If you are putting something in a special place, SAY IT OUT LOUD while you are still looking at it. “I’m putting the screwdriver on this shelf.”

You’ll still forget but you’ll feel extra dumb when you finally find it again.

“I put it somewhere so I wouldn’t lose it” is a thought that runs through my head at least once a week.

I have this shitty ability that I remember better about where other people left something than where I left what I had in my hands.

Protip: when you’re looking for something and you find it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it in the first place you looked.

I am absolutely horrible for this.

Years ago senior week was rolling around and my parents were going on vacation. They left the day before I did. I had packed up the clothing I needed cleaned out my truck I was ready to go.

The next morning I woke up and looked for my keys, they were gone. I just had them the prior day and I knew that I had put them somewhere where I couldn’t possibly forget and lose them. I specifically remembered doing that, but as I kept looking and they kept not showing up, I expected that I dreamed it. So I went from looking places that I might have put them to retracing my steps for where I probably put them. Hours and hours later, it was still no good. It was infuriating. I was supposed to be at the beach by now. I went ahead and went to bed that night.

The next morning I woke up determined to find the keys. I did a systematic sweep of the vehicle and then started inside and went counterclockwise through every room looking in every nook and cranny. After going through every area in the house that I had been in for the past 48 hours they still didn’t show up.

Now I’m looking in drawers and cabinets where I didn’t go. I had torn through my room topped to bottom left to right front to back. I decided I was going to go back out and check the truck again, But it was just starting to rain outside, so I put my shoes on. Right there in the toe of my right shoe or my car keys. I can’t possibly lose my keys if they’re in my shoes it’s not like I would go to the beach without my shoes on. It just didn’t occur to me too go quite that far while I was looking for them.

This is how I lost 30% of my possessions moving house.

There’s nothing quite like buying a new one of some lost thing and upon deciding on the perfect place to keep it, finding the original…

edit: bonus ADD points if you find two originals there

Where the fuck did I put my glasses? Lemme just put on these glasses to look for them.

Oh, right.

with Ritalin, this graph adds like a 25% section of remembered

It’s a hammer and It’s always on top of the ladder I’m about to move.

I’ll put it here (in this special place I never put anything) so I’ll remember it.

It’s a LIE and I fall for it every time!

I put it in a secret place to hide it from people so that no one can find it because it’s important … but I forgot where.

The next person to own my house will probably find seven or eight keys I’ve forgotten about hidden around the property … funny part is, I’ve found a couple of strange old keys hidden in boards and siding during my renovations.

For me there is also a tiny sliver that is "I am currently holding it but somehow got distracted to that fact and havent realized it yet

My chart needs one more option taking up half while the other two occupy a quarter.

“The last place I used it” is the answer usually around half the time.

I compare living with adhd like having a crazy roommate with boundary issues. Looking for my shit like Sherlock trying ya figure out what the fuck was going thru their mind when they put my keys on top of the grandfather clock smdh