Me, two days ago: I am putting all these tools I need in a special box, and I am putting this box in a special place.

Me today: uh oh

April 08, 2026 - 20:20 UTC

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Oh no.

You ritually summoned the Memory Fairies!
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this is why everything is in a pile in my closet
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Painfully relatable. Painfully.
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I totally relate to this, but my favorite is when I'm looking for my glasses and they're on my face, or when I look for my phone that's in my hand because I'm using it to talk. ( I know, who does that!)
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My ex and I would say "I put it in a special place" instead of "I can't find it."
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I play “remembering where is the new special place?” several times a year
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oh no!

the best hidden spot, not to resurface for one thousand years
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Me every time I decide to reorgnize my knitting needles into something resembling order
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You've described a well constructed Spell of Banishment, what seems to be the issue?
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Ah, yes, the Safe And Sensible Place To Put Things which is actually a black hole. We have one of those. Apparently :)
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Wild reading this the instant I was also --and this isn't a bit-- thinking about where the hell I put the box I put the tools in to fix my office chair.
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Me: It's prudent to separate the two keys that open our small home safe just in case something happens accidentally.

Me later: There's definitely one key in the place I know to look.
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Spent 5 minutes searching for hive entrance reducers with a group of guys this morning and then remembered that I put them....in the hive entrances.
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I bet it was a really special spot that you couldn't have possibly missed noticing, too.
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oh the worst, putting something somewhere so you won't forget...
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Fistbump of solidarity! I have done this more times than I can count.
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I did something similar with the blade for the food processor (because my kid was leaving it or something?) and IT HAS NOT BEEN FOUND TO THIS DAY

I have moved. I have thrown out the food processor. But the blade?? WHO KNOWS

Yeah, Alana, that really fixed the "not getting cut" problem.
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That’s the story of my life.
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Congrats on finding the most special of places!
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LUCKILY complaining on BlueSky remains the number one way to find things so immediately after posting this I realized that I must have put the box somewhere not visible.

Guess where my special box of necessary tools ended up?
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Tell us, you monster!
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Would you guess “behind a stack of author copies and other shit?” Does that sound like a good place to put necessary tools I use every 2-3 days?

Brain. What were you thinking.
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Attached to a drum line, being sniffed over by tiger sharks?
😜👍
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Guessing:
-Trunk of your car
-Bottom of a linen closet
-Behind the water heater
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Buried in the garden on top of an ancient burial ground?
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maybe you can help me find the fancy bike pump that clips right on the frame, which i definitely put somewhere logical before i dropped the bike off for a tuneup
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If you’re like me, it was in plain sight the whole time
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As Is Tradition
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Please tell me it was a different, bigger box. 📦

Tell me I’m not alone!
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If a thing has not been put somewhere by my outsourced executive function*, I will stand in the middle of the room I think the thing is in, and say out loud "if I were me, where would I have put that?"

Shockingly, this frequently works.

*paid outsourced executive function. It helps.
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No, this is legit what I do too!

(Without an outsourced executive function. Wish I had one.)
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Been there, done that.
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Special box-y Day is always a mixed blessing.

Even more fun is when you find it a year later and wonder what this box of stuff was for 😬
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I call this "out-clevering myself".
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Oh look, just like me, except with my mom’s old rings… 😬
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It was removed to a secure location.

TOO secure.
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