How not to lose things

Congratulations. You are on your way to wealth: phones, iPads, umbrellas and cashmere coats. And to additional holidays - the time that would have been spent on restoring documents.

Of course, if you used to lose them and looked at this article not out of sheer curiosity. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the Living for Dummies series.

Don’t lose your head

I have lost rights three times in the last year. Also lost:

• Passport and registration certificate
• Countless Charges
• Concert tickets
• Money and credit cards
• Wacom Tablet
• Once on a trip, I completely lost my suitcase. And he explained to the border guards why I make a trip of 10,000 km with luggage in the form of a laptop and one sock - that’s all that remains.
• More than once I lost cars : I forgot that I arrived by car and was returning home by metro. So that after a day or two, go out and be surprised that there is no car in front of the house.

Why is that? Genes: as one guy in kament says , this is genetics. Normal people put things in, not concentrating on what they are doing, and remember. Others, like me, lay and do not remember. On my own I’ll assume that someone remembers more often, someone less often.

The classic method is to fuck the brain

In childhood, they learn to tie shoelaces to the mass of Pluto, but when it comes to the simplest, the boundary of knowledge comes. And there are reproaches: “You have to be careful,” say the older and supposedly more intelligent. But as? Where to strain?

Finish with the classic method.

Normal people vs. hardcore

What I write further may seem to you too much. Like in the Memento movie , where the hero made tattoos with background information: he woke up and read.

Take for yourself only what you see fit.

Everything is in its place

To begin, let's look at more or less normal methods: everything has its place. Put the keys on the same shelf.

There can be two or more such places. I either have a special pocket in my bag or a tray on the bar counter. If neither there nor there is bad news.

Wasserman Vest 2.0

In order not to rummage through my pockets, I have distributed jeans pockets by function. To make you feel better, I took a photo from the Miss Sixty catalog:

If there are only two pockets, the functions of the rear and front merge.

^{If everything is folded into the pockets of some narrow jeans, the bow is only a little less fashionable than the Wasserman vest .}

Now!

As soon as I saw that the wallet was on the table, I removed it immediately. And not in the hope that I will not forget later. Forget it!

^{Thanks for this advice to Alina from TimeAngel - she put together a selection on my behalf.}

Lists

It is one thing not to lose what is already in the hands. And the other thing is not to forget anything at the moment when you leave.

At first I used lists. They look like morons, I know. Here is an example of one From Home :

• The keys
• Some money
• Telephone
• Documents for the car
• Car key
• Wallet
• discount cards
• Headphones
• Moleskin and pen

Here are some more of my listings.

Now I use travel lists. There are separate travel lists:

• for a few days
• for a week
• into two
• for a month
• on three

There are travel for good in all climatic zones.

My travel list is complete in all climates

How not to forget to look at the list

After all, you can forget to look at the list? Then is it easier to learn not to forget anything?

Not true. This is not difficult. You do not need to remember each of the things for each of the situations. You need to learn how to do one thing. Don’t you forget to flush ?! (If you forget, write about it in the comments).

Unusual things

How not to lose something unusual? An umbrella, a cheap ski, a hedgehog or a stolen bride?

You need to put them very uncomfortable.

• Hang the umbrella not on the back of the chair, but somewhere where it constantly interferes.
• Put your shopping bags on your knees in a taxi.
• Are you going to throw out the trash? Cover the door with a bag.

Once I was sent on a business trip to Singapore. There was only one request - to take a present from my grandmother for the children of the boss. She collected dolls, Russian books and other cute things. They had to be picked up in the suburbs, and over time I did not calculate. Having promised the taxi driver two counters, at the cost of heroic efforts and titanic nervous tension, I managed to get to the parcel and to the plane. Of course, the gift was left in a taxi. Forever and ever. Guess if I saved the job?

^{Used photo from dollplanet.ru}

How not to lose while carrying

To do this, you need to tell yourself: I carry a clothespin to the balcony, and then I will return for a screwdriver. So says the above kament. Checked, works. The screwdriver is not forgotten, nothing is forgotten.

Find an iPhone? For this there is MobileMe

Thanks to Find my iPhone, I always know where my phone is. For example, right now he is here:

I have no idea who, but the operative and I do not lose hope.

Stickers for everything else

You can also order stickers on things. Here are mine:

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Updates
In comments, Sloot writes about another good way, visualization .
v673 writes about meditation and things , for the most part I like it.
side2k writes about the error analyzer . Gold words.