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One thing that helps me when putting things away is asking myself “where would I look for this?” instead of “where should this go?”
Sometimes I’m like “This is the perfect and logical place to put this item, this is where the item can live from now on.” and then it’s gone.
Turns out the correct spot was “on the table with everything else”
This is so relatable
I don’t even evaluate the random spots where I leave things, I just somehow honestly believe I’ll remember even though this completely contradicts a lifetime of actual experience.
Oh, wow. Yep. Never really considered others have the same unhappy annoyance.
“I’ll just put this over here, just for now at least, and I’ll remember that I moved it.” …while hoping that forgetting doesn’t happen and knowing that it probably will.
Worse if it goes into one of those things that gets moved again and consolidated and moved again.
Yeah you have to always store things in the same exact place every time, or they’ll get lost. Despite being well aware of this fact, I still make the same stupid mistake every single day. Drives me insane.
Agreed. Habits are good to have when it comes to some things, for instance putting your car keys in the exact same place every time. I absolutely have to do this. My SO is the exact opposite and puts her phone down, keys, payment card, whatever in random places and constantly has to look for them. Drives me absolutely nuts and she refuses to see it as a problem despite lost cards and having to turn around and come home because missing pocketbook and driver’s license and the like. Ah well, nothing to be done.
My mother has pretty heavy OCD, and she absolutely has to have everything at the exact same place every time. If we misplaced something as kids, she would flip out, that pretty much burned into my brain and now I have to have everything at the exact same place as well. But on the plus side, I almost never lose something.
I was looking for my drill driver the other day and I distinctly remember myself thinking “good luck finding this future me, you asshole.” It was in the back of my wife’s car for some reason.
The effect I’ve noticed is that after searching in vain for some important object, when I finally give up and decide to go get a new one or make do with something else, within a second or two of making that decision I’ll look across the room and look right at the lost thing. This happens so amazingly often, to me it’s just normal. My theory is that part of my mind knows where the thing is but withholds the information because it’s being entertained by the search. Then when I resolve to do something different it means the game is over, so it lets the information come forward. But I’m not a brain scientist.
I wish I had this power. I will often lose things as I’m holding them in my hand, only to find them 2 to 3 moves later after it’s been years (if I ever find them again). To this day I still don’t know where my 1st Gen Pokémon cards or my copy of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 for GameCube are… :(
I always end up checking the fridge, just on the off-chance I left it in there while getting food.
This has been the case, more than once.
Recently, my mom and I looked EVERYWHERE for her favorite cane, and couldn’t find it. We took a break to clean up the kitchen, and I opened the fridge to put stuff away, and found her cane hanging from the high shelf on the door. She’d hung it there when she needed both hands to shift stuff around.
Also, the TV remote, multiple times.
Also, that’s a good way to remember to take your lunch to work in the morning. Get it ready the night before, and put it in the fridge with your car keys on it. The next morning, when you can’t find your keys, you’ll eventually remember that you put them in the fridge with your lunch.
I put my car keys on anything I don’t want to forget; one of the best pieces of advice I’ve learned. Can’t leave the house without them, and it immediately triggers my memory of where they are because I never put them anywhere else without purpose
The opposite also happens to me frequently, I distinctly remember storing it somewhere really smart, so I wouldn’t lose it. If only I could remember where…
Worst case of this was traveling solo and finding this really cool hidden pocket in my backpack that fit my passport exactly.
Two weeks later, I was certain I found a great place for it and nearly missed my plane looking for it.
Me, yesterday: “I shouldn’t put that booklet with the discounts to show at the checkout in the back pocket of my jeans, it’ll fall out and I’ll be in trouble.”
Me: do it anyway.
Me, at the checkout: “Fuck, I lost the booklet”
Fuck, I did this with a DisplayPort cable a few months ago and I have zero fucking clue where it ended up. I had to resort to HDMI for my new ultrawide, and because HDMI is lame, it only supports 1440p@100Hz. DisplayPort supports 1440p@180Hz.
After looking in all the regular places and not finding it anywhere, I just ordered another cable.
Love how the HDMI forum restricts it on Linux so you can’t use its full bandwidth
Fucking stupid.
Fucking proprietary capitalist standards.
I did this with a remote.
Immediately found the old one the day the new one arrived. In the same place I’d been looking for weeks…
In my house, the tagline is “I put it in a safe place.”
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This… holy shit this.
I hate how accurate this is
I always think “it wasn’t a good idea to leave it there”. Two days later I remember thinking that I left it somewhere I thought it wasn’t a good idea so I can automatically dismiss the places I usually leave things.
Or that you stashed it deliberately at “the proper place to find it easily”. The result is the same.
This is me. I know I placed it somewhere that I Wouldn’t forget… But I dont remember where…
Not me! If put something in the proper place it is so out of the ordinary that I’m waiting to need it again.
Then after you give up and get a replacement, you get the same thought to put it somewhere and now you have n + 1 of the item. Rinse and repeat.
The most powerful banishing spell is “let me just put this somewhere I know I’ll remember it”
The most powerful summoning spell is purchasing its replacement
That’s why I don’t keep a lot of stuff.
Otherwise, I could never stop buying new stuff.
