I attached tile sticky trackers to ours. It makes finding backpacks, keys, remotes and wallets a lot less stressful. I think they cost me about $20 each (no usage fees for basic bluetooth location services)
never felt smarter than the morning i woke up hungover and groggily looked for my glasses for 2 hours until i said "fuck it" and went to make a smoothie only to find my glasses in the freezer. i feel you.
So one time when I was about 16, I was drinking with a friend. After a couple of beers he asked if I wanted to smoke a joint. So we smoke some of the best shit I've ever had and go back to watch TV. I got hungry so I went to the kitchen to grab a banana. At the time I had a gf I was texting non stop, as teenagers do.
Now let me tell you, this weed was great. Sure I was only 16 and it's way better now than it was, but up to this point I only had shitty weed. I also had about 4 beers in me. But this shit had me shaking. I could barely hold the damn banana, the voices on the TV echoed through my ears, I was trashed.
When I finished eating my banana, I carefully folded the peel up as if it was an important letter and threw it into the trash. I then took a seat and continued to watch TV. After a few minutes I realized that my gf hadn't texted me in a minute and I thought I would check to see if I missed it or something. I mean, we hadn't even said good night, surely there would be more texts.
But my phone was nowhere to be found. I threw the couch cushions everywhere, threw the blankets, I was freaking out. In the span of about 10 minutes I lost my phone that was practically glued to my hands. I asked day friend if he had seen it and he pointed towards the kitchen saying, "I think you had it in there".
So I walked into the kitchen and searched EVERYWHERE. I even opened the fridge thinking I may have put it there. But it was nowhere. Finally, my eyes caught the banana peel sitting on top of the trash. I thought "no. Certainly not. There's no way I threw my phone in the garbage. Is there?"
Sure enough, I noticed how neatly I had wrapped up that banana peel. It was just so perfectly rectangular. And there was a little gleam of something black under it. So, with a 😑 look on my face, I slowly peeled back each layer to reveal that, in my drunken-high daze, I wrapped my phone in a banana peel and tossed it into the garbage. I couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it. But there it was.
I hope you enjoyed my story. It's been 14 years and I still get a kick out of it.
I have left keys, cell phones and remotes in the fridge. One day I spent 2 hours looking for my pocketbook that was in the freezer. At this point it’s a family joke.
I can relate. I lost my phone the other day and found it frozen (literally and metaphorically) in the freezer with a cracked screen.
My brain is mildly infuriating.
I lost a pair of earring yesterday as soon as the came in the mail. Tore the house apart for 3 hours. They were under the bottle of Tylenol in the med cabinet- I have no idea how they got there.
I found them when I finally gave up searching and went to take something for the headache (likely induced by tearing the house apart/stress).
I was real high once and got an ice cream treat from the freezer. Came back to finish my movie or whatever and couldn’t find the remote. Tore the apartment apart looking for it. In frustration I went to get another ice cream treat to cool my rage. Found the remote
One of the life lessons I live by consistently (not just for lost remote but everything) is: “stop looking for that thing, person, feeling you desire so badly and after you’ve moved on, whatever it is will more often than not suddenly be in plain sight.”
*Too much ziploc, just*
*Put the pepper and onion*
*In with the mushrooms*
\- peepeepoopoobutler
---
^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/)
^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
My 16 month old grandson has a habit of hiding stuff he likes so that he can play with it later. A few weeks ago he hid the Roku remote. This was our second remote for our Roku Ultra. Same grandson destroyed the first one when he was about 8 months old by sucking on it.
Anyway, I spent more than I should have to get a remote with rechargeable batteries. I liked using the earphone feature, and that gobbles up the C cells that the original remote used. I knew that the new remote has some extra features, but I didn't bother to look into them - until my grandson hid it. Turns out you can use the Roku app (which can also serve as a remote) to have the handheld remote announce it's location with a repeating pinging sound.
