I think my favorite is "Never empty handed to the kitchen go." That is my mother's saying from the time I was a kid. I'm 71. She is still telling me that!!!!! She's 93.
So, when I have to go into the basement to get something, I always have something on the kitchen table to take down with me. Makes sense, right? I do it! Get the stuff put away in the basement and then stand there like I lost my noodles because now I don't remember why I was going down there in the first place. Don't tell me to write a note - I'd lose it! So then I have to come back upstairs, retrace my steps and stand there and think "Why did I have to go into the basement?" Eureka!~ I remember, so I gingerly bounce down the basement stairs saying "Toilet paper - toilet paper, toilet paper. That's how I remember - all from Never Empty Handed to the Kitchen Go!!!!!
Edie