dwndrgn

I once read a book by a memory expert, and one of his tips has helped me many times since. It's a little crazy, but that's why it works. Basically, if you need to remember something (ex. turn off iron before leaving house) you imagine something silly about the object should you forget (ex. the iron chases you out the door barking like a dog) and you will remember to turn it off before you go. To turn this into a game, you all have to participate at home. We all have things we need to remember each day, where you put your keys, where you parked, which website you visited earlier in the day that was so interesting, what report needs to be sent of to so-and-so by the end of the day...so, put your memories here and report on your progress.

I'll start: I need to remember that on the way home I need to get a money order. To help me remember, I'm imagining the envelope that it will be mailed in (which is currently in my car) turning into Rosanna Rosanna Danna and speaking at me about trivial matters in an annoying voice. I'll let you guys know later if this worked.

dwndrgn

Well it worked. Do you guys have any specific tricks that you use to try and remember things that are too important to forget?

littlemissattitude

If I have a list of things to remember, I take the first letter of each thing on the list and make a silly story out of it.

I had to memorize the answers to a 50-question test in a physiology class once. We had taken the test once, and no one did any good on it, so the teacher gave us the test with the answers and told us to memorize the thing and we'd get another chance to take it. Well, I didn't care enough about the class to memorize the actual answers, but it was a multiple guess test and the teacher told us that he would give it to us just as on the copy he handed out, questions and answers in the same order. So I just memorized the letters - A,B,C, D, or E - for each answer, in order by making up a silly story and memorizing that. It worked very well - I got every answer correct on the retake.

Otherwise, if I have to memorize something, I just repeat it over and over and over until I get it.

Just remembering to do something? Usually I just write it down; most of the time, if I write something down, I will remember it. That's why I'm a big fan of making to-do lists. Just making them helps me to remember to do the things.

Rosemary

I write a list of things I have to remember - then forget to look at the list :biggrin:

Now I put the list, a letter or a bill underneath my car keys.