The main thing for me is putting something in a different location than usual. It doesn’t matter what it is. It could be car keys, cell phones, wallet, last working pen, check book, last working lighter, reading glasses, scissors, and so on.
My thought process goes something like this, well its only eight hours until I will need this again, surely I will remember in the morning where I’m leaving this. The only problem with this logic is that I have no short term memory to speak of. So in the morning I’m looking in my usual spot for my keys or whatever. I’m always shocked, shocked I tell you because I always keep my keys in the usual spot and now I can’t find them.
What motivated this thread is that my smoke detector was chirping at me and since I didn’t have any 9 volt batteries I wrote it down on my things to get list.
I just got some 9 volt batteries… go me. Wait, where the fuck is the smoke detector? About 45 minutes later I’m still looking for it. I decided to start this thread before I punch a hole in a wall. I’m sure I put it in a clever spot somewhere.
My good scissors (the Fiskars) that I don’t want my family using to cut paper and plastic and all the shit that has ruined every other pair I have bought. I hide them from the family, thinking I will be able to remember where I hid them, and yet, here I am wondering where the hell they are, as I am making a project with some ribbon and need a good, clean edge on it and my Fiskars are nowhere to be found
