Dang!

PJH · Jan 8, 2018

It was my favorite little light. It had a good magnet on the back that seemed to stick to anything. The LEDs let the batteries last forever. Fancy high and low output. I kept it handy - stuck to the side of the shop fridge where I could grab it often. Yesterday I stuck it just inside the door of my shop furnace to shed a little light on the bolts I was replacing in a baffle on the back wall of the firebox. Today I needed it, and it was missing from it's designated parking place. I searched the shop top to bottom - even going in the house and emptying all of the pockets on my heavy chore coat. I searched so long that I forgot what I needed it for. It finally dawned on me - I never took it out of the furnace! I had a roaring fire in there yesterday afternoon, and another one today. My favorite little light is history. I swear, the older I get the stupider I get.

grizz02 · Jan 8, 2018

Don't beat yourself up you are not alone my friend 😣

Janicholson · Jan 8, 2018

Worse was that I bought a house in which the Previous owner had left a roast in the oven. Jim

Charles in Aus. · Jan 8, 2018

Once I actually got into the shower with my shorts still on !
Be kind to yourself and smile a little .

JD Seller · Jan 8, 2018

I buy those light in twos or threes. They get left in places too often. LOL I have lost several stuck to whatever machinery I was working on too.

Stan in Oly, WA · Jan 8, 2018

PJH; There's one thing about aging and memory that you need to keep in mind. Things like leaving your light in the furnace have happened to you your whole life, but up to a certain age you always said, "Oh, that was really stupid of me", or "that was really careless of me." Then, sometime in late middle age you start thinking, "My mind must be going" when something like that happens. What's really bad is that it's also what others start thinking about you. Of course you can disregard this if you never made any mistakes until now.

Stan

coshoo · Jan 9, 2018

The good news is that those lights like you describe are one of the free prizes they give out with any purchase at Harbor Freight.

tractorsam · Jan 9, 2018

I can corroborate one of the other posters comments about age being irrelevant in this as I'm younger than most on here. I have a very similar light to what you describe and was working on a pickup. A day or two later I couldn't find it and looked everywhere and then the little light in my head came on. I crawled under the truck box and found it still stuck to the inside of the box side (I had been driving the truck around servicing mining equipment in the mean time). I've also found one melted over the exhaust manifold of a tractor I just bought. Sam

sms · Jan 9, 2018

When I was a in my twenties I had a great old pickup that was decaying, I put some big steel angles in the rear corners to hold the sides verticle. Years later was working on the truck and found my missing SK 9/16 wrench still jambed on the nut of one of the bolts. By the way as I quickly approach 60 I still have the wrench, just a little rusty.

Graham of New Zealand · Jan 9, 2018

Reminds me of when Visegrips first came out in New Zealand and plenty got left in place under cars, especially around exhaust pipe repairs and would be still there next time repairs were needed. I think it was seen as good and free advertising of a wonderful tool.

showcrop · Jan 9, 2018

Get some head lamps. I find that three seem to be enough to give me time to find the first one that I left somewhere.

Russ from MN · Jan 9, 2018

Go to HF and get another free one!

Leroy · Jan 9, 2018

Those from Harbor Freight are not adjustable for low or high light. And I do have several. Good for in pocket but I have better ones.

Determined · Jan 9, 2018

Now you can say you finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. : :roll:

rrlund · Jan 9, 2018

At least you know so you have closure. lol
I lost a Stanley 3/8ths drive ratchet and 3/4 deep well socket last summer and never have figured out where it went. It was one of those that you could ratchet by turning the handle around in both directions. Handiest thing since shirt pockets.
I used it to put the headlights on the Oliver 500. Went to use it the next day and it was gone. I've taken the grill off that tractor twice thinking it must be in there,but it's not.

The wife was gonna get me one for Christmas but what she got was a Stanley ratcheting screwdriver. Well,it was the right color.

Butch(OH) · Jan 9, 2018

For years I had the same 4" wide putty knife in my tool box. Never used it a lot but when needed nothing replaced it. Had to clean the ash out of the waste oil furnace and found the remains of it in the firebox,, grrr.

rustyfarmall · Jan 9, 2018

Those little LED flashlights are very handy and fun to play with, but when you actually have a need for some extra light on that project you are working on, they either don't work at all, or they blink on and off like a strobe light. I always keep a plain old flashlight handy.

rrlund · Jan 9, 2018

I found a half inch Snap On down under the variable speed of the combine that way one time.

PJH · Jan 9, 2018

Thanks for all of the comments - you folks cheered me up with your good stories.

Olliejunkie · Jan 9, 2018

(quoted from post at 10:21:09 01/09/18) Thanks for all of the comments - you folks cheered me up with your good stories.

I'm just a little over 50. I lose stuff all the time. Problem is I forget where I looked for it. One that really ticked me off is when I left my knife on the disc frame. Of course I didn't remember until I was done discing. Lost my sunglasses on top my head. Looked for my phone while I was talking on. Seems I spend more time looking and fixing tools than I do working on the main task. Sure wish they would find a cure. Now what was I doing.

KEB in GCMS · Jan 10, 2018

Needed my long magnet and could not find it anywhere, had to change a bulb on my daughters car. So I lifted the hood and there it was laying right where I left it from the last time I used it. Don't know how long it would have stayed there if the headlight bulb had not blown.

Heyseed · Jan 10, 2018

It isn't all about age. I was 38 and building out my basement. Went to change the oil on my truck and couldn't find my 3/8 ratchet and 9/16 socket. Looked everywhere and then remembered using it to lag bolt the lolly column in the basement. That column was inside drywall I had installed the night before. I cut open the sheetrock and they were sitting on the framing.

kcm.MN · Jan 10, 2018

Whomever bought our last house ended up also getting a very long Snap-On flat blade screwdriver (my favorite long one!). All they have to do is put an extension ladder up against the house and go up into the attic area. :shock:

Charles in Aus. · Jan 11, 2018

The old house down the road from my farm was taken away to be rebuilt by a newly married couple , inside the wall the young man found a new brass bound, leather covered, one chain measuring tape . I often think about how the poor fellow that lost it must have searched for it and cursed losing it . eighty years ago something like that would have cost a significant amount

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