The Towel trick and lost items, IT REALLY WORKS!!

[Baby Tea]

I used a trick like that one.
Except I took a towel, tied it into a knot, and used that knot to beat people until someone told me where that thing I was looking for was. The soft knot hurt just enough to make them talk, but not enough to leave a mark. But I suppose throwing it under your bed is just as good, if not as hilarious.

Unless,you sleep on the top rack of a bunk bed!

The more I think of that, the funnier it is.
"Mom! Jimmy keeps throwing tied up towels on my half of the bunk-bed!"

Or some some guy with short-term memory loss continuously throwing tied towels on his bed because he can't find his keys...or figure out why there are knotted towels on his bed.
Classic.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Ok well i'm not one for superstition in fact i hate it but the other day i lost something in my house and spent at least an hour looking for it. I called my mom to ask her if she had seen the thing i had lost and she said no but calm down take a towel, tie it into a knot and put it under your bed. I did this and within 2 minutes i had found the thing i was looking for!!! I didn't even have to look for it, it was on the floor in my living room.

Has anyone ever heard of this trick before, what is it called and who made it up!? I've been using the trick almost after every time i loose something and it works!

Kind of like my mom when she prays to her "god" to help her find it and she coincidentally finds it, its all coincidental and I also lose a lot of things usually but always find them, I just thoroughly look through my house

 

[reg42]

One school of though says that if you believe something will happen, to tend to project that into the world and, basically, weird shit goes down.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

No, my mum says its only because I look at the walls and not at the objects. (This happens to me quite frequently, the last time I actually picked up the device, I was looking for, to see if it was underneath itself.)

I've done that too! I'm glad that nobody saw it or I would've been red-faced. Still not as bad as losing my glasses on top of my head or, my personal worst, losing my pencil while holding it in my left hand.

"Mum! Where the HELL did you put my camera!"

So I traipse all around the house looking for the thing. Eventually I sit back down at my desk, lay my head down in annoyance, to feel something fall down underneath my noggin.

Yeah, it was the camera.

Sorry, silly superstitions don't cut it for me, I need SCIENCE

You could just try it yourself and see if it works.

You haven't got much to lose, except potentially a towel.

 

[Valksy]

I admit that I was distracted when I saw the thread title and thought you were talking about "trick towels" and was confused...

In answer to your question no I have never used a sort of home-remedyesque type solution to losing stuff. I have a personal policy of putting keys, phone, wallet in the same place every single time. Likewise when I take specs off when it is bedtime I always put them in exactly the same spot. Do this and I can pretty much guarantee that important stuff won't walk on you again.