Monday, September 27, 2021

Department of lost keys, glasses, ...

HALLIE EPHRON: I swear it seems like I spend half my life looking for my cell phone or my reading glasses. My daughter used to make fun of me. Then the other day she sent me this text.


Poetic justice, I suppose.

It reminds me how, when I was my daughter’s age, it amused me that my lovely mother-in-law would carry a handbag from room to room in our house. Like Queen Elizabeth, she always seemed to have that purse strapped to her arm.


Now I get it. My reading glasses and cell phone and keys would be much easier to keep track of if I hauled them around in a big fat handbag. Too bad, a QE2 pocketbook isn’t my style.

For a while I started tucking my glasses and cell into my pants pocket… until I nearly tossed them both in the wash with a pair of sweatpants.

Is there anything you are constantly losing track of and what coping strategies have you come up with? Do you have a gadget to help you find your gadgets? Can your car keys clap back?

LUCY BURDETTE: We have this problem too Hallie, and are forever helping each other look for phone, glasses, keys. I always keep my keys in my purse, but John loses his endlessly. And they are smart keys so sending them through the washer would be very expensive. The phone I try to keep with me, though it has been known to slip through the couch cushions and cause panic.

Glasses are the biggest problem. Since our Lottie puppy ate 4 pairs, I can never leave them somewhere she can reach. I’m trying to remember to put them only next to the upstairs sink or in a pottery piece in the kitchen. I live in fear that I will hear that awful crunching again…

JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: Lucy, I can’t tell you how many people I’ve told the story of, “my friend with the adorable Havanese, but wait ‘til you hear what that pup eats!”

I’ve solved the reading glasses problem by leaving a pair anywhere I might need them: in my car, in the kitchen, in the bathroom (reading, of course!) with my spares in the bedroom. My secret source is TJ Maxx, where you can get boxed sets of three reading glasses for $9-$12. I have about ten glasses right now, so when I inevitably lose one or leave it behind somewhere, it’s not a big deal.

The thing I struggle with is paperwork. Or maybe paper in general. I don’t have a good system, I tend to pile and stuff, and as a result, I can’t find things when I need it. SMCC sent me a contract for this semester. Can I find it? No. I have a list of possible Christmas presents for the kids. Can I find it? No. The birthday card I cleverly pre-bought so it wouldn’t be late? You guessed it. I know there are ways to whip the paper tiger into shape, but sorting and organizing a whole system takes so long and I’ve never managed to make more than a dent in it.

RHYS BOWEN: I’m actually quite organized when it comes to paperwork, finances etc.

Luckily since my cataract operation I don’t need any glasses--a minor miracle. Nor do I lose keys as my car has a keyless entry and start so the keys remain in a special pocket in my purse. However count me as one who loses her phone on a daily basis. I carry it around the house with me, set it down somewhere and then…. I have to call it from the land line to locate it again. I’m thinking of getting an Apple Watch so that my phone essentially stays on my wrist. Who else has one? What do you think?

And Julia, I can’t tell you how many perfect cards I have bought for future birthdays and anniversaries, only not to be able to locate them when the event comes around. And then I do find them two days later.

JENN McKINLAY: The only time I ever lose anything is when someone else puts it where it doesn’t belong. Yes, I am that person -- a place for everything and everything in its place. If you wanted to torture me, you wouuld put my keys on the wrong peg, rearrange my sock drawer, or, heaven forfend, move the tools in my toolbox.

Like Julia, I own about twenty pairs of reading glasses and they decorate every room. Very handy! I recently bought an old metal filing cabinet at Good Will -- $9!!! So all of my documents are neatly stored. I refuse to apologize for being insanely organized. I was a librarian for 22 years and I have a rage for order to show for it.

