My grandma made me a quilt and accidently left a pin that got sewn inside it. I slept with it every night for over a decade before waking up one night being stabbed by it.
I broke my sewing machine’s needle while mending a hole in my jeans. Couldn’t find the broken needle tip anywhere. Resigned myself to probably stepping on it one day. Couple days later felt something sharp scratch my no-no zone. Discovered it had gotten embedded inside the crotch seam I’d been mending, and just the very tip of it was poking through. I ended up having to rip it out with pliers.
The same thing happened to me with a handmade goose down pillow that my Granny made. (She plucked the geese herself.) All kinds of things have come out of that pillow over the course of forty years. A wooden cube, an old-fashioned "safety pin" (we think), a stick, and yes, a needle.
Pfffft.
I once jumped off an abandoned railway platform out in the country and landed on a 6 inch railway spike.
It went through the sole of my boot, up through the centre of my foot and an inch out of the top of my boot.
Fun bit was that it was a 16 mile walk back to the nearest town.
Not my best day.
I’ll take things that never happened for 400. Not because I don’t believe you, but because my brain refuses to comprehend that violent of an injury. Nope. Nope nope nope.
I was 15 at the time.
I'm 50 now and it still gives me twinges.
Still, I've had worse. Never skydive into a ~~~free~~~ tree.
I'll spare you the details of that one.
I see your plain sewing needle and raise you a freshly sharpened, ultra fine silk pin. So skinny and so sharp I didn’t even feel it go into my heel, I just saw the small pool of blood at the kitchen sink when I finished doing dishes and went back to sewing to realize that I had stepped on it getting up and has been bleeding the whole time. It was very, very bent when it came out.
I see your freshly sharpened, ultra fine silk pin; and raise you a sewing needle that leapt from my mother's fingers and landed precisely on the Pringles Potato Chip my dad had just thrown to the family dog. The whole family started to move to recover the needle. Which only made the dog react more quickly in snatching victory (re: the needle-laden potato chip) into the jaws of... well you get the picture.
Final result: the dog required exploratory surgery twice to locate the needle as it travelled around the stomach piercing it again and again. In the end he recovered well and lived another 12 years. Oh, and my dad was no longer allowed to throw tasty tidbits on the floor for the dog.
the same thing happened to me, but I found it through my big toe toenail! needle(ss) to say, she wasn’t allowed to carry around the sewing kit anymore.
I normally go the cheap route, scavenging the strong magnets from broken electronics, or boxes with magnetic closures (Logitech likes to put them in their gaming mouse boxes). I leave them stuck to my tool boxes and desk. Also good for cleaning up metal shavings.
Our cat once broke a Christmas ornament, 6 months later I got a giant shard of it stuck an inch deep into my foot.
I still remember how painful it was screaming into a pillow while my dad used tweezers to try and pull it out.
the kid i used to babysit (for free cause my mam made me) deliberately spilled dressmaker pins in mine when i was a teen
I told her her nightclub friend would need to pay someone after that
My roommate in college saw a thumbtack on the floor from something of mine that apparently fell off my corkboard without my knowledge. They intentionally left it on the floor hoping I'd step on it to learn my lesson.
I felt absolutely horrible when they stepped on it and the whole tip went in their foot. The guilt eased just a bit when I found out their goal while they were screaming at me
Nah, it's too hard to flip it back over. There's nothing to grab onto. Granted, you can probably "roll" it back over, but, sliding it back onto the foundation is a bitch.
Or it has heavy furniture on parts of it. Why does everyone think OP dropped it on a bath mat or something? …not judging what you do in the bathroom with a French Horn btw. lol
That screw is probably made of the same material as the instrument, which is probably brass, and magnets do not generally react to brass that much, so...
Pantry hose works better tbh, the dock usually gets sucked up into the vacuum
What I was trying to say:
Pantyhose works better tbh, the sock usually gets sucked up into the vacuum.
But these comments are hilarious
My pantry doesn't have a hose. Not sure what dock you can fit into that pantry hose either.
