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Need Help Remembering....

nana59 — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:57:41 GMT

The name of a former talk show host who has MS....sold a few small appliances on the Q....help....it's making me crazy...

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judy0330 — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:58:30 GMT

Montel Williams??

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nana59 — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 03:00:14 GMT

@judy0330wrote:
Montel Williams??

Yes...thank you!! Now I'll be able to sleep tonight......maybe.....

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Nancy Drew — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 23:04:31 GMT

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Love my grandkids — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:06:25 GMT

@Nancy DrewOM Gosh, I do the EXACT same thing when I'm trying to remember something!!

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sunshine45 — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:17:52 GMT

@Nancy Drewwrote:
My trick to remembering things so I can go to sleep is: go through the alphabet. Once you hit M, it triggers Montel. I told my husband that and he won a contest that way.

@Nancy Drew

that is a great way to try and remember something.

what i usually do is go to sleep thinking about the question or problem. then what happens is is that i wake up in the middle of the night and all of sudden remember it.....THEN i cannot get back to sleep. LOL

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ROMARY — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:16:35 GMT

Yes! Reciting the Alphabet seems to almost always work for me.

Except one of a few times when I tried to recall 'Sen-Sen's. I finally asked someone about fifteen or twenty years older than me, who instantly remembered.

(Sen-Sens are (were) those teeny-tiny square black licorice breath mints.)

Whenever I think of them, I definitely/immediately recall their scent in my mom's purse.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:04:33 GMT

I do that, too! Not that it always works as I get older, but it's been very helpful over the decades.

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Sookie Says — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:58:58 GMT

@Nancy Drewwrote:
My trick to remembering things so I can go to sleep is: go through the alphabet. Once you hit M, it triggers Montel. I told my husband that and he one a contest that way.

What a GREAT idea, Nancy Drew!!! Thx much, I will use this, drives me crazy when I can't remember something!

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ROMARY — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:23:37 GMT

'It's something' that our brains automatically 'zero in' onto something (an alphabet letter) and quickly recall the name or subject, etc. It might take a bit of time, repeating the initial letter, but it does work. Eventually. Better than not at all, and that's for sure.