NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wander]

Been there, done that! Awful emotional roller coaster isn't it?

Amen to that. I was put through the emotional wringer.

I have one knife with such sentimental value that it no longer leaves the house.

Can't go along with that though. It's just an item. A thing.
It needs to be used for what it was designed. It has sentimental value because it's used and done things and been with you. That needs to continue. If it was a living, beathing, sentient being, it would want nothing else.
If I am going to lose it for real or if it breaks, then I'd much rather that happens whilst it's giving honourable service.

 

[Broch]

I agree with Wander, to appreciate something is to use it even if we know that will result in its eventual loss. I have posted this Buddhist teaching before but it's very relevant so I'll post it again:


Do you see this glass? I love this glass.

It holds the water admirably.
When the sun shines on it, it reflects the light beautifully.
When I tap it, it has a lovely ring.

Yet for me, this glass is already broken. When the wind knocks it over or my elbow knocks it off the shelf and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’

But when I understand that this glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

Ajahn Chah

 

[Woody girl]

I lost my purse a month ago. Luckily it didn't have more than spare change in and my payment cards for the bills.
It's a beautiful tooled leather so I was realy put out more about loosing the purse than the contents.
I decided to make some wire coathanger dowsing rods and have a go at trying to dowse for it.
Strangely it kept saying that it was in my bedroom close to the end of my bed.
Now there was nothing there except a small bag I keep with overnight stuff in case of hospital visits or anything which requires a toothbrush and nightwear.
I knew it wasn't in that, and a quick peek in the top showed me...... there it was!
No idea how it got there.
How did the coathangers know?????
I'm going to dowse for lost stuff from now on.

 

[IfInDoubt]

I know everyone's got a story and mine is when the security guards at the statue of liberty visitors checkpoint found a leatherman I hadn't seen for months in the hydration pocket of my Daysack, funny thing was that I had used that bag as a carry on and the airport checkpoint hadn't noticed it at all, I may have committed some federal crime there, as was said earlier it's always worth getting someone else to look for you

 

[Dougster]

We could do with a stickied thread of places you've found lost items.

Normally I find lost knives in a pocket of a coat I've not worn for ages.

I only ever find stale Schmackos.

 

[Minotaur]

If that the knife with the marlin spike I love those knifes however they a nightmare to replace. There is a marine knife that looks similar however it not the same steel.