Losing things

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Does anyone else sort of "obsess" over finding things that you've lost, even if its not anything of tremendous value.

Last week I lost a little drawstring bag with my headphones inside. I liked the bag and the headphones but they don't hold any significant value. Still I can't get them out of my mind. I crocheted the bag about a year ago and recently found it in my closet and thought it would make the "perfect" bag for holding my cell phone, headphones, and charger and keeping them in one place. I only used it two days before it disappeared. Somehow I still have my phone and charger, but the bag and headphones are just gone. I looked everywhere I thought they could be and didn't find them. The only thing I can think is that I dropped it coming in or out of my work building, but it wasn't in the lost and found.

It's been over a week and I still can't stop looking for the bag. I keep looking in the same places over and over again. I don't know why I am obsessing over it. I think it just drives me crazy knowing that it was there, and suddenly its not. It's a mystery I can't solve. Or I'm bugged about my "perfect" solution to keeping my electronics in one place didn't even get a chance to work for me. Maybe I'm bothered knowing that I'll no longer see those items again despite being able to see them clearly in my mind. Maybe I just don't want to replace my headphones because I know I got them on sale and now I'm going to have to pay $20 or more to get a pair of equal quality. It could be all of the above. I don't know but I wish I could either find them or forget about them.

I realized I tend to obsess like this over lost things a lot. Does anyone else do this?

Yeppers. Even though I know as long as it's in the house, I'll run across it again eventually, I will still obsessively keep going back over every square inch of the place until I find it. It especially drives me crazy if I KNOW that I intentionally put it somewhere special for safekeeping, but now I can't remember what that special place was.

Arghhh I hate losing things!

I obsess over lost objects, especially if i was fond of them even if value wise they are not worth any money.

It really bugs me when things go missing.

Unfortunately I lose things a lot *sighs*

Yes! Everything must be in its place. What makes me even crazier is when people move stuff without my permission. To me, if it is not in its proper place, it no longer exists.

Yes, I do this. Just this morning I realised I had misplaced my second pair of glasses. Even though I know I have another pair, and knew that I could receive help to look for them, I was still so enraged and flustered that I could have misplaced something so badly. Plus, they're the pair that don't slip off of my face as much, so I like them for that reason. I think another part of it is the thought of losing access to something I use frequently, and then having to make the adjustment without it.
If I've looked in all of the places that "make sense" because I typically put whatever item in that place, it bothers me tremendously until I find what I'm looking for. And when someone else puts something in a different spot, that tends to bother me, too. I feel embarrassed about how intense I'll feel over these things.

Yehh I find it disconcerting if I lose something inexplicably. I feel as if my sense of the world as it should be has been violated. When younger I was alot worse - I think much of this is to do with the way we often develop stronger bonds to inanimate objects than most.

Yep. I think everyone gets annoyed with this, NT or autistic alike.

This thread is interesting because I've heard all this talk about how "Aspies' memories are so great they know where everything is in the house!" etc. etc.

Meanwhile I always am losing things because I am engaged in thinking about something that really interests me! I'm not memorizing the darn environment of the house. Why would I want to do that? I mean, I could do that if you wanted, and then I'd know where everything is. But that's not my interest.

One thing I've gotten much better at? Not losing my wallet!

Yes, I know it too. Sometimes one has to look for something else, - and the item might show up.