You know you are getting old when...

[Jal5]

Ok so bear with my rant please. I only have one 1911 45auto pistol. Just got it not too long ago and have only had it at the range one time so far. Getting ready to go out over the coming weekend and really break it in! But of the two mags I can only find one. Looked almost everywhere and its noplace to be found :mad:. I don't know where I put it down in one of those senior moments but I know its in the house. Crazy huh?

[lancem]

Is it maybe in the pistol?? :)

[Rick Hodges]

LOL if I ever find that "safe place" that I put things in....I will have a bonanza.....wish I got paid for the time spent looking too....

I feel your pain.

[Jal5]

very funny lancem LOL
I know its gonna turn up but I only hope it does appear before Saturday!!

[Sweetpea]

Shoot, I'm not that old, but I have a wife that hides stuff for me...[smilie=b:

[kweidner]

5 years ago my mother in law did the same thing with the family's christmas presents. Lol. 5 years we still havent found them. It's a good laugh and seems to come up every year at thanksgiving.

[Bad Water Bill]

For more time than I WANT TO REMEMBER I have looked for my OLD Ohaus scale.

It finally surrendered last night on the bottom shelf of the loading bench.:evil:

Time to reorganize that OLD bench i guess.:bigsmyl2:

[gpidaho]

This hobby may becoming more dangerous daily. I swear I can lose things at the loading bench while using them. They gotta be with-in arms reach! GP

[smokeywolf]

After you've bought 4 more, have given up looking for it and don't really need it anymore it'll turn up.

smokeywolf

[Char-Gar]

No you are not crazy or even old. I have even lost pistols for a couple of years and ran across them right where I put them. I have lost 1911 magazines for up to 25 years. These days, before I put anything down, I try and think "Now where would I look for that if I forgot where I put it?". It helps allot to plan for the loss in advance of the actual loss.

[FlatTop45LC]

No you are not crazy or even old. I have even lost pistols for a couple of years and ran across them right where I put them. I have lost 1911 magazines for up to 25 years. These days, before I put anything down, I try and think "Now where would I look for that if I forgot where I put it?". It helps allot to plan for the loss in advance of the actual loss.
Funny!

I am only 26 so not old by any stretch, but the wife and I bought our house 4 years ago and literally a couple of weeks ago I was looking for a hunting coat she had put up last year and found a Ruger Single Six 6.5" that I thought I had sold off some where along the way....

I think it just got voted for a little home gunsmith work.

[parson48]

I have some small binoculars that I haven't seen in a few years. I think that there is a rule that you can't find stuff until you replace it it with new.

[Mike in TX]

Lost my electronic scale. Bought another one. The next day it showed up on the upper shelf of the bench. Lost 2 Remington 740 magazines. Bought a new one (OUCH). About a month later I opened the safe, saw a scope box that looked out of place, there were the 2 magazines. Guess I will have enough ammo for the hogs.

[DCP]

90% of the time the wife puts it in a box. Then moves the box 1 to 4 times.

So it has made for some interesting (discussion) around here.

I once was working on a coffee maker. Went down stairs for a screw driver and came up and found a clean table. That was a fun night.

[xs11jack]

Nov went to range with 9mm that I have 3 mags for. unfortunately none were in the gun or range bag.
Dec went to range with .45 that I have 2 mags for. Unfortunately none were in the gun or range bag.
Ole Jack

[Big Boomer]

In December, 2006, I retired and my wife and I sold our place in southern Ohio and moved to southern Ky. While packing all my shooting paraphernalia, I tried to pack in such a manner that my reloading stuff, including my Dillon XL650 and Hornady Projector would be safe and did everything that way right on down to my balance scales. Everything was fine when we built a new house and I found everything but the RCBS 5-10-10 scales and couldn't fine them anywhere though I found everything else. An old shooting buddy back in southern Ohio had an extra set of RCBS scales that were a cut above the 5-10-10 scales that he was willing to sell at a very reasonable price. On my way up to Ohio from southern Ky. I kept trying to remember or figure out where I would have put them. I still had the original box and put the scales in the box. I remember doing that. Finally I reasoned with myself, the only place I could have or would have put them for safety was in a roll of kapok that I bought for taking up extra space in reloading large rifle cartridges with cast boolits, but I didn't remember putting the scales there. So I drive back home with a new set of scales, opened the roll of kapok and sure enough, there were my old scales. How could I have forgotten that? Beats me. Big Boomer

[fatelk]

We moved last year and there's two things I simply cannot find; a spare rifle barrel that I've about tore the house apart looking for, and my old kinetic bullet puller. I don't want to spend another $150 on a barrel, and I know the days after I buy another bullet puller the old one will turn up.

