Stumped

You know when you need to find a rarely used, somewhat important item in your house that you deliberately put away in a specific place so you'd remember exactly where it is next time you need it, so you look in the place it SHOULD be, that you are CERTAIN said item is, only to find it NOT in the logical place, so suddenly you're at a total and complete loss at the TRUE whereabouts of said item because if it isn't where it should be, it could be anywhere, therefore nowhere, and it becomes an all-encompassing task to locate said item and in your haste to do so, you end up with multiple scenes like this


scattered throughout various zones of your home that you must get back to later regardless of your search ending positively or not?????

Now you know what I've been up to. After days of wracking my brain, tearing through every possible location, and throwing my hands in the air about the whereabouts of our latest mystery item that I so smartly tucked away last time I had it, I miraculously stumbled upon it!! WAHOO! It was not at all near where this picture was taken and naturally, somewhere stupid that should have occured to me days ago to look, but whatever, I FOUND IT!! The end of this particular search came at about 1:30 am last night...and now I'm cleaning up. What a relief. Only one question remains, WHAT IS ALL THIS STUFF and why do I have it? That was two questions, but you get the point.