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Take a vacuum with a hose and put a pantyhose leg over the tube so that the end has a "web" of hose over it. Vacuum your floor, and any/all bits will magically be stuck on the end of the hose where you can retrieve them easily.

http://www.instructables.com/id/25-Unique-Uses-for-Pantyhose/step4/Vacuum-Find-Lost-Objects/

Here are better instructions, but it really works.

The pantyhose over the vacuum is a brilliant idea. Wish I'd thought of it before I spent time sifting through a dusty vacuum bag. As far as the bits catching apron goes, I'm not sure it would help me most of the time. I tend to work like an ork mek. There's a lot of cursing and stuff flies all over the place. Incidentally, I think a lot of us are way past looking like a dork...

Just a PSA:

If you put a stocking over the end of the vacuum cleaner, the item you are searching for will be vacuumed up, but caught by the stocking.

I shudder to think what other things you boys are doing with a sock and a vacuum cleaner.

I shudder to think what other things you boys are doing with a sock and a vacuum cleaner.

That is not germane to the conversation, thank you very much! Besides, it's none of your business.

Once took a shiv to the belly of my cat... the piece had super glue on it and was stuck to his fur, had to cut some off to get it back.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:Once took a shiv to the belly of my cat... the piece had super glue on it and was stuck to his fur, had to cut some off to get it back.

That did not go where I thought it was going.

d-usa wrote:My number 1 tip to anybody that has any say over this:

Make sure your hobby room has no carpet. I have no idea how many pieces are lost forever in that thing.

Doesn't always help. At one point I dropped a Kaya the Moonhunter model I was working on onto a wooden floor, and her staff and hand vanished from the universe. I went over every square inch of the floor, and found nothing. Had to order replacements eventually.

Later on, I dropped a druid and his head somehow ended up by the front door. I couldn't do it again if I tried, but somehow the head flew ten feet through the dining room door, bounced off the opposite wall of the hallway at a 90 degree angle and travelled about ten feet further down the hallway.

Losing a magnetised part is just horrible.
It was the shoulder 'axle' from a Wraithlord, with magnets on both ends.
I found it was missing when I went to undercoat it in the garage, and there's a lot of metal in there. I tried emtpying the contents of the garage onto the drive, but I still can't find it :(
I had to magnetise a length of sprue to do the job.