Why do you use when you lost your stylus?

[Alienfish]

I don't think I've lost mine, maybe one from back when I had my first DS Lite but then I had an extra. Sometimes I use like a finger instead to poke the screen because I forget the stylus..

 

[Holla]

Whenever that happens it's always a temperary loss. So I normally just stop what I'm doing and look around. Did the couch eat it? Is it under the bed covers? Is it in my other hand? (yeah I've done that before xD) etc.

I usually always find it in under 5mins.

 

[Loriii]

I never lost mine since I rarely use them. I'd rather use my fingers to tap things unless I'm playing a game that requires precision like Kid Icarus or a puzzle game like Professor Layton.

 

[Chiana]

I have a little pouch that I keep my 3DS in. I keep all my styluses in a pocket in the pouch. I have some there from old DS units starting with my DSi. I have some that are like large pens - one is a pen you can fit a regular stylus inside which I think came from my DSi XL. I have some poor quality, colorful ones that I got on a clear-out sale somewhere. They are not as smooth on the screen and not as solid to hold. I have one that came with an accessory kit. I have a set of some new 3DS replacement ones that I bought recently.

In all, I think I have owned about 20. After a while, they were always falling out the units, so I was always losing them. So far, the stylus stays put in the New 3DS. That has helped a little, but I still seem to have an uncanny ability to misplace several per day. I will go through a day where I have almost no styluses left and then they start turning up under sofa cushions, beside my bed, in the car etc. Once my supply is all built up, I start losing them all over again.

Of the 20 that I have owned, 5 broke. Well, in truth, I found one of the broken ones flattened in my driveway. It was safe to assume I ran over it with the car. Out of the 15 remaining styluses, I currently have 12 in the pouch, so this is a pretty good stylus day. Strange, that I have never lost one permanently.

My stylus problems are a "thing" here in the home. My family groans and rolls their eyes when I announce "I have lost all my styluses, can everyone please keep their eyes out for them?"

Two of years ago, I was convinced I had lost a couple of styluses in the forest somewhere during a camping trip. Just before I pulled off the campsite in the car, I got out for one last look. However, I tripped on a branch or something, bounced and stumbled across soft, mossy ground, and then kind of dived into a muddy, leaf-filled ditch. Unfortunately, I did not find any styluses. Not only that, but, I had to tell my family that the car keys had flown out of my hand during my escapade and I had now lost the keys, too. Fortunately, it did not take long to find the keys in the ditch. Also, the two missing styluses eventually turned up. One was under the car seat and the other was folded up in the tent bag.

Yeah...

So, styluses are a BIG issue for me.

Are you sorry you asked about them now? LOL

 

[Loveablegal]

I use a pen

 

[Mars Adept]

I use a backup stylus. If I have lost all of my styluses, I don't play on my DSs until I've found one.

 

[Javocado]

I'll use my finger if it's not precise selections I have to make. If it's say typing in the little square keyboard in ACNL, then I'll get a lead pencil without the lead out.

 

[King Dorado]

I also use the cap from a hilighter, its got a bit of pliability to it like a stylus tip or like a finger, but my fingers are too big, so the hilighter cap works pretty well

 

[Milleram]

I've never really lost my stylus for an extended period of time, but sometimes I just use my nail if I'm too lazy to pull it out.

 

[NerdHouse]

I've never lost my stylus, but I have a pack of 5 extras just in case.

 

[Saylor]

I don't think I've ever lost my stylus for more than a few minutes, but I did somehow fail to realize that the 3ds came with one until like a week after I'd gotten it, and during that time I just used my finger.

 

[Sholee]

I have too many styluses, if i were to lose one, I have 4 more to replace it.

 

[LinkToTheWorld]

I was using a Bobby pin for a while as my fingers just seem enormous when trying to type a message to anybody, finally replaced my stylus only 4 weeks ago and it's already disappeared....

 

[TykiButterfree]

I use the Dialga stylus that came with the Pok?mon Diamond preorder. I am afraid of losing it somewhere so I only use it at home. If I go anywhere I'll just use the stylus that came with the system. Thankfully it hasn't fallen out anywhere yet.

 

[Tracer]

I lost my 3DS stylus about 2 years ago- I always forget to buy another one.. So I've just been using my Wacom tablet pen whenever I need to. Otherwise I just use my finger.

 

[Nicole.]

I've used a regular pencil in the past, although it is quite damaging to the screen. So, instead I either use my finger or search for another substitution that acts similar to a stylus such as a mechanical pencil with no led inside.

 

[SugardewVillage]

I use my other stylus, but in 2013 when I got my 3DS I would just use my finger or a pencil/pen.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh and I've always found it.

 

[ceremony]

I took a stylus from an old DS

 

[Kitsey]

I lost my 3DS stylus a while back and I looked everywhere for it.. under the couch cushions, under the couch itself, under the TV stand... it seriously disappeared off the face of the earth. My old DS came with 3 or 4 replacements. So I've been using a DS Lite stylus with a 3DS XL and it feels teeny tiny.

 

[robbywow]

Just buy more

Plus I'm not the one losing them. It's my brother. Even the Wii U Gamepad stylus is now the DSI stylus.