DEBORAH CROMBIE: My glasses are bifocal but I have a different strength for the computer and yet again a different strength for READING reading. So computer glasses on each desk and the reading reading glasses on the bedside table. Keys stay in the car, purse on the hook in the hall. The phone is almost always in my pocket--I try to wear things with deep pockets and am absolutely lost otherwise! But I am addicted to bluetooth headsets (hearing loss in one ear makes it really difficult to talk otherwise) and I do occasionally lose the blasted little things.

And just yesterday I lost my Kindle!! How on earth can you lose a Kindle Paperwhite? Of course it finally turned up exactly where it should have been, but I was so cross, having looked absolutely everywhere else for it. In my defense we were having a new AC system installed and I was totally out of my normal routine.

I am actually pretty organized about paperwork (surprising, I know.) Although I seldom manage to put anything IN the filing cabinets, I do know where most things are--even the greeting cards for any occasion.

HANK PHILLIPI RYAN: Truly, yesterday, as I was looking for my phone for the ten millionth time, this thought crossed my mind: “I wish there was a THING you could use to carry around the phone and not have to keep picking it up and putting it down.” Then the other side of my brain answered: “Like a POCKET?”

Ha.

When I make dinner, I wear an apron (ME! AN APRON!), and wow, it is SO useful for carrying the phone in that sometimes I leave it on because the pockets are SO convenient. A fanny pack would work (gah), but that’s not comfortable, or a little cross body purse. We should invent something.

And I have often used my landline to call myself to find the cell phone. That’s pretty much why we have it, I fear.

Glasses? HA! I had cataract surgery, so I don;t really need them--unless it’s really dim light or for instagram on my phone. So there’s a pair on the kitchen table, and my nightstand, and one on my desk.

And the minute I file something in the file cabinet, I forget it exists. But I have colored folders with tabs in an open file container so I can see them. I love to be organized, too, it’s so rewarding. (But things do tend to pile up..).

HALLIE: Oh boy can I relate. And when I answer my cell phone after calling it from my landline, I'm sometimes surprised that there's no one there.

But this is about coping strategies...Help!


 

76 comments:

  1. I feel for you, Hallie . . . I hate losing things!
    I’m worst at losing paperwork, best at not losing my glasses because I can’t see anything without them, so I never take them off. [There are so many things wrong with my eyes that when I had cataract surgery on my right eye, the doctor asked me what I wanted him to fix. He said I could have one thing . . . so I told him I wanted to be able to read my books and I would be happy. So, for the first time in more years than I care to count, I don’t have to hold the book up right in front of my face in order to see the words. It’s heavenly!]

    Keys have a place on the table in the entryway; the purse sits there beside the little bench. [And, just in case, I know where John keeps the spare car key . . . .]

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    1. Sounds you've nailed it, Joan. Before cataract surgery I didn't lose my glasses because I had to wear them constantly. Now I just need them to read and it's the on-ing and off-ing that creates the chaos.

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    2. Hallie, I did the same with my cataract surgery, but then I had progressives made with no correction in the distance half of the lenses. I could not stand having to put glasses on every time I needed to read anything!!! This works great.

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  2. I've solved the phone problem by wearing jeans all the time and the phone is always in my back pocket. I mean, always, until I plug it in next to the bed at night. And I wear glasses all the time, so that isn't a problem.

    Keys are always on their hook next to the door. (We have the cutest/goofiest key hook holder, the one my parents had. It's a little wooden fence with the carved heads of a man and a woman leaning on it and looking out over it. Their heads move!)

    I'm more likely to be helping Hugh find his glasses or sunglasses, since he takes his glasses off for close work AND is absent minded. One time they were in a pantry cabinet...

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    1. Jeans--all the time? And am I the only one who sometimes puts on TWO pairs of reading glasses, one over the other, for the really fine print?

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    2. Well, shorts when it's hot, or a skirt to go out to eat (outdoors) in the summer. But, yeah. Pants with pockets.

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    3. Which gets us to the ultimate question: why don't designers put functional pockets in more bits of women's clothing?