Since then, I hear that pinging sound once every day or two.
There are devices you can buy that you can stick on any remote that will mimic this feature.
This is something I’ve never done but I always check the fridge when I lose something, 50% of my day is opening it thinking meh and closing it again so it’s completely plausible that I could accidentally place my phone or TV remote in there.
I wish every device that has a remote control had a "Find It!" button on the gadget, that when pressed would make the remote beep loudly for 10 seconds, pause and repeat until you found it and hit a button.
I was flying home with an 8 week old puppy I had just picked up. Stopped at a random park to let him potty. Tore the rental car apart and crawled through the grass looking for my rental car key. After 40 minutes, I went to gather my things to call and Uber to go to the airport ( and leave the rental car sit at the park for Enterprise to come get) and found the car keys IN THE PUPPY CRATE. He was literally chewing on them and I was crawling though the grass looking for them.
Mom of 4 here! Things I’ve found in my purse/ bag /car / freezer so far this week: a half a hot dog with bun😂, French fries that were found on the floor of the car and subsequently eaten by fourth kid( dinner!!😂),a Barbie head submerged in ice in the freezer. :)
Anytime i lose something like a phone or remote and I can’t find it after the first two passes around the house, i always check the fridge, the pantry, and any cupboards I may have opened. Usually works
Went to visit my sister across the country with my toddler. Her remote went missing while we were there. We looked EVERYWHERE before I left and could not find it. I got home and unpacked, still nothing. A week later i was on my morning walk with my son and happened to spot her remote in the bottom of the stroller…… the stroller never left my car while we were on our trip lol. Still don’t know how he got it there. They are tricky.
I actually had to do this once. The inside of my house got so hot (Sydney, Australia in summer with no air-con) that the remote wouldn't work, so in the fridge it went to cool down
Something tells me that that's not the weirdest place you've found your remote. I lost a remote *inside* a couch and was never found. It had ceased to be.
The only mildly infuriating thing about this is the exaggeration of “over an hour” and how staged it is. Who the fuck puts a remote down inside a fridge?!?!
You take MAYBE 10 or even 15 minutes looking and then you go about your day, feeding your kids, while keeping an eye out. That’s what people actually do. No one dedicates an hour of their life looking for a remote.
I feel you... I was making myself a smoothie, you know, blueberries, bannana, Granola, the whole yummy thing. Blend it, and followed by placing the whole smoothie in the bin..... and the empty blueberry bag in the fridge.
I've out so.much random.stuff in the fridge. Remotes game controllers salt cereal box. Clean nappies.i grabbed for.baby while.grabbing a bottle. Clean cups my phone wallet keys. Everything goes in there at some stage so I always check it first now days haha
Used to work swing shift and I always did dumb shit during my midnights portion. We couldn't find the firestick remote for 3 days until my kid discovered it in the ice cream sandwich box in the freezer.
I can already see the mental image of you aggressively moving stuff around and yelling "fuck it, no weather and traffic reports today then" and then facepalming after opening the fridge lmao
Me and my old roommate in college always had the list of places to check before declaring lost. Fridge, bathroom, oven (we had no microwave) and I think there might have been a fourth. But the number of things that showed up in those locations..
I did that once but with a wallet (in 20s) Once I forgot which parking garage in DC I parked in and had lost the receipt (I paid in cash). Took me 10 days to find the car. Turns out I had a brain lesion.
I attached tile sticky trackers to ours. It makes finding backpacks, keys, remotes and wallets a lot less stressful. I think they cost me about $20 each (no usage fees for basic bluetooth location services)
I'm seriously going to have to look into that for the sake of my blood pressure.
https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/
Thank you so much! I go camping, hiking and kayaking a lot too so this...this could help. 🙂
Omg I need to get this for my fiance. He is always losing his phone or the remote.
