I can relate. However for me my paranoia of losing my keys, wallet, phone has led me to become extremely ritualistic when dealing with those items. I check constantly to see that everything is in it's designated pocket, and never carry anything else in my pockets except those things. If I take those things out of my pockets at home, I have a special bowl for them in the hallway. As long as I don't deviate at all it works for me. But it only works with those items that are charged with so much frightening importance. I put all my focus those three things, but all other things like remotes I've found in the microwave. I lose meals on my way from the kitchen to the living room. I've found one such meal inside my closet (I totally forgot I put it there when I needed my hands to open a door). It truly feels like magic, you were JUST holding the thing, but then it's just ceased to excist like you say! And to make it worse I always put things in the weirdest places where I can't even imagine them being. I often find myself so perplexed by this phenomenon that I have to actually yell "how!?" out loud.