What things are you good at remembering (and forgetting)?

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What sort of things can you easily store in your head without having to write it down? (Things what you learnt as a baby/toddler don't count).

-How to spell words
-What year an event in my life happened (although harder to remember specific things that happened before I was 10)
-What certain songs remind me of (sort of a deja vu thing when I listen to different songs. Most 90's songs will bring me back a memory, even small trivial ones)
-Faces and names of people
-What each classroom looked like through my school life, also I can remember the names and faces of nearly every teacher I ever had
-Buying gifts and presents for people and what sort of things people like and/or want
-Social faux pas I have made in the past, I can remember so many

Things I am no good at remembering are:-

-Numbers
-Bus timetables (even though I get buses all the time)
-Important items I need to take out with me like money or keys, which is why I keep everything in my purse and not take it out when at home, or if I have to take something out I put it straight back, otherwise I will go out without it
-I subconsciously remember to wash but I often forget to put deodorant or make-up on (or if I do wear make-up I forget to take it off before I go to bed)
-Where I've put things (sometimes I forget where I put my phone so I have to get someone to ring it so I can find where I put it)
-Appointments (I have to write them down on the calender)
-Things I am forced to learn what I'm not that interested in
-What things stand for (abbreviations)
-Phone numbers (I can't even remember my own mobile number)

What sort of things are you good at remembering or forgetting? There's probably more but I can't think of any more at the moment.

I'm good at remembering:

Names, the more exotic and unusual the better
Anything having to do with words

I'm terrible at remembering:

Phone numbers, unless they are frequently called ones

Remembering the good times and forgetting my ex.: p

I'm Good At Remembering;
- Facts/ information about a special interest (though I have a much weaker memory for numerical facts)
- Past events
- Details about something I read and found interesting

I'm bad at remembering;
- Information on a topic that I did not consider interesting
- Phone numbers
- Historical dates (I'm not a numbers person)
- Where I've put things (unless I put them in their usual place)
- Items of clothing that I've taken off when sitting down
- The exact way someone phrased something (so frustrating when trying to recall a conversation!)
-Names
-Suspect a slight issues with faces out of their usual context

One thing I'm terrible at forgetting is the day something bad happened. I have a harder time remembering the exact date something really good happened in my life.

Going by OP's list and by other posts in the thread...

Incredibly good at remembering:

- numbers (dates, birthdays, phone numbers, any random number digits)
- spatial locations, routes, organization of things in locations/places, main sensory details (holistic) of the locations/places (classrooms too, yeah)
- logical meaning of text/reading material

Very good:

- spelling (in my native language, I never tried to learn it as much in English, still okay there too, tho')
- autobiographical memory, incl. the orientation about what stuff happened in each year
- timetables, lists
- details of any text/reading material that I can structure, organize, doesn't matter if I'm forced to learn it, still fine
- the places my things belong to (to keep order)
- (recalling) facts relevant to current situation

Normal:

- faces, names
- appointments
- important items
- hygiene details
- where I've put things
- abbreviations
- what people like for gifts
- information on not interesting topic
- items of clothing I took off

Atrocious:

- sentence/text/song word by word
- social faux pas stuff, luckily
- a load of facts without relevance or without my organizing them first

And no deja vu with songs. I can only get memories called up based on association with places/locations in space. No other associative memory for me. Not by smells, not by songs, nothing like that. Well, but this is not concrete: I can also do it by associating numbers for certain types of data ordered in a list. And, I guess, by logical meaning.

Good at remembering:
- Numbers.
- Faces.
- Dates.
- Random facts irrelevant to the topic at hand.
- Random things from my childhood/past, often more negative than positive ones.

Bad at remembering:
- To do actually important things.

I'm good at remembering numbers and combinations of numbers and letters (like passwords). I'm also good at remembering things like facts, especially facts about things that interest me. I can remember names very well too, and I even know and remember the middle names of all of my family members and friends.

I'm awful at remembering faces and directions and remembering chores like unloading the dishwasher, cleaning the bathroom, and dusting

Bad at remembering:

Anything important ( give me 7 items to get when shopping , I'll only remember about 5 )

Good at remembering:

Useless trivia ( usually tv characters )

I think I have an excellent autobiographical memory. I don't always remember the actual date, but I do remember the month and year of things that have happened in my life.

I forget usernames and passwords. I should write them down, but I make them so easy for me to remember that I believe I will remember them, but I still forget. Some accounts I have forgotten both username and password, so I could never access the account again.

Remembering: Anything to do with animals or biology
Forgetting: Basically anything that doesn't pertain to the above