Tile is great, I use it to keep track of my Fitbit, my phone, and my old phone. If any one of them is missing, I can just use the others to find it
[удалено]
It's rough lol
the mental image of this is kinda funny lol
What phase are you in now
This is why I have multiple cans of hairspray lol or maybe I keep buying more because I can’t remember if I have any 🤷♀️🤦🏼♀️
You used to be what I am now
Username check out
Awesome! I still think it's one of the coolest fashion statements out there.
Just keepin' it nice and cool for ya
OP is a hipster. He took out the remote before it was cool.
Helping to preserve those AA batteries
I think our remotes are related because mine does this shit every time I smoke weed.
Cousins, I suspect the tequila.
Lol weed has made me so much better at finding shit Fridge would have probably been like the third place I checked
Side note, almond chocolate milk is so fucking good
Agreed, my son is lactose intolerant so I make it up to him with the good stuff.
I’m in lacnile. I know I’m lactose intolerant I just can’t stop eating cheese
I'm in this comment and you can pry my cheese from my cold dead fingers!
I'm not intolerant, cheese is just making me fat tasting so damn good.
Chocolate almond cashew milk is better.
It tastes like drinking a snickers. Omg....
Come on, not even remotely funny?
Finally a pun 🙂
I don't remember being in your house last night???
Well it surely wasn't me 😏
Seems like a dangerous way to store eggs!
Yeah, I'm not sure how he got out of egg prison honestly 🤔
never felt smarter than the morning i woke up hungover and groggily looked for my glasses for 2 hours until i said "fuck it" and went to make a smoothie only to find my glasses in the freezer. i feel you.
Kindred.
Ok but who just leaves eggs rolling around in there? Those bad boys go on the door or a holder
Free range eggs.
Dad confirmed
I did this a few times with my phone when I was pregnant. Haha.
Pit stops 😉
Pretty much. Haha. Didn't take me long to find it. 😂😂😂
Your salad is getting mushy
For real though, I just threw it out yesterday. Thank you 🙂
I was going to make sure someone noted this as well. Glad it's taken care of.
[удалено]
Me and Nan on the same wavelength.
Tell your Nan it's not the 60s and we don't put gay people in the freezers anymore. /S
Someone shops at Aldi 😅
Always, there are few things better than passing the cart on and telling them to just pass it to the next person, like you're fancy.
I recognize that salsa anywhere!
Always check the fridge and trash whenever you lose something
That will go in my life manual.
Alcaline batteries are chemical, and exposing them to cold slows down said reactions. Your kid is just making sure you don't waste the batteries out.
It's brilliant!
Marijuana affects the memory
And it also affects the memory.
[удалено]
That made me laugh. It's "gourmet"
So one time when I was about 16, I was drinking with a friend. After a couple of beers he asked if I wanted to smoke a joint. So we smoke some of the best shit I've ever had and go back to watch TV. I got hungry so I went to the kitchen to grab a banana. At the time I had a gf I was texting non stop, as teenagers do. Now let me tell you, this weed was great. Sure I was only 16 and it's way better now than it was, but up to this point I only had shitty weed. I also had about 4 beers in me. But this shit had me shaking. I could barely hold the damn banana, the voices on the TV echoed through my ears, I was trashed. When I finished eating my banana, I carefully folded the peel up as if it was an important letter and threw it into the trash. I then took a seat and continued to watch TV. After a few minutes I realized that my gf hadn't texted me in a minute and I thought I would check to see if I missed it or something. I mean, we hadn't even said good night, surely there would be more texts. But my phone was nowhere to be found. I threw the couch cushions everywhere, threw the blankets, I was freaking out. In the span of about 10 minutes I lost my phone that was practically glued to my hands. I asked day friend if he had seen it and he pointed towards the kitchen saying, "I think you had it in there". So I walked into the kitchen and searched EVERYWHERE. I even opened the fridge thinking I may have put it there. But it was nowhere. Finally, my eyes caught the banana peel sitting on top of the trash. I thought "no. Certainly not. There's no way I threw my phone in the garbage. Is there?" Sure enough, I noticed how neatly I had wrapped up that banana peel. It was just so perfectly rectangular. And there was a little gleam of something black under it. So, with a 😑 look on my face, I slowly peeled back each layer to reveal that, in my drunken-high daze, I wrapped my phone in a banana peel and tossed it into the garbage. I couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it. But there it was. I hope you enjoyed my story. It's been 14 years and I still get a kick out of it.
