The quickest way to find a lost object

Gene L

Is to buy a replacement.  I recently lost a set of Lyman punches, the set with the tricky little hammer.  After two days of looking, I picked up a complete used replacement set for $20 bucks.  Which was more than reasonable.  Got back home and looked in the one place I hadn't looked before...the lower shelf of an end table, beneath some books.  There it was. 

10canyon53

I have found that the quickest way to find a small, sharp object I dropped on the floor is to take off my shoes.  It will find me quicker than I can find it.

Gene L

I found the quickest way to find a small object is to run the Roomba.  It will pick them up every time, you just have to insert a magnet in the dustbin.

LMLarsen

Why is the lost item always in the last place you look? Why not just look there to begin with and save a lot of time?

NN

10canyon53 said:

I have found that the quickest way to find a small, sharp object I dropped on the floor is to take off my shoes.  It will find me quicker than I can find it.

I lost a piece of broken glass 3 dats ago-----when barefoot and that works, I found the glass in sticking in my foot
and Clean shouting at me.


Geeze----it was my piece of glass and not her foot.

10canyon53

LMLarsen said:

Why is the lost item always in the last place you look? Why not just look there to begin with and save a lot of time?

It is always the last place you look, even if it is also the first place you look.  Unless you keep looking after you find it just because you love the thrill of the hunt......

Bigslug

No.  You already HAD looked in that spot.  It was just the Reality Construction Crew creating time moment by moment accidentally failing to put the punch set there at the moment you were looking.  They then managed spot and correct the error, getting it back after you looked away.  Little bastards do it to my glasses & keys all the time. 

Jermanator

Underpants gnomes.

olesniper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amVrEaaLApM

Varmintmist

I couldnt find my Dermel for weeks, finally went to H freight and bought a knock off. Used it and put it in a good place to keep a Dremel. I know it was a good place to keep a Dremel because that is where my original was.