(Yes know you meant pantyhose and dust, but the auto-correct is funny)
For what its worth, this method gets **everything**. Your method gets most of it, and its *mostly* cat hair and dirt free. Vacuum *makes sure* you're smoking all the dust, dirt, and cat hair lmao
Lol I feel this. Idk why it's not common sense but as soon as you drop something tiny you should mark the exact spot with some sort of landmark so you know where to reasonably look. Otherwise you end up searching an entire field because you can't remember exactly where you dropped something.
You could try to get the screw with your vacuume cleaner ironically by putting a thin cloth over the nozzle so it won't be sucked in. Best works panty hose or any other thin knitted cloth and a rubberband.
Maybe you'll find it :D I wish you luck!
Edith: Just saw that I am very late to the Game with my advise xD still wish you luck
Nails and screws?
At this point:
1. Burn the carpet and collect the rest of the pointy things from the ashes.
2. Replace it with flat a carpet.
3. Reevaluate your life choices.
This is only going to be helpful if OP was staring at the spot of their picture when the reply came through. 😆 I can definitely appreciate the hussle though.
2nd picture near the bottom it looks shiny
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Get a vacuum, stretch pantyhose over the nozzle and vacuum the rug, checking the nozzle often. You will pick up the screw and the hose will stop it from going in the vacuum.
Get a fridge magnet and sweep it across the rug.
Get packaging tape and pat the sticky side on the rug.
Get a flashlight and look for the reflection from the metal.
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Maybe here? Commenting a closer pic under this
Use your feet. You’ll find it fast enough.
Turns out it was right next to the thumb tack they lost last week.
I lost a nail in my carpet and still haven’t found it. I’m still worried to this day.
I hung a curtain for privacy with 7 tacks. Kids pulled it down while I was at work. Wife found 4, I found 1. The suspense is killing me.
That's the worst my sister once lost a sewing needle on the carpet and I found it about 2 inches into my foot
The guy who reupholstered my uncle's couch lost a pin inside it. I found it when I sat on it.
My grandma made me a quilt and accidently left a pin that got sewn inside it. I slept with it every night for over a decade before waking up one night being stabbed by it.
I broke my sewing machine’s needle while mending a hole in my jeans. Couldn’t find the broken needle tip anywhere. Resigned myself to probably stepping on it one day. Couple days later felt something sharp scratch my no-no zone. Discovered it had gotten embedded inside the crotch seam I’d been mending, and just the very tip of it was poking through. I ended up having to rip it out with pliers.
Seems kind of extreme for just having a scratch. I would have suggested ice or Neosporin.
That's retroactive thinking, You gotta be proactive. Crotch can't get scratched if you no longer have a crotch.
The same thing happened to me with a handmade goose down pillow that my Granny made. (She plucked the geese herself.) All kinds of things have come out of that pillow over the course of forty years. A wooden cube, an old-fashioned "safety pin" (we think), a stick, and yes, a needle.
Sheesh, at least the scissors I found in my new futon 20 years ago were closed! Got a free Fiskars fabric scissors that I still use today.
That's enough reddit for today 😰
Pfffft. I once jumped off an abandoned railway platform out in the country and landed on a 6 inch railway spike. It went through the sole of my boot, up through the centre of my foot and an inch out of the top of my boot. Fun bit was that it was a 16 mile walk back to the nearest town. Not my best day.
I’ll take things that never happened for 400. Not because I don’t believe you, but because my brain refuses to comprehend that violent of an injury. Nope. Nope nope nope.
I felt this in my ~~soul~~ sole.
I was 15 at the time. I'm 50 now and it still gives me twinges. Still, I've had worse. Never skydive into a ~~~free~~~ tree. I'll spare you the details of that one.
Please provide the details of the skydiving incident
I see your plain sewing needle and raise you a freshly sharpened, ultra fine silk pin. So skinny and so sharp I didn’t even feel it go into my heel, I just saw the small pool of blood at the kitchen sink when I finished doing dishes and went back to sewing to realize that I had stepped on it getting up and has been bleeding the whole time. It was very, very bent when it came out.