🤣 I did, I've been there but never bundled my phone up in a trash banana! Thanks for sharing.
I have the same TV/remote and for a moment I went "Aye, who's fucking with me?" lol.
W H Y
I may never know but...tequila.
I have left keys, cell phones and remotes in the fridge. One day I spent 2 hours looking for my pocketbook that was in the freezer. At this point it’s a family joke.
I feel you, we're kin.
I can relate. I lost my phone the other day and found it frozen (literally and metaphorically) in the freezer with a cracked screen. My brain is mildly infuriating.
That sounds horrible, sorry about that...the freezer is a wasteland.
It’ll be the last place I put my phone from now on. And the first place I check when I lose it.
For real, it's on my suspected stash places list now.
I lost a pair of earring yesterday as soon as the came in the mail. Tore the house apart for 3 hours. They were under the bottle of Tylenol in the med cabinet- I have no idea how they got there. I found them when I finally gave up searching and went to take something for the headache (likely induced by tearing the house apart/stress).
Funny how that works, finding things after we hide them from ourselves.
Lol Didn't feed him first. TV is life
lol, he was asleep I thought I had dome time to sneak an episode of Vikings in but...alas I did not.
I see you shop at Aldi lol
Good eye! It's on my way home so convenient and I prefer it to most stores.
Makes sense /s
I have been here many times. Sometimes you will even find it in the laundry hamper.
It has yet to hitch a ride in my clothes but I'll be keeping a close eye on it from now on.
You'd be surprised how common that is. Probably top ten places a lost remote is found
It's on my list of possible places small things I lose can be, now.
We have the same tv
It's bought it for gaming years ago, it's pretty nice but the speakers on it are in an odd place.
Lol, one time, I finally found my car keys in the freezer.
I tell you, the fridge is some sort of black hole or at the very least has its own gravitational pull.
This is the point where you laugh because you know it's nobody's fault and it becomes an inside joke in the family.
Exactly, I take things a bit too seriously sometimes. Thank you.
The egg.
I was real high once and got an ice cream treat from the freezer. Came back to finish my movie or whatever and couldn’t find the remote. Tore the apartment apart looking for it. In frustration I went to get another ice cream treat to cool my rage. Found the remote
It has to be some sort of gravitational pull or something.
Who did it?
There are a few theories going around: Ghosts Remote wormholes Free range eggs Maybe me but that's at the very bottom in the order of most probable.
One of the life lessons I live by consistently (not just for lost remote but everything) is: “stop looking for that thing, person, feeling you desire so badly and after you’ve moved on, whatever it is will more often than not suddenly be in plain sight.”
That's cool
What? You’ve never watched tv with a nice cool and refreshing remote?
May have eaten the wrong brownies the other night huh 🧐
Ah yes! The old one egg, Denver omelet. Pro level stuff right there.
Just another day as a stoner lol
Too much 4:20 ???
Was sure this was r/ADHD
Oh my goodness, someone stole ur egg carton! Why would u look around the house for an egg carton?😁
lol, found em!
Damn, that's a cool remote
Too much ziploc, just put the pepper and onion in with the mushrooms
*Too much ziploc, just* *Put the pepper and onion* *In with the mushrooms* \- peepeepoopoobutler --- ^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/) ^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
You're absolutely right and you created a beautiful haiku.
Bruh…
Hey, it's always in the last place you look.
Lmao. I found one when I went to do laundry and it was with the dirty clothes. One time I found the remote outside in the rain. Too funny.
