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.