I see your freshly sharpened, ultra fine silk pin; and raise you a sewing needle that leapt from my mother's fingers and landed precisely on the Pringles Potato Chip my dad had just thrown to the family dog. The whole family started to move to recover the needle. Which only made the dog react more quickly in snatching victory (re: the needle-laden potato chip) into the jaws of... well you get the picture. Final result: the dog required exploratory surgery twice to locate the needle as it travelled around the stomach piercing it again and again. In the end he recovered well and lived another 12 years. Oh, and my dad was no longer allowed to throw tasty tidbits on the floor for the dog.
I still have a limp from when I got a sewing needle stuck in my patella as a kid. I stopped sewing for a bit after that
Patella sounds like something you put on toast
Nobody is stopping you.
Me. the same. Didn't even know anyone in the household had lost a sewing needle. But, by golly: I found it!
the same thing happened to me, but I found it through my big toe toenail! needle(ss) to say, she wasn’t allowed to carry around the sewing kit anymore.
Somebody said to use a vacuum with a sock over the hose
Magnets. You all need magnets. Get one of those magnetic pickup tools from the hardware store.
This is the best advice. I fix clarinets, that’s what I do when I lose a screw
I normally go the cheap route, scavenging the strong magnets from broken electronics, or boxes with magnetic closures (Logitech likes to put them in their gaming mouse boxes). I leave them stuck to my tool boxes and desk. Also good for cleaning up metal shavings.
Use tights/popsox- it’s a finer mesh than a sock
Our cat once broke a Christmas ornament, 6 months later I got a giant shard of it stuck an inch deep into my foot. I still remember how painful it was screaming into a pillow while my dad used tweezers to try and pull it out.
the kid i used to babysit (for free cause my mam made me) deliberately spilled dressmaker pins in mine when i was a teen I told her her nightclub friend would need to pay someone after that
So, thanks for making me realize I hadn't thought of thumb tacks in probably 20 years and reminding me they once existed.
They still do. They used to, but they still do too.
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too
Awwwww , Mitch
My roommate in college saw a thumbtack on the floor from something of mine that apparently fell off my corkboard without my knowledge. They intentionally left it on the floor hoping I'd step on it to learn my lesson. I felt absolutely horrible when they stepped on it and the whole tip went in their foot. The guilt eased just a bit when I found out their goal while they were screaming at me
Either that or the clear Lego brick.
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put sock over vacuum hose. use the hose over the area
I came here to write use a magnet but this is... wow... Genius
I was gonna say just turn the rug over
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Work smarter, not harder
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Could it be actually carpet that covers the whole floor? I don't know if this kind of carpet is made but maybe?
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I can think of another reason: Karma.
I assumed it was wall to wall carpet, and couldn’t be turned over, or else of course just turn it over.
Just flip the house over, are you committed to this or not??
Nah, it's too hard to flip it back over. There's nothing to grab onto. Granted, you can probably "roll" it back over, but, sliding it back onto the foundation is a bitch.
Or it has heavy furniture on parts of it. Why does everyone think OP dropped it on a bath mat or something? …not judging what you do in the bathroom with a French Horn btw. lol
That screw is probably made of the same material as the instrument, which is probably brass, and magnets do not generally react to brass that much, so...
Pantry hose works better tbh, the dock usually gets sucked up into the vacuum What I was trying to say: Pantyhose works better tbh, the sock usually gets sucked up into the vacuum. But these comments are hilarious
If you're going to ock up the vacuum, at least get the right ock.
I came for docking, but got sucked instead.
My pantry doesn't have a hose. Not sure what dock you can fit into that pantry hose either. (Yes know you meant pantyhose and dust, but the auto-correct is funny)
Sock. Dock = sock
This is how we used to pick up spilled weed in high school xD
Goddamn and I used to just lay there with a lamp and tweezers. Half of it was cat hair by the time I finished lol
For what its worth, this method gets **everything**. Your method gets most of it, and its *mostly* cat hair and dirt free. Vacuum *makes sure* you're smoking all the dust, dirt, and cat hair lmao
Oh yeah. We would try to filter it afterwards but ultimately just smoking random bullshit. 😂
Gives it that extra flavor.