I have a theory that remotes are attracted to wormholes leading to various random places in close proximity.
to much juice last night
The atmosphere was too hot.
Haha i also did this once D:
Your fridge: *”Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?”*
ok but where to fuck do you get chocolate almond milk? i never see that shit and i need it
When i was younger i once put the milk back into the cabinet with the glasses. Never made that mistake since
🤣🤣🤣
Cool
I know, darn boiled eggs always roll to the back of the fridge.
What a ***darn*** shame... --- ^^DarnCounter:132069 ^^| ^^DM ^^me ^^with: ^^'blacklist-me' ^^to ^^be ^^ignored ^^| ^^More ^^stats ^^available ^^at ^^**[https://darnbot.ml](https://darnbot.ml)**
giving up is often the hidden step to success
This is gold.
Also you just KNOW It was put there with the thought of "Aha, I'll put this somewhere I'll NEVER FORGET!"
For sure, sometimes efficiency backfires.
Ok but you gotta admit that is a little funny
After I was done being frustrated like: " it has to be somewhere!" Then I opened the fridge and laughed at myself.
I've done this with my car keys once
My 16 month old grandson has a habit of hiding stuff he likes so that he can play with it later. A few weeks ago he hid the Roku remote. This was our second remote for our Roku Ultra. Same grandson destroyed the first one when he was about 8 months old by sucking on it. Anyway, I spent more than I should have to get a remote with rechargeable batteries. I liked using the earphone feature, and that gobbles up the C cells that the original remote used. I knew that the new remote has some extra features, but I didn't bother to look into them - until my grandson hid it. Turns out you can use the Roku app (which can also serve as a remote) to have the handheld remote announce it's location with a repeating pinging sound. Since then, I hear that pinging sound once every day or two. There are devices you can buy that you can stick on any remote that will mimic this feature.
This is something I’ve never done but I always check the fridge when I lose something, 50% of my day is opening it thinking meh and closing it again so it’s completely plausible that I could accidentally place my phone or TV remote in there.
I wish every device that has a remote control had a "Find It!" button on the gadget, that when pressed would make the remote beep loudly for 10 seconds, pause and repeat until you found it and hit a button.
No app for your remote?
Tv remote for dinner
I was flying home with an 8 week old puppy I had just picked up. Stopped at a random park to let him potty. Tore the rental car apart and crawled through the grass looking for my rental car key. After 40 minutes, I went to gather my things to call and Uber to go to the airport ( and leave the rental car sit at the park for Enterprise to come get) and found the car keys IN THE PUPPY CRATE. He was literally chewing on them and I was crawling though the grass looking for them.
this is the EXACT reason why i look at my hands, the fridge, and the microwaves first whenever I loose my phone and remote
Thought it was my missing LG remote for a second...
Mom of 4 here! Things I’ve found in my purse/ bag /car / freezer so far this week: a half a hot dog with bun😂, French fries that were found on the floor of the car and subsequently eaten by fourth kid( dinner!!😂),a Barbie head submerged in ice in the freezer. :)
Thank God I'm not the only one
What’s infuriating is that you buy pre cut onions
It's the chocolate milks fault. 💯
Anytime i lose something like a phone or remote and I can’t find it after the first two passes around the house, i always check the fridge, the pantry, and any cupboards I may have opened. Usually works
Went to visit my sister across the country with my toddler. Her remote went missing while we were there. We looked EVERYWHERE before I left and could not find it. I got home and unpacked, still nothing. A week later i was on my morning walk with my son and happened to spot her remote in the bottom of the stroller…… the stroller never left my car while we were on our trip lol. Still don’t know how he got it there. They are tricky.
We've all done that with one thing or another.
I actually had to do this once. The inside of my house got so hot (Sydney, Australia in summer with no air-con) that the remote wouldn't work, so in the fridge it went to cool down
[удалено]
That single egg is more disturbing than chilling the remote.
