The WHERE DID I PUT THAT??? issue

[Markybeau]

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This is a bit off-topic but I moved house recently, and lost my palace of tinkering, having to bin loads of stuff that fell into the' one day that'll be useful' category.

Now I have a permitted tiny corner of a 'shed' behind loads of other crap she doesn't want in the house. All of which I have to move every time I need to get to my tools.

Yet I'm still hearing, 'I don't think WE need all this bike stuff'.

Does that sound familiar to anyone?

 

[2manyoranges]

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Ah … 'Space....the final frontier....(between bike and non-bike people)...'

If I didn't have adequate bike fettling room I think I would go even more crazy....

 

[Scvintage]

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Magnets, my work area is surrounded by magnets. Big, small, ones that telescope, weak ones, strong ones, the one that looks like a metal ashtray (I love that one). If something makes it past my army of magnets and escaped under the bench, I have the big magnet on a string. Funny part is the one magnet I can never find is the telescope one. I always stick it to a perfect spot that I can’t find twice. I can remember things stored in drawers, if it’s in a box... it’s lost to time and space.

I’ll tread very lightly here because I can go for hours... navigating is my hobby. (Start my opinion) we humans are built to remember the location of something while we are navigating. There is actually a navigating chemical in our skull. Drawers work excellent with this because of moving. Boxes, boxes do not work with navigating memory. That’s why humans have a long list of lost treasure in boxes. The lost ark, Pandora’s box, pirate chest, etc

 

[lensmansteve]

I used to have a friend who liked magmets, but now we're poles apart..

 

[Scvintage]

I used to have a friend who liked magmets, but now we're poles apart..

Some friends just don’t give a flux..

 

[lensmansteve]

Gauss you're right there..

 

[2manyoranges]

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I initially found this discussion quite repellent - but I guess I found myself being attracted to it after all

 

[lensmansteve]

Just coil me Henry and colour me cobalt..

 

[Kona-Ian]

My Ex Wife, I used to annoy the shit out of her keep asking where things were.
When it was just me I learnt to remember where most stuff is.
Normally right and do find what it is I'm looking for.

 

[lensmansteve]

Yes, I've been on my alonesome for the last three years, was previously with the same gal for twenty - I'm finding that I seem to be remembering stuff and doing more than I did, generally speaking. Not that I'm advocating singledom or anything..