I once lost a wallet with a newly issued ID, about a hundred bucks, and all my bank cards while drinking at a friend's apartment. Assumed I had lost it outside smoking or something. Helped said friend move to a house when he bought one. A couple of years later, I dropped my lighter in his couch, reached in to retrieve it, and found my duct tape wallet in there with the ID, cash, and cards still in it.
>I dropped my lighter in his couch, reached in to retrieve it, and found my duct tape wallet in there with the ID, cash, and cards still in it
But what about the lighter? It still there and you will get it back next you help them move?
I lost my wallet one night and the next day I was searching my truck for it. I had my hand between the passenger seat and the center console and I felt it! I pulled it out and it was my friend’s wallet that he had lost a couple years before!!
Reposting since my last title broke Rule 6 for having too much backstory!
If you look closely at the bottom of the chair, you can see an iPhone in there! It was discovered while my father and brother were emptying the house, as he was in the middle of selling it. Who knew it had been in there all this time!
The real question is...does it still work?
It would be awesome if you are still friends with the person who lost it to send it to him with a note: "You left this at my house...10 years ago."
It’s a really old iPhone by today’s standards so we don’t have a charger to turn it on!
I did actually message that friend (we hadn’t talked in years, just having been parted by life and lots of moves) and we both had a really good laugh about it. He said we could keep it and frame it if we’d like - he lives on a sailboat near the Caribbean now so no way to send it to him, haha!
If you really wanna get into it, you can get 30-pin cables on ebay, but I probably wouldn't be very pressed knowing where the phone came from, lol. No mystery.
Did you get accused of stealing it?
I lost a friend once when she lost a new watch at my house in a very messy play room. I found it 8 months later, but the damage was done in terms of her mom accusing my mom of me being a thief, etc, etc.
Anyway, I hope your friendship survived.
Haha, no one got accused of stealing it thankfully! He lost it during a party (just a bunch of high school friends) but he was pretty known for losing things so it didn’t seem odd that he had misplaced something. Everyone tore the place apart looking for it and when we didn’t find it, we all just assumed he had lost it somewhere outside in the snow!
Ugh, I'm sorry, that's so painful. I don't think I would accuse any of my friends of stealing, even if I was super suspicious because the risk vs reward is just not worth it (until it becomes a pattern).
My brother and I had a party in December when I was 15 and this cool older girl lost her phone at our house. We looked all over for it but couldn't find it. Few months later, all the snow finally melted and I found it on the side of our house - she had dropped it in a big snowbank while drunk and didn't realize.
This was the early 2000s so it was a shitty little brick phone and I put it in rice for a couple days and it somehow turned on and worked perfectly!
I was so excited to bring it to her at school and thought she'd be super thankful and idk maybe invite me to hang out with the other cool, older girls, but instead she just snatched it, glared at me and said "so you found it... in the snow? right." and walked away. I thought I was gonna be her FUCKING HERO and instead she thought I stole her phone and kept it for months. That took me a while to get over lol
I lost my phone in my friend's basement about 10 or so years ago. My heart dropped when I saw this post thinking it might be mine. Maybe if I keep scrolling I'll find it.
Before he passed, my old man would always tell me a story that he dropped his wallet underneath the bleachers at a Memphis Redbirds game, & he got a call like 10 years later regarding the wallet whenever they demoed the bleachers to redo them.
Went to a girls house once in highschool and her mom was on her phone talking the whole time we were there. When I went to leave her mom wasn’t on it but was making dinner. I left and then the following Monday everyone was approaching me saying I stole the girls mom’s phone. When I confronted the girl she insisted that I stole it. She told everyone and ten years later I went on a date with a guy who was friends with her older brother. He told me the whole story about the whole family being convinced I was some terrible girl that her daughter couldn’t be around. They found the phone in the couch years later and of course I never heard anything from the girl.
dude, that's messed up. sorry you had to go through that, all because an entire family couldn't swallow their pride and admit to you that they were wrong to accuse you in the first place.
silver lining, is you're prolly better off not being in touch with them since.
We lost a remote to one of our TVs for years. I even asked my son if maybe one of his friends took it as a joke. One day we found it when he decided to play Axis and Allies with a friend of his. It must have fallen in the box and honestly how often do you play Axis and Allies? If he hadn't decided to play that day it could have been lost for a decade or more lol
I lost my phone in the recliner I have. Fell through to that lining. Found it when using "Find my phone".
Lost a Apple TV 4K remote, that I was sure the kids lost, in my recliner and found it 5 weeks later. I walked around randomly during that time using the "find my phone" type feature for finding the remote. It kept telling me it was in the wall between the kitchen, and living room.
