Where did I put it???

That definitely happens to me occasionally. It's very frustrating! Sometimes I find it in the 5th place I've looked, and other times I don't come across it for months when I'm looking for something else! I hope your filter shows up!

 

I do that all the time! I say to myself, I'm going to put this where I won't loose it, and then forget where I put it. Drives me crazy, lol.

 

It's in a drawer close to the fridge under a piece of paper. [Channeling my inner psychic]

 

Our fridge filters go in the cupboard above the fridge (which means me at 5'2" have to pull out the stool & climb up to find them!) We're a "everything has a place" type of home- but I swear where I think stuff should go vs my husband is vastly different! Usually it's him that can't find something and it's usually exactly where I told him it was! lol

 

I try to organize as much as I can b/c I forget where I put things, even with trying hard to be consistent and organized. Sometimes it takes hours for the light bulb to go off and I suddenly remember where I put something, thinking it would be easy to remember. Other times I am searching for something and then I come across something else that I hadn't been able to find for quite awhile LOL.

 

oh noooooo! I lose everything all the time. I have tried to be better and put things where they belong, but it always doesn't work out.

 

Happens to me all the time. Usually I give up and then find it when I'm looking for something totally different.

 

I’ve been looking for all kinds of stuff during this move. In fact today I found the case of tuna fish I’ve been looking for in a box the movers labeled room #4 misc.

Every box I open has a surprise or two in there for me. We still have lots to unpack and find a place for and hopefully I‘lol remember where that place is when I need it.

 

It’s happening more & more. I truly think I gave my children my brain with their births. I can’t life anymore

 

I just got the "order new filter" message from our fridge today too. I actually knew that my hubby had purchased a multi-pack last time, so I made sure to find them before he orders more. Lol. I put mine in the cabinet above the oven hood which is rather dumb because there's a cabinet above the fridge too, but I can't reach up there without dragging over a chair and I can reach the other cabinet. Hope you find yours.

 

Mom brain is real For me it usually means spacing appointments! On Friday alone I spaced a PTA meeting and I had to pick up my niece at the airport 35 minutes away - I looked at the clock five minutes before I was supposed to be there! And yes, both things were on my calendar which I looked at multiple times throughout the day. UGH.

 

After missing multiple Monday appointments I no longer make appointments on Mondays.

I sometimes have trouble finding things I put in a "safe place" ... my rule is that if I can't find it after looking in 3 places I won't, so I stop looking. Eventually it will turn up, as others have said when I'm looking for the next thing. Once I find it I remember why I put it there and think "DUH!"

So frustrating!

 

I would never misplace anything if this was the solution in our house.
I usually think 'what does this do or go with?' & put it near the thing, that said the filters for the air purifier eluded me for a week given there's no cupboards near that thing & I think I just stashed them where I could make them fit because they're pretty big.
I may be dumb or fridges are different here but I didn't know they had changeable filters. (In those US 'Find me a beach /country home' shows there's always an empty house with a fridge in it but it's the norm for Aussies to move house, fridge & all, even if renting). Anyway usually we just leave some bicarb or lemon or vanilla stuff in the fridge & paper towels in the veggie drawers. Where would I look for a filter thingy on a fridge? (If it's behind it on the outside, it can stay there, that things too massive & heavy to move unless moving or reno'ing)

 

So, wait, where was the safe place?

 

I lose stuff every day lol my filter is in the cupboard above my fridge if that helps?

 

I forgot to answer the question what I do when I can't find something. I guess I'm a bit weird, but I tell the ghosts to put it back, cuz I need it. They usually do.

 

I have an online todo program that is on my laptop & phone - Remember The Milk. I have an entry in there that I note when I last changed the filter, the price I paid and where I put the extra one if I ended up buying two. I set the "due date" for 6 months from the filter install date. I do this for our furnace filter as well. I will say that I now have 2 entries for my fridge filter that are identical because I accidentally marked it as complete one time (rather than resetting the due date) and lost all the history lol Hormone related brain fog is real.