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I have a spray bottle I use to wet down my ironing. It sits on my ironing board, so the other day I didn't see it and dug out another bottle. A couple of days later I was back at the ironing board, and there was my original water bottle sitting next to the replacement one.

I figured that it had been there all along, but I'm losing my mind and just didn't see it there.

Mr. Troutbend is working on a leaky roof in one of our storage buildings and I noticed he had a spray bottle of water there on a shelf. I hadn't seen him getting out the bleach to make bleach water to spray on any mold he might come across, so I was going to fill my ironing spray bottle with bleach water and take over there, but when I got to my ironing board, it was gone.

Mystery solved: he has been borrowing my spray bottle so I wasn't losing my mind after all. What a relief. Now I can worry about something else.

posted on Aug 21, 2011 8:01 PM ()

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comment by crazylife on Aug 29, 2011 10:19 PM ()

He's gone now, so everything is staying in where I put it. The trick is remembering where that was.

reply by troutbend on Aug 30, 2011 9:01 PM ()

When things go missing in my house, chances are good DH (obsessive cleaner)threw it away.

comment by nittineedles on Aug 26, 2011 7:47 PM ()

Threw it away! What a concept. We are both pack rats, and when we are on a housecleaning rampage, we constantly consult one another for reassurance that each item headed for the trash doesn't have an alternate use.

reply by troutbend on Aug 30, 2011 9:02 PM ()

I have to really be going somewhere special to iron something. I remember my mother, who ironed EVERYTHING, using a pop bottle with a sprinker cork top that stuck into it.

comment by redimpala on Aug 23, 2011 1:26 PM ()

I would like to try one of those some time because I don't know if it's better than a spray bottle. I spray the pillowcases then roll them up and store in plastic for a day to mellow and let the moisture move through the fabric.

reply by troutbend on Aug 30, 2011 9:03 PM ()

Wish I had someone living with me to blame disappearing objects on.

comment by dragonflyby on Aug 23, 2011 11:00 AM ()

Now that I'm on my own here, I'm in the same boat as you.

reply by troutbend on Aug 30, 2011 9:05 PM ()

It's a conspiracy! They do that to drive us crazy. My husband keeps taking my flashlights I keep in each room and never puts them back. Drives me bonkers!

comment by gapeach on Aug 22, 2011 6:36 PM ()

Around here, it's not just the flash lights, it's also scissors and tape measures that move around on their own.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 6:38 PM ()

What is ironing? (Said with a chuckle)

comment by boots586 on Aug 22, 2011 3:41 PM ()

Tee hee, I know what you mean.

I iron pillow cases, and that's it.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:37 PM ()

Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

comment by fredo on Aug 22, 2011 11:21 AM ()

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:38 PM ()

Just don't mix up those bottles or you'll get speckled clothes...

comment by drmaus on Aug 22, 2011 11:02 AM ()

That's another thing to worry about, I'll have to pay attention.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:41 PM ()

whenever something goes missing here, i blame my son.

comment by elkhound on Aug 22, 2011 9:33 AM ()

We'd have to blame the cat.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:41 PM ()

My friend Tony and her husband have a quietly adversarial relationship. They don't like each other anymore but won't part. He bugs her by hiding her expensive jewelry after she has carefully stored it in her dresser and then she think she has lost it. Get another spray bottle just for Mr. YouKnow.

comment by tealstar on Aug 22, 2011 7:25 AM ()

Sometimes I thank my good fortune that we get along so well because there are so many opportunities like that to torment our partners.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:42 PM ()

I think he would have been suspect #1.

comment by kristilyn3 on Aug 22, 2011 7:24 AM ()

It didn't cross my mind because usually he has his own set of everything, and who would think he'd walk all that way and climb the stairs to the sewing room and grab up that spray bottle. Now I know.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:43 PM ()

I keep a spray bottle of bleach water to clean the sink. I made a huge
mistake in getting a white one and should have gotten the undermounted
sink that goes with cabinet tops.

comment by elderjane on Aug 22, 2011 6:30 AM ()

I use Comet cleanser (the dry kind) with bleach on the sink, but very sparingly because the bleach isn't good for the septic. But I soak my dish rags in bleach water when they get sour smelling.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:45 PM ()

Whew!

comment by marta on Aug 21, 2011 10:50 PM ()

I get up to enough crazy stuff on my own without help.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:39 PM ()

Have you ever seen "Gaslight"? Charles Boyer tries to drive his wife Ingrid Bergman insane just by going what Mr. Troutbend did--you might want to check it out!

comment by greatmartin on Aug 21, 2011 9:08 PM ()

You're right - it was like that. Lights dimming and flashing or whatever it was.

reply by troutbend on Aug 22, 2011 4:38 PM ()

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