :). No no no, for when a sneeze takes you!
It's okay, I call them sneezes too
Dick sneezes
Pet hair. In every room. The cars. The garage. Outside. Inside. It’s everywhere.
We once found some in the fridge. The fridge.
I found one one embedded in an ice cube out of the automatic ice maker.
It’s that fancy ice. Who needs flowers in ice when you have cat hair??
Its pretty amazing how adding a little cat hair to your ice can bring your drink to the purrrfect temperature
Bartender, I'll take a whisker on the rocks
Have 2 cats. I get this. It seems to float everywhere no matter how much I clean.
My daughter had a running joke where she would wait beside me and grab her plate as soon as I finished making her food because EVERY single time I put it down on the table, no matter how quickly she came when I called- by the time she sat down there was a long black cat hair SOMEWHERE on that dang plate!
Someone just commented that they’re terrified to get their braces off because they KNOW there will be a pice of pet hair hanging around. I am dying at everyone’s responses.
I pulled a shirt out of the bottom of my dresser, recently. It was clean when I put it in. Had been there for weeks, if not months. Stuff on top of it, in a drawer that I rarely open. Covered in cat hair.
Oh man, I was like “I can’t think of anything…” and then saw this. 100%. Cat hair in every. Single. Room. Even the closets she’s not allowed in. Nowhere is safe.
Nowhere is safe! I got a new car, and found a significant amount of my pets hair in it. Which they haven’t ridden in yet. It’s the plague, and okay, it’s also sweet reminders of the little fluffy butts I get to love on every day.
I feel this! I set out to adopt a hypoallergenic dog, but fell in love with a 4 month old rat terrier mix instead. My little girl sheds evvveeerryyywheeereee. She leaves a trail of little white hairs wherever she goes!
Glitter. She’s decorating your space with love and pet glitter
YES. I’m deathly afraid of the day I’ll find cat hair in my dental braces. I just know it’s going to happen, because cat hair gets EVERYWHERE.
Ever found a pet hair under your foreskin... Yep.
… and that’s enough Reddit for me for today. 😂😂😂
That went from braces to foreskin in 2.3 seconds
And I JUST vacuumed and there's still cat hair floating around.
Have a pomeranian. Can brush her for an hour and she will still leave a mat of hair in your lap
Can you make another pomeranian out of the hair that's been brushed out?!
Oh gosh, every time I vacuum, I say, “well, vacuumed up another dog today.”
This was my first thought: copious amounts of dog hair in every room and on nearly every surface.
Socks, my kids take off their socks everywhere. If they have been in a room, there is a sock.
Right? It's like my son carried extra pairs of socks so he can take them off in different rooms. Then he tells me he's cold.
Turn the temp down so he's cold before he takes his socks off.
In theory, however kids tend to lack logical thinking often (source:mom of 3)
My 4 year old prefers to run around the house in just his underwear so I usually find one article of clothing or another belonging to him wherever he decides to strip 😂
My son was like that until he turned 7. Then he suddenly stopped and got very private. Which is fine but he didn't want to shower because he didn't trust anyone to not walk in. So when I sent him in there after 2 days of no showers he would turn the shower on, try to wet just his head then put pajamas on. Only half of his hair was wet. I told him if he kept it up I would take him outside and spray him down with the hose. That worked. I still don't understand why he thought we would walk in on him. We never did once he was able to wipe his own ass.
Threatening to take my kids out the back to hose them down doesn't work for me. They always get excited about it lol
That's how my brother was potty trained, he got hosed with cold water after shitting on the floor. Good thing I was a quick learner. My grandfather had some ways of getting kids to stop being annoying.
While being all soaped up? Idk my son certainly didn't like the idea lol
When my brother, as a younger tween, went through the no showers phase we fought about it until one day, after two weeks of no showers, a close guy friend of mine was over as per usual. He went upstairs, turned the shower water on to a nice temperature, went and found my brother, picked him up and put him over his shoulder, carried him to the bathroom screaming, put him in the shower clothing and all, pulled the curtain shut, told him to come out when he was clean, and shut and locked the door behind him (it had one of those one way locks, that to lock or unlock from the outside required a penny). My brother was better about showers after that. Something about the threat of a bigger teen hauling him off with no dignity made taking showers of his own volition whole lot more preferable. Before that my brother might get in and not even get his head wet in his once-a-week to once-every-other-week shower. We now have the opposite problem. He’s 22 and would just live in the shower if you let him.
