Lost passport. Where shall I look?

whodathunkit

I'm a traditionalist - look behind the clock on the mantelpiece!

LittleMrsThrifty

Thanks everyone. The passport is still missing. Although to be fair I haven't had long to dedicate to the search effort over the past two days but I have a day off work tomorrow so will be resuming the hunt.

I have already missed a hen weekend, I really want to find it so that I can go away this summer otherwise it'll be a staycation (which will be nice too, I just fancied going abroad and with the Passport issues it is unlikely I'll get a replacement any time soon).

Thank you for all your suggestions and stories of where yours turned up. When you are in a blind panic looking for a small and slippery piece of paper it is really hard to know where to look once you have covered the obvious. Please do keep your suggestions coming. I promise to search in everyone one of them - plus I hope this thread can be useful to others in my situation in the future.

Thanks also for noone telling me I am am an idiot. I know that I am, so appreciate you not highlighting it to me!

AlexMac

Lots of fun reading this; esp post #19;

" Milan, Paris, New York... Stevenage"

(Delboy Trotters' Independent Travel?)

But to return to the OP... Have you got a dog? Good luck.

My boss lost his once so he had to cancel a meeting in Berlin... Only problem; I'd gone out a day earlier. Still; I got to see Checkpoint Charlie. In February. In the snow and minus 10C. Talk about 'Cold War'!

elsien

Mine tends to turn up in the middle of other piles of paper I've been accumulating at the time. So any files where you keep anything important (insurance, job applications etc) are worth a look.
Any holiday bags that you only use while away and have been sitting in the wardrobe or attic ever since? Old suitcases or day bags? I found a set of house keys 12 months after I "put them safe" in a rucksack in the loft.

lynnemcf

Mine was in a pile of paper on top of the printer, I'd scanned it as proof of my id when I'd applied for a job and forgotten to put it back in the "safe place"

Grumpygit

In a plant pot or under a plant pot?

What about our "women" drawers in the kitchen? Bedside table? In a book that you were reading (maybe as a bookmark) or in amongst your books on the shelf?? In amongst your dvd's/cd's if they are on display?

Children's rooms (if you have any - they may think it's a nice book or have been playing at "holidays")

In a laptop bag in one of the pockets?

as a previous poster found.....in your scanner (if you have one)

Camera bag?

And no, you're not an idiot - if you are then quite a lot of us are too lol

codo

My son mislaid his and found it in a suit pocket. He had gone to register with an agency for work and needed id.

Hope you find it soon

Backbiter

A friend of mine lost his, turned the house upside down, blamed his two young sons, accepted defeat and managed to get a replacement issued - at considerable expense - in a day from the passport office. He put it in his travel bumbag and was able to join us on our rugby trip to Paris. On arrival at Portsmouth for the ferry, he put his hand in his bumbag ......and pulled out two passports. The 'lost' passport had been there the whole time.
I'll ask him to check his bumbag for you.