Q&A for How to Find Lost Objects

Check their room secretly. If you can't find it still, confront them and see if they will return it. You can also tell your parents about your suspicions too.

Keep the found one somewhere safe. Keep searching for the other one by retracing steps and using the suggestions in the article. It'll turn up eventually, just be sure to remember where you've put the found one.

Check the most common places first, like classrooms, your desk and other places you might usually see it. Then, if you still can't find it, look in more uncommon areas, like bathrooms or closets. Don't panic, keep your mind clear and take deep breaths. It will probably turn up.

Be sure to look thoroughly for it wherever you can, and if you know who stole it, try to get them to give it back. If you think it has been stolen from your home entirely, depending on how important the item is, you may need to call the police and insurance. However, refrain from this unless you have searched very thoroughly in as many places as possible.

Puzzling disappearances like this often end up trapped behind furniture; move the bed and dresser clear of the wall to get a good look. It could also be hidden under blankets or stuck down the side of the mattress.

Try looking through all of your files and drawers, and check every single paper on your desk and those crumpled up papers in the trash.

Ask your family or anyone who lives with you if they have seen it. Otherwise, check places you (or others) tend to keep books (bookshelf, end tables, your purse, etc.)

The most important thing is to stay calm. Look in your classroom in case you forgot it there, then at home in places you wouldn't normally look, like your cupboards. If you can't find it, explain to your teacher that you misplaced it.

Think of the colour of the box. Then scan all your rooms and for that colour, focusing on colour contrasts in the rooms. You could also ask anyone who might be likely to wear them if they borrowed them.

If you can't see clearly and don't have a friend to help, try taking a photograph of the room and holding it up to your face to get a clear view. A flashlight will also help, since the glasses will shine when they reflect the beam. Many people lose their glasses when they fall asleep with them on, so check the bedclothes and down the side and back of couches.

Most times, you can look in the school's lost and found. If it's not there, then check where you were at recess and lunch. You can also put up a "lost item" poster with permission from your principal; be sure to have a small reward ready as encouragement.

Start by searching the places where you put your computer. Then move on to backpacks, pockets and shoes.

Call the building and/or the construction service and ask them to stall the construction - or ask if you can come look for your item before the building is demolished. If successful, you can go and look for it.

Check lost property or look back and think where did you put it, somewhere that you would have put down your keys, purse/wallet, etc. When do you last remember checking the time? Where were you when you did that? Work back from that time. If it is a valuable watch, were you near any places where someone might have taken it?

Look on your head. Look under the bed. Look inside pillowcases. Look inside the duvet cover. Look inside any binders you have next to the bed. Look inside bedside table drawers/behind doors/on shelves. Look where you sat the night before and check the back of the couch too. Check the car, if you drive. Check all bags you carry daily. Check the kitchen, especially near recipe books or other things you need glasses for.

Give yourself a break over worrying about it. Even though it has been a long time, you could try retracing your steps, clean up the area where you think your lost it, then look again. If you lost it outside, you'll have needed to have contacted the places you went the day you lost it but given it is over a year, many probably won't have a clue but try anyway, and call the police station too, in case it's in lost property. Sometimes not worrying about something lost results in it turning up when least expected.

Always look in your backpack first, then look on bus, then look all over the ground and then look in the classroom.

Stay calm and thoroughly search all the places where you regularly have them. Start by trying to remember where you had them last and work backwards from there. If you can't find them, they can be replaced.

Look around for it carefully, especially in cracks and crevices. Use a magnifying glass if you have one. If you don't find it, you might be able to get a replacement part.

Look in the safest places because you would trust yourself to put your money in a safe place, right?

Where do you normally put it?. Look there and places around it. Check the Office to see if they have found it. Look for it in the lost and found. Ask classmates, friends and family to help and if they have seen it anywhere. Retrace your steps and Look in the nooks and crannies of your room, homeroom location and locker. If you still can't find it, ask the school office for another one or buy a new one at a local office store.

Always ask the people who throw stuff away, e.g. your mum or brother who don't to like to have scrap pieces of paper around the house.

You should be able to get a replacement ID card. Talk to the institution that issued your old one, and bring another form of photo ID.