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[CelticCrafter]

I write it on the inside of the coat closet door!  I get over ambitious throwing paper out, this way it can't get lost unless we paint over it.

Warranty and user manuals go into a nightstand drawer with the receipts stapled to it.

[Mz iMac]

I still use these....

Remember them?

[jlkz]

STICKY NOTES:  

over time and many lift offs, the sticky on the back of the notes weakens and may not stick.  Good thing your picture showed the thumb tack. Lol

[DoneTryin]

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@jlkz wrote:

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@millieshops wrote:

@sidsmomFor me, writing something down in my own hand seems to stick better in my memory.  Probably because that was my only choice for so very many years before computers became ubitquitous.

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You remember what you wrote better because you have used a physical sense, I.e., the writing it out.

Adults learn and remember better the more physical senses they use in the first place.

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When I was in high school, back in the Stone Age, one of my teachers spent a liitle time in his first class of the term giving us study tips.  To help us remember anything, he said to

  read it

  say it

  write it

  read it again

[maryebrown]

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@VCamp2748 wrote:

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@jlkz wrote:

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@millieshops wrote:

@sidsmomFor me, writing something down in my own hand seems to stick better in my memory.  Probably because that was my only choice for so very many years before computers became ubitquitous.

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You remember what you wrote better because you have used a physical sense, I.e., the writing it out.

Adults learn and remember better the more physical senses they use in the first place.

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When I was in high school, back in the Stone Age, one of my teachers spent a liitle time in his first class of the term giving us study tips.  To help us remember anything, he said to

  read it

  say it

  write it

  read it again

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I went to high school back in the Stone Age, too !  Those are excellent study tips...I wish I had learned them way back then. I probably would have been a better student.

[luvdoodles]

Leave it to you. You always make me laugh.

[Suziepeach]

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@brewhaha wrote:

It didn't help me. I put my log in the fireplace.

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[qualitygal]

Just an FYI, since taking care of my parents, I now do a (handwritten) log in a journal that in the event my son needs this knowledge  down the road, I write down things having to do with updates on the house. I'm doing another journal that gives him the info for later, when we might not beable to tell him what needs to be done for us. I'm doing my loyal best to keep up on when something changes. We have 1 son only and it's not fair to expect him, down the road to know some of this stuff. (It's not all covered by an atty.) Some stuff he just may need to know. His being informed, will help us too.

I can think of something to add to my grocery list, and sometimes it never makes it there.

[phoenixbrd]

Everything goes on ICalendar but I also carry a calendar journal that I write in hand.  It has lots of room for details if needed.  Frequently, I write in the journal and later transpose it to the electronic calendar.  The advantage of the techie calendar is that both hubby and I have access to the information at all times.  It has been very effective and has helped us coordinate services and meetings.

[Pandalady]

This topic made me think of my grandmother.  For years, I would see her with a steno pad writing away.  I never thought to ask her what she was writing (my thinking that it was her private thoughts) until she shared one of these notebooks with me one day.  It was chocked full of the names of her seven children, their birthdays (and dates of deaths of the two who had passed away), wedding dates, etc...  Granny had written this information over and over again.  She told me that she was a mother and should never forget her children.  About a year later, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.  I feel like that she knew her memory was starting to fade and was really trying everything to hang on to her most precious things, her children!  She passed away five years later.