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Walrus
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Have you ever lost access to your watches despite being home and they are there you just can’t get at them. I have a weird thing going on this week. My wife is on vacation and hired some people to do some work around the house. Now occasionally she needs to check in with work remotely so she can’t watch these workers all the time. Despite my watch collection not being highly valuable compared to much of what I see here I do have a couple decent things so she has taken to hiding my collection while the workers are around. Problem is she neglects to tell me where it is.

I was up at 5:50a to get ready for work I asked her where my watch box was but she was sleeping so all she did was lift her hand and point in a general direction. I followed the trail but to no avail. Not only does she hide it but she moves it daily, I guess to confuse the would be thief’s so I’m at a complete loss. So it’s been a seiko alpanist all week for me which isn’t a bad thing but I would have liked to wear an omega today. I guess I should add a picture of my alpanist for good measure. Happy New year by the way
 
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Walrus Walrus
she has taken to hiding my collection while the workers are around. Problem is she neglects to tell me where it is.

They are on my kitchen table. I guess she also neglected to tell you where that extra $75 in the checking account came from 😁
 
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janice&fred janice&fred
They are on my kitchen table. I guess she also neglected to tell you where that extra $75 in the checking account came from 😁
Damn you
 
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Careful you don't forget where or they get thrown out by accident... There is a reason people find buried roman gold and hoards of Viking coins …or vintage watches in the attic... Mrs V putting things in a special for 'safe' keeping.... Even squirrels forget where their nuts are on occasion!!!
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RonJ
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Check your sock drawer.

I think experts say this is the most popular place to hide jewelry and other valuables.

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I do love that Alpinist though 😎

Yea I would have gotten that one for an extra $10 but he was wearing it at the time.
 
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Careful you don't forget where or they get thrown our by accident... There is a reason people find buried roman gold and hoards of Viking coins …or vintage watches in the attic... Mrs V putting things in a special for 'safe' keeping.... Even squirrels forget where their nuts are on occasion!!!
Ha, a little off topic but when I got my fingers crushed at my old job the hospital had to cut off my wedding ring as my fingers blew up and the ring couldn’t be slid off. Anyway I brought the ring home and put it in a draw I told my wife I should be able to put it back on in a year or so. A year and two surgeries later I went to get my ring from the draw and have the jeweler repair it. Couldn’t find it. My wife said “oh it wasn’t safe there I moved it.” Well she moved it alright but she still can’t find it.
 
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Yea I would have gotten that one for an extra $10 but he was wearing it at the time.


Could have come like this

Wryfox Wryfox
I've seen this before on ebay listings...saw it again yesterday and it's just dang creepy😲
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Hide her stuff for safekeeping and when she asked where you put it just say.

“Oh, honey, don’t worry, I hid your stuff in the same place as my watches so they’re all safe together”

then it’s just a matter of minutes...
 
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Ha, a little off topic but when I got my fingers crushed at my old job the hospital had to cut off my wedding ring as my fingers blew up and the ring couldn’t be slid off. Anyway I brought the ring home and put it in a draw I told my wife I should be able to put it back on in a year or so. A year and two surgeries later I went to get my ring from the draw and have the jeweler repair it. Couldn’t find it. My wife said “oh it wasn’t safe there I moved it.” Well she moved it alright but she still can’t find it.

I had a signet ring given to me by my father as a teen. On my happy and very drunken wedding day I took it off at some point while I got my 'wedding band'. It was a hectic day / night (as those occasions often are) and I could not find my old signet ring in the morning. I saw it as a sign of moving on in life. Many many years later while clearing out the loft and my old wedding suit I found it slipped inside the lining of my suit jacket. I guess if we don't lose stuff we will just leave the next generation too much Sh-t to clear up... but they (and me) don't complain if it is good sh-t :0)
 
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Some time ago a friend's house burned down. Among the wreackage he saw a glint. It turned out to be a gold and diamond ring his father had often worn. The ring was half sunken into a thick layer of melted plastic. Possibly from a jewelry box or table.
I cut away as much plastic as possible with a razor saw. I then put the ring in one of those tiny jars that Swiss Colony jams come in and half filled the jar with acetone nail polish and sealed it.
After a few days the plastic settled as a muddy layer on the bottom of the jar.
I then carefully cleaned and polished the ring by hand.

Funny but the glint he had seen was not from the larger diamond of the center setting, it had been submerged in the plastic, but rather one of the tiny chips on either side.
 
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Ok update starting to find my collection. We are both off today she told me exactly where this box was I went to get it and it wasn’t where she said. Took her 3 minutes to remember but she dug it out. I still have a couple I’m waiting on her to retrieve but at least I am making progress.
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...she told me exactly where this [box*] was I went to get it and it wasn’t where she said.
Dear Walrus, you are not alone. You can read *car keys/reading glasses/swim gear/invoice/wine bottle/lottery ticket... Always, the declared certainty is the clue that tells me I'm in for quite a haul. 😟😁
 
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Pretty funny! Now, to confuse her, place a neatly folded pair of panties, that you have acquired elsewhere and your wife would never confuse for her own, into her lingerie drawer. 😗
 
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Pretty funny! Now, to confuse her, place a neatly folded pair of panties, that you have acquired elsewhere and your wife would never confuse for her own, into her lingerie drawer. 😗
It sounds like a good form of revenge but since she is working from home and I am not she has a minimum of 50 hrs a week to plot her own counter attack, I don’t see that playing out well for me
 
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Walrus Walrus
Ha, a little off topic but when I got my fingers crushed at my old job the hospital had to cut off my wedding ring as my fingers blew up and the ring couldn’t be slid off. Anyway I brought the ring home and put it in a draw I told my wife I should be able to put it back on in a year or so. A year and two surgeries later I went to get my ring from the draw and have the jeweler repair it. Couldn’t find it. My wife said “oh it wasn’t safe there I moved it.” Well she moved it alright but she still can’t find it.
My wife of 33 years also has a habit of hiding things and then forgetting where she put them. They usually turn up in the end. Fortunately, she has yet to begin hiding my things for me - hence we remain happily married. At least she lets me look after the passports and safety deposit box key.
 
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Tony C. Tony C.
Pretty funny! Now, to confuse her, place a neatly folded pair of panties, that you have acquired elsewhere and your wife would never confuse for her own, into her lingerie drawer. 😗
This is like pressing the "self destruct" button. I would not recommend this course of action.
 
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Tony C. Tony C.
Pretty funny! Now, to confuse her, place a neatly folded pair of panties, that you have acquired elsewhere and your wife would never confuse for her own, into her lingerie drawer. 😗
Back when I lived alone, I found a jar of mustard in the fridge that I didn’t remember buying. I was in a dispute with my landlord at the time about maintenance. It freaked me out a bit. The randomness. So I wondered....would the landlord...?! But who would do such a thing? I didn’t know @Tony C at the time of course 😉
 
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