You know those white net bags meant for washing lingerie or sweaters? When I travel with a duffel bag, I put each outfit for each day in separate laundry bags. No more rooting around tearing apart my luggage searching for that one shirt.
When I go away for a weekend, I clean out the cat’s litter boxes. Then I put them away in a closet under the steps where the cats can’t get to them. I take multiple low cardboard boxes–the short ones that hold two 12-packs of beer together as a case are perfect–and fill the with litter and put them in place.
When I come home, the dirty cardboard boxes go right in the trash, and I pull out the clean litter boxes. When you’re tired from travel, that’s much nicer than coming home to scoop and scrub. I’m lucky my cats are cool with this arrangement though…some might freak out at the loss of their actual boxes. I think the trick is putting down 6 or 7 cardboard boxes instead of the usual three boxes. My cats are all like omg so many places to poop! It’s an exciting novelty for them.
My uncle kept a key under his seat and a key in his pocket. He’d unlock his door and put the key back in his pocket and drive the car with the key that’s under his seat. When he got where he was going he’d take the key out of the ignition and put it back under his seat, lock the doors and walk away.
Followed properly, it’s virtually impossible to lock your keys in your car because you always have a key in your pocket. Of course it’s becoming more and more moot with cars having smart keys. I put my smart key in my pocket in the morning and take it out at night. My biggest fear is accidentally taking it out of my pocket at work and getting screwed that way, but I have a spare key for work hidden on the property, and I’ve been really good about not doing that.
That reminds me of the dorms we had at school that only used bolt type locks to lock the doors. So if a door was locked either someone was inside the room or a key was outside the room. Short of losing your keys or leaving them somewhere, the only way people regularly got locked out was going to the showers and finding out their roommate locked the door when they left for class. You learned real quick to always have your keys on you when you left walked out.
Sheep love leftover popcorn, klinkers and all. We just got in the habit of taking it out in an old coffee can, and shaking it so it rattled. Shep get out of the pen, no chasing them, get out the popcorn can, pop some or get some leftover go out and shake the can, sheep come trotting back
We give the cats hairball and teeth cleaning treats at the 5 am alarm and at bedtime. They come trotting when they hear the alarm going off, and as I use my smartphone as my alarm clock I always have the sound with me. They get out of the house, go to the front door and trigger the alarm, cats come back:p It is also great for when we need to medicate - give them the meds and then give them their treats.
I have acheap hospital table, I got a drawerfrom a RV supply company and mounted it on the hospital table. I now have a place to keep pens, hair ties, notepads, lip moisturizer or anything small like that I would need in bed. Now they don’t get scattered, I use something and put it back in the drawer.
When I go to a movie, the first thing I do as I stand up at the end of the movie is check my pockets to make sure my wallet, keys, and phone are still there. Because it would be really annoying to find out they had fallen out of my pocket after I left the theater and was back at my car. Even if they let you back in the theater without charging you, you still have to figure out which seat you were in.
If you do errands at lunch and come back to the office with stuff you want to take home with you, put your keys in the bag with the stuff, especially if it’s stuff you stash in the refrigerator at work. That way you never get home and realize you left the milk and eggs you picked up at lunch in the fridge at work.
It works at home, too. If you’re heading over to someone’s house later, and have to remember that plate of deviled eggs you made earlier in the day, or that sweater you borrowed last week and want to return, just throw your keys on it. Then when you go to look for keys and they aren’t in the normal place, you’ll also remember the deviled eggs/sweater/whatever.
I wear glasses, but I can do most things without them. I really only need to wear them when I leave the house. I definitely can get dressed and put on my shoes before putting on my glasses, so there is the possibility that I could accidentally crush them.
More for the woodwrorkers here but I came up with a simple Jig for making 4 point splices as you might see on a pool cue. It allws me to use my tablesaw instead of a router. I built a simple ramp at the desired angle I then cut the ramp in half rolling the right side back on top of the existing ramp and glued it in place. This gave me the compound angle I need to just feed my stock through.
For some of us, waking up is almost synonymous with putting on our glasses. If I’m putting on shoes, I’m going somewhere, and there’s no way I did everything I needed to do sans glasses.
When I was in college there were 7 people (plus a lot of visitors) in the apartment style, smoking allowed, dorms. For some reason, even with 7 people lighters were scarce. I finally took a lighter and tied it with a piece of string to something in the kitchen and took another one and tied it to a lamp in the living/common room and made a rule “No one is allowed to remove the lighters, not for any reason, not even if it’s ‘just for tonight’ and you’ll put it back in the morning, not ever etc…” Somehow, other then replacing them a few times because they were empty, they managed to stay up all year, through drunken parties, card games, movie nights, everything and the strings were only about 12 inches, it wasn’t very convenient, but I did get a lot of compliments from visitors. It worked really well.
This is a good idea. Gmail also reminds you if you’ve used the word “attached” within the body of your email, but forget to attach it.
Mine:
On Google Plus, I’ve created a special community where I am the sole member. I use a Chrome extension that allows me to share anything on the web with Google Plus directly from my browser. This means that anytime I want to bookmark something I can simply share it with my little private community. Having used a lot of other bookmarking services, this is my new favorite method.
I’m pretty good about drinking water now, but I used to hate it. Started adding a teeny bit of orange juice to my water and it became infinitely easier to tolerate. Now, plain water is my primary drink of choice, but back in the day my little oj trick kept me hydrated without the yuk factor. Oh, drinking distilled water also helped me acquire a taste for it, too.
At work: If you are facilitating a teleconference, control the roll call by calling out each attendee’s name and let them respond. Nothing worse than someone saying “OK, who’s on the phone?” and then dealing with a time-wasting scrum of people talking over each other.
At home: If you park your car in a garage, hang a tennis ball from a string attached to the ceiling, so that it bumps the windshield when you are far enough in the garage. This will prevent the door coming down on the back of your car or bumper if you misjudge.
I do that (whenever I live in a home with a lock that works that way) and I always do this when locking my car. The essential key ingredient is that you have to make it a mindless habit that you will always automatically do without ever having to think about it. At first, this takes practice to establish.
When I started this, I played this game: Whenever I parked my car and got out, I tried to remember to lock the door with the key. At first, for several weeks, I often forgot and locked it without using the key. But I reliably always caught myself in this mistake at some point during or just after the process.
Every time that happened, I required myself to re-play the scenario. I opened the door again, got into the car and sat down, put the key in the ignition (although I didn’t actually start the engine), then re-enacted the whole debarking script de novo. It didn’t take long before I developed a well-entrenched habit of locking the door with the key every time.
In addition, I carry two separate keyrings, one in my left pocket and one in the right, with car and house keys.
