Forget me not your joking

[weecalf]

Do any of the good people on AB have an hint or little thing they do to remember things .I know we should concentrate when we do thing we will remember them .Instance I leave house 10 minutes up road I think did I lock door .Two minutes later Ive convinced my self the door is not locked so wander back and its locked .Have actually missed the bus by returning to locked door .

[Hopkirk]

Sometimes in the shower I can't remember if I have just shampooed my hair.

[Psybbo]

When J'm doing it i.e locking the door I try to visualise it so it sticks in my mind then I wonder, was that yesterday

[RevArkwright]

When I lock my car I have a routine. I check the boot, check the windows and doors on passenger side. Check the drivers side windows and doors.

Wait till the red alarm light comes on , then, tap the window and say, "window, door, light on, all locked. "

I cannot leave the car without this discipline. My partner goes mad.

[weecalf]

sibton agree if it something you do every day the time goes so fast it was probally yesterdays action you remember .Is it just consentrating on what we do ?

[Tilly2]

I read somewhere that if you have something that you worry about then you should vocalise it when you doit. So if you say out loud 'I have locked the door, turned the iron off, let the dogs in' etc, etc, then it helps you to remember that you've done it.

Sometimes I forget to say, 'I've paid my credit card bill.' I then drive myself potty looking for receipts.

[Tilly2]

................last week I left my door and car keys on the outside of the door.
I was going mad the next day looking for them. Anyone could have come in, stolen all our wordly goods and taken them away in the car!

[askyourgran]

Sometimes a delivery man is due to call when I have to go out, so I am supposed to leave the porch door unlocked for him to leave the parcel there. I quite often forget and lock the doors. So now I leave the keys hidden in the porch so I can't lock the door when I know he's due.

[Tilly2]

................and murdered us in our bed!

[weecalf]

Heard of this before Tilly but then how do you remember to say it or if you said it after each action it would get to be a habit so you would not realize you were saying it hence it would not work

[craft1948]

I once missed a meeting as I made the taxi driver turn round to take me home to check I hadn't left the iron on................I missed the train!

[Tilly2]

Perhaps you have to be really emphatic each time you say it. 'I HAVE turned the gas off!'

[askyourgran]

Every time I go on holiday, usually just boarding the plane I convince myself I've left a window open, knocked a gas tap on, not locked the front door.....etc etc..get myself into a quiet state of frenzy.omg omg....

[Marijn]

I'm glad I'm not the only forgetful one :-)

[carrot99]

my dad is the only one out of four of us who takes sugar in his tea - even with the sugar jar in my hand I can't remember if I have put a spoonful in his mug or not...nine times out of ten I have to have a little taste.

[commoner]

lol..I just rely on mrs comm..she really is infallible...Truly infallible...He he!

[askyourgran]

Lol carrot so do I. Mrask takes sugar and by the time I've carried it to the table I can't remember which hand it's in, I have to taste to make sure

[carrot99]

I've sorted that aygran, I always use particular mugs for both my mum and dad...