Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for October 11, 2024

Maybe you should write yourself a memo on your phone, if you haven’t lost that too.

I usually try to put a thing where I can find it. Problem is, I have too many things and too few places so the piles grow.

I once threaded a padlock through its key so they wouldn’t become separated. It worked.

MIL lost a good earring so we put the other one in a safe place. When we moved years later, still couldn’t find it.

Me too

Now where did I put my list of hiding places?

Now he’s losing his mind.

Yep. I can’t agree more. Somehow that safe place keeps moving or losing my items. I haven’t figured out which yet, but it can’t be MY fault.

I had a tablet with a detachable keyboard. I put the keyboard in a “safe” place. 2 years later, I finally found it on a lower shelf that was out of the way and “safe”!!

Consider the Closet Law of Life:

The amount of stuff you find necessary to life will expand to to fill all the closets you create.

Example: Nearly half of the homes on my street cannot put a car in their double garage. They also have a stuffed garden shed.

This is why I have three sets of birth certificates! I kept putting them someplace safe, and then couldn’t find them. It’s better now, since I have reached the saturation point.

As long as circumstances don’t come about where someone else decides what you need, and does you the "favor of dumping stuff they don’t think you need.

I was ratting around in the basement one spring looking for something and found one of the Christmas presents for my wife that I had hidden.

Moderately methodical.

This is me EXACTLY! “Oh,I’ll remember where I put this” & next thing you know said item is MIA!

As for paperwork: the most important stuff is in the lower right hand drawer at my desk. I remove the 10-year-old tax return when I file the new one.

I hate it when my wife puts something of mine back where it belongs.

I misplace things. Sometimes. OK, often. Anyway, in my shop if it’s a small hand tool or some such, and if I can’t find it in a reasonable time, I’ll just get another. Once I have the new one and use it, I look for a place where I can find it in the future. And put it there. Right next to the old one. [Heavy sigh}

I used to have that problem, now I look for it in the “safe”.

Been there, done that.