I can't find my keys or my wallet. So lets take a tour of my place and see if you can help me find them.

Savij

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I can't find my keys or my wallet so that kills my plans to go work out or to pick up my new suit, so here's a tour of my apt. and pics of my 10 year home theater component "project". I'm not too worried about the keys and wallet because i know I used them to get in yesterday. I just wanted to take a break from searching.

Anyways, to the apartment. Seems perfectly normal when you walk in. Just a chair and a mat for your shoes since New England winters can get pretty messy. If you look to your left, you see the "coat" closet. We see nothing out of the ordinary yet. If we follow the hallway to the left, we start to see a little bit of a mess. We've got a box of brake pads and disks, my ski boot bag, and a random umbrella in the hallway. It's not pictured, but if you look down you can see the ring in the carpet left by the tires that were there last week. Glance to the right as we continue down the hallway, and you might think that the kitchen could use a little cleaning.

Before we get to that, lets take a look at my bedroom. There's a bit of a mess growing here. The more observant folks might have noticed that there is one sock in/on the laundry hamper and the rest of the laundry is piled up next to it. There is no reason for this, it just is. Scanning to our left we see my desk. Watch your step as you walk in. You don't want to trip on the car's floor mats, my ski racings results from this season, the trash bag from when I started cleaning last week, or any of the other assorted things.

Having successfully navigated the obstacles, we get a glimpse of my bathroom. I'm not going to show any close ups here. However, if you did investigate further, you would see some bloody rags and bandages in this pile overflowing out of the trash can. Don't worry. I?m not a serial killer or anything like that. It's from when I cut my thumb sharpening my skis. I ended up with 10 stitches that night.

That's my bedroom, lets go back to the rest of the apartment. As we head into the kitchen OH GOD! WHAT KIND OF PERSON LIVES LIKE THIS! If you're so inclined, you can take a closer look. If you read the labels on the pizza boxes in the pile, you would find some from the Superbowl. I didn't stick around to get a picture of that since the pile on the floor seems to have developed an odor. You will probably also notice the beer bottles next to the cooking utensils. As we turn to the fridge we see another beer bottle orgy. The fridge looks like a typical guy fridge: water, juice, condiments, beer and some O?Doul?s that doesn't get touched. Before we leave the kitchen, I want to make sure that you guys know that the sink does get used.

From the kitchen we head to the living room. Look to the left as you walk in and you'll see some chairs with ski stuff on them, and the dining room in the background. As you walk in, you face the small couch which is covered in various A/V cables, game controllers and various other living room related things. To the left of that, behind the main sofa are the rear speakers, and half a desk with some DVDs and the stack of (52) gift cards I used to purchase the TV. The TV itself is exactly where you would expect it, in front of the main sofa. Also seen in that picture are the main speakers, the receiver, the DVD player, the Wii, cable box, center channel, subwoofer, future HT PC, and a spray bottle of generic glass cleaner. If we look back at the kitchen, we see the ski stuff again, the counter covered with more pizza boxes and beer bottles, and the vacuum that came from this box. I have no idea why that one bottle is segregated on the floor, but I've been informed that it is in a separate but equal location.

So now, lets head to the dining room. No, the table hasn't been used by Tony Montana to check out his latest shipment. The wax shavings on the table and on the floor are from tuning the skis. If you look closely at the file (the green/blue thing on the table) and on the clamps, you'll still see blood from when I cut my thumb. I actually cut it on the edge of these skis, and you might still some blood and flesh left in the bindings. For the most part, the gore was left behind on the Lower Smith Walton trail. As you turn around to walk out, you'll probably notice the cool little window that looks into the kitchen.

As we walk out of the dining room,, you'll notice the doors across from you. The one directly in front with the shorts hanging from it leads to a closet. The other two doors to either side of it lead into my roommate's bedroom and his bathroom. He's not around to give his permission to put pictures of the rooms up, so we won't go in.

I hope you guys liked the tour. In case anyone missed it, here is a picture of my thumb. Let me know if you see my keys or my wallet in any of the shots.
 

rpanic

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Its probably right out in the open, look in your jacket or hanging out of the entrance door.
 

Savij

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Originally posted by: rpanic
Its probably right out in the open, look in your jacket or hanging out of the entrance door.
I checked both of those and no go. I'm pretty sure it's not in the jackets because i haven't used them this week.

Originally posted by: newb111
Look in the toilet.
Not in there, but there is something in there making noises.


So far, I have found about 1000 of my old business cards under the laundry pile, $14 in bills, probably another 5 - 10 dollars in change while moving this pile of stuff around.

Oh yeah: Spyder!
 

Savij

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Originally posted by: Hyperlite
Your subwoofer isn't large enough.
Yeah, it's only a 15" sub. :p

Originally posted by: RichardE
Probally in one of the messes on the floor..


just saying..
I've tried the preliminary searching by kicking the piles around with my feet method, I've tried quickly scattering the stuff and that didn't work. Now (once I'm done folding this load of laundry) I'm going through the piles more carefully.

What sucks is I can't just leave my door unlocked and go out since the front of the building is looked and I need my rfid keyfob to get in.
 

Baked

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What a shit hole. If I were the roommate, I would just burn the place down.
 

boomerang

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The knock on the door will be the Health Department. They'll help find your wallet and keys for you.

When it's all over, you'll be glad. I know it doesn't seem like it now, but just trust me on this.
 

rezinn

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It might not be obvious to you since you live in that, but maybe if you clean up you might find your keys and the rest of your hand.
 

Savij

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Originally posted by: Vageetasjn
Check the pants you last wore.
I put them back on this morning. No wallet and keys.

Originally posted by: rezinn
It might not be obvious to you since you live in that, but maybe if you clean up you might find your keys and the rest of your hand.
Yeah, I'm working on that now.
 

Ticks

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That was amusing.

Last time I lost my wallet it was securely wedged inbetween the couch cushions. I had to flip my couch upside down and only noticed it after using a flashlight. This was after 3-4 hours of looking. It was ridiculous.
 

Locut0s

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Originally posted by: Savij

Having successfully navigated the obstacles, we get a glimpse of my bathroom. I'm not going to show any close ups here. However, if you did investigate further, you would see some bloody rags and bandages in this pile overflowing out of the trash can. Don't worry. I?m not a serial killer or anything like that. It's from when I cut my thumb sharpening my skis. I ended up with 10 stitches that night.

So you can't even be bothered to throw away bloody rags from an injury some time ago?!? "It's from when I cut my thumb"? that's not the kind of stuff most people just leave lying around no matter how unorganized or messy they are. "It's from the time I..." usually means your keeping some knick knack or bobble that reminds you fondly of some incident like some shells from a vacation, bottles of booze, coins or whatever. Not bloody fucking rags you used to staunch a wound!

Oh yeah and your apartment's a mess.