House Spirits
Now I have a fairly open attitude about stuff like this, but heres one thing that works. Cant remeber where I read it.

You know sometimes you lose something in the house and you KNOW where you left it? The house spirits may have taken it. If you stand at the bottom of the stairs and speak loudly/shout up-stairs, asking politely for the spirits to return whatever is missing, in a few days it will re-appear. In a really odd place where you have looked loadsa times.

Honestly, I know this sounds bollox but it works.
(kitescreech Til Gran Kythera Dow, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 21:43, closed)

I am very, very, very sceptical
Completely so.

But I am also pissed off that I have lost my bestest battered hoodie...

*considers trying*
( ancrenne doesn't eat anything that can play video games, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 23:25, closed)

So glad...
It's not just me then! I have had this EXACT same thing happen with my stuff... Oddly only 2 items and, time and time again, they seem to be the only ones that it happens with. 1 of them is my 'Audrey Hepburn' shades and the other an expensive bracelet that I love but doesn't have any real senitmental value... used to freak me out but now just annoys the hell out of me!!
(Senora Veranos is missing, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 23:49, closed)

Oooo!
This is like the headache fairies. When I have a headache, I ask them to take it away, then I wait a few hours or a day or so and it goes away! Good old headache fairies! I know it sounds like bollocks :)
(Tomble Underground, overground, Tombling free., Fri 4 Jul 2008, 4:57, closed)

I like house spirits
much cheaper than smirnoff
(chili_kitten Cheese, peas and honey bees, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 9:49, closed)

Someone Else
Has their own Topsy!
(porkyulelips Built for comfort, not for speed., Fri 4 Jul 2008, 9:54, closed)

Be scientific!
Do it without the shouting up the stairs part, and see if it turns up later anyway.
(Musuko, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:08, closed)