No, I don't think it's necessarily just a sign of old age; more likely a sign of having too much stuff.

[higgins]

Before we moved last year, we were in the same house for 34 years. I knew exactly where everything was. I'm aware of this forgetful thing and setting something down in the wrong place. When we were boxing stuff to move, I boxed stuff together that was together in the garage and shop area of the house we left, and have left much of my stuff so boxed so I can at least get to the correct box or three where something I'm looking for might be. To the extent possible, stuff that was stored together in the other house is stored together here.

I built a replica of the workbench I left behind in our new house, and was able to put a lot of my small stuff and boxed stuff right back where it was. I also moved a couple of government metal desks and a large set of wooden shelves that stand against the wall, so was able to leave everything in the same place in them.

[IllinoisCoyoteHunter]

I just moved and that is when I found everything I had lost over the years LOL.

[Mod42]

I have hit the age that I don't know that I lost something anymore. Kind of like Christmas when I notice an item that I didn't even know I misplaced.
I figure that as long as I don't loose the part that tells me to pee, I'm doing OK!![smilie=w:

[fatelk]

Years back, my folks sold the farm I grew up on. Sometime later I stopped by with the family and introduced myself to the people who bought the place. We had a good visit and they had some various questions about the place that I knew since I grew up there. I hadn't lived there in many years and neither had my folks; various family and renters had come and gone over the years.

When we went to leave the guy asked if I might have lost or forgotten something there long ago. I couldn't imagine what he was talking about, until he pulls out an old rusty ammo can full of ammo! Yep, it was mine. He'd found it along the back wall out in the shop behind a piece of plywood. It was his now, of course- long abandoned and went with the farm. He surprised me when he said that he had no use for it and I was welcomed to have it back. I still have it.

[Bzcraig]

Shoot, I'm not that old, but I have a wife that hides stuff for me...[smilie=b:

For you or from you? :bigsmyl2:

[MaryB]

I got tired of the hunt, took a look at the boxes of stuff that had bee through 6 moves then sat in his house 25 years and were never unpacked. Put the boxes out as a mystery rummage sale, no opening the box $5 take your pick. People scarfed them up in 2 hours and saved me paying for a dumpster. Old dishes, broken tools, box after box of paperbacks I had collected(I am a scifi fan, read a lot), old clothes, stuff that I could maybe use one day... yeah out it went. Now I am more organized and don't lose as much... now if I could only remember where that dang Mosin butt plate went....

[Bad Water Bill]

Now if I could only remember where that dang Mosin butt plate went....

Look on the top shelf at the very back of the refrigerator on the left side.

No I have no idea how it got put there either.:bigsmyl2:

[robg]

i go upstairs to get something and have to go back down to remember what it was i went up for

[Jal5]

I had no idea my little post would result in all this hilarious stuff. Thanks I needed the laugh! LOL
Joe

[Bulldogger]

"You know you're getting old when..." always reminds me of a quip from the late great George Burns.

"You know you're getting old when, you bend over to tie your shoe and you look around to see if there's anything else you can do while you're down there."
My back has always been tetchy, and I started doing this when I was barely over 30!

Laughs for George.

Alex

[gwpercle]

You want to find it? Order two or three more....stop looking for it....you will find it in no time!

Happened to me with a set of grips for an old Colt Police Positive revolver. No sooner than I had some new reproductions on it ...you guessed it , I find the originals....happens every time!

[smokeywolf]

When working in a good sized machine shop, I would go to the tool crib to retrieve a tool and more than 50% of the time have to go back to the machine or my bench to remember what I what I needed from the tool crib.

[cbrick]

They say the mind is the second thing to go. I say it's a mighty fine thing that I can't remember what the first was.

Rick

[searcher4851]

I try to be orderly. When I box stuff up, I do a sort of inventory, and write down on a list the contents that went into which box. All boxes are numbered, and the list is referenced to those numbers. It's a system that worked well for years.
Come to think of it, it'll probably still be a good system if I can ever find that list. Until then, life has just become a treasure hunt.

[Jal5]

Hey I really found that mag! In one of my range bags that I had already looked In.