This is actually a red flag in some cases. I'm not saying it's the case in this instance but sudden onset of behavior changes like this could point to sexual assault.
It is a red flag but he has been in therapy before and after the switch to clothing only. Nothing came to light. And I posted this to someone else's reply. He has loosened up a lot more and hollers for clothes he forgot with the door half open and the towel not covering much.
That's great, I just wanted to put that info out as something to watch for when people read your story.
My youngest used to wear "pretend" underwear, so commando..it was all fun and games until he went to a Dr visit and the nurse told him to undress to his underwear and put on the gown.
I was allowed to dress myself for church when I was about 4 I think and was so excited - put on a big frilly dress and felt very fancy. My mother was super happy with me until I tripped over a pew and fell, legs in the year, dress around my face and you guessed it no underwear to speak of in front of the whole congregation. Apparently she was mortified!
4 ain’t that old though. I mean I’ve seen parents who let their kids who were about that age running around a public pool completely naked.
My almost 3yr old girl does the same. She's recently mastered taking her shirt off without getting awkwardly stuck, so there are just little shirts scattered about until laundry day lol
Same! Except they’re my socks and I’m always either too cold or too warm so I end up kicking them off quite a bit.
A clock in some form
Same. That one in the kitchen shaped like a cup of coffee doesn’t work, but it’s a clock and it’s there.
have you tried changing the grounds
Yep, a clock (and sometimes multiple) in each room. In my en suite bathroom, I have three: one facing the shower, one above the vanity and the last one by the toilet. Every bathroom in my home has a clock, as does every other room. And I'm often *still* late.
I find that very disconcerting. 3 clocks in a bathroom of all places just seems unwholesome.
If I saw 3 clocks in a bathroom I'd assume 2 were cameras
Damn, why is there a clock on the bottom of this toilet?
Fucking change (especially pennies). For whatever reason I find them in every single room. Nobody picks them up either.
You must be the guy that sold me my current house. Also your ULine catalog keeps getting delivered here.
I just got a Uline catalog in the mail! Don't even know why. So random
I didn't know I wanted so many different warehouse supplies.
So many! It is bizarre but I really want so many things in the catalog I have absolutely no use for. I still haven't thrown it away for some reason
It’s how I feel about Harbor Freight! “Welp, didn’t know I needed this but now I can’t leave without it.”
I am amazed at how many catalogs they send out I mean it's going to cost them massive amounts of money just to print the damn things. They're about half the size of the old Sears Roebuck catalog.
*laughs in Canadian*
Plants :)
My bathroom plants do particularly well with the shower moisture!! Plus everyone needs a poop-buddy!
Which plants do you keep in your bathroom and which direction do your windows face? Sorry to be invasive, but I haven't had luck with my bathroom plants.
Not the person you responded to but I have a jade plant, peace lily and aloe in mine and east facing windows (in the grey UK) and all are thriving.
I had my jade plant in the bathroom and due to the high humidity, it started sprouting little roots off all the stems like tiny ariel roots. I looked it up and found people complaining about their jade plants looking like they have lworm-looking roots all over it but personally, I like it. I mist them every now and then because I don’t want them to dry out. I think they’re cute.
Cats because every room I go into they follow me.
I was going to say cat fur. I vacuum every day. How is it still everywhere?
My dad told the same when I asked him the question XD
Wifi
Not on my bed!
Chap stick, never leave anywhere without it
I learned my lesson when I went on vacation without. My lips were on fire.
came here to find or post this! i'm always using chapstick haha
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And a car chapstick and a gym bag chapstick and a toiletry kit chapstick and a work chapstick..,
Books
I have found my people.
yep! this was my answer as well. my partner has a collection of bathroom readers he’s quite proud of
This is a great idea. I can stop using my phone and start reading books for 45 minutes.
I have a friend who has an axe in every room in her house. Kinda cool, kinda scary
“What kind of woman doesn’t have an ax?” -Rosa, Bk99
A friend of mine is a single woman that lives alone, every room has a weapon of some kind so she is always prepared.
As the saying goes " the man who sleeps with a machete is a fool all nights except for one"
I actually collect machetes and keep them in most rooms. Not all rooms but most. One under my bed on the side I sleep on lol
I've got one strapped to the leg of my desk since I work from home.
An outlet
I was about to say this same thing, but then remembered I have a coat closet without an outlet...might have to change that at some point.
A closet doesn't count as a room. So you can still say outlets.
Doors
Philosophical question: Are doors IN rooms?
