Stylish with Substance

The lost & found, something that tugs at everyone interested in anything that can be blogged about (everything, everyone). Therefore anyone could blog about it, right? Living smart is fabulous and crafting your life with cunning, well...

The truth is I'm currently passionate about honing the mind, well always that, but this morning it's about how to find a lost loved item. Whether they be sunglasses, key fob, or a craft tool - we are happier holding on to our belongings.

So it doesn't matter the topic, it matters more that I may help someone out there. I've just found my trusty jewelry pliers/cutters combo - wahoo. But you?

1. Go in steps and methods, pick whichever one you like first, but one thing that may help is to re-trace your steps. Unless borrowed by a roommate, you lost that item at some point in your recent life, so this can't hurt.
2. Use your hands. Not only should you move things (and clean!) but you should use your hands to feel behind (or clean) where something is blocking your vision.
3. Cleaning can be the culprit. Until there's the perfect place for everything, often where we tidy doesn't make a lick of sense to us later. Remember where you used objects and any place you might have placed afterward.
4. Relax, have patience (if afforded) and take a breather. Sleep on it or have some brain food. The next step is to rationally ... think.
5. Leave your mind open to unusual possibilities. Develop your cunning or wait for genius to strike. A good idea, which may turn into yureka and reuniting, may hit you.
6. Don't fail to or talk yourself out of looking where you've already looked (or someone else did for you). The next time, look harder, closer, smarter and handsier than before. And probably cleanier.
7. Lather, rinse and repeat if necessary. Don't knock that cleaning method.
8. "It's always in the last place you look" is both a misnomer and a dumb obvious truth. The truth behind the phrase is that if something is where we'd think to look first, second, and so on, we'd likely find it before even losing it. When it's lost, we have to look beyond & beyond the obvious and normal. Trust that eventually you'd find odder and odder places to look, if it weren't in that last (or recent) place.

Where was my missing object? In a random drawer where scissors go, not crafts. I'd tidied up - but I still need to find that thing's true place, clearly.