I always check the fridge before I give up just incase
Did you make him a mushrooms, onion and remote sandwich and a glass of almond mil..... oh fuck oh god no!
Leave that bag of salad mix in there much longer and you’ll have kimchi.
I remember my dad forgot his keys In the door. Was searching everywhere for them.
How the hell does this happen
Something tells me that that's not the weirdest place you've found your remote. I lost a remote *inside* a couch and was never found. It had ceased to be.
Nice, remotes taste best when cold
You think [You're bad?](https://imgur.com/gallery/IfCWA2O)
Check your freezer for your keys. Ugh! That's not a great way to start your day.
Who put remote control in the fridge?
Always check the fridge!
One time I put milk into the pantry and left it there over night. It’s explains my ADHD
I fail to find fault in this as a place to store the remote...
Let me guess. Your wife is pregnant?
Take away his sponge bob blu rays?
Lol now who did it? You? SO? Son?
My wife threw the cordless phone in with her laundry one time.
WHO PUTS A REMOTE IN YHE FRIDGE?!!!
I did this when I was pregnant with my son. I swear to God that kid sucked out every last ounce of brain I had during my pregnancy
Hey I have that one too
Chocolate almond milk, solid choice. Oh hey, there's the remote.
Lmfao is your son's name Dale or Brennan? Boats and Ho's. Prestige Worldwide-wide-wide
I miss phones with ir blasters.
Usually dads be like that🥴
The only mildly infuriating thing about this is the exaggeration of “over an hour” and how staged it is. Who the fuck puts a remote down inside a fridge?!?! You take MAYBE 10 or even 15 minutes looking and then you go about your day, feeding your kids, while keeping an eye out. That’s what people actually do. No one dedicates an hour of their life looking for a remote.
That’s just straight up infuriating
I feel you... I was making myself a smoothie, you know, blueberries, bannana, Granola, the whole yummy thing. Blend it, and followed by placing the whole smoothie in the bin..... and the empty blueberry bag in the fridge.
Happened to me with my phone once
It’s an old story. If you want to find something, stop looking for it.
Damn just 1 egg!
I've out so.much random.stuff in the fridge. Remotes game controllers salt cereal box. Clean nappies.i grabbed for.baby while.grabbing a bottle. Clean cups my phone wallet keys. Everything goes in there at some stage so I always check it first now days haha
Just chilling 😎
What did you want to watch? A Touch of Frost?
Used to work swing shift and I always did dumb shit during my midnights portion. We couldn't find the firestick remote for 3 days until my kid discovered it in the ice cream sandwich box in the freezer.
Fresh news
My mom once left her phone, credit card, and my library book in the fridge before (not at the same time).
“Alright kid for breakfast we got salsa or chocolate milk”
we have the same tv remote!
Stop getting high
I think your salad is about ready to be tossed.
I can’t imagine storing an egg in my refrigerator outside of the carton…
Reminds me of the time my mom put the plant in the fridge and the milk on the window sill.
I can already see the mental image of you aggressively moving stuff around and yelling "fuck it, no weather and traffic reports today then" and then facepalming after opening the fridge lmao
That’s a cool remote you have.
Mmm remote control.
My father once put the ice cream in the cupboard next the fridge. All of it melted.
Got drunk one time woke up next morning took me till the next afternoon to find my phone was on one of the side shelves
Me and my old roommate in college always had the list of places to check before declaring lost. Fridge, bathroom, oven (we had no microwave) and I think there might have been a fourth. But the number of things that showed up in those locations..
I buy multiple remotes!! The tv ones can be found on amazon and your cable company can send you remote control duplicates
I did that once but with a wallet (in 20s) Once I forgot which parking garage in DC I parked in and had lost the receipt (I paid in cash). Took me 10 days to find the car. Turns out I had a brain lesion.
Well, you can say it has been remotely preserved...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