• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’ve been searching for a lost vape for about five days. Our place isn’t even that big and it’s pretty clean because my partner won’t stand for the sort of sloppiness that I get up to when no one polices me. And the vape is a hell of a lot larger.

  • Czarb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Broke my phone last week. Had mine on my keychain when the tech couldn’t find his quick enough.

    • Zidane@lemmy.world
      English
      3·
      2 months ago

      Also keep mine on my keys… Well used to before children ripped it off… Need to get a new one

  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I used to keep one on my keyring.

    I finally took it off after the 4th time I had to pull it out of my thigh.

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    These things suck and are too tiny to store anywhere useful. A small paper clip works the same and stores much better.

      • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        You must be using thick paperclips. All the ones I’ve used have all worked fine. Paperclips come in a wide range of thicknesses.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        What an uninspired way to approach life. You encounter something that doesn’t match your specific experience and, instead of wondering how it could be true, your only reaction is to deny it altogether. Be a bit more curious.

    • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Agree totally. There’s no point in holding on to a special-purpose object that can have its function performed by other very common objects. The smart thing to do is throw it away immediately after the phone’s return window ends.

  • Pringles@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 months ago

    Hah, that’s why I bought a little treasure chest that I have on my desk. I keep magic stuff there like usb keys, a lighter, these things (whatever they are called? Sim card pins?), anything that is small and infrequently used.

  • halvar@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 months ago

    I have one on my keychain, which is sometimes a huge pain in the thigh, the hand or the fabric of the jeans, but it’s worth it, because I use it like, every six months.

  • teft@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Why would I keep track of something that can be replaced by a paper clip that costs a penny?

  • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I got mine! Let me dig though my pile of empty boxes in a room I haven’t organized since I moved here like a year ago!

  • feedmecontent@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    How is it responsible to waste your life taking steps to keep track of worthless little objects of that size? If you need a thin poker use one of the many every day objects that takes the form of or includes a thin poker.

    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I don’t really see how tossing a thing that you might need later in a drawer and then remembering where it is counts as wasting your life.

      • feedmecontent@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Tossing in a drawer, definitely not. But keeping it in a place where you know where it is, will remember it, and it is definitely retrievable is different. Good luck finding that thing in a random drawer you are sure it’s in, much less a random drawer you are only kind of sure it’s in. Or if your life is such that each spot occupied in each drawer regardless of size and time of deposit is accounted for and retrievable, maybe that is just the standard I’m missing here.

        What I’m saying is: I definitely have one or more of those in drawers or closets or boxes somewhere. Where, I do not know, and I could not retrieve one on command. But I could retrieve an implement to do its job. That the two things wind up being the same thing is an infinitesimal chance at best.