My child lost her take home reading books months ago. I tore the house apart. Nothing. So we got a new bag and new books and I've been veeerrrry careful with it. Today, I was looking for a lost toy and dumped out a bin...and there was that stupid bag!
Have your kids ever done that to you? What's the weirdest place they've ever hidden something important?
In this case, I think it was shoved somewhere and forgotten vs that she hid the books because she didn't want to read them. When my SS was a baby, they lost his mom's keys. A year later, they put up the tree and there in the middle of the floor were her old keys. They think the keys were stuffed into the tree when it was packed up.
Can't say with confidence that it was my kid, or whether I am guilty of some severe absentmindedness. My cell phone was once in my mother's kitchen cupboard, the one in which she keeps her dustpan. I found a favorite paring knife under the toe kick of the fridge and my wallet was once in the waste paper basket about to get dumped into the compactor chute.
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F. B.
When my son was in first grade (?.. might have been kindergarten)... he didn't want my parents to leave. They lived 6 hours away, and had come for a 3 or 4 day visit and were leaving later that morning after he had already gone to school. He hid my dad's keys in a jacket pocket hanging in the closet in the laundry room.
He told my dad the night before he was going to hide the keys... but he thought he was only kidding. When Dad told me what he said (after hunting for about an hour for his "misplaced" keys) I called the school and got him on the telephone.... he said "they're in your jacket in the closet".
HA!
My 2 yr old hid her 12 yr old brothers wallet in a little pocket underneath the subwoofer for our TV sound system. We were looking everywhere for that wallet as it had about $80 in cash plus a prepaid credit card I've given him. We'd been looking for 4-5 months when one day my son was playing on the floor and for whatever reason crawled thru his head he put his fingers in that pocket and starts jumping for joy. Tried explaining about not hiding stuff to my 2 yr old but she just smiled at me and said "shaun's wallet".
Well, my 3yo likes to stash things (usually her toys, but she did hide her uncle's shark tooth necklace too. Lol.) in a drawstring bag, and hide it behind the drawers of her dresser. I always know when she is hiding things because I can't shut the drawers. Lol.
The shark tooth incident was when he was passing through TN in his way to ID... About 4 hours after he left, she came out holding the darn thing, laughing because she thought she was so clever. That led to a nice talking to about not hiding things that don't belong to her, and a phone call to apologize for taking it... Aaaaand it took up 1/2 of the pennies (ok, I'll admit that I didn't make her pay the full price... ) in her piggy bank to pay to ship it back to him. Lol.
In the phone jack inside the wall.
A CD inside the VCR (son was about 3 at the time).
We couldn't figure out what was going on - we tried to put in tapes but they were immediately ejected.
Eventually Dad finally got down on his knees, peeked inside, then used his needle-nose pliers to get the CD out and everything worked fine after that.
Child's official 'hidey-hole' space was behind a reclining chair that had a throw over it so it was sort of a hidden space back there.
We'd find all kinds of little interesting bits and pieces of this and that back there - pretty stones, marbles, Lego pieces, beads, game pieces, rubber bands, paper clips, etc.
I came up with odd parenting. The only thing that carried a stiff penalty was lying, hiding information from me. So to answer your question, never. I did find things in some pretty odd places but they really lost their stuff, they had no idea where it was.
Unless I am not understanding your question. Do you mean she put it somewhere and forgot she put it there or actually hid the books? Forgetting where they put stuff was a daily event in our house when the kids were young and I don't have enough time to list all the crazy places I found stuff.
My now high school senior, when she was a pre-schooler put my keys in the compartment of her little scooting-car. My husband thought I was losing my ever-loving-mommy-mind. He was certain I put them somewhere. But it was pouring rain as I was bringing in groceries and I dropped the keys on the mat by the front door as I brought the bags in - they vanished. Weeks later they were found in the "trunk" of her mini-car (the kind they straddle and push themselves around - the "trunk" is the compartment under the seat.)
My son lost a library book - we looked for that dopy book for the rest of the school year, then we wrote a check to cover the cost. When we moved the captains bed over the summer we found it under the bed part but on top of the chest of drawers part. We still can't figure out how it got there...
We have a large bookcase that is too heavy to move without unpacking it and then having 2 adults coordinate shifting. Anything of any importance that can end up behind there desperately tries to.
Not so much the important stuff. Ever since Kiddo was young, we taught him that things like keys and our phones/wallets were absolutely off limits. But he had a couple secret stashes of 'ick' under his bed. ("Ick" is a concoction of water, soap, toothpaste and chalk or whatever other disgustingness...) For some reason, he liked making these 'potions', and then we had to talk about what would have happened if they had tipped over and spilt. We discovered the 'ick' after likely a couple of weeks. Reeked. Pure grossness.
Oh, and he and his friend were sneaking bits off the gingerbread house a couple years ago... decided to eat the candy bits in the bed and under the bed... that was a total PITA... stripped the sheets, had to vacuum under his bed (which is a futon, so the whole heavy thing had to be moved)... Yes, under the bed certainly has some sort of attraction for mischief!
My older daughter didn't like her eye glasses. She broke them in 3 pieces and buried them in the back yard.
The younger one...one day I realized my tennis bracelet was missing. I thought it will turn up. After a week, I asked the little one at about age 2.5, "Do you know where mom's bracelet is?" She said yes. I asked if she would take me to it. We went down stairs and she bent over and stuck her head in the crayon bucket and fished out half a bracelet. I asked if she had the other bracelet and she shook her head yes and pointed back inside the bucket.
