Why do things Disappear.

[Sithdarth]

This is a problem that has been vexing my for a while. From socks to cds to whole books. Things just seem to disappear around me never to be found again. Hell I even moved and completely took apart my room and still didn't find some things that had gone missing. Recently I went looking for my JavaScript book and couldn't find it. I turned my room upside down and a few other places to boot. You know what I found, two CO2 Cartridges and my pocket knife that I had packed away and forgotten. I know that book was in my room last time I saw it. Now it just seems to have vanished. Anyone else have this problem and any theories on where the stuff goes?

[cellar_door]

that happened to me i discovered that i went sleepwalking and was putting them
1) out the window
2)right in the back of a cupboard that its realy hard to get at (i have to stand on my bed and nearly throw things to get in it if there aint no seat to stand on)
3)under a pile of clothes in my wardrobe
4)on other floors in the halls


just an idea

[Fifthfiend]

Spontaneous fractures in the fabric of reality.

CDs'll just fall right through those, I tell you.

[Sithdarth]

My window has a screen on it so thats out.

I have no cupboard in my room I do have a closet that I checked.

I picked everything off the floor in both my closet and my room wasn't there.

I checked pretty much every room in the house the rooms I haven't checked it wouldn't be in. Plus I'm pretty sure I don't sleepwalk.

Its completely strange. I have lost two MTG decks to this as well. They just sort of disappeared on day after I put them up. Pens and pencil seem to fall prey to this pretty quickly too. Sometimes I'll find things much later but usually if I spend as much time looking as I did for that book then its gone for good. Its like I have my on personal Bermuda Triangle. Perhasp one day I'll fall prey to this as well. At least then I'll know where everything went.

[Martyr]

Do you have a sister?

Sisters will often walk into your room without permission. If they see something interesting, like a book, for example, they may take it to the couch to read and then leve it under the cushions...

Not that you'll get anything out of them if you ask. No tortue can make them talk. (Because hey really have no clue. Once the book isn't in front of them, it has ceased to exist. Much like you when you are not in your room.)

[Toastburner B]

My friend had an answer to this. According to him, all questions along the lines of "Why does this happen?" have one answer:

Spite.

Why do things dissappear? Spite. Why do I sleep walk? Spite. Why does Toastburner B keep posting stupid things? Spite.

See?

[Sithdarth]

I have a sister but see hates the music I listen to and the books I read. The only reason she ever comes into my room is to steal my PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube. Other than that she leaves my stuff alone.

Perhasp evil aliens are taking random stuff from my room and observing my reactions. If I ever find out that it was there are going to be some pretty big green splatters on a few walls. Although I like the fractures in reality ideal. Now if only I could use that to extract usefull items from other realities.

[cellar_door]

well if you dont sleepwalk there is only one answer god is bord, hes bord and he hates you. really what else is there for the big guy to do

[IHateMakingNames]

Or, you remember wrong and you took it somewhere else.

[Sithdarth]

Thats just it though. I don't remember wrong. My shorterm memory is pretty much nonexsitant but my longterm memory is flawless when it comes to useless info like where I set something down last. Of course if I moved it sometime in the last week than I have no ideal where it went. Anyways I took that into consideration and turned the whole house upside down. Every room except my parents bed room and my sisters. This is not a new problem, many things have simply vanished on me like socks in the dryer. It would be funny if it weren't so damn annoying.

[cellar_door]

no no thats what he wants you to think! its god i tell you, you done something to piss him off. (were you burning bibles again? i warned you after the last time) say 5 hail marys any you'll be alright

[Caska]

This always happens to me =/ I absolutely despise having to look for things. I recently lost a book myself... The 4th and last book in the Aurian series. Really tweaks me, 'cause I finally have time to read it.

Things I've lost usually turn up in completely random places - if I ever find them at all. So close your eyes, clear your mind, and think of any random place in your house. Then look =P If it doesn't work, try again. And again.

