Get ready to murder me in the comments, I lost my seed…

First off, I’m not sharing this info for any reason other than the fact that maybe someone can see that it happens and learn from my mistake.

I’m an ALGO guy, and I keep my ALGO in Pera ALGO wallet. When I opened the wallet, I took a piece of paper and wrote down the seed (duh) and held the paper up to my fiancé and said “this is a very very important document, do not throw it out” then I wrote 4 seperate excel docs on a laptop I have and saved it in different places on the laptop, which I no longer use for internet but just a glorified doc storage device that I keep on airplane mode (it was my laptop from college, so occasionally I go to it for looking at old lecture notes or something).

Well, I got a new phone and in my haste to start up my new phone, I forgot to take my time and make sure I had a copy of every wallet written down somewhere. But hey, I knew I had written down the phrases so who cares, right? Well, guess what, when I went to my important docs drawer in our house, ALGO seed phrase wasn’t there. My docs were moved to a new location during a “tidying up” but apparently anything that got thrown out by my fiancé I okayed. Nevertheless, at the current moment I haven’t found the seed phrase.

Well, fine, I’ll just use the excel files. Also, I know you’re all quietly thinking about how dumb having seed phrases on excel is but whatever, I’m not rich at all and I never talk about my assets so I find it hard to believe someone would try to break into my house to steal an old, hidden laptop and piece together 4 excel docs and I also don’t think anybody would be able to hack it from the outside since it’s been on airplane mode for 2 years. But idk, I’m not super savvy. Anyway, doesn’t matter now because when I went to get my seed phrase excel docs, the laptop wouldn’t turn on.

So it’s been about a month and I’ve been doing 2 things frantically every time my fiancé leaves the house, try to get the laptop on, and try to find that piece of paper with my seed phrase. I still have the smallest bit of hope, but I’m also growing more and more certain I’ll never open that wallet again. It had about $800 worth of ALGO in it, so it’s not like it was a huge amount, but it’s just really bumming me out.

Moral of the story, think through worst case scenarios when you write down your seed phrase. I probably should’ve foreseen the laptop kickin out at some point, and I probably should’ve foreseen my fiancé thinking that piece of paper with 25 words on it being trash.

Also, it does happen, people do lose their seed phrase, and while I definitely agree I’m an idiot, I also think it could happen to a lot of other people too.

Be safe out there y’all.

Edit: thanks for the help and suggestions yall, I am going to break into the laptop and try to recover my data.