Forgetting Things

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I can forget to brush my hair, brush my teeth, forget to read my mail, forget to go shopping online & forget other things too. I hate forgetting things! That why I cut my own hair.

I forget to flip my laundry sometimes.

I don't even cut my hair. It's been 4 years lol. Getting pretty long.

I actually have become really obsessed with cleanliness and having a nice, organized ritualization of the various things I need to take care of daily. Checking the mail, feeding the cats, doing all of my grooming stuff, feeding myself, drinking water, etc.

I tend to just do it all automatically. After pretty much being kept as someone's slave for a few years I had to retrain myself to do basic daily self-maintenance things. I was also kept in very messy, dirty conditions, so I have a really big desire to remain in very orderly and clean environments.

I often forget small, routine things. I'm always forgetting to take my phone or wallet and having to go back to my apartment for them. Or I forget I've already brushed my teeth, applied deodorant or fed the fish and end up doing it twice. There have been times when I even ate two lunches because I simply forgot I'd already eaten. Or else I just forget to eat and don't have lunch at all.

I forget things due to being caught up in stuff. I'll make a mental note to let's say take the trash out. But then I'll find out about something cool and spend hours researching it

This is something I do a lot lol.

I also rely on setting notes on my phone in order to not forget appointments and things like that.

I lost my phone in my house like... 5-10 times yesterday. See something else, put down phone, get more distracted, an hour late realise I have no idea where my phone is. Drives me nuts. So yer I forget everything, people joke I would leave behind my head if it wasn't attached .

I forget to clean my teeth, change over the washing, to do the dishes, to cook dinner (that I even need to eat -__-), where any of my items are, to charge my phone etc etc etc. I am so so bad at everyday functioning sometimes it really upsets me. I find everything goes best if I stick to some kind of routine. For example every night before bed I go to the loo, plugin my phone to charge (my headphones I charge every other day), mentally index what I need tomorrow and where it is - I always lose my shoes in the morning! I have a calendar summary sent to me every morning with a list of all the meetings I have at work so I don't get surprised, and then upset aha.

Thankfully my boyfriend kinda indexes where all my stuff is so normally while I am freaking out he's found my stuff xD.

I forget to buy things, forget to take my meds, forget to book doc appointments when required and forget to hand in my repeat prescriptions. I forget that I've put food in the oven, forget to reply to people, forget to make important calls, forget to pay bills. Forget that i originally signed up to a website and get frustrated when trying to register when I get the 'this email address is already registered' message lol

I also am really bad with hair cuts, and not had a haircut for the past... 3 years I think!! It's so long, it really needs sorting!!

I guess the upside is when it comes to films and games. I forget what happened when I saw/played them originally, it's kinda like watching it/playing it for the first time each time

for me, if it's not part of a regular routine or written down/calendared then it's probably not going to get done.

I forget to do a lot of routine chores, like vacuuming, washing dishes, and things like changing my sheets on my bed. People always have to remind me of those things, and even then I still forget a lot of the time.

Forgetting to pay the bills is the worst right. Council tax annoys me, I will go to pay it, then it asks me for a property reference number and I know I have a letter somewhere with that on it, but forget where. So I think I will look for it at some point and do this later, then totally forget about it until it is too late and I get a letter summoning me to court. I signed up for credit cards with the soul purpose of increasing my credit rating, I make sure that I can manage those financially, and I can but I missed one tiny payment one month due to just forgetting to pay it, and bam, back to square one.