If you love your fitbit and lose it

I am just a little jealous of all the people posting their steps in all my social media feeds.

I’m counting with you, but mine are getting counted a little more manually right now.

Like the 10 steps I just took while standing at my computer, I’m totally writing down. On paper. Maybe I’ll remember to count a couple hundred steps today and maybe I’ll post my hand-written count so I can fit in.  Or maybe I’ll just keep posting this one screenshot from a good day ages ago:

Because I’ve now lost three Fitbits since I got one for my birthday last year so Santa refused to get me another one.

And before you go feeling all sorry for me, the 2nd time I lost my Fitbit, the lovely people at Fitbit even sent me another one to replace it.

I am just Fitbit hopeless.

But every so often, they turn up.  I even found one in the pocket of a jacket I brought to Denmark this past spring.

SO if you have lost yours, and you think all hope is lost, this is how I would look for it because this is what I’m doing now:

• While my fitbit still might have a chance of having a battery signal, I try and sync my phone with the the fitbit. I do this in a few rooms in the house and usually I can narrow down where it might be. If I don’t get a signal in the house then I try syncing in my car and I’ve found my fitbit on the floor of the car this way a few times.  I wish I’d attached this new Tile thing the hubby found to my fitbit the last time I saw it.  I haven’t lost anything we’ve attached the Tiles to yet, but apparently they will help us find the things I lose.  It’s only a matter of time and then I’ll update you on if it really works.
• If I know when I lost my fitbit, I retrace my steps. One time I found me fitbit outside my kid’s school the next day and I often find it between my car and any place we’ve stopped if I haven’t attached it properly to my clothes.
• I check the pockets of the clothes I was wearing and the laundry and my purses.  I have found my fitbit in the laundry many many times.  And often I’ve found it in a purse that I might have worn to workout or to an event where I don’t want people seeing my fitbit and I’ve stashed it away.
• This info on fitbit’s site is totally helpful too.  And when they say to ask for help, they seriously mean it.
• And then I wait because sometimes trying to find it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.  I think mine may turn up again.  I last saw one of the three in mid-December, so its battery has probably died.  It’s likely just waiting for me to do a little spring cleaning, and I’ll find it.  And when I do I’m going to get myself a trophy from Tory Burch to keep it in and celebrate.

Did you recently get a Fitbit?  Have you lost your too?  And if you have, where’s the farthest place from home you’ve found your Fitbit?  Or maybe you might have a tip for me on where I can find my Fitbit.  Thanks!

Terumi

Terumi Pong is a Seattle-based family travel writer and mom of twin teenage boys.  She loves coffee and pastries, shopping local and looking for greener ways to live.  She is also known as Scout’s mom (Scout is a 5ish pound little black yorkie-poo)