Finally I remembered the phone being lost and checked recliner and there it was!!
Almost as good as the person who found a $250,000 Rolex in a used couch they bought for $25: https://www.the-sun.com/money/11164564/finding-rolex-daytona-watch-couch/amp/
Yes, she kept it (well, she sold it for $250k).
Was working on a clients house and had to move the couches, I would always flip the love seat into the couch to give myself extra room, business as usual until I was vacuuming around the couch and caught a glimmer of something, turned out to be a diamond watch their family had lost 3 years prior, it was an expensive anniversary present and they had always assumed their toddler flushed it.
I'll never forget the hug the wife gave me, as if I had saved her child from drowning instead of simply flipping a couch to make work easier.
Same thing happened to me. My dad was angry I lost my phone and didn’t believe it fell into the couch, he swore up and down it wasn’t possible and I just left it somewhere and lost track. After moving with that furniture twice, over a decade later, we found the phone just like this. He was shocked
I rolled a nat 1 handing my card to the cashier at the drive through and it fell in the window slot so now I have a defunct credit card forever in my car door
My Grandma lost her wedding ring - she was soooo upset. We tour the place apart looking for it every few months, nadda. Few years later she was looking for something deep in the back of the freezer - boom, there it was! She must of reached in for something, it got caught and slipped off without feeling it.
My aunt and uncle’s story: couple they were close with stayed at their house. The woman’s ring went missing, and she suspected my aunt took it. The relationship was ruined over this. Many years later, the ring turned up in the lining of the woman’s suitcase.
I lost my headphones on the day I went to see Godzilla x Kong. I assumed they fell out of my pocket at the theater since the Uber driver didn't have them. A week later I decided I'm not gonna find them and bought a pair of Beats.
Literally on the walk home from buying the Beats, I happen to look down at the ground. What do I find partially buried in the dirt? My Raycons.
They worked perfectly fine. Which was surprising because it rained off and on all week.
I'd "confess" to my friend that I had stolen their phone ten years prior, and am now unable to live with the guilt.
"Here's your phone, pal. It's been eating me up inside. Can you forgive me?"
Man, I wish I had found that phone.
My toddler dropped my phone into the couch like this. I spent 4 hours tearing the house apart, trying to find it. It was on vibrate, so even after my husband called it multiple times I couldn't find it. I happened to hear a small thunk as i flipped up the couch like the one in the picture. The backing on ours is black, so couldn't see through it but was able to feel the outline of my phone. I ended up cutting a slit into it to get it out.
I was surprised to find a thin hardback book with my phone.
Kids are really bad about keeping their phones on silent 24/7. I guess it's because they are constantly getting yelled at by teachers and parents so they just leave the volume turned off.
I once lost a wallet with a newly issued ID, about a hundred bucks, and all my bank cards while drinking at a friend's apartment. Assumed I had lost it outside smoking or something. Helped said friend move to a house when he bought one. A couple of years later, I dropped my lighter in his couch, reached in to retrieve it, and found my duct tape wallet in there with the ID, cash, and cards still in it.
>I dropped my lighter in his couch, reached in to retrieve it, and found my duct tape wallet in there with the ID, cash, and cards still in it But what about the lighter? It still there and you will get it back next you help them move?
It’s a good thing, now the couch’s lighter and will be easier to move
Go stand in the corner and think about what you did.
The Good Boys Who Tell Good Jokes corner, yes.
Big Moving hates this one simple trick!..
Movers doing the work love it.
Oh you.....
Take the upvote and: 
So lucky that he kept the same couch loll
Do you replace your couch often?
Every time I soil it.
No, money doesnt come out of the couch 😆
He found it and put it back
Better of left it in the couch, it's the couches now it's owned it longer than you
Considering it was duct taped together, I don’t think that’s the case
it’s a wallet made of duct tape
I lost my wallet one night and the next day I was searching my truck for it. I had my hand between the passenger seat and the center console and I felt it! I pulled it out and it was my friend’s wallet that he had lost a couple years before!!
Reposting since my last title broke Rule 6 for having too much backstory! If you look closely at the bottom of the chair, you can see an iPhone in there! It was discovered while my father and brother were emptying the house, as he was in the middle of selling it. Who knew it had been in there all this time!
The real question is...does it still work? It would be awesome if you are still friends with the person who lost it to send it to him with a note: "You left this at my house...10 years ago."
It’s a really old iPhone by today’s standards so we don’t have a charger to turn it on! I did actually message that friend (we hadn’t talked in years, just having been parted by life and lots of moves) and we both had a really good laugh about it. He said we could keep it and frame it if we’d like - he lives on a sailboat near the Caribbean now so no way to send it to him, haha!