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    4. EXACTLY! I'm sure at least because it's more expensive. I do love it when a dress has side pockets. And pants without pockets are like pants without a crotch, imhop.

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    5. Pockets are the reason I've been buying work pants from Duluth Trading. Even their yoga pants have at least three pockets; the pair I have has four. I found a pant that fits me, and they had shorts in the same style, with seven pockets. All summer I was able to keep my phone in a pocket while I was working outside without worrying about losing it in the grass. Again.

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    6. Oh, Karen, I will look for those! Thank you!

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    7. Duluth Trading? WHO KNEW! Just went to their web site. Love that they categorize it women's BOTTOMS. And there are actual leggingy yoga pants with a zipper butt pocket. And so much more. Bookmarking it. Thanks, Karen. (I haven't (yet) lost my cell phone in the grass but I have lost reading glasses. Multiple times.)

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    8. Yes, Duluth Trading, and their women's clothes actually fit real women. What a concept.

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  3. Some day, I will write a scientific paper on the migration patterns of my reading glasses. Like Julia, I buy the TJ Maxx ones so I have a lot. Somehow, they seem to all move in the same direction, but I am never sure whether I will find twenty pairs in the car, or on my desk, or next to the bed, or in the kitchen . . .

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    1. Love that term: migration patterns. I do find that whatever it is that I'm looking for is *usually* exactly where I think I left it... I just don't SEE it.

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    2. Yes! I wind up with four pairs on the kitchen table, and none anywhere else.

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    3. Hank, yes! I found twelve pairs in my car the other day!

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    4. My vision is way too different in each eye any more for those buy in bulk glasses. Just a bit of a downside from my otherwise wonderful cataract surgery!

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  4. Good topic, Hallie!
    In many ways I am like Jenn, a place for everything. Exceptions abound here, however, and it's not anyone's fault but my own. I hardly ever mispace my keys but glasses and phone, sometimes. As for paperwork, it may be the biggest sign that I have been depressed during the pandemic. Papers of all sorts are piled up on my dining room table. Every time I dig in and make a dent, I put that job aside again and the piles grow. If we were going to use that room for company, I'd need a dedicated week to clear the mess.

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    1. Yes, I have only a limited attention span, too, when it comes to paper piles. And the size of the pile usually exceeds the length of the spam. Then it's important to separate the sorted from the UNsorted... Piles within piles. It's ugly.

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    2. I have to deal with the paper pile when I have to do my taxes:-)

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  5. Keys go into a little basket on the shelf (of course jacket weather is coming so now the challenge will be to remember to take them out of my pocket). I don't often carry a purse, but my wallet sits right beside the basket. Phone goes into a pocket of whatever I'm wearing: leggings (oh, the leggings without pockets make me mad), bathrobe, sweatshirt, whatever.

    But paper? Forget it. I have two expandable folders. One for personal bills, one for writing paperwork. But I'm constantly having to "reorganize" them. Recently, I freaked out because all the electronic copies of my book contracts disappeared off my computer and Dropbox. Fortunately, I was able to recover them from my TimeMachine backup. I resolved to print them - only to find out I'd already done that, but the writing folder had gotten hopelessly disorganized *again* and I hadn't seen them.

    Whatever happened to our paperless society?!?

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    1. I swear by PAPER. And manila folders. And stick-on labels. And highlighting markers so I can tell what I'm looking at, at a glance.

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    2. A couple of years ago Rick bought us a document scanner, so that we could scan every paper and then file on the computer. But WHEN, I ask you, was I supposed to find time to do that??? Of course, HE could could do it, but he just gripes at me for not using the scanner...

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  6. Hallie, I hear you, I hate loosing something. I don’t feel well when it happens.
    QE2 pocketbook isn’t your style. Why don’t you try a little cross body purse, as Hank put it ?

    I never go somewhere without my tiny cross body purse in which I can only put my wallet, my phone, my keys and some tissue paper. I bought my first one after letting a purse on the shelve of a store. Miraculously, it was still there when I returned but didn’t want to live that again.

