Lost my wallet :-(

[The.Tumbleweed]

Last Spring I went out for a ride on my motorcycle and about a half hour from home for some reason I felt my right back pocket just to make sure my wallet was there, and sure enough, it was not. I felt a sense of panic for the very reasons that the OP is now dealing with. I turned around and rode home slowly over the identical route, scanning the road, thinking that maybe I had hit a bump and the wallet had popped out of my pocket. Made it home with no wallet in sight and went into the house to take off my motorcycle boots and noticed something under the bed. It was my wallet which must have dropped when I was putting on my pants after having taken them off to put on thermal underwear before the ride. I will admit that the sense of relief was enormous. Turned what had been a so so day that had become grim into a great day by the end. So now, at 81, I can continue to say that I have never lost my wallet, or my keys and hope to keep it that way.

I have left my wallet sitting on the counter at a gas station, while I was riding across country. I had to go back 200 miles, and retrieve it.
Since then I've worn a chain wallet.
It may look like hell, but keeping it on a short leash has saved me a myriad of headaches.

 

[Yaworski]

A small ray of sunshine shone on me today.

I went downtown to the Sheriff's office today. Paid for parking (again). Went to the gun license office and told the young lady there that I had gotten my renewal on Wednesday and lost it the same day. She said, "I can print you a new one" and proceeded to do so at no charge. Wow!

 

[Hertervillian]

Did you look in/behind and under the dresser? That appears to be the last place you saw it. Look s-l-o-w-l-y. I'm surprised at how many times I have tried to find a lost article, and when I slowed down, I found I had actually looked right at it and it just didn't register.

Can’t agree more. Something else that really helps in the search effort is a good flashlight. It focuses your attention on just that spot of light. Helped immensely in the search, ironically, for a misplaced flashlight. It slid between the seat and console hiding in the seatbelt mechanism.

 

[Yaworski]

Can't agree more. Something else that really helps in the search effort is a good flashlight.

Agree about the flashlight. I'm a pretty good finder which used to tick off my wife.

Start looking in the obvious places, move on to the not so obvious places, and finally move on to the absurd places. Another rule is to touch and move everything.

 

[TheTexasRAT]

I put my car keys in the refrigerator once.

 

[Hertervillian]

I dropped my keys into my hunting boots, last day of deer season. I was sure I had lost them in the woods. Used my hideout key to get home. 10 months later there they were waiting on me.

 

[Yaworski]

I put my car keys in the refrigerator once.

That's why I always check the freezer and fridge. You have something in your hand, set it down without thinking, and now it is gone.

 

[GypsmJim]

I dropped my keys into my hunting boots, last day of deer season. I was sure I had lost them in the woods. Used my hideout key to get home. 10 months later there they were waiting on me.

You made me look......

No, they weren't there either.

 

[Fox Mike]

Well it happened this morning. I reached for the wallet and it wasn't there (jacket pocket). That will get the 'pucker factor" raising quickly. Oh crap! Was at a doctors office with the wife. Came home and looked everywhere I could have possibly dropped it; nothing. I said that I had only been out of the car once all of yesterday so I will go beck there and see what, if anything, I find, Drove to where I had gotten out and as I did I noticed the wallet was under the front car seat. Had fallen out and was unnoticed by me.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

If you don't mind a lump in your wallet you can fit an Apple Air Tag in there.

 

[cutlassguy1976]

I came across this thread by accident and started reading it, very interesting comments. A little off key but it reminded me of the time I found a cell phone lying in the street. The wife, my daughter and son in law were with me. I jumped out and grabbed it and pulled into a parking lot. For some reason the phone did not need to be unlocked so I could access everything in it. I opened the contacts list, there was nobody listed as "mom", "dad", "brother Bob" or anyone like that so I called a few people to see if they could help me identify who it belonged to. The first person I called, I explained what happened, read off a few names in the contact list to see if by knowing a few mutual friends they could help, gave them the phone number of the phone to see if maybe it was listed in their phone, no luck. Called another person, they were rude and beligerent. Last person wouldn't even listen, starts dropping the F-bomb and hung up. Now the rest of the family is getting impatient and laughing. I started the car and started driving back the way we came with the family's asking where are you going? I rolled down my window and tossed the phone out at the same place as I had found it and said, "that person has some rude friends and I could care less if they ever get their phone back"!

 

[jav]

I came across this thread by accident and started reading it, very interesting comments. A little off key but it reminded me of the time I found a cell phone lying in the street. The wife, my daughter and son in law were with me. I jumped out and grabbed it and pulled into a parking lot. For some reason the phone did not need to be unlocked so I could access everything in it. I opened the contacts list, there was nobody listed as "mom", "dad", "brother Bob" or anyone like that so I called a few people to see if they could help me identify who it belonged to. The first person I called, I explained what happened, read off a few names in the contact list to see if by knowing a few mutual friends they could help, gave them the phone number of the phone to see if maybe it was listed in their phone, no luck. Called another person, they were rude and beligerent. Last person wouldn't even listen, starts dropping the F-bomb and hung up. Now the rest of the family is getting impatient and laughing. I started the car and started driving back the way we came with the family's asking where are you going? I rolled down my window and tossed the phone out at the same place as I had found it and said, "that person has some rude friends and I could care less if they ever get their phone back"!

