Speaking personally, I treat them like the expensive items that they are. They are in my ears, or they are in their case, full stop. Oh, I sometimes think I'll

Speaking personally, I treat them like the expensive items that they are. They are in my ears, or they are in their case, full stop. Oh, I sometimes think I'll just stick them in my pocket, I won't forget. "Eh, that's how shit gets lost; stick 'em in the case." I also still have the same pair of Oakelys I bought fifteen years ago. But I understand not everyone is so regimented (my wife, for instance), so I'm sure more than a few have made a trip through the wash. My wife lost hers for a while, so I used credit card points to buy a new pair. She then, of course, promptly found her prior pair and now she has two.