    As for at home, I’m a little compulsive and tend to always put my things at the same place (like my keys and papers ).
    I don’t drag my phone with me all day (easier than you, authors, not so many communications and no social medias ), it stays in his two places. As for my glasses, I wear them all day.

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    1. What I do find useful is a fanny pack. Oh so retro, I know, but it leaves my hands free to hold onto the railing.

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    2. It is the same with a little cross body purse : free hands and it can be hidden under a sweater or a coat.

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    3. I'm a big fan of cross body purses, too.

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    4. SO AGREE! I am too, but they are too small for my phone. I would wear one all the time if I could find the perfect one.

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  7. I'm pretty sure that is exactly why I wear my glasses all the time. Constantly taking them off and putting them on would drive me crazy and then I would end up leaving them where I couldn't find them when they were needed. And the keyless thing for cars is great so I have no fear of losing them. But paper? Oh my. I know it's somewhere in this pile because I just saw it the other day! Maybe that's why I hardly ever throw anything out - I'm so afraid it will be an important piece of paper.

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    1. Uh oh... "hardly ever throw anything out" - sounds like a topic for another day. My problem is the opposite, my itchy DELETE finger.

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  8. TV remotes (we're up to three with the firestick) on a high shelf. Cell phones and chargers stored inside a kitchen drawer with my reading glasses. When Louie, our standard poodle pup, took my phone outside I first called it from the landline (it didn't ring) and then used "find my cellphone" on my ipad. It worked, cell phone in a clump of monarda in the garden. Car keys in my purse on top of a tall desk. When I walk the dogs without pockets, I carry my phone and keys in a crossbody bag.

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    1. Aaaagh! "cell phone in a clump of monarda in the garden" Fortunately you found it before the rains.

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    2. Margaret, I forgot about the TV remotes. We've lost SO many of them over the years. When I replaced the last family room couch I tore off all the protective fabric to see if they had fallen in there. Nothing. It's enough to make me believe in the Borrowers.

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    3. Ys, The Borrowers are real. No question.

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  9. I have a bunch of stuff piled on my kitchen table, which is where I always put my keys. The other day I searched under all the piles, multiple times, still couldn't find the keys, and finally used to spare set to go run whatever errand I was running. When I got back, I immediately spotted the keys I'd been looking for--sitting in plain sight on top of the piles I'd been searching under. Sigh.

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    1. I'm right there with you, Gigi - Sometimes it's not that I can't see; it's that I don't LOOK. It's the reason I try to avoid buying a black gizmos because they blend in far too easily with the background (like the floor or a car seat or a hotel desk)

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  10. My readers have become a hairband of sorts - always on my head. I’m with Hank and Edith on the pockets! Even my dresses must have pockets!

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    1. Jenn, you wear READING GLASSES? I wear mine on my head but through the day they loosen up and they're likely to fall off when I look down... usually when I'm trying to see the steps I'm climbing while my arms are full.

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    2. Oh, the mental picture, Jenn…all your readers (people type) holding back your hair. ;-)

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  11. I know where I put my stuff down but my husband? Ack. As for paperwork I'm not particularly organized (I have a huge pile to file) but I don't scatter it all over the house like a Certain Person.

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    1. My husband had piles all over the house but he knew what was in each pile. If I make piles I have no idea what I put where.

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  12. My husband is the losingest person in the family. But in this house he finally has a spot for his keys, a spot for his wallet, and a perfect spot to charge his phone. And now he has multiple pair of reading glasses, in addition to his prescription ones. Because he has lost all of those, including the expensive computer key to his SUV. I now make sure he has it in his "spot" every night, because it's the only one.

