They’re gone. Vanished. Nowhere to be found.

My dentures, again, really?

damn it, my keys went missing too.
And why has my left shoe been missing for the last 3 weeks?


Who threw them away? Who stole them? Ryan, was it you? I know you did it, you asshole. What’d you do to them? Where did they go?

I swear this happens every 3rd day of the week. I lose my things perpetually.

Infuriating is an understatement and I’ve had enough… especially when 2 minutes later I find out ‘they’ are my sunglasses, and ‘they’ were on my head the whole time.

And yes. Given the picture, I can feel your judgement. But hey, screw you, it’s my mess my problem.

And Let Me Tell You

There is always something missing in my room. There’s usually something missing in the kitchen, and there’s occasionally something missing from the bathroom. Where my toilet paper runs off to, I’ll never know.

I can never find what I need, and it’s always in the last minute that I need them: My G.D. keys have vaporized into oblivion for no reason.

But have no fear. I’ve cracked the code.

The solution?
Just never move your stuff.

Thank you for the insight, Colin.

Ahh, why you’re welcome Mr. Monopoly man!

The funny part is, that’s exactly the hack I’ve been using in recent times.

same spot, Different day

Once you move things, if you always move them back to the same exact spot, you’ll never lose them.

A good buddy gave me the advice a couple years back.


Once things have a place to live, you’ll never lose them.

It doesn’t have to be neat. It doesn’t have to be tidy. Believe me, my room is a Disaster Zone. But once things have a set place to live, they don’t get lost.


My camera goes in the 2nd largest pocket in my backpack.
My book goes on the ground, 1 foot North of my bed.
And my underwear goes on the back of my swivel chair.


And they don’t. move.

If everything has a place to live, and it only moves between two spots –

Your hand and it’s home, it’ll never get lost.

Car keys now live in a Tupperware container on my desk or directly in my pocket. They go from my pocket to the car, then back to my pocket. If I take them out at work for some reason to cut something open, they go straight back to my pocket. Not on the counter, not on the table, not on the ground – In the pocket. They do not leave my hands unless they’re going above in the Tupperware or in my pocket.

I’ve designated a literal peanut jar on my desk to my phone, wallet, and earbuds. That’s where they live. Tupperware to my Pocket back to the Tupperware.

Anytime I lose my things, I realize it is because they do not have a place to live.

Bags, boxes, and jars are golden. Use folders to group papers and backpacks to store work items. Whatever the container is, just make sure each items have a place to live… and then designate the backpacks a place to live and you’ve got a nice neat Mega-system.

It saves brain power and you don’t have to worry about where you put anything because they have a place to live.

So give things a place to live.
Then let them live there.