Negate the anguish of LOSING STUFF! | ADHD Information

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One of the things about ADD that I truly despise, loathe, hate, abhor, and detest is forever losing stuff.
Well, it's not so much about the 'losing' than it is about the 'finding', or rather,***NOT*** finding! And judging by the abundance of similar complaints I've seen in this forum, I can see I'm not the only one, not by a long shot! Losing and NOT finding stuff had gotten to the point where it was litterally ruining my life. For a while there I was spending at LEAST 80% of every single day doing little more than SEARCHING, SEARCHING, SEARCHING, SEARCHING, SEARCHING. I was beginning to feel like the human equvelant of GOOGLE or YAHOO! And much like Google and Yahoo, rarely did I find whatever it was I was searching for at the time. O sure, I find things from previous searches that I had totally given up on, but never what I was actually looking for at that moment.

So, I made up something in my mind that I like to call my, "Insanity prevention policy". If I don't find what I'm looking for in under 5 minutes, I stop searching. I consider it (whatever it was I lost) a casualty of ADD, and it can STAY lost FOREVER as far as I'm concerned. I flat out REFUSE to WASTE my days doing NOTHING but searching for lost items.

It was a bit expensive, but I went out and bought 5 remote controlls (With a backup set of fresh batteries I taped with duct tape to the back of all 5 of them!), 40 lighters, a dozen or so pens and pencils, and made 5 identical sets of keys. (Car, House, toolbox, and PO box) The only time my wallet leaves my glove compartment is when I get pulled over by the cops (speeding), and even IT is attached to the glove compartment by a long string). 4 of the remotes are on strings attached to the couch, the TV, my bed post, and one hanging from the celing over my PC desk. (where I am as I type this.) The 5th remote is in a box in the attic, ALSO attached by a string to a 2x4 beam up there. a few of the lighters and pens/pencils are also on strings and in every nook, crack, and hole I could find to stash them. For security reasons I'll keep you guessing what I do with the xtra sets of keys. ;-)

There's more, LOTS more, but I ain't got all night! ;-)

All this may sound like overkill, and it does look kinda eccentric having these things attached to strings all over the house. But it SURE AS S&^T beats wasting my life away in an endless search for things that I know damn well I'm NOT going to find. (At least not *WHEN* I actually *NEED* IT!)

Give it a try.
My life has improved as a result.
I've saved so much time that it almost feels
like I now get 3 days for the price of ONE!

                       Peace,
                          Mark