    I have a system for paperwork, defined over years. As soon as mail comes in I take everything out of envelopes and recycle them. Junk mail immediately gets recycled. Then invitations (ha, thanks Covid) go on the fridge, magazines go in a pile, and bills go in a pile on one side of my desk, where I deal with them twice a month. As soon as they are marked paid they go into a second pile on the other side of the desk to be filed. That is also where important things like insurance updates, prescription and other receipts, bank statements, etc. go until I get a chance to file them all. All our accounts, including bank, investment, and credit cards, are uploaded into a Quicken program every few weeks, and backed up at that time, too. We have had several businesses and I've done all the bookkeeping, accounting, and taxes, and that is the only way to keep track.

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  13. I'm so organized that half the time I can't find anything... :-/

    Glasses always on (since age 9!), keys in my purse, phone...well, let's just say I don't have a landline to rescue me when I lose it. If Hubby isn't nearby to call on his cell, I'm lost!

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  14. Yes, in our house the only purpose of a land line is to call the cell phone.

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  15. HOW MANY TIMES have I looked for my glasses and found not one pair, but TWO on my head?

    And Hallie, ah..if you wear TWO pairs of glasses for fine print, you mean, they're different powers? I get my glasses at Whole Foods, and they are so inexpensive--maybe get, um, a stronger pair? I am trying to envision (!) whether wearing two pars of the same power would make a difference.
    Does it? DO two ones make a two?

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    1. It's usually just for a minute or two that I need to double the magnification (so 2 pairs of glasses) - to see fine print on a medication for instance. If I got a stronger pair I'd be forever trying to remember which was which.

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    2. "Do two ones make a two" - great question. Anyone out there know the optics?

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    3. Hallie, as for the two pair to read tiny print: it's been said folks of a certain age use their cell phone camera for one reason - to take a picture of the medicine bottle verbiage and then enlarge it to be legible.

      Not that I would ever do such a thing...

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    4. Costco also has great reading glasses in three-packs. Usually between $15-20, and often including nice pouches for storage.

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  16. I returned from Maryland on Sept 14. I unpacked my hairbrush. It is now the 27th and I have not seen it since. Have any of you found a blue hairbrush? Both of us misplace things, and for years have blamed the pixies. In this case the hair brush is gone, but the meat thermometer was returned.

    When my daughter was a three year old I taught her how to help me find the car keys. They are now put back every time, until they aren't. Between the pixies and my daughter we do keep an uneasy balance in the world of Lost n Found on Nome Street.

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    1. This is reminding me - one time my mother in law visited us and lost the gold charm she wore around her neck. It was a paper-doll cutout shape with each of the grandchildren's names on it. Years later after she died and we gathered up the belongings she kept at our house, we found that charm - it had slipped into the hem of her bathrobe.

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    2. I will look in the hem of my bathrobe..

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  17. My keys go in one dining room drawer that's closest to the door, and my cables for phone and iPad go in the next drawer, so that isn't a problem. As for glasses, I used to have a problem finding them even though I had multiple pairs. But I finally decided about 5 years ago, when I was using 3x drug store glasses, that I should break down and get "big girl" prescription glasses, which I keep on all the time. When I go to bed, they are on my bureau where it is easy to find them when I get up.

    I bought a little stand for my phone which makes it stand up and become more visible--that helps. When I go for a walk in the warm weather, I put my phone in the pocket of my cargo capris, and when I wear something without pockets, I have a case I put it in that fits over the top of my pants and is magnetic. I bought it at an art and wine festival after my friend told me she swears by it.

    I do have a file cabinet for bills and such, and it's a lifesaver. However, this year I didn't purge it of past paperwork until June or so! I'm such a procrastinator when it comes to that file cabinet!

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    1. Do you purge the file cabinet? And how long between purges??

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    2. Hallie, my goal is to purge it every year, but this year I was about 6 months late doing it. And that was only the top drawer (but that's where the bills and a few other important things are). Also, I know that I will have a lot of shredding to do after it's purged, which is time-consuming. I don't add things to the bottom drawer often, so I don't feel the need to purge it.

