The God of Lost Things

Quick moment of whimsy. All gamers are aware of "The God of Lost Things" (GOLT).

You know, that entity that hides the thing you are looking for that you know was just there. I'm aware of two sure-fire ways of placating him\her.

1. Buy the lost thing again. This is drastic but sometimes required. It is usual that once you have ordered the "thing" the original will turn up. Current prime example is the roof section of a Pegasus Hobbies Russian building. I got so frustrated I ordered a replacement. Guess what I found today while looking for.....

2. The other method is to accept and mollify the GOLT by sacrificing something else. While searching for the other lost thing you will almost always find the thing you lost before the one you are looking for.

I'm currently suffering from the following GOLT depredations:

A set of 20x40mm mdf bases to allow me to progress my Warmaster Lizardmen. I've decided to go for solution 1 and ordered some more from Warbases. The originals will turn up tomorrow, probably lodged in a shoe or something.

Not one but two Exacto knives. (I bought a spare "just in case" but didn't take account of the GOLT. Both were sighted mere days ago in my tool tin, but are no longer there......

A set of laser cut shingle tiles I ordered when I realised the aforementioned Pegasus Hobbies roof section was missing. Having ordered another I was going to mod the original with a new roof so they looked different. But I cant find them...........

Anyone else have experience of this and any other solutions??