I don't lose stuff IF i take a great deal of energy to put it somewhere that i know i'll be able to find it. That doesn't always happen. So, i lose track of stuff all the time. I know it's a TBI think cuz i can feel how hard I have to work to keep track of simple things. arrgh.

I've hated losing my sense of well-being, youthfulness, most of my joy- and confidence in movement, the ability to run, dance or jump, and about $1500 in medical expenses over the past year.

My humor as dry as the Sahara tonight.

I don't lose objects (I don't like to keep many), though, for which I'm thankful.

Tell me about it dude, I freckin lost my wallet and the worst part is I dont even know how long its been gone! Could be a week, 2 or even 3 I cant track down when I last had it.

I use a money clip,, or really a slim clip everyday to carry my cash and my important cards that I use often. I just keep my credit cards that I rarely ever use in my wallet

Yup, MrLarMar - that's what I hate too - not remembering when I last used something or where. I rarely pre-TBI lost anything. So now it drives me crazy.

I also have things appear in my house that I don't know how they got there. I mean, I must have bought them, but have no memory of it. Now THAT really freaks me out.

I hate losing things too. I at least remember what I lost but finding is impossible. I swear it disappears into thin air sometimes. The worst is when I hide something from others which in turn is like hiding it from myself! I get confused as to when I last had something. I say it was yesterday and others are like "uhm you had that 2 weeks ago". I sometimes list where I've had things but I forget to do that sometimes.

I had to start putting anything and everything important in this one closet with a big green bag in it.... .When I look fo r something important I've been to that closet so many times....I've been able to locate the thing I can't find. ....What I find interesting is when I need to look for an item, it's the " green bag" that comes right up in my mind!!

I loose things, look for them and then forgot I lost them again... and re-look over and over. Its crazy.

I'm running out of spare keys for my house and car because I loose them so much, when I get down to 1 key each I go and get more made up. I often wonder how I can loose them so often and NEVER come across them eventually?

What drives me nuts is when I purposely put something in a spot so I wont loose it and can never find it again.

I do this to. Mostly its my cellphone! I have a certain place that I try to remember

I am positive I have a black hole over my house and thats where things go, sometimes forever. And possibly gremlins that move things, as I cant remember moving it. Often dont worry about it as cant remember a thing about it to start with. Learnt the hard way to write my cell phone lock number down in bag in notebook though. Only have it on when I need to use it which isnt often.

my son always loses things money etc
I saylets go over what yu have done, he doesnt like it but I have to do it for myself as I forget because of damage to my brain and the stressas his caregiver/advocate/ all round doer. I find this method wroks for us both, first before panicing meditate or relax somehow as panic and stress will confuse the mind. just walking upstairs to bedroom or bathroom and picking up an artical of clothing taken off often reveals the item, heck if I dot sit my glasses in thier special place I loosemthem and hunt blindly for them.

I lose everything!! My mum even has a spare of all of my keys so she can give them to me everytime I lose them. I am always getting new phones and I just got the new iphone so I am trying so hard not to lose it as I bought it out right and I don't really feel like losing a phone I just spent $900 on.

I think it's really frustrating but I think my family thinks it's funny, my dad picks on me. I hate misplacing things because I don't want to be laughed at. I think my family thinks I'm absent-minded or less-minded. They treat me like I can't think at all. My folks assume that whatever I look up on the web as far as far as sprained knees and nerve damage and these searches mention diseases as well, they believe that I think I have whatever I look up and that I'm not just looking up things to be more informed about things in general, I do have a sprained knee and nerve pain but not all the things I look up do I feel that I have, they must think I am a total idiot. I lose things, forget to do things I need to, forget to go where I need to go, and other things. I totally get what you're saying! I think I misplace things because of my tunnel vision.

Well, oddly, I now have found both my camera battery and my eyelash brush!

Thanks everyone for sharing. It's nice to know I'm not alone. But, many is it annoying! I'm not working right now, and I can't help but wonder how I'll do when I'm working again.

Larry has this problem too and retracing his steps doesnt always work. Of course at nearly 70 I have age related memory loss. The best solution I have found is Pockets! All Larrys clothes have pockets and I rarely buy anything without them. When I am working in the yard I wear a carpenter's apron to carry my tools in. It is easier for him and I to put something in a pocket than to remember where to put it!
although we keep trying to train ourselves to put some things in the same place.

I loose stuff a lot since my TBI. I have found that I better not hide things from anyone else, cause I'll never find it myself again. Even putting things in a special place so I don't totally loose it forever can be an issue. Because I have to remember to go there to see if I put it there. I try to put stuff out in plain sight. That seems to help. I know I get tired of the daily search for stuff, but usually I just backtrack and I will come across it. This is still a problem many years following the TBI. I guess I must say it has improved greatly from when my initial injury was. We just have to keep trying. :)