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  18. My spare car key is in the blue bowl next to the front door. My spare house key is hiding outside. Don't talk to me about the piles of paper in my house it's too embarrassing. If I lose my glasses it's usually because I fell asleep with them on and they have either become buried under my blankets or have fallen off the bed and bounced under it, which actually better than stepping on them in the middle of the night. Why there are not pockets in every women's garment I do not know. I used to always make sure my pants or skirts/dresses had pockets. My current favorite pants don't have pockets and it is a pain trying to carry my keys while being the crucifer but we need to get back into the church after the outdoor service to take off our robes..... Confused?

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    1. No pockets in robes? Though it would be very unseemly if the phone started to ring...

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    2. Deana, at my church they have a box in the sacristy where everyone can dump their phones, keys, etc.

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  19. Jenn and I are sisters under the skin. I am so bad my father once paid someone to needlepoint a pillow for me that reads "A place for everything and everything in it's place." Couple that with a visual memory and I'm golden. My husband, Mr. Wherever it Leaves my Hand is always asking me where he left things. I laugh, then tell him if I've seen it. He hates that. Tough. If he would put things away where they belong...well, you get the idea :)

    I have looked for the glasses I'm wearing, though. When I had cataract surgery I no longer needed distance glasses. Reading glasses are another matter. Since my vision insurance covered progressive lenses, and it was the year for frames, I got progressives - plain glass on top shading into my reading prescription - perfect solution. I do have computer glasses, too, but I only wear them when my eyes are tired.

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    1. I used to have progressives but only after I needed BOTH distance and reading. I really don't like wearing glasses all the time. So I'm glad to be able to take them off and give my nose a rest. But then I have to remember where I put them. I confess though I have SEVERAL inexpensive pairs, I try to use and lose only one at a time. Otherwise it's too confusing.

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    2. Kait, I've had the same experience as you. My cataract surgeon said, "You can have clear distance vision or clear close-in vision, but not both." Having worn glasses since I was 5, the idea of needing reading glasses was not a bar. Nothing matches my pleasure in being able to see the road ahead while driving or having a perfect view of what's on the TV/movie screen!

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    3. Julia, I have both! I got multi-focal lenses that let me see everything. I haven't worn glasses since. It's wonderful. I'm so annoyed that many eye doctors don't tell you of this option if you want to pay for it.

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  20. I crocheted a carrier for my ever-present water bottle, and attached the car keys to the strap with a Jeans Ring. It's roomy enough for my magnetic sunglasses and an extra mask as well. My niece crocheted phone cases with adjustable straps, very handy.
    . . . and that reminds me of Grandma making tiny crocheted bags for our milk money in grade school, around the neck, under the shirt, so milk money wouldn't be lost from pockets on the playground. ;-)
    My spare car remote and garage door opener are next to my bed, a safety measure from a magazine article.

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  21. I've thought about getting one of those arm bands that runners wear to carry their cell phones while they run. There are times when even that wouldn't help. I'm very distracted right now, because of a pet in the hospital. Yesterday I was sending a text on my cell phone, and then stood there dumbfounded, wondering where I'd put my phone because I needed to make a call.

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    1. J, I've done almost exactly the same thing with my phone. And yes, I need to look into those armband things as well, because I've said many times I need a swath of Velcro on my body, to which I can stick everything I need: phone, glasses, shopping list. etc.

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  22. I spent a bunch of time looking for a receipt and a mask the other night. Turns out, they'd gotten slipped into another of the backpack. I found them after it no longer mattered.

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  23. I'm not too bad about losing things. I occasionally lose my phone, but not too often. I try to keep my house keys and car keys in the front pocket of my purse, which I usually have hanging over a kitchen chair. It's been a long time since this happened, but I did look for my glasses a couple of times, and they were on my head, and I did wonder where my phone was when I was holding it once or twice.

    The person who loses items daily is my husband. I have to call his phone at least once a day for him to locate it, and his keys seem to disappear on a regular basis, too.