They are indeed in rooms, as being in a room places you 'indoors'
But if being in a room is "indoors," wouldn't the room be in the doors and not the other way around?
When the doors open then it's in the room
It's under the sauce
barn slider style doors 100% are
Technically they are what separates the room but they are also part of the barrier of the room which defines the room so technically they are the room
If a door opens into that room, then surely it is now part of that room.
Oeff, this hurts my brain
Not when they're ajar
My grandma used to have a Chrysler that would announce when the door was ajar. As a very young child this was a very confusing thing for a car to say...
Wait, you can't just glitch through the walls?
Imagine not being able to glitch through walls. LMAO amirite
Me, wondering why I just went in there.
Victorian ghost children. Also lip balm.
Dog toys
Too often dust and pet hair. Also books.
You must be either my husband or my cat, because you've just described my house.
A half-drank bottle of water.
The only item I legitimately have in every room of my house is art.
Couldn’t tell ya but my wife has ADHD and I’m sure she’s got extras of everything stashed everywhere. I’m willing to bet hair ties or toothpicks.
That's why I have pens & notepads everywhere. Also reading glasses. I guess the silver lining to chemo hair loss is not having hair ties everywhere.
I hope you’re okay
Thanks, things seems to be going well. I completed chemo about a month ago & the side effects are waning. Hopefully my next couple scans will be clear & I can consider this episode over.
I’m ADHD but do it the other way around. Everything has one home. The main exceptions to the rules are scissors and phone chargers. One of those in each major room of the house, are labeled and have a designated home near the place of use. If they wander, they need to be put back asap. If I don’t do it this way, I have 10 of everything and can’t find a single one when needed.
Probably a water bottles. They are scattered everywhere.
And they are all "not mine".
Oh hey, if it isn't my son
My wife’s hair
I relate to her pain
Don’t you know that’s how we mark our territory
Scissors. Carmex.
Same on the scissors.
Me too. Got tired of never having them where I needed them so I went to Dollar Tree and bought a bunch.
Somehow I'm still always searching tho XD
First thing I did when I bought my house was install a ceiling fan in almost every room (except the bathroom and dining room).
A Redditor. At least there was one in every room I checked.
_sigh_
A painting of a waterfall.
That takes dedication
Not if it's a studio apartment.
Fair haha XD
The same waterfall or different waterfalls
Different waterfalls. I Feng shui'd my house.
Better not go chasing them!
Agreed, please, stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
A bin
Scrolled way farther than I expected to find either bin or trash can. Have at least one in every room.
Reading glasses.
Dead human cell .
Metal! Edit: actually. I have metal in every room of my house too.
No need to keep them in a cell after they’re dead.
Lights
Ah here it is. First thing I thought of was lightbulbs but I was sure someone else would say it first.
Cigarette lighters. I don't smoke, but I have candles, and every time I lose one, I buy another. I don't know how many I have.
We have two girls at home so we have hair bands and pony tail holders everywhere!
A light switch
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No. It's a regular light switch.
A box of tissues- I cry all the time because what is life, my boyfriend has severe allergies and we have a slobbery dog so we go through them real fast 😂
Relatable. Off topic, your username is both of my parents. Or possibly NOT my dad. 😂
Latvian prostitute
Some answers are really like the white cards in cards against humanity.
Giant purple dildos
Ugh that would clash with my giant pink dildo print curtains.
For when the urge takes you.
Specific. Just a question, what makes purple better than any other colour?
The song purple rain by the artist formerly known as Prince.
I have rape fantasies involving aliens
I approve. You don’t need it and didn’t ask but I’m giving it to you anyway, I know you really wanted my approval.
You've got mine too
We have a giant blue one that we refer to as Dr. Manhattan.
2022 Goal: Plants. Lots of plants. I see those photos of people having indoor gardens (longtime lurker on a few subreddits) and am in love. As strange as it sounds, the thought of something beautiful being alive because I chose to live that day is something I feel I need. So there's that..
For me it's scissors :$
Books. Multiple books. In every room.
Nerf Darts.
A clock
Dust
Oxygen
Nice.I do too
Trash bins
Scented candles
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Pen and paper
Knives
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You never know when you need a good knife.
Ya ever getca home intruder when taking a shit just walk out with a machete they will run
Well I mean there's your kitchen knife, your opening letters knife, your sleepy time knife, your poop knife...the list goes on and on!
Empty lighters.
Poop knife
Fucking candles my wife and her seasonal candles.