[MaryB]

You know you are getting old when your joints make more noise in the morning than the bowl of rice crispies... Everything crunched, snapped, or popped today, right shoulder is unstable for for fun it dislocated and popped back in.

[Blacksmith]

Lost things in a move? Don't worry you will find them in the next move but will also loose other stuff.

[Lance Boyle]

5 years ago my mother in law did the same thing with the family's christmas presents. Lol. 5 years we still havent found them. It's a good laugh and seems to come up every year at thanksgiving.

I was reading something similar on another gun board. The poster was retelling finding a couple bags of army men hidden in the back on a high shelf in a closet. He asked his mom who they were for. She laughed, they were for him, her 23 year old son. She misplaced them a dozen years ago. My own mom would do similar. I can remember one Christmas opening presents. I got the lone ranger's horse, tonto's canoe, a lone ranger miner's disguise and mule, but no tonto or lone ranger action figure. We had to tear everything out of the closet under the staircase before we found the bag that they were in. Was funny then. I always seemed to pick the present to open first that tells what the rest are. If, and that's a big If, when I was a kid, my mom remembered what was in each box she'd tell me to open certain things first but with 7 kids she couldn't keep it straight too often.

Someone else also posted this is not only a symptom of getting old but also a symptom of stuffitus. The gathering of too much stuff. I am guilty of self inflicted stuffitus. I get into hobbies and don't consider that I got out of them so much, I just delve into a new vein. Fishing, camping, skeet, reloading, service rifle, pistol shooting, fly rod waving, milsurp collecting, then the bayonets, precision rifles, snowmobiling, ice fishing, gardening, bullet casting.

I also rarely sell off stuff as I usually enjoyed using it, think/hope I'll use it again before I kick off. I have given away stuff with gladness when moving though. Still have boxes from the last move I haven't gotten to. Still have boxes stashed in my brother's basement too, not too may though, I retrieved most of them. Still working on my work benches to help organize the new place. I'll be all set just about the time I retire and want to head to a warmer clime.

Wait, what were we talking about, I forget.

[Bad Water Bill]

I was reading something similar on another gun board. The poster was retelling finding a couple bags of army men hidden in the back on a high shelf in a closet. He asked his mom who they were for. She laughed, they were for him, her 23 year old son. She misplaced them a dozen years ago. My own mom would do similar. I can remember one Christmas opening presents. I got the lone ranger's horse, tonto's canoe, a lone ranger miner's disguise and mule, but no tonto or lone ranger action figure. We had to tear everything out of the closet under the staircase before we found the bag that they were in. Was funny then. I always seemed to pick the present to open first that tells what the rest are. If, and that's a big If, when I was a kid, my mom remembered what was in each box she'd tell me to open certain things first but with 7 kids she couldn't keep it straight too often.

Someone else also posted this is not only a symptom of getting old but also a symptom of stuffitus. The gathering of too much stuff. I am guilty of self inflicted stuffitus. I get into hobbies and don't consider that I got out of them so much, I just delve into a new vein. Fishing, camping, skeet, reloading, service rifle, pistol shooting, fly rod waving, milsurp collecting, then the bayonets, precision rifles, snowmobiling, ice fishing, gardening, bullet casting.

I also rarely sell off stuff as I usually enjoyed using it, think/hope I'll use it again before I kick off. I have given away stuff with gladness when moving though. Still have boxes from the last move I haven't gotten to. Still have boxes stashed in my brother's basement too, not too may though, I retrieved most of them. Still working on my work benches to help organize the new place. I'll be all set just about the time I retire and want to head to a warmer clime.

Wait, what were we talking about, I forget.

I had to hide my guns and stuff so got started in lapidary.

Yup an 18" diamond saw and several smaller ones,lots of grinding and polishing wheels AND about 10,000# of rock.

Then of course followed the gold and silversmithing STUFF.

Then my little son and I found ourselves involved in breeding Killifish of many types and sizes and soon there were over 100 fish tanks from 2 to 55 gal in the basement.

Then we got into fishing and camping along with a couple of canoes.

Finally we began restoring a couple of 1981 VW Rabbit diesel trucks.

Yes all of that STUFF was saved till I retired and was living on a much smaller income so I could still keep busy.

