Slow Down, Gym Shoe!: Show Me The Money (Clip)

I have a bad habit of losing stuff, including money. I often keep my money stuffed in the back pocket of my jeans, or in the inside pocket of my coat. And it gets lost. One weekend, when I was visiting my parents, I lost twenty bucks! They were more mad than I was... they felt it was a major personality and moral flaw. But I suck at being organized... and I am so clumsy! I hate having a wallet, inside a purse, because when I go to pay for something, I have to fumble to open the purse, and then the zipper gets caught or something, then I have to fumble around trying to find the wallet, then open the wallet, fumble with the money... and I am all thumbs! It is an ADHD/Aspie thing, partially! For me it is easier to just grab a wad of money from my pocket, peel off what I want, and put the rest back in my pocket... although it seems too easy for money to just slide out of there!

So for Christmas, my dad (the goofy one) got me a money clip! And it was working wonderfully! I had all of my cards (driver's license, library cards, debt card, etc) clipped to one side, and my money clipped to the other. It was nice and heavy in my pocket, so I always was aware that I had it. Plus, because it was from my dad, I was especially careful not to lose it. It was the kind of thing that I was constantly subconsciously touching my back pocket to make sure I still had it.

So, the other morning, it snowed so much, that Rafael's mom suggested I wait a while to take him to school, until after the traffic had died down. I was still wearing my pajama pants, which didn't have a pocket, so I had my money clip in the pocket of my sweatshirt. To kill time after Little Bear left for school, I was playing Hide And Seek with Rafael... except, he kept finding me, because wherever I hid, the dogs would follow me!

At one point the money clip fell out of my pocket, and I picked it up and told Rafael, "Hey, thats my money clip! It has my money clipped to it!" (Which, by the way, it didn't... I had only gotten ready to take Rafael to school so I hadn't taken any money.)

Then I drove Rafael to school. The doors were already locked, so I parked, went up to the school to ring the bell, walked into the office with Rafael, and then went back to my car. I drove home. I walked into the house. I took off my jacket. I reached for my money clip.

It was gone!

And I. Looked. Everywhere.

I've been looking for it day and night, left and right! I tore my car apart searching for it, I reached my arms deep down into the guts of all of the couches (and found a belt, a handful of pretzels, some change, Lily's squeaky ball, a pen, some crayons, and random other objects!) I tore apart the bucket in the coat closet, and found the library book that Little Bear has been missing since the week before winter vacation! I offered all of the kids ten dollars to anyone who found my money clip.

But. Nothing.

It will be a pain in my butt to try to replace all the cards that were on the clip, but not impossible. So I'm not as upset about that as I am about the fact that my dad got me that money clip so I wouldn't lose money, and it really did work... and then I lost the entire money clip! I am just disappointed in myself.

Even more frustrating is the fact that the money clip has to be somewhere in this house! I didn't go anywhere, except to take Rafael to school, and I even asked inside the school if anyone had turned it in.

I'm afraid it might be buried in the snow somewhere outside. It snowed a lot that day.

I want to find it! I could cry! I am crestfallen!

Everyone, please send me positive thoughts and visions of finding my money clip! (To help you, I've included a picture of a similar money clip, at the top of this post. Except mine doesn't have a hundred dollar bill in it!)

Wish me luck!