[jimmm kelly]

I keep my most valued comics (sentimental and otherwise) in some long drawer file cabinets which can easily be locked with a key. Before I flew off to Brazil for two weeks, I locked these cabinets and put the keys--somewhere. But since getting back, I haven't been able to find where I put those keys.

I've looked in my usual hiding places, but the keys haven't turned up. I suspect that Pumuckl has taken the keys and has hidden them somewhere and is laughing to himself when he sees my frustration.

Any tips on trying to remember where you put something? I'm no Mentalist. I guess I should have put the location in my mind palace, if I had one.

[mr_goldenage]

I always (well most of the time) I put my keys in one or two places consistently so I know where they are....now that said....when I can't find them (and that is more often that I willingly admit too) :-( I find them in a coat/jacket or in pants pocket.....did you look in the kitchen? Just saying.....good luck

Richard

[jimmm kelly]

Yes, usually I am more careful. I heard that if you imagine putting a firecracker on top of something when you put it somewhere, then you will remember where it is. And I do that sometimes and it seems to work. Plus I usually put things like keys in special places. But this time, when I was getting everything ready, I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. So now I try to put myself in that mindset and imagine where I might have put the keys on impulse.

I know they have to turn up eventually. I would just like it sooner rather than later. And I don't want to break the locks on my cabinets--although I'm anxious to get at my comic books. Where's Simon Baker when you need him?

[jimmm kelly]

Found them!

Such a clever little hiding place--I can remember now how I put them there and why I thought it was a great place to hide the keys. I guess I was too clever for my own good, but the Mentalist would have found them in two seconds, I believe.

Case solved.

[narfstar]

Yes I have to say it.
I'll bet that they were in the last place you looked.

[jimmm kelly]

They are always in the last place you look.