I love that story good move I would done the same

 

[TheTexasRAT]

I came across this thread by accident and started reading it, very interesting comments. A little off key but it reminded me of the time I found a cell phone lying in the street. The wife, my daughter and son in law were with me. I jumped out and grabbed it and pulled into a parking lot. For some reason the phone did not need to be unlocked so I could access everything in it. I opened the contacts list, there was nobody listed as "mom", "dad", "brother Bob" or anyone like that so I called a few people to see if they could help me identify who it belonged to. The first person I called, I explained what happened, read off a few names in the contact list to see if by knowing a few mutual friends they could help, gave them the phone number of the phone to see if maybe it was listed in their phone, no luck. Called another person, they were rude and beligerent. Last person wouldn't even listen, starts dropping the F-bomb and hung up. Now the rest of the family is getting impatient and laughing. I started the car and started driving back the way we came with the family's asking where are you going? I rolled down my window and tossed the phone out at the same place as I had found it and said, "that person has some rude friends and I could care less if they ever get their phone back"!

I found a phone in the middle of a street and called the contact listed as mom. She sent the dad over to where I was and he didn't say thank you but instead gave me a dirty look. What is wrong with people now a days?

 

[Yaworski]

What is wrong with people now a days?

I believe that I recounted the story of finding an acquaintance's wallet when I was in college. Instead of thanking me, he acted as if I had stolen it.

Some thirty years ago, I found a phone on the sidewalk. Found a contact that said "Mom" and called her. She said that he son had just moved in up the street from me. I went and knocked on his door, he glared at me when I told him that I had found his phone, and muttered "Thanks" as he slammed the door after snatching the phone from my hand.

 

[The.Tumbleweed]

I came across this thread by accident and started reading it, very interesting comments. A little off key but it reminded me of the time I found a cell phone lying in the street. The wife, my daughter and son in law were with me. I jumped out and grabbed it and pulled into a parking lot. For some reason the phone did not need to be unlocked so I could access everything in it. I opened the contacts list, there was nobody listed as "mom", "dad", "brother Bob" or anyone like that so I called a few people to see if they could help me identify who it belonged to. The first person I called, I explained what happened, read off a few names in the contact list to see if by knowing a few mutual friends they could help, gave them the phone number of the phone to see if maybe it was listed in their phone, no luck. Called another person, they were rude and beligerent. Last person wouldn't even listen, starts dropping the F-bomb and hung up. Now the rest of the family is getting impatient and laughing. I started the car and started driving back the way we came with the family's asking where are you going? I rolled down my window and tossed the phone out at the same place as I had found it and said, "that person has some rude friends and I could care less if they ever get their phone back"!

I had left my wallet on the counter at a gas station, while I was on one of my cross-country road trips, and had to ride 200 miles (that's a full tank of gas on a bike) BACK to get it. Since then, I've kept my wallet on a chain, attached to my belt loop. I refuse to lose my wallet again.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I lost our (wife and I shared a phone in 1997) PrimeCo phone at the first Texas Motor Speedway race with an almost dead battery. Someone from Burleson (home of Kelly Clarkson LOL) found it and called the last number I called, a buddy. He paged me (LOL) and gave me their number. I called and they were nice and had it waiting for me. I was working at LBJ and Welch Rd. in Dallas at the time so I left work and drove all the way to Burleson, picked up the phone from a trailer house, and drove from there all the way back to Lewisville. I am guessing it was a 150 mile trip. I gave them $20 because it's all I had.

 

[Fox Mike]

One thing I did, after I found it, was to make a copy of every ID, credit card, medicare, etc, and save it at home. If, hopefully never, I ever lose it for real at least I will have the necessary information to get replacements.

 

[redhawker]

Put an Apple Air tag in your wallet.
You're welcome

Airtags are good. I have one in my vehicles, boat, tackle bags etc. The only problem with them for a wallet is that they're a little bulky. It kind of looks like that old "ring" many of used to have in our wallets (and most never used) when we were teenagers. They got a new version out now called a Spotminder. Works just like an AirTag but it's the size and as flat as a credit card. No batteries to replace, just have to charge it every 4 months or so with a wireless charger like many already have for their phones. Also, if someone steals your wallet, they're less likely to find this and recognize it as a tracker and get rid of it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8BR8CK2?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

 

[Acorn]

I believe that I recounted the story of finding an acquaintance's wallet when I was in college. Instead of thanking me, he acted as if I had stolen it.

Some thirty years ago, I found a phone on the sidewalk. Found a contact that said "Mom" and called her. She said that he son had just moved in up the street from me. I went and knocked on his door, he glared at me when I told him that I had found his phone, and muttered "Thanks" as he slammed the door after snatching the phone from my hand.

Thirty years ago?
That thing must have been the size of a cinder block.

 

[Yaworski]

Thirty years ago?
That thing must have been the size of a cinder block.

My current pocket computer is larger than any of my old phones excepting the satchel phone from 1990.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

I remember the "bag phone". I bought one from Sears when it was on sale.
The battery lasted about four hours and it was a big battery.

 

[Yaworski]

I remember the "bag phone". I bought one from Sears when it was on sale.
The battery lasted about four hours and it was a big battery.

I got one for my wife when she was pregnant with our first child. We lived out in the boonies and I wanted her to be able to call for help if need be. $39 a month for 30 minutes of talk time.

A few years late we got Nokia pocket sized phones and I gave the bag phone to a friend. He lived in the boonies too but didn't want to pay for a cell plan. I explained that he could use the phone to call 911 without a plan and it would nice for him to leave in his trunk for emergencies. "Good idea. Thanks."

A few months later I was at my friends house and there in a corner was the bag phone. I asked about it and was told, "I only take it with me if I think that I'll need it." Really? You plan your emergencies?

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Just saw this.,..

https://www.pcmag.com/deals/these-razor-thin-trackers-work-like-airtags-that-fit-in-your-wallet