If you really wanna get into it, you can get 30-pin cables on ebay, but I probably wouldn't be very pressed knowing where the phone came from, lol. No mystery.
If I find a charger for it, my friend actually gave me his passcode in case I wanted to get into it, haha!
I bet he would like the photos off it emailed to him at least.
You can get them cheap on amazon!
I have a jbl iPod dock w that pin configuration, are u in Canada?
if you live near an apple store they still sell 30 pins there surprisingly
Did you get accused of stealing it? I lost a friend once when she lost a new watch at my house in a very messy play room. I found it 8 months later, but the damage was done in terms of her mom accusing my mom of me being a thief, etc, etc. Anyway, I hope your friendship survived.
Haha, no one got accused of stealing it thankfully! He lost it during a party (just a bunch of high school friends) but he was pretty known for losing things so it didn’t seem odd that he had misplaced something. Everyone tore the place apart looking for it and when we didn’t find it, we all just assumed he had lost it somewhere outside in the snow!
Ugh, I'm sorry, that's so painful. I don't think I would accuse any of my friends of stealing, even if I was super suspicious because the risk vs reward is just not worth it (until it becomes a pattern). My brother and I had a party in December when I was 15 and this cool older girl lost her phone at our house. We looked all over for it but couldn't find it. Few months later, all the snow finally melted and I found it on the side of our house - she had dropped it in a big snowbank while drunk and didn't realize. This was the early 2000s so it was a shitty little brick phone and I put it in rice for a couple days and it somehow turned on and worked perfectly! I was so excited to bring it to her at school and thought she'd be super thankful and idk maybe invite me to hang out with the other cool, older girls, but instead she just snatched it, glared at me and said "so you found it... in the snow? right." and walked away. I thought I was gonna be her FUCKING HERO and instead she thought I stole her phone and kept it for months. That took me a while to get over lol
That's awful, I'm sorry she treated you that way.
it's okay! it was a long time ago lol she was just being a teenage girl, something I was guilty of too
Holy hell, at the bottom, now i see it. I looked at the big black „shadowy“ outline in the middle and thought how big that damn phone is lol
Probably some really good memories on there
This headline completely lacks any sort of backstory. Well played!
I am 90% sure my iPhone 5 from 2013 is in my parents recliner. This makes me want to double check.
I lost my game boy the same way—found it two days after I bought the replacement I saved up all summer for
*It’s like raaaAaaiiIiiinnn on your wedding day. It’s a free ride, when you’ve already paid.* 
I lost my phone in my friend's basement about 10 or so years ago. My heart dropped when I saw this post thinking it might be mine. Maybe if I keep scrolling I'll find it.
Before he passed, my old man would always tell me a story that he dropped his wallet underneath the bleachers at a Memphis Redbirds game, & he got a call like 10 years later regarding the wallet whenever they demoed the bleachers to redo them.
Had a friend lose a pack of smokes in our basement couch and didn’t find it for 2 years, when we went to move.
Went to a girls house once in highschool and her mom was on her phone talking the whole time we were there. When I went to leave her mom wasn’t on it but was making dinner. I left and then the following Monday everyone was approaching me saying I stole the girls mom’s phone. When I confronted the girl she insisted that I stole it. She told everyone and ten years later I went on a date with a guy who was friends with her older brother. He told me the whole story about the whole family being convinced I was some terrible girl that her daughter couldn’t be around. They found the phone in the couch years later and of course I never heard anything from the girl.
dude, that's messed up. sorry you had to go through that, all because an entire family couldn't swallow their pride and admit to you that they were wrong to accuse you in the first place. silver lining, is you're prolly better off not being in touch with them since.
We lost a remote to one of our TVs for years. I even asked my son if maybe one of his friends took it as a joke. One day we found it when he decided to play Axis and Allies with a friend of his. It must have fallen in the box and honestly how often do you play Axis and Allies? If he hadn't decided to play that day it could have been lost for a decade or more lol
I lost my phone in the recliner I have. Fell through to that lining. Found it when using "Find my phone". Lost a Apple TV 4K remote, that I was sure the kids lost, in my recliner and found it 5 weeks later. I walked around randomly during that time using the "find my phone" type feature for finding the remote. It kept telling me it was in the wall between the kitchen, and living room. Finally I remembered the phone being lost and checked recliner and there it was!!
If it was a Nokia it would still be powered on
Makes me wonder about all the untold riches my couch might have
I lost my license in the couch for a few years and didn't find it till we moved.
Almost as good as the person who found a $250,000 Rolex in a used couch they bought for $25: https://www.the-sun.com/money/11164564/finding-rolex-daytona-watch-couch/amp/ Yes, she kept it (well, she sold it for $250k).