    OK, are you ready for a solution to lost keys and phones? I haven't resorted to this yet, but I'm thinking of doing so for my husband. It's been around for a while. Tile trackers (little tiles) and the Tile app work on both Android and Apple devices. If you want to do a little reading on them, here's a link. https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/how-it-works?utm_campaign=13870698657&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=533090362786&utm_term=tile%20phone%20finder-e&adgroup=130386752771&gclsrc=aw.ds&?gclid=Cj0KCQjw18WKBhCUARIsAFiW7Jx0_0iUmaALv01sfwkp_NvahObgvKoxGfKX59ETZwnDSpgIRdnbzFUaAsexEALw_wcB

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  24. These are the pants that I'm addicted to. They're 95% cotton and have big deep pockets. They are incredibly comfortable and I wear them all day every day, unless it's too cold for them. I have not found a comfortable winter replacement with pockets.

    https://smile.amazon.com/Danskin-Womens-Drawcord-Black-Large/dp/B0065ECHJC/ref=sr_1_5?crid=37V4C1FJ03BTA&dchild=1&keywords=danskin+yoga+pants+for+women+with+pockets&qid=1632768875&sprefix=danskin+yo%2Caps%2C197&sr=8-5

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  25. Late commenting again! Hallie, this made me laugh, particularly as I was the person who won your professional organizer book, which I loved, but don't ask me where it is in the house. I know I should have plenty of tips and tricks for everyone but right now, I'm late. Late, or almost late in paying bills this month, checking our spending and seeing that I know what is what, late in starting yet another round of clean out. But it does start to move. I had Victor in his workshop this am looking at what he really wants to keep and what needs to be disposed off as he is not using tools any more. But papers. Yes I know how to set up and do the systems and incorporate anyone's individual quirks, but doing my own is so hard. That is the message I think, it's so much easier to work with another. As for the phone, air buds, keys etc. Keys live on a rack right by the door into the garage - done. Even if I lived alone, that's where the keys live. Phones, well I call Victor's phone for him - a lot! Find his reading glasses in all sorts of unexpected places and yes, he doesn't have more than one pair, but assigning a pair to each place I not in his make up. We don't use the attached tile to locate because that would give one more thing to forget. However I have found that looking at something I don't use and asking myself if it still gives me joy has disposed of quite a lot of clutter.

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  26. Late commenting again! I woke up very late this morning.

    BOOKS! I am always misplacing my books, which explains why I do not always finish the book I'm reading. LOL

    Diana

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  27. Landline for calling cell phone. Must use it about once a week. Almost always is lost in a chair. Reading glasses in every room. Computer glasses on desk. I did have a hook for my keys, but it feel off the wall.
    My biggest problem is that there is a Bermuda Triangle in the midst of my house. I know I put certain items in one place and when I go back for them, they are gone. Just gone. Kaput. Three or four months from now they may turn up, if the whirlpool of the Bermuda Triangle wishes to spit them back out. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes the items will fall out of somewhere at my feet. Which causes me to stand and stare at them dumbfounded and wonder how the H that happened.

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  28. A good old-fashioned apron works for me. I can't handle a chain around my neck to hold my glasses.

    Now my techie brother has a great solution. You can buy tiny attachments for glasses, keys, etc. I have no idea how this works, but my brother, Super Organizer, says it's the best when my sister-in-law loses things. I think they're called Tile. You can Google it.
    Also: You don’t need a tracking device to keep tabs on your smartphone. If you enabled location access services on your phone, you can sign in to your phone’s account from any Web browser to pinpoint the phone’s location. Honestly, if I lost my keys or glasses regularly, I'd pay for the techie device. Fortunately, I have an Irishman for a husband and he calls on the saint of lost things and finds whatever is lost. He must have ins in heaven. I should rent him out.

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  29. My Apple Watch will ping my phone. I even heard it coming from the fridge. (Don’t ask. I still don’t know how and why.)

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