I lost my mobile at the weekend
It's not a terribly expensive one, I've recently copied all of my photos into a safekeeping folder on my laptop, and what files were left on the phone weren't too embarrassing or irreplaceable.

So after the initial kicking myself for being so damn stupid (lost it whilst still hanging around at our local at gone 6am, strangely drunk after a party we kicked off about 12 hours previously) I tried to be chilled. As people have pointed out this very week on this very board, it's just possessions, right? It's a shame, but it's happened, and really I was very lucky with the limited extent of damage, so how to deal with it should be the new focus.

...the thing is, that's where I got seriously mired. I've had the same number almost since I first got a mobile and I have numbers on there for people I would now have no other way of contacting. And them me. A hell of a lot of my friendships are the enduring kind, you know the ones, you don't speak for months, sometimes years, but then you do and it's like you spoke last week :)
Sure, I've backed those numbers up before but how often do you really need it? how often does it consequently occur to you to do? My last backup is woefully out of date now, and that's assuming I could even find the little gadget they're on- we've moved long since!

What I had lost wasn't 'just stuff' it was a tool, and right or wrong it was a really important one to me. I was so sad to have lost a phone I was comfortable with, it did the job and we worked well together, but the biggest loss was a phone book I barely even thought about until I needed to call on it. Hardly even then.

Two days later someone texted my boyfriend and my mate's numbers saying they had the phone and would be dropping it off at the pub for collection that night.
You can laugh at me for feeling like bursting into tears of sheer unadulterated joy, in the middle of a food court, at the return of possession most people trade like comments on the weather, but I wont give a flying fuck.

I have my phone back :)
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 15:53, 4 replies)

Lost numbers etc
I did the same and was worried about my old number more than anything. However the phoneshop simply transferred my number over to a new Sim and you can look through old phone bills for numbers that you have used.
(loopy1978, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 17:01, closed)

That's not the loss of a thing
If you only store the numbers on a phone, that's the loss of people. You can't buy more people (well, you can, but they're probably of poorer quality and made in Taiwan or something). Crying is thus permitted.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 17:24, closed)

this is why
i always write numbers down. yes, i have them stored in my phone, but i'm distrustful of most modern technology.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 18:34, closed)

very glad you got your stuff back hun
it seems a bit obsessive to back things up every week but when you lose something and realise- aw shit, that had stuff on I've been doing for 6 months and I have no copy... a cautionary tale.

See you Sunday Ms :-)
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 20 Aug 2008, 20:34, closed)