Well, I'm an idiot.
 

But my wife has learned to live with it. Today, my wife needs some contact lens solution from the grocery store, so, as usual, she gives me the previous box because there's so many varieties of these things, I can't keep them straight. We also need some other things. So (a moment of brilliance here), I write a list on the inside of the flap at the top of the box. I go to the store, go up and down the aisles, get back home with everything on the list . . . yep, I forgot the lens solution. It wasn't on the list.

Well, what can you expect from an idiot?

Tate

So funny! I need a list too - and even if I forget the list at home, I usually manage to get what was written on it.

ha, ha. sounds like me!! don't sweat it, I'm sure you have other qualities!

That really made me laugh. Can't blame it on being a man, because I do it all the time. My mother used to tell me to write things down, and my response was, Why?? I only lose the lists.

I'm sure she forgives you because you were sweet enough to go to the store in the first place.

Been there, Done That! LOL

Yep these things happen I figure there whether related -

I will forget something whether it's on the list or not

The 2nd trip is so you can get other things you might really need =chocolate bar

Do not feel alone. You have plenty of brothers and sisters out here.

I have a small-ish spiral bound notebook about the length of a stick pen. It seldom leaves me. It has scribbled notes, lists, phone numbers, ongoing To Do lists, miserable drawings of things/ideas I want tokeep track of. One notebook per year. I lovingly refer to it /them as my brain. Every once on a while I leaf through the current one. Less often the ones for other years. Yes, I keep them from year to year.

They are good for information but to also keep mental, physical, and emotional track of where you are in this life. The years that my dad was sick and dying. The year and odd months that it took to settle his very simple estate. Not a very happy time around here but important when it is important to remember how we all did it together and to feel the blessings we received during the process. This year we are going to be able to get Dad "home" for burial. Complete with the tv remote and his Eagle Scout badge. (The funeral home didn't even turn a hair.) We all grin to think of what he'll have to say as well as the ones who have gone before and the ones who will come after him.

Welcome to the list makers group!

Pat

YOU are NOT in idiot. I am sure you are just an absent minded cupcake!! :)

well...if you're an idiot, then I'M also an idiot.... sigh.........