Losing shit.

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trevwest5

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It's making me lose my shit, this losing shit. Since first semester started, I've lost
A Nalgene water bottle
A heavy-duty umbrella
That totaled me around 50 dollars.

But now, now I've lost my graphing calculator--a clear silver TI-84+. Those things cost 115 bucks! All my life I've been a complete dits about taking my things with me whenever I leave a room. Like at home I'll usually have to return two or three times to get all the things I need for whatever I'm about to do.

A couple days ago I even almost lost my jacket. I mean, it may not be an especially fancy 400 dollar jacket, but it still cost in the range of $120. This has got me worried! I can't keep losing things like this. It's just not feasible! Economically, that is. I mean, I've got a bit saved away, but that's no excuse for forgetting to collect 170 dollars worth of things on my way out of class--no excuse at all!
 
Get a tattoo on the back of your had that says "Never Forget" this will seem socially acceptable just say its a bout 9/11.

Or alternatively tie a string around your finger it actually works sometimes...other times you just wonder why you tied a string around your finger in class and take it off.
 
As for the first one, I'll have to think about that. Consult others, too--see what they think. But as for tying a string around my finger, BRILLIANT! I think I'll do that.
 
Personally I'm not sure how people lose stuff. A friend of mine is the same way, mostly with her cell phone. She's had multiple cheap cell phones just cuz she loses 'em so easy.

Me, on the other hand, well... I am kinda OCD. Which could be why I haven't lost anything in quite a while, even when drunk enough that I can't remember stuff the next day. I've recently spent money when drunk that I can't remember where I spent it the next day... but otherwise I haven't lost anything.

Anyways...maybe it would help to try to make yourself almost kinda OCD. At least about picking stuff up.
 
I'm pretty good about keeping track of my important shit. I'm naturally absent minded, but I've made a habit of checking to make sure I have all the essentials before I go anywhere. My keys stay clipped to my belt loop, my wallet is always in the same pocket, and when I use my phone, I put it back in my pocket immediately. When I am at home, I have a place for all those three things so I know where to look for them when I'm about to leave. But, like you, I find myself saying "shit" and turning around pretty frequently when I'm on my way out of the house.

I'd suggest making a habit of always checking your surroundings any time you get up to go about your daily business to make sure you haven't forgotten anything. It's worked pretty well for me.

Except for leatherman tools. Seriously, I have lost an obscene number of leatherman tools.
 
I'm a little like steelasp, just that I have a bag and I usually loose things in my bag, to then find out that the thing is in my jeans pocket or something. But when I went out of the apartment or something I knew I had it. So I have that covered.

So, I loose things, but they are always in my apartment, in my bags or somewhere else. Because I always check that I have everything when I go from somewhere. So it's good to have a mental checklist when you go somewhere that you have it all.

I also usually talk to myself, I know it's silly but I remember easier if I say "I have the keys in my bag" or I say to william "I have the keys in my bag" he then responds "soo..?" and I have to explain that I was just saying it to remember :tongue:

I hope I could help :happysad:
 
I'm just like you Masquerade. I can't tell you how many hats/mittens/notebooks I've lost. Not to mention that I can almost never find my cell phone or keys. Now, usually I'll find my lost items, but sometimes I'm not so lucky. I once lost a pea coat by hanging it on the back of a chair in my house.

Being scatterbrained and forgetful is such a pain.
 
Does your school have a lost and found? A lot of college students are honest enough to turn in stuff they find. the graphing calculator is probably gone forever, but the jacket might have been turned in. It's worth a shot.
 
So I went to the loading docks in the Armstrong Hall of Engineering to check on the status of a pyramid scheme that I reported. They hadn't done anything at all. In my disappointment, I figured I'd ask about my calculator. Turns out it was in one of the bins. Somehow it, and my physics lab notes, had found their way there. I'm quite amazed. And happy. I'm quite happy. And amazed. Wow! :thumbsup:

EDIT: As for those other things, both of them are gone. The umbrella? Somebody upped and left with it. The nalgene bottle? Who the fuck knows. I had some pale-yellow crystal lite in it. It looked like urine--or flat beer--either way, not desirable. Maybe the janitor threw it away?
 
I've noticed at times I'll start forgetting shit or misplacing it whenever some part of my life, whether it's personal or work or whatever, is going through some transitory evolution from one state to another. Maybe my thinking habits about a certain something has opened up to a wider horizon, or I'm about to shake something dead off my back, or there's something else I need to learn to finally make something move into a more productive direction. When I start realizing what I DON'T know about something, that's when new stuff starts moving into the space and starts demanding more of my attention.
 
Reading the OP's thread title made me think he had a problem with his bowel movements.


But anyways, I kinda stopped losing stuff after I had a traumatic experience in the moviehouse and while riding at the back of a huge army pick-up truck on our way to do some community service as part of our military training exercises.

I momentarily lost my wallet on both incidents. My wallet fell from my pocket and went through the opening behind my cinema seat and while riding the huge truck it was behind me about to fall off the ledge. I was amazed and relieved at the same time that it didn't.

From then on I had the habit of looking where I previously sat before leaving a particular place.

One time this particular habit helped in avoiding the loss of my friend's bag.

True story :thumbsup:
 
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