Eventually you might find it, unless it's been swallowed into some abyss.

[Stabbitty Death]

He he, people are going to hate me...

A wizard did it.

[RaiRai]

Socks = the sock monssah~ It has to be, there's no other explaination. Or Shiney has thrown them somewhere I can't reach... -_-

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/RaiRai/sox.bmp

[CelesJessa]

This happens to me all the time.... to the weirdest things. I lost my up arrow on my brother's computer. Actually, I don't know if I lost it, but I went to push the up arrow and it wasn't there. O_o I looked everywhere for it.

I think I know where all of these dimentional rifts that people lose stuff in spill out at: my old locker at school. It just kept getting messier and messier and when I took everything home the last day, it took two people to help me lug it all out to the car, and I KNOW not even a third of that stuff was mine...

[Zweihander]

I bet you don't feed your Domovoi enough. For those not in the know, domovoi are spirits of the home in Slavic myth, and if you don't leave their favorite food out at night, they ruin your shit. They're probably to blame. Or gnomes, if they're a problem in your area. A tear in space/time would have degraded the entire universe, killing us all. Although if its just a wormhole that empties into CJ's locker, that would be fine. Welcome back, by the way.

[Dragonsbane]

the truth is that you suffer from an infestation of gnomes, those nasty little buggers like to steal random stuff just to annoy you.

[Sithdarth]

Well if its gnomes then there will be slightly smaller splatters on the wall. That is as soon as I find them.

All joking aside a lot of the stuff I lose seems to simply cease to exsit. Like it was converted into energy. I know this stuff has to be somewhere but god only knows where.

[Living Bobbeh]

Have you checked in the sofa yet? Everything seems to be there for me. Remotes, Money, GBA carts. Most stuff. Or in the fridge.

[TheCookieMomma]

I have a small son who hides things. He's just over a year old, and he hides things that may be important like my checkbook and my shoes. Just today, I was looking for my shoes to take the trash out, and I found them on the shelf of the bookcase near the door. Who puts shoes on a shelf? My son.
SARA

[Lost in Time]

For me, everything ends up right here at my computer desk. Because when I'm in my room, my hand does weird stuff and picks up stuff and holds on to it for no reason and I wont relize that I have it untill I sit down, which is usually right here. Or else, if its like a book or a cd. It's usually under my bed, closet, desk, or in one of the many CD/DVD players around the house.

[MP37a]

It happens to me all the time. It's those damn closet gnomes I say! They steal everything. But don't you worry one day I will catch them in the act and they will surely pay. Oh yes they will pay indeed. Damn evil gnomes.

[Joseph Pandora]

My mom has a disorder that me and my father refer to as "put awayius" she will pick up random objects more often where they belong and moves them to somewhere else and declares them "put away" then denies ever seeing the item until it shows up again. The one I paniced most about was the time she took half of gamecube games and put them in a cupboard with all of our old unused VHS tapes. One day I reached for XIII and it was gone. And so was Twin Snakes and Super Mario Sunshine and where in the hell are all of my damn games! After several days of searching I found them in the cupboard... with my much beloved copy of Warcraft III Frozen Throne.

Needless to say I flipped out.

[Jack of Spades]

I know why everything is in the last place you think to look for it.





Because once you find it you stop looking.


hehehehe.... http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/ they made the joke not me. it's in the archives

[Dragonsbane]

now THAT's a good one!

[Lycanthrope]

It is for things like this that I blame gnomes. (see list thread). Semi-logical explination: entropy. Your room has entered such a state of chaos that in any attempt to reorganize it, certain objects simply disintegrate due to the second law of thermo-dynamics, whose effects are expanded over the entirety of the universe, explaining why the planet hasn't been blown up from inside your room. In short, Eris.

But really, someone probably either ate them or flushed them, or accidentally threw them away.

