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"Ever return from a blissful week in vacation paradise, only to have your newly-rejuvenated smile disappear again when you discover that your favorite cashmere sweater was a casualty of the plane ride? If you get all heated thinking about a flight attendant donning your best left-behind garments, don&amp;#x27;t worry--they actually end up in a much more surprising place... Someone recently wrote in to The New York Times &amp;quot;Bucks&amp;quot; column asking what happens to items that are left behind on airplanes, and writer Jennifer Sanarow Schultz discovered that lots of them end up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. &amp;quot;&amp;#x27;The vast majority of items&amp;#x27; for sale are items that &amp;#x27;after at least 90 days of intensive tracking by the airlines, are declared unclaimed,&amp;#x27; according to the store&amp;amp;#8217;s site...A spokeswoman for the store confirmed that the store does purchase items from the airlines. &amp;#x27;When it is the case that the items are not able to be successfully returned, we purchase them from the airlines after a period of time,&amp;#x27; the spokeswoman, Brenda Cantrell, wrote in an e-mail.&amp;quot; The store won&amp;#x27;t let you claim your missing item (they say the majority of goods left behind, like iPods and cameras, are impossible to distinguish between owners), but you have every right to march down to Alabama and see if you can&amp;#x27;t buy back your old Gucci sunglasses! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! There&amp;#x27;s also a charitable aspect involved: &amp;quot;The Unclaimed Baggage Center, according to Ms. Cantrell, donates about 40 percent of what it purchases from the airlines to organizations like the Lions Club International (glasses go here) and the Salvation Army, among others.&amp;quot; Pretty interesting to see where all of that stuff ends up, huh? I&amp;#x27;m a bit of a voyeur and a vintage obsessive, so I&amp;#x27;d have a field day digging through people&amp;#x27;s old stuff at Unclaimed Baggage Center! I&amp;#x27;d also give anything to get my hands on a Canon camera I lost on a trip back from Dubai about three years ago...how about you dolls? Have you ever left anything you really loved on an airplane? Did you manage to get it back? Are you surprised to see where these items end up after the Lost &amp;amp; Found? And would you want to shop at the Unclaimed Baggage Center? Discuss! PLUS: - Pack like a pro: The only 9 things you need for a city vacation - What do you wear when you travel? - What&amp;#x27;s your number one packing secret? 12 hot models share theirs More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage Follow Slaves to Fashion on Twitter! Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! FREE Beauty Stuff! Enter for your Chance to Win a New Prize Every Day! Photo: Comstock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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