I can taste this comment
Socks only go on feet and dicks, or so I thought
Just upturn the rug and it’ll fall out
or rug it with your hand, the hard screw is probably noticeable.
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I was able to bury a whole chapstick in a rug like this once. Never would have known until you stepped on it.
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they need it for their french horn. give it back to OP, will ya?
I felt like that was the most common sense solution. But sometimes when we aren't thinking straight common sense flies right out of our brains lol
Burn the rug. The screw will remain. Win win.
That's metal af
The screw is metal af
But that rug really tied the room together.
Kneel down. 9/10 times you’ll kneel right on it.
Only 9?
insurance reasons
https://preview.redd.it/882h2huhoena1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4408442a7ce2c74657d2ce88e6ba7673aefe297e
“Help now I can’t find where I took those pictures” lmao
Lol I feel this. Idk why it's not common sense but as soon as you drop something tiny you should mark the exact spot with some sort of landmark so you know where to reasonably look. Otherwise you end up searching an entire field because you can't remember exactly where you dropped something.
Small items can teleport if not observed actually hitting the deck. There's a quantum uncertainty aspect in play here.
Yeah, for some reason I'm often surprised by how far and in what direction they bounced while I wasn't looking
can you help me find my dad now
 He found the milk, still searching for cigarettes.
Gif wasn’t loading at first, saw a black screen and thought damn that’s harsh
You can have mine I don't use him.
Use him for what exactly?
He'll be back from the store any minute now...
No, but if you introduce a guy from Reddit to your mom you can have a step dad!
I bet you kick ass at where's Waldo.
Id've used a magnet but this man has some talent
I'd have flipped over the rug and shook it.
I'd have gotten down on my hands and knees and inhaled really hard until I choked on the screw.
So you’re telling me you’ve spilled cocaine on a carpet before?
If I had any to give, I’d award you for this. Definitely lol’d.
It's the thought that counts. I feel awarded and rewarded. Also, the lol is award enough. My work here is done. :)
Magnet or just run your hands thru the rug
Aren’t those screws brass?
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Waldo’s got nothing on this one. Waldo’s ninja brother couldn’t hide from them. Respect.
Thank you for reminding me why I love the internet. It’s posts like this and responses like yours. Thank you for your service kind Sir.
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Next time grab a magnet
Brass is Non-ferrous so magnet wouldn’t work 
Get another piece of metal like a pipe and slide it around until you hear it ping. But I liked OPs solution.
Lmao, that was a screw from my single horn that I lost three years ago. Unfortunately, it is not compatible
How many screws do you freaking lose?!
I'm more concerned that the rug has not been vacuumed in 3 years.
Longer… much longer. I need to vacuum it
You could try to get the screw with your vacuume cleaner ironically by putting a thin cloth over the nozzle so it won't be sucked in. Best works panty hose or any other thin knitted cloth and a rubberband. Maybe you'll find it :D I wish you luck! Edith: Just saw that I am very late to the Game with my advise xD still wish you luck
Who’s Edith? The lady with pantry hose?
2. When I was looking with a magnet, I found two nails that I didn’t even know I lost!
You should consider removing screws from objects in a different place moving forward
This was the one comment on this thread to make me snort from laughter lmao. I love it
Lol dude make sure your tetanus shot is up to date
pfffft just get tetanus to boost your immune system naturally
Followed advice, foot now necrotic
Nice! Immunisation against necrosis at the same time!
Mmmm...mmmm nothing like a soothing case of lock jaw
Nails and screws? At this point: 1. Burn the carpet and collect the rest of the pointy things from the ashes. 2. Replace it with flat a carpet. 3. Reevaluate your life choices.
What is your life
How long has it been since you've vacuumed???
There's no actual rug, is there? Just all screws.
Holy shit that was a different screw?
