Finding Things

Tips and Tricks

• Have a set place for everything (your glasses, your car keys) and always put these essential items in their set place.
• At key times during your day (returning from an outing, before going to bed) check important items are in their set places.
• If keeping things in different set places doesn’t work, have one place to collect important things, such as a canvas tidy over the kitchen door with lots of pockets for glasses, car keys, bills to pay, letters to post etc. you could label the pockets.
• If remembering to check items doesn’t work, have a list of important items handy, perhaps by the front door or on the fridge, and check through at a set point time each day (after your evening meal for example) that all are in their set places
• If you want to keep your important things in different places and the list isn’t enough to help you remember, make a list of items and locations e.g. car keys in handbag, wallet in coat pocket, or draw a map of the house with important items marked on locations.
• You may also want to use this list or map before you go out, either routinely or when you have an important journey to make like going to a wedding, to check that you have everything you need for the day
• Bag insert (commercially available, holds all essential items and transfers them from handbag to handbag or briefcase to shopper).