Dear LPG,

I can’t help it, everybody has to have something that interests them and for me it is statistics.  No matter where I start when I turn on my tablet, I nearly always seem to end up finding a set of statistics and I just can’t help it, I love comparing those findings.

I suppose it has happened to us all at one time or another, I am talking about the things we leave lying about.  We have been less likely to permanently lose things recently because of the amount of time we have had to spend at home, but I have still managed to leave a few things in the wrong places.  

Some online statistics I have found tell us that we are most likely to lose our keys in the UK while the remote control takes first place in the USA, but I am sure you can think of some of the other items that would be high on that top ten list. 

The funniest thing to me is the importance we place on the things we lose.  We just cancel our bank cards if we mislay them and in a few days we get another, although if you only have one bank account those few days when your cash flow is restricted can be inconvenient or quite tough I suppose.  It’s a case of borrowing or learning what it is like to want something and not be able to afford it; something I can attest to through a few days’ experience a few years back. 

I think that the hardest things to lose are the things you can’t replace such as jewellery or pictures or keyring trinkets that were given to us by someone significant in our lives. 

Trying to find something you have lost can send a person crazy.  Working out where I last had it used to stop me from thinking about anything else for days, but according to something I read on the internet all that mental step-retracing is really good for keeping your mind focused. 

When I find myself in the lost zone, I personally use my Christianity to help, I don’t waste too much time looking because I believe that God will show me where I put it if and when the time is right. 

Just a thought…

TM, Catford.

TM shares some statistics on the subject of losing things…

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…and some internet advice on how to find them again…

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