Do You Have that Mysterious Blackhole for Missing Property in Your Home Too?

It is The Borrowers who take all those items that we just know exactly where we put them.

Do you remember that series of books for children, The Borrowers series?

 

Yep, we got 'em.

But they have names and a room search turns up most missing items. My youngest one has some mental issues and compulsive stealing is part of that...think over fifty items stolen over the course of a month from school, so at home it was a nightmare when I first got her two years ago until we figured it out because even if she's standing there holding the item, she'll swear on the moon "I DIDN'T DO IT!"

Although I did lose the remote a couple weeks ago. It had pulled an Osama and was hiding in plain sight in the bedroom on headboard shelf. But did I THINK to look at that perfectly normal place? Nope. We tore the whole room apart looking because I typically put it in the laundry basket (there's a good reason) and it's usually always there unless I move it doing laundry, but my husband had taken the laundry basket to the laundry room, so we were also tearing up the laundry room too.

My small black purse is a black hole. It's totally ridiculous because I either don't carry a purse or don't carry much. The problem is that the purse and lining in it is black. My cell phone is black, my ipod is black, my hair ties are black, and my vision stinks. I can find NOTHING in that stupid thing, even when I only have four items! I have to dump it or feel around and since the lining is satin like and the items that are black are also smooth, I often don't tell the difference and think the stuff isn't in there.

 

We have a black hole at our house. I don't know what it looks like, but I can tell you what's in it: lots of socks, keys, toys, lids to dishes, and electronic gadgets missing their cords.

I wish whoever was taking the electronic gadgets to the black hole would take the cords. I have dozens of cords and have no idea what they are for. I even put them in individual ziploc bags and had dh label them, and I store them all in one place. The next day, all the cords are out of their baggies (which have gone to the black hole) and still nobody can find the proper cord to the proper appliance/gadget/cell phone/GPS/whatever. Perhaps I should make nooses from all the cords and catch the "borrowers" who keep taking their matches to the black hole.

 

LOL! yep one black hole, location unknown.

But I have figured out the transportaion method. I have a thief, maybe two but only one gets caught in the act. (of stealing, not transportation or location!) My thieves have 4 legs, not two and are rather furry and soft for thieves. One steals hair bands and other assorted small objects. The other steals my sewing supplies and ick, dental picks (the plasticy ones). Where these items go I have no idea. There just aren't that many places in my house that I don't regularly clean.

As for socks, the dryer steals those, with assistance from the furry four legs described above, but also the big brown dog likes to carry them around in her mouth like a puppy. :laugh: Usually I can find the ones the dog has carried. Usually, because they are wet and I step on them. But for the rest, they are hiding behind the dryer!

 

My 4 legged thief steals my pony tail holder right off my head!

He doesn't even wait until I take it out of my hair. :laugh:



The black hole in my house is on my counter top and there are millions of those little wire bread ties residing in it.

 

Glad you found the remote. Never fear, new black holes will develop once you've uncovered one.

Have you noticed that Black Holes get bigger on the weekends? On Saturday nights, they grow to hide the children's shoes, the Bibles, Mom's hairspray and Dad's favorite tie. On Sunday night they swell again and steal the car keys and cellphone, hide sack lunches, and suck the gas out of the car and money from the wallet, all in an effort to make everybody late for work or school.