https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:09:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-282098 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:06:42 +0000 Mrs. Train 282098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>BUSTED!!! My husband joined hellobee because I told him about the dad board he came home and said really? Can't-find-it-itis? Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-282091 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:58:22 +0000 dagret 282091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mark me down as a victim of my husbands man-vision as well!<br /> ETA: @sorrycharlie I will HAVE to try that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-282069 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:37:15 +0000 SleepyMonkey 282069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>this is the most hilarious thread! my husband suffers from this problem too...he'll go shuffling through our junk drawer for 2 seconds and move a couple papers around and be like, "have you seen this [insert random item]?? i can't find it anywhere" and i look, turn over one paper and there it is. ALL THE TIME!!! i find it so funny now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-282054 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:19:29 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 282054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: LOL I am going to try that!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-282052 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:18:55 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 282052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband does this too!! When we first started living together he asked where something of his was, and i said "how would i know??" and he said "my mom always knows!!"</p> <p>UGH!<br /> He has gotten better yet, because I won't help him look if I know its right infront of him. He literally says "i can't find it" as soon as he even heads to the pantry and hasn't even opened the door to look for "it"!<br /> Must be a man thing! lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-282040 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:03:05 +0000 Mrs. Pen 282040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: bahahaha!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-282030 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:51:25 +0000 Mrs. Train 282030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coco Bee: I really don't know what they did before marriage. </p> <p>It seems as though I'm not the only one who has loved ones plagued by the inability to look for lost things. It's good to know I am in good company </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281831 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:07:27 +0000 ladyfingers 281831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG DH is the worst with this. How many times has he freaked out because he can't find his wallet and it's right on the counter? Or asked me where something is and he's starting right at it. I am convinced that males naturally lack the detail-orientation needed to find things/adequately clean them (because he's blind to dust, as well). Maybe it's an evolutionary thing -- they have the big picture vision needed to see and shoot the wooly mammoth, and we have the detail vision needed to keep the cave clean ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281830 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:06:56 +0000 sorrycharlie 281830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>add me to the list of spouses plagued by this. my husband is the worst. sometimes if I yell back, "if I get up and find it, then no sex for ----" works wonders. It magically appears. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281799 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:41:49 +0000 Mrsbells 281799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my husband has this.. Hopefully when LO grows up she wont have this. I will try to make it into a game and reward with stars or something everytime she finds something </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281795 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:37:42 +0000 MrsHotDog 281795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coco Bee: they probably asked their mom's before they married us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281792 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:35:34 +0000 Mrs. Pen 281792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hahaha!! I was like this as a kid- my mom would get sooooo mad lol</p> <p>My dh is the same, I will tell him exactly where it is- detailed thorough instructions and he can't find it (sighs).</p> <p>Hopefully your son grows out of it. On another note- what did our DH's do before they married us?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281782 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:29:18 +0000 Chastenet 281782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband has this same disease. I'm afraid it may not be that rare :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281781 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:28:06 +0000 Mrs. Train 281781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Blue: man vision I like that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281720 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:59:17 +0000 hilsy85 281720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jessiejo17: haha this happens all the time with us! He recently bought a new bottle of soy sauce because he swore we didn't have any. I go to the fridge, and there is a brand new bottle, already in there! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281689 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:46:18 +0000 MamaMoose 281689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: When I was little I used to really stress about becoming a mom when I was older because I just couldn't understand how my mom always knew where everything could be found and that sounded like a whole lot of responsibility to me!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281681 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:41:26 +0000 looch 281681@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have this problem, I put stuff away so well I forget where it is. The most recent victim of this was my husband's winter coat. I just found it this week in the basement. When we went on a sledding vacation this winter, poor guy had to buy one from a second hand store just to have a coat on time because I insisted I would find it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281669 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:33:51 +0000 MaisyMay 281669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Heck yes! I'll even tell him where something is, down to the "look on bottom shelf, towards the right" and there are times when I still have to get up to get it. Mind you, lately he's been getting things for me, so I can't feel to bad about being the finder. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281646 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:21:00 +0000 LAGS 281646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No advice, but my husband is the same. He'll ask me where something is, I'll tell him exactly where it is and he'll come back complaining that he still can't find it... I'll go to wherever I told him to look in the first place, lift something up and voila... Not looking forward to adding a running inventory of all our LOs things to my already cramped head-space too.</p> <p>@Mrs. Blue: This made me laugh! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281526 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:40:43 +0000 MrsCastro 281526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes DH suffers from this too..its soo sad... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281512 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:34:23 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 281512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband suffers from this too. Once you find a cure let me know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281504 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:30:33 +0000 LuLu Mom 281504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH suffers from this as well! Drives me bonkers!!! He will pull open the fridge "we are out of ketchup" I respond with "No we are not, look in the door...(same spot it always is), "nope it is not there" walk over pull it out and hand it to him. So frustrating!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281503 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:28:28 +0000 tororojo 281503@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had this problem as a kid, I remember wondering how my mom was so good at finding things. Now I seem to have the power! I think you might be out of luck until the kids grow up... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281494 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:22:43 +0000 Honeybee 281494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think all toddlers have this? Or my daughter is doomed to follow in her father's footsteps.... Sigh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281492 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:21:08 +0000 autumnlove 281492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH suffers from this syndrome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281478 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:13:34 +0000 hilsy85 281478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG DH is the WORST with this!! He will literally look for something, not be able to find it, ask for my help, and then I'll go over and it will be RIGHT in front of his face. I keep telling him he's going to lose the baby in our apartment, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281476 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:13:08 +0000 Mrs. Blue 281476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hahaha! We call this "man-vision" at our house. My favorite example was when Mr. Blue was whining about not being able to find his phone charger for months...finally, I looked for it, and it was still plugged into the wall. Because the phone end had fallen off his dresser, he just thought it was GONE. Man-vision. I'm afraid your boys are suffering from an early version of it! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-sons-suffer-from-cant-find-it-itis#post-281465 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:06:51 +0000 Mrs. Train 281465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>...and I think they got it from their father. I don't understand why all of the men and boys in my life can't pick something up to look for something else. My boys now go into a room and scream mommy I can't find it. I walk in and whatever it is they are looking for is right there. One of my little guys said "mommy you find it like you find daddy's stuff." Ugh i guess it is my lot in life to be the finder of things.</p> <p>Anyone have any suggestions for toddler and getting them to look for things better. I am pretty sure my husband is a lost cause. </p>