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How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
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#12Thought this solution was going to be holding a pen in your hand...
Glad to know I’m not the only one who read the title this way!
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#13Thought this solution was going to be holding a pen in your hand...
Quite. I’ve lost several Fisher Bullet Pens. They’re tiny, and smooth. They fall out of pockets very well.
You’d think I’d learn and stop buying black ones as well. Talk about stealth pens.
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#14Thought this solution was going to be holding a pen in your hand...
I went through a phase where I sort of did this. I kept forgetting or misplacing one thing when I left the house. So I started assigning myself one extra small thing to bring with me. It may just have been the attention I was paying, but it helped!
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#15Best cleaning / organizational tip I’ve learned : everything out of place goes into a tote. Every day shuttle the tote around the house to deposit the items in their rightful place. This reduces reorganizing to linear time
What kind/size of tote do you use? I just finished cleaning and realized how much easier it’d be if I did something like this - ‘sorted go-backs’
Going to sound facetious for a second: whatever size works for you and the space.
It's more just what works for the space and flow. For instance, I have identical milkcrate size boxes at the bottom and top of the stairs. Why? So I can exchange them interchangably and they are easy to drop stuff into as I pass. I take the bottom of the stairs upstairs to sort and I take the top of the stairs downstairs then just toss the bin back to the closest spot so I don't have to climb stairs... lowest energy possible.
In another case, I have a small-ish tub for assorted wires. The workflow is I have a big box of wires that are sorted into baggies, I pull a wire out, I use it, I put it in the small bin, then I sort the small bin back into baggies in one go. It fits on my shelf and the intention was to prevent it from becoming unsorted wires... which it unfortunately has because I can't keep it up.
So really, it's just whatever works best for the situation, area, what it will contain, etc so you just have to find what works best for your situation.
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#16Ah yes, that fifth step is the trick…
I'd argue mostly.
I do have a few bins mostly related to financial information like statements and bills--which I'll probably never need to look at given online access to many things--but that are probably good to keep around for a while before chucking them.
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#17Of course, point 5 is the weakest link in this approach.
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#18Not sure I want to take advice from someone who keeps their keys on their back pocket.
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#19Thought this solution was going to be holding a pen in your hand...
solutions can't hold anything, they dont have hands.
i thought it was going to be about how to hold a pen.
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#20Best cleaning / organizational tip I’ve learned : everything out of place goes into a tote. Every day shuttle the tote around the house to deposit the items in their rightful place. This reduces reorganizing to linear time
Ha! Similar idea to mine, but I use an open-wide-shallow basket/bin instead. My saying to my family is, “Everything has a place to go.” The ones that don’t go in their place quickly enough land in the basket/bin.
Now, during the weekend cleanup chores, the items are preferably placed in the right places.
Growing up lacking access to good stationery, I kinda get anxious and panicked and tend to over-buy stationery items for my kids and mine. So, I have a pretty large basket container just for the stationery.