You haven’t lived until you’ve spent a good few hours frantically searching the house for your car keys, because there’s nothing like flat out panic to get the heart pumping.

That kind of stress isn’t exactly welcome though, which is why we thought we’d give five lucky readers the chance to win a Sensor Smart Tracker.

Basic explanation of what this little gem has going for it – a low-powered Bluetooth tracker and the easy-to-use app helps locates everyday items -like your phone, keys, and wallet-in seconds.

We asked readers to send in a story of the most valuable object they’d ever lost, and as usual y’all didn’t disappoint.

Congrats to the five winners below – an email with all the deets is on the way. Now let’s see who lost what, how and why…

Natasha Johnson:

So while I was travelling South America I had a Lenovo tablet, ya know, for emails, Skype and whatnot. One day, while sitting in a Lima hostel and checking Facebook (obviously), my fingers somehow became super slippery – could’ve been the complimentary jam and toast – and in slow motion I watched my source of waste timing drop to the ground and splatter into unusable pieces. Luckily I was able to get another one and continue my forays into blogging and social media.

Cue to 4 months later. My new tablet disappeared. I managed to keep it safe while on 5 day buses across the Chilean desert, but lose it in the suburbs of Cape Town. Never to be seen again. Fast forward a year later and lo and behold! Lenovo was not lost! It was behind the seat of my sisters car… If I had me one of those Sensor Smart Trackers, well, you know… 🙂

De Wet le Grange

I am quite a klutz or a loskop when it comes to small things.  Was it not for the Find my iPhone app I would have lost even more iPhone’s, iPad’s and MacBooks.  And there are numerous examples.

The most valuable thing I’ve lost however, is time…  Sooo much time looking for misplaced keys, or remotes, or pens, or books; but mostly phones.

The worst example of this was a few years past driving back from a gentlemens’ golf tour, with a massive hangover as you would expect, and suddenly realising I don’t have my phone. The battery was dead.  The last thing on your mind after getting home from the 19th is searching for a two point plug to charge your mobile.
So we were driving home from Knysna and realising in Albertinia I don’t have a phone.  To much annoyance of the rest of the group; who also are not feeling tip top from the previous night.  Turn around, drive all the way back only to find said phone between the seat and centre console of the car all along…  The silence on the trip back was deafening. Oh, and the ridicule.

My life would massively benefit from a Sensor Smart Tracker, or five.

Mike Scott

I’m entering the competition for the Sensor Smart Tracker (was just looking at similar things like Amazon’s Tile recently).

The most valuable thing I’ve lost? My mind.

Apart from that, a pair of really nice sunglasses my dad won in a golf compo, my varsity girlfriend (though we did get back together later briefly, not sure whether the sensor would’ve helped here), uhm, a removable hard drive but someone swiped that from my desk. My virginity? Man. What else. My milk teeth.

Peace out

Adrian Phipps

Well besides losing the obligatory phone, wallet and self respect at the multitude of music festivals that we are lucky enough to be able to participate in, the most valuable thing that I have ever lost was my school blazer in Sub B (Showing my age here).

Maybe not valuable in the monetary sense, although they were quite dear back in the day, losing that blazer felt like the end of my little world, the anger and ire it produced from my parents made me feel all kinds of unworthy, having to go to school without one for the next few months did not help to make me fit in, it was like I could hear the hushed whispers “Let’s go, here comes that jersey boy again, gross”.

I might be embellishing here just a tad but that memory is burned into my adult so it must have been quite disastrous.

Denise Grobbelaar:

My most valuable things I constantly lose are my dogs. I have two Siberian Huskies that tends to run off from time to time and lead to hours of worry and frustration.

I am very interested if Digicape’s new Sensor Smart Tracker would make my life much easier?

Do you think I can give it a try by winning one of your devices?

Good job everyone, and here’s hoping the Sensor Smart Tracker can put an end to the horrors you’ve outlined above.

For this, and other awesome Apple goodies, be sure to check out Digicape.