[Jewzeppe]

well maybe u just missed placed those items, and your short-term memory is the problem, did u check in the most stupidest places? places where u wouldnt think they would be...i found my socks and boxers in my fridge once...was the weirdest thing in the world...but maybe u think u put the stuff there, but actually u didnt...its a very weird phenomonon...it boggles my mind too...but ya, maybe the fabrics of space and time are eating your stuff...thats what i believe happens to my socks, since those r the most disappear item in my house...a solution would to have your room very clean and no junk or clothes anywhere, everything in its place...hope u find your stuff lol

[Psycho Mantis]

You think you have things bad? I dont even have to be out of the room to have things disappear on me. I remember once I walked into my room, set my CD player on the deck, turned around to shut the door, and when turned back to the desk my CD player was nowhere to be seen. I was like "Oh COME ON!!"

It turned up a couple weeks later in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.

The scariest one, though, was when I went to sleep dressed, and woke up completely naked, which woulda been weird enough, except that I never found the clothes I had been wearing when I went to sleep. I have no idea what happened to them.

I guess it could all just be me sabatoging my own stuff in some sort of sub-concious state or something.

[Melfice]

You think you have things bad? I dont even have to be out of the room to have things disappear on me. I remember once I walked into my room, set my CD player on the deck, turned around to shut the door, and when turned back to the desk my CD player was nowhere to be seen. I was like "Oh COME ON!!"

It turned up a couple weeks later in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.

The scariest one, though, was when I went to sleep dressed, and woke up completely naked, which woulda been weird enough, except that I never found the clothes I had been wearing when I went to sleep. I have no idea what happened to them.

I guess it could all just be me sabatoging my own stuff in some sort of sub-concious state or something.

WOW! I guess I'm blessed then. Everybody's blessed...

Anyway, I seem to loose memorycards for my PS2 alot. I now have two, after I gave up on one of them, and two weeks later I found it: sticking out of Memorycard-slot 2...

And dictionaries. I'm now going through my third German-Dutch dictionary. Those I haven't found again.

[Lycanthrope]

so... you forget where you place your memory.

the irony.
it hurts.

Psychomantis: your house is either possessed, infested by gnomes, or you sleep walk. possibly a combination of the three.

[Jack of Spades]

my room is infested woth pants gnomes...I'm missing a lot of pants

[Dragonsbane]

nah, halflings steal pants, gnomes steal underwear.

[Jack of Spades]

Halflings eh? I'll leave some fireworks out...when they go off I'll folow the smoke trail but what'll I do with all the gnome traps I just set?

[Melfice]

so... you forget where you place your memory.

the irony.
it hurts.
Psychomantis: your house is either possessed, infested by gnomes, or you sleep walk. possibly a combination of the three.

Never even thought about it that way, heh, that's funny.

[death raven]

The scariest one, though, was when I went to sleep dressed, and woke up completely naked, which woulda been weird enough, except that I never found the clothes I had been wearing when I went to sleep. I have no idea what happened to them.

That's happend to me befor I fell asleep fully dressed in my chair and woke up compleatly naked but just befor I fell asleep I swair I cought a glimps of glowing red eyes outside the bay windows and as for socks I think there all ending up here im finding socks I never bought... im practly swimming in them ...damn underpants knomes when will you learn there not my socks....


I have a set of books i was reading a cople years back.
I was half way thrue the forth and last book when i droped out of school.
I lost the book a cople days after.
I must have looked for at least a year for this book.
Reasently i whent to the book store to buy it again but couldn't find it.
A cople days later i was going thrue some old stuff and found it in one of the compartments of my old book bag.
It's been so long since i've read it that i had to start the whole series again.
Oh well it's a good series, just glad it wasn't the death gate cycle that's a 7 book series.

[Dragonsbane]

death raven, if you saw glowing red eyes then chances are good that Drow did it.....for some evil purpose that we cannot comprehend.

JoS, the gnome traps will still come in handy.....those little buggers attack when you least expect it!