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Finding Lost Things Is My Super Power
I’ve always been the sleuth in my family
Growing up I was always the one to help my Mom find lost things around our house. With four young kids, a massive Great Dane, a cat, and my father deployed for months at sea with the U.S. Navy, chaos reigned.
Jackets, bills, shoes, paperwork, school books, jewelry and other miscellaneous things went missing every day and I was the one everyone turned to for help in finding them.
My brain loves solving problems and it felt like a game to me to find these wayward objects. I imagined myself as Nancy Drew with her magnifying glass and fearless commitment to solving mysteries.
Usually, things got lost at the worst possible time and everyone was on edge. Fortunately for them, I’m the calm, cool, collected type and I had a system for finding lost things.
First, I’d ask my mom to sit down and relax with a cup of tea, and then focus and answer some simple questions to trigger her memories.
#1. Where did you last have the missing object?
#2. What were you doing when you last had it?
#3. What room were you in?
#4. Did you put it somewhere for safe keeping?
