Finding things

I feel your pain, Taria. ;)

Whew! I'm so glad for you! I'm going crazy looking for a little white jeweler's box with my name written on the top. It contains two pieces of my DGM's jewelry, and I was supposed to take it to China to see which my DT wanted and which I'd keep. Do you think I can find it???? NO! I've torn apart my dresser drawers, my desk, every place I can think of. MIA. :(

Chances are you put the box in some unlikely spot to hide it from burglars when you were going to make a trip. Would you do something like that? Polly

"Sandy Foster" wrote, in part >

I've done that and it took me ages to find one of the pieces! I mean years! Another time ( a different piece) it was merely weeks. A burglar would have found it sooner than I did. KJ

The worst possible hidey hole place for valuables is to wrap them in freezer paper and tuck them in the freezer. A friend of mine did that before she had to evacuate for a hurricane. She figured the freezer would be quite safe from burglars and storms. True. It was not safe from her neighbor who did her a favor. Kind neighbor emptied the freezer so the thawed and spoiled food in it wouldn't ruin the freezer. Enough said. Polly

Look in the ice bucket. My DSM hid her most precious jewelry in a jewelry roll in an ice bucket in a kitchen cabinet -- couldn't find it for years.

Those are the stories with somebody buying an ice bucket at a garage sale for $2 and find a $1000 piece of jewelry inside.

Kathy

in an ice bucket in

I don't remember now what I misplaced but I found it in the wok. For years when I asked if anyone had seen ..... they would ask if I looked in the wok.

When we were attempting to get our home in the Swamp safe to inhabit, we discovered a sack of the family's treasures tucked in over the furnace. How sweet it was to get those things safely to the previous owner's children. The previous and only owner (deceased) of our home must have been a bit eccentric. How many people do you know who would build a house with two kitchens side by side? Polly

summer kitchen and winter kitchen? one for cooking one for canning? one for him and one for her? LOL

We found out that they were His and Hers. He was a maniac fisherman. She didn't want the frying grease and such smelling up her pristine kitchen. I'm the only person I know with a spare kitchen. You just never know when you might need one. Polly

Polly, You now know someone else that has a spare kitchen, but mine is like mentioned in the other post, one for cooking and one for canning and the canning one is in our basement but it is a full fledge kitchen. Before I fell if it was really hot outside and I didn't want to turn the A/C down and didn't want to heat up the house I would bake in the one in the basement too. Problem with two kitchens is it is just more to keep clean, but they are nice to have for canning for sure.

Jacquel>We found out that they were His and Hers. He was a maniac fisherman. She

Jacqueline

and other fun things

There have been time when I wished we had two...... especially when all kids were home and I canned any and every thing I could.

Have you put it in a suitcase already? Well, it could be ... . In message , Sandy Foster writes

Howdy!

When I was a kid we had several sets of family friends who bought some nice duplex homes in one area of town; they all took out walls and made each duplex into a single family home, so they all had

2 kitchens, 4 baths, and 6 or 8 bedrooms. I thought that was so cool! Sometimes the parents couldn't find the kids; we had the best hide n' seek games, for hours. Pretty shabby neighborhood when I was thru' there 5 yrs. ago; it was well-used, tho'. ;-) Then there was our house: it had been a 4 apartment complex, 2 up, 2 down. 4 kitchens! That first year my mom started tearing down part of the house; first to go: 2 kitchens.

Some Jewish friends have 2 kitchens. Also a cool set-up.

Btw, re: Tricia's make-up party: you missed the food? Several of us were munching our way thru' the posts and tips. ;-D

Ragmop/Sandy--waiting for the Hobbs Heirloom batt to finish its tumble thru' the dryer

Actually, that's exactly what I might have done, since I have put other things in there to take to DT. However, I checked, with no luck. :(

LOL! Funny! But I don't have an ice bucket anymore -- got rid of all of that sort of thing when we moved. :S

LOL!

Maybe they both liked to cook and didn't want to get under each other's feet?