It's a hole in the space-time continuum, and other items that I'm SURE are there:
One of each of Princess's pairs of socks. Try sending your daughter to school in one purple and one blue sock, since that's one of the closest matches she has left.

All pens that actually work. Except the pink sparkly gel pens that you can't actually write checks or notes to teachers with.

Anything I'm DESPERATE to get my hands on in five minutes or less so I can get out the door to an important meeting . . .

Your glasses are probably snuggling with my socks, while my pens rest in your sippy cups. Laughing at us.

Hair clips and Chapstick. Never do these last until I can throw them away, but every few months I have to buy more. They must be with your sippy cups (which, I agree, do rock).

The little black porous covers for my iPod earbuds. They escape in the night, I swear.

OMG. Spoons. I swear to God, spoons go missing in my house. I think it's Fish, not the girls. I think he brings one to work, forgets it there, or something. But... yeah. Spoons.

Anyway - it's not just you, Whit! ;)

"OMG. Spoons. I swear to God, spoons go missing in my house."

I have been reading and loving this blog for months, but I have never commented before, but I HAD to respond to this.

Growing up, my 3 sisters and I were constantly in trouble because spoons were always disappearing. We are now all adults and have been out of the house for more than a decade, but spoons are still disappearing from my mother's house! 32+ years later, no spoon has ever been found either. None of my sisters nor I have ever had any problems in our own homes with utensils (and I have moved 11 times in 10 years). We are convinced that her spoons have all been sacrificied to the dishwasher gods!

Personally, I used to have issues with keeping wallets, purses, keys, and hairbrushes, but have somehow finally out-grown that phase. Unfortunately, I am still horrible with sunglasses. I break, scratch beyond usage, or lose at least 1 pair a month, so I stock up at Target or Walmart for $5 per pair. ;)

Socks. My 5 year old loves socks. He must have socks on at all times of the day. (I think he'd wear them in the bath if he thought I'd allow it) I buy socks and socks and more socks. I've started buying socks at Costco for him. And yet, there are exactly 2 (non-matching) socks left in his drawer this morning.

Where are they going?? I buy them 12 (or More) at a time. I should have a room full of socks by now. But no, I look everywhere and they're just gone.

Helen, the sock monster is eating all of our socks. Very very weird. And if it helps, I often find Princess's in the weirdest places, like under her bed, rolled up in her hats, stuffed in the Barbie case, etc. etc. Look the last place you'd expect and maybe . . .

Disappearing socks, yes, I'm familier with this. Luckily we have adopted a system to cope with this problem. We don't match socks. We just grab the first two out of the pile that look similar. Of course this only works if all your socks are white. Ours all kinda off-whitish. Discusting, but equally interchangeable.

And yes, I am not much of a housewife - but we don't have kids yet so I figure my husband still has time to learn.

Don't feel bad about still using sippy cups at three, Whitney! I don't think the kidlet gave his up until he was almost six. Partly because he liked them and partly because he still spilled. Of course, at 7 he still spills but I think I got rid of the last of them when we remodeled the kitchen this year. And, like you, many disappeared on me. I should have had dozens to get rid of instead of the paltry 3 that I found.

And who said spoons? I recently had to buy new silverware because there were hardly any spoons left. Personally, I think the kidlet kept throwing them away by accident...

Spoons. And forks. And tupperware.
Of course, I know it's the kids. The silverware is great for digging holes outside, and the tupperware is a great storage container for all of that dirt. Ugh, it kills me!
Socks are another thing that walks off.
And for me, and this is the really big one, it's my Clinique Black Honey Almost Lipgloss. I buy 2 at a time, every few months. I have never, in 12 years, EVER finished one of those. They just freakin disappear! It's very frustrating, since I usually know exactly where they are supposed to be, but when I go to get one, they are just GONE.

Sunglasses, money, socks, shirts, sivlerware (or any dish for that matter). I loose everything. I have come to accept the fact that if my son or my husband is missing something that they will blame me even though I haven't touched said thing, ever. I almost always find what I am missing eventually but still.... It is quite frustrating. One time I found a $20 bill in a pair of shorts that I had not worn for a year.

Thing One used to take items he liked (sets of keys, particulary tasty sippy cups of milk, the odd rock or stick) and stash them inside his Weeblo Firestation. It took a while to figure that out and wasn't a very nice surprise once we did.

The LC Eileen

I have one word for you. Socks.

These days, for Oh Patient One, Teenager No 2 and myself, I buy two dozen pairs of the same socks in the same shade. But they still go varying shades of grey at different times...