Not pills, but my wife usually prepares a lunch for me to take to work, and for a long time I kept forgetting it on the way out the door. So lately I’ve been putting my wallet in the refrigerator the night before, on top of the lunch box.
Nothin’ better than cold cash, Koxinga. And a reminder that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
I know people who do that with their car keys.
My parents are on a lot of meds and supplements, both of them. Enough that they’d probably need a couple pill boxes each if they were to go that route. Instead they just set the bottles down on the counter when they take the pm dose, and put them back in the cabinet when they take the am dose.
I have a morning pill box and an evening pill box. It’s the only way I can be sure I’ve taken everything.
My folks use a mail order service that bundles their pills in packets on a long roll ( like a roll of stamps). Each packet comes out in order with day and time (morning, night etc) printed on it. They just pull the roll, take what’s in the packet and check the box for the next one. Very helpful!
My wife occasionally grumbles about how many different medications she is taking and wonders if she forgot one. That’s when I calmly start saying “You know, they make this nice plastic box with little compartments for …”
Then she goes: :rolleyes:
For my wife, pill boxes are accessories for … older people.
Some day she may give in, but I imagine that she isn’t the only person who resists.
Umm set daily repeating alarms on your cell phone?
Alarm goes off, take pill.
Lather, rinse, repeat
Some people don’t live “Lather, rinse, repeat” lives. Some days I get up at 9am, some days I get up at 4pm. What if the alarm goes off when I’m in the shower, taking out the trash, or listening to my headphones? What if I have my phone off because I’m at work? What if I don’t have a cellphone?
I feel I should mention that I only take 3 pills a day - and two of them are temporary. It’s only the (supposedly) minor Hay fever stuff that I’ll be taking daily for the rest of my freaking life. Damn living in the grass/ olive/ pine/ fruit bowl of New Zealand.
My parents do something like CrazyCatLady, but they take buckets of the damned things every morning. My Dad showed me one morning and there were twelve pills he had to take with breakfast!
My nearest aunt spends Sunday afternoon sorting meds for herself and her husband into their little boxes (a grid, times of day X days of the week).
I don’t use an alarm, I use a timed reminder - it goes off in the evening (about dinnertime, cause said meds should be taken with food) and stays up on my phone till I dismiss it (once I have taken them). I always keep my phone with me, and this process has worked for years without a miss.
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So not only don’t you have lunch, but you also don’t have any money to buy one 
well if you have pills that are supposed to be taken every 4,6, or 12 hours getting up at 9 one day and 4pm the next is going to fuck that schedule all to hell. Shower, trash or headphones? Well you will take them as soon as possible or when you hear the alarm. Duh.
Leave you phone on at work set to vibrate.
No cellphone? Seriously?
Keep going I’m sure you can come up with a half dozen more bullshit excuses why it won’t work.
In the meantime I have two alarms set on my phone one in the AM and one in PM.
Works like a fucking champ.
vv, I’ve done this time after time after time. So, what I do now is, sit in my darn driveway until I actually see the door shut. It’s the only way I have figured out how not to have to do the drive around the block thing.
There’s an app for that.
No, really. I use one called RxmindMe, which is really cool, free, and (so far) ad-free.
I remember one horrible day at work where I spent the whole day trying to call the two neighbors I knew the phone numbers for to ask them if I’d left my garage door open. I just had this awful nagging thought that I’d left it up that morning. Never got ahold of either of them. It was down when I got home so all that worry was for nothing.
Apparently not, because you forgot to take your chill pill today.
I have two pill boxes, one for morning and one for evening pills. They each have 28 compartments (designed for pills four times daily) but I fill them every 28 days. Originally, I took a load of pills but all on waking and had one box. And really never missed. Then I acquired two pills that I had to take also at dinner time and got a second box. That doesn’t work when I eat out and so I have a tiny one that I put about 3 each of the two evening pills and carry in my pocket. I forget the evening pills maybe once a month, no matter what I do. Still, it mostly works and I never have to wonder if I missed taking my pills since the box will tell me. I do fill them very carefully, but that is once every four weeks and I can pay close attention.
I use a couple of 7-day boxes, yellow for morning and blue for evening. It’s a pain loading it, but works fine.
My MIL, on the other hand, has so many pills on so many schedules that boxes wouldn’t work well. She serves out several weeks at a time into small zipper bags, with each day held together with a paper clip. I’ve been over there while she was doing it - scary!
When I was a teen our family lived next door to an elderly couple who would oftentimes enlist me to “dogsit” their EXTREMELY skittish and needy Weimaraner who honestly could not be left alone. One day for whatever reason I was opening their kitchen drawers to look for something innocuous like a pen or a napkin or a band-aid or something and one drawer was FULL of prescription bottles. Maybe like 30-40 between them. I stood there gaping for a good 20 seconds. How could ANYONE possibly keep track of that? You would need like some sort of elaborate Excel spreadsheet, and this was 15 years before that would be invented even!