With all of this STUFF saved do you really expect a dirty OLD man that was stupic enough to keep all of this STUFF to remember where the he77 I put a stupid square drive screwdriver LAST YEAR?:bigsmyl2:

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[GL49]

90% of the time the wife puts it in a box. Then moves the box 1 to 4 times.

So it has made for some interesting (discussion) around here.

I once was working on a coffee maker. Went down stairs for a screw driver and came up and found a clean table. That was a fun night.

Sounds exactly like my house, but my wife and I came to an agreement.
"If you want something of mine moved, p-l-e-e-e-z-e, DON'T help me. Just tell me and I'll do it myself".
This has saved me countless hours of searching through the house trying to figure out where she put something.


"Where's my stubby phillips screwdriver I left here on the counter?
"What's that?"
(Describe the screwdriver)
"Ummm...., I think I put it in the garage where it belongs"
"Where in the garage?. I've already looked in my toolbox"
"I don't remember."
Hunt for 45 minutes, finally give up and go to another project. Hopefully, it's one of her pet projects that I can't work on until I find my screwdriver. :twisted:
Three days later the screwdriver shows up in my son's car.
"Oh. That's what you meant. I thought that belonged to Daniel so I put it where he'd see it."

[Blacksmith]

With all of this STUFF saved do you really expect a dirty OLD man that was stupic enough to keep all of this STUFF to remember where the he77 I put a stupid square drive screwdriver LAST YEAR?:bigsmyl2:

/.

I know where mine is but I don't remember seeing my clutch head screwdriver in several years. Of course I have only needed it a couple of times since I left the RV and camper business. That was about 1974 or 75.

[MaryB]

I had a friend move in after she divorced and had nowhere to go. She was a neat freak, I am the opposite. Where is all the stuff from my desk? "You mean that foot high stack of paperwork?" Yes... "I filed it all in your filing cabinet" that was 10 years ago, I found a manual to a radio I sold 8 years ago today when I was searching for some medical paperwork. The file slid to the bottom so i emptied the drawer and the manual was on the bottom... my desk may be a disaster zone but I know where everything is on it...

[Hickory]

What's really bad is when you loose something in plain sight.

[Nicholas]

What's really bad is when you loose something in plain sight.

If that is a sign of being old, then I have been old longer than I thought.

[MaryB]

Or you get up in the morning to go somewhere and as you head out the door you have a nagging feeling you forgot something... like your glasses that your drivers license has listed as required... I got lucky one day and had my spare pair in the car when I got stuck in one of those stupid drunk driving checkpoints. I was 4 cars back when I realized I didn't have them on. Grabbed the spares and put them on quick. Got to the front of the line, he checked my license and waved me past. Was the morning after New Years and they had 8 cars lined up to be towed and were filling a bus with drunks. I was on my way into work at the casino for an emergency and the cop recognized me and didn't do a breath test. Would have been negative anyway, I had worked until 2Am, got 5 hours sleep and called back in again because the accounting system for the slots had crashed.

[CLAYPOOL]

Was looking for one of the spare tires for the 16 foot trailer. Had the other off the rim in the barn. kept walking past the back of the one ton truck looking around for days. kept looking at the tire up in the truck bed against the back of the cab. Guess which spare that was.... HMmmmnnnnnn

[Boyscout]

"I have some small binoculars that I haven't seen in a few years. I think that there is a rule that you can't find stuff until you replace it it with new."

I have 4 headlamps after this past deer season based upon Parson's Law. They aren'treplacements they are back-ups.

[mold maker]

When the wife ask about the hammer she found in the fridg, I knew exactly where the missing mayo was.
Thank goodness the shop is cold.

[Down South]

I'm still looking for a Ruger 45 acp and a new spotting scope that I put up somewhere. This thread just reminded me to look for the acp here at my house in Louisiana.

[Nicholas]

Here it is again; the phone I had in my hand last night is somewhere in the house. I must have turned the ringer off because it doesn't respond when dialed. It may be that the missus moved it and forgot where. She did that to my snubbie, moved it to the car's trunk and forgot. Drove me crazy until it finally crawled out from under the cargo net a month later when I was looking for something else that was lost. Fortunately, it was unmarred.

Followup 48 hours later. Murphy's Law was in full force with the phone. Someone set the thin black phone on the black printer, and someone else put the laptop on that same printer knocking the phone behind the printer. Naturally, the battery had just gone flat, so ringing the land phone 10 feet away did no good. One of my granddaughters found it this afternoon quite by accident.