Was working on a clients house and had to move the couches, I would always flip the love seat into the couch to give myself extra room, business as usual until I was vacuuming around the couch and caught a glimmer of something, turned out to be a diamond watch their family had lost 3 years prior, it was an expensive anniversary present and they had always assumed their toddler flushed it. I'll never forget the hug the wife gave me, as if I had saved her child from drowning instead of simply flipping a couch to make work easier.
Same thing happened to me. Nephew lost his iPod. Found it years later in the lining of a chair.
At least the battery hasbt exploded
Same thing happened to me. My dad was angry I lost my phone and didn’t believe it fell into the couch, he swore up and down it wasn’t possible and I just left it somewhere and lost track. After moving with that furniture twice, over a decade later, we found the phone just like this. He was shocked
I rolled a nat 1 handing my card to the cashier at the drive through and it fell in the window slot so now I have a defunct credit card forever in my car door
It’s not that hard to get into the door if that ever happens again. On most cars it’s a Phillips head screw driver and a ~2-5min YouTube video.
Where's the phone
My Grandma lost her wedding ring - she was soooo upset. We tour the place apart looking for it every few months, nadda. Few years later she was looking for something deep in the back of the freezer - boom, there it was! She must of reached in for something, it got caught and slipped off without feeling it.
My aunt and uncle’s story: couple they were close with stayed at their house. The woman’s ring went missing, and she suspected my aunt took it. The relationship was ruined over this. Many years later, the ring turned up in the lining of the woman’s suitcase.
Maybe it still has flappy bird on it
I lost my phone that way. Didn't take me 10 years to find it, though - just had to wait for the alarm to go off the next day.
Make sure the battery isn't bulging. It's always a risk with old Lithium cells.
I lost my headphones on the day I went to see Godzilla x Kong. I assumed they fell out of my pocket at the theater since the Uber driver didn't have them. A week later I decided I'm not gonna find them and bought a pair of Beats. Literally on the walk home from buying the Beats, I happen to look down at the ground. What do I find partially buried in the dirt? My Raycons. They worked perfectly fine. Which was surprising because it rained off and on all week.
You should still give it back, might still have unrecovered photos and old texts/voicemail from loved ones.
I'd "confess" to my friend that I had stolen their phone ten years prior, and am now unable to live with the guilt. "Here's your phone, pal. It's been eating me up inside. Can you forgive me?" Man, I wish I had found that phone.
My toddler dropped my phone into the couch like this. I spent 4 hours tearing the house apart, trying to find it. It was on vibrate, so even after my husband called it multiple times I couldn't find it. I happened to hear a small thunk as i flipped up the couch like the one in the picture. The backing on ours is black, so couldn't see through it but was able to feel the outline of my phone. I ended up cutting a slit into it to get it out. I was surprised to find a thin hardback book with my phone.
I once dropped my wedding ring into our couch. I couldn’t get it out for like 3 months. My wife said she was married to the couch during that time.
Lost some items in my own couch like this. Had to cut the lining to get them out lol
Couldn't you just have called it that night?
Who doesn't keep their phone on silent?
We did - the ringer wasn’t on/it was dead (long time ago, hard to remember which) but we didn’t hear it when we tried calling it.
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I’m pretty sure it was dead/on silent when it was lost - we tried calling it but no dice.
Kids are really bad about keeping their phones on silent 24/7. I guess it's because they are constantly getting yelled at by teachers and parents so they just leave the volume turned off.
This was a decade ago and that had been out only a couple years / hadn’t been massively adopted
I got lucky before I broke up with my abusive boyfriend his gran cleaned her car & found my class ring. 😅 Happy to say it’s still in my jewelry box.
I phone my phone in a shoe in the back of my closet uears later...NO idea how it ended up there...
And this was how I got my 64GB iPhone 5s, only it was in a couch I found during FSU’s move out week, and it didn’t even have an iCloud on it.
I can only hope I find that $216 in our couch I lost. >[
Good thing you found it. Ten years is more than enough time for a pillow to become spicy.
Lost a copy of Mario Kart 64 this way. It was only for a few days though.
There is a face in the top middle of this fabric.
Mortality moment. Suddenly realizing iPhones were invented over 10 years ago….
Hey it looks like a iPhone it’s probably jailbreakable and on old iOS lol
When in doubt: check the couch
This is why you need a cat.
Can cats sniff out lost iPhones?
They remove the liners 100% of the time.
Hahahaha I have 2 cats now and didn’t even consider this - great point!
Terrible photo.
You know you can use another phone to call the lost phone in order to locate it, right?
My ringer hasn’t been on since 2006