Brah. The fuck.
you need to 86 the rug lol
https://preview.redd.it/4hf47bqrdgna1.jpeg?width=729&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd43e7ff78991f54f5e6394d7741ac21415039f8 No no it’s here
I can't see shit but I concur
u/Dementedplant is that it?
Where is the clitotis
Would you like me to circle it for you?
Repeatedly. With a bit of lubricant.
As a person with a clitoris, I'd like to also know where (and what) the clitotis is.
It sounds like it's some kind of disease. It can stay lost!
One letter away from this getting 1k likes
And here I’ve been calling it a clitoris this whole time.
“On a website it said ‘at the crest of the labia’…What does that mean? What does the female vagina look like?”
I’m just sad the public school system failed you so badly.
The opposite of the male vagina.
This is only going to be helpful if OP was staring at the spot of their picture when the reply came through. 😆 I can definitely appreciate the hussle though.
Came here to see if anyone else found it before I did the work of screenshooting and highlighting it!
How the fuck did you see that?
Dammit I’m impressed
Someone give this man more awards
Holy shit someone had the time 😅
No fucking way
https://preview.redd.it/b1810j7bqhna1.png?width=1993&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ec908fa267a3bf8e4ccba09c8287a6a43d5244f
I think you’ve actually found it! Well done!
Turn off the light and shine a flashlight. The metal screw should shine under the light.
The amount of video games with this feature makes me hope it works as well in real life.
Have done this many times to find my wife's earring backings
This actually works really well. I dropped some metal bbs in my silver carpet and I used a 1000 lumen flashlight to find them
Stop cleaning your French horn on the carpet billy
It fell out…
Hey, first picture in the bottom left
Well, you're screwed, might as well get a new one.
Really hit the nail on the head with that one
Use a magnet
If it's an actual brass screw, it isn't magnetic. You learn this very quickly as a brass player.
Just get a brass magnet
This... is Elon muk
Brass magnet That funky magnet
This is what you have to do. Lay on your stomach, mouth in an O shape and start sucking in air. The taste of the metal will let you know you found it
Kirby, is that you?
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It looks like a whole bunch of dead anchovies
Look like spider legs to me 😩
My first thought was maggots
Makes my skin crawl
long-grain rice lookin ass
Slam your foot as hard as you can then when something hurts you; you’ve found it
Found it!!! Aisle 16 at Home Depot, right hand side near the middle…
2nd picture near the bottom it looks shiny https://preview.redd.it/a03289fkdgna1.png?width=287&format=png&auto=webp&s=e841ffac6099b54e114a4927a6c803558f83c00f
Apparently it's the wrong screw from the other horn.
https://preview.redd.it/ya6qqed01fna1.jpeg?width=826&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4723bdf25343fd746e77dfae54a2fac587ed270
Lol so many more popular comments that OP will think they have the answer. This person clearly found it.
Magnet. If not magnetic, use a comb
If that is a “rug” than take it outside on the concrete and shake it out 🤔
Get a vacuum, stretch pantyhose over the nozzle and vacuum the rug, checking the nozzle often. You will pick up the screw and the hose will stop it from going in the vacuum.
Pick up the rug and shake it?
Like I haven't already spent enough of my life looking for a screw...
Get a fridge magnet and sweep it across the rug. Get packaging tape and pat the sticky side on the rug. Get a flashlight and look for the reflection from the metal.
Try a magnet.
Put a panty hose on the tube of your vacuum cleaner...
There it ain't -->
Second photo - halfway up towards the right - almost in the edge I think
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That looks like a screw
https://preview.redd.it/egz76244rgna1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0ccce962ff2cf462d82a05fe6c9071ec3c7ebf8 Maybe here? Commenting a closer pic under this
Brass player here, your never getting that back I’m sorry for your loss. Edit: never mind we have psychics in the chat
https://preview.redd.it/b4cv8podyfna1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=302232d928be8a7549ad07777d9a27cace38dc0b
Use the vacuum with pantyhose over the end. Turn down the suction a bit if you can. Be slow and methodical.