My trick to this is to leave the bottle on the tub/shower floor when I’m truly done with it. It increases the chances that I’ll get rid of the bottle once I’m out of the shower. It does not necessarily guarantee that I’ll remember to grab a new bar of soap or shower gel, but it interrupts my usual post-showdr flow of things enough to up the odds that I will
I open the shower door and immediately throw the empty bottle into the basin that way it will bother me at some point and take care of it
I used to do that too! For some reason it didn’t work as well for me, though. I’d remember to take the empty bottle with me, but I’d forget to replace it before leaving the washroom
I just bulk buy stuff when it’s discounted that way I mot only always have some in the cabinet but also only buy it discounted
PSA: it’s not good for your hair to shampoo every day. Every other day should be fine.
Honestly every other day is still a LOT. Shampoo your hair when it gets greasy, no sooner. The grease glands on your head will calm the fuck down after a while.
Uh… Can I ask more about hair? I try to wash my hair once a week, but it currently gets greasy after about 5 days (day 6 and 7 I wear headbands). If I wash it on day 5, do you think I’ll eventually make it to 7 days easily, or do I need to power through?
5 days isn’t going to work. It has to be every other day or every 7 days, as I can’t keep track otherwise! Wash it when it’s greasy doesn’t work for me either 🤷 I’m not intuitive.
I mean you could probably wait it out, but it’ll be months before your hair starts getting less greasy I imagine, so I dunno how workable that is.
Fill the bottle up with water and you can get at least another week out of it
In the meantime we’ll remember to buy some more, right?!??
Place the squeezed bottle on the fringe, so you remember before you get in your next shower.
You skipped a few steps. First, throw the bottle out of the shower on to the floor so that you see it when you get out. Then, see the bottle on the floor when you get out and remember why it’s there. Now, place that bottle somewhere to remind yourself to buy more. Lastly, realize that you forgot to wash your junk because of that whole empty bottle situation while eating lunch and smelling funk.
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For me it would only fit if I realize why it’s there well after I blamed EVERYONE else for doing it.
I literally always have a second item on hand. The second I open something, I immediately add it toy grocery list. This gives me a lot of time to remember.
quietly adds shampoo to the grocery list…
**sorry, that’s just being human. **
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“we all pee too, but if you’re doing it 90 times a day there seems to be a problem”
99 percent of ADHD memes are just describing normal human condition.
And when a normal human condition becomes a significant problem, we call it a disorder.
Hey yeah it’s funny you ALSO forget shampoo sometimes. Yep, that is normal. Sounds like it’s not a problem for you then. Cool.
I throw it on the bathroom floor over the curtain. Then i add it to my list on my phone after i dry off when i pick it up to throw it away.
Every time you see it you kick it closer to the shopping list on the refrigerator. Just like the cardboard tube of the toilet paper you replaced with the last roll
Secret tech is to just buy like 4 bottles at a time, then you only have to deal with the problem 25% of the time
Exactly, I buy a big pack of soap bars so when it’s getting low I tell myself to open a new one when I get out of the shower, only to tell myself the next day until my soap bar runs out and I have to use my wife’s body wash
When my soaking wet self has to do the shuffle from the shower to the soap under the sink and notice it is low I put one of the rmeaining bars in the sink so I can’t miss it later as a reminder to pick up some more when I’m not soaking wet.
Putting stuff in my way is the best way to make sure future rlme does something about it.
Like my 500 alarms that I can no longer hear, I’m great at stepping over things.
I keep by backups on a shelf within reach of the shower. I toss the empty in the middle of the floor. Someone will toss it eventually.
I had that epiphany the other day, what if I just put the soaps on the little cart next to the shower So i could reach out and grab a new one, I think I dreamt about it it was so good
Dreaming about efficient soap placement? I love it.
Costco is my Savior
Shopping at big box warehouse club stores has this solution built in, with the unfortunate downside of having to go in to those stores.
Also a good way to end up with 16 bottles because you can’t remember if you’re on the last bottle or just bought it. Especially when doing the wholesale store where I only buy it when it’s on sale once or twice a year.
Also doesn’t solve the issue of bringing a new bottle into the shower.
This is definitely the way. I have so many extras of everything.
But you still have to remember to bring it into the shower before you get in.
My OSHA unapproved slip and slide flooring says otherwise.
I do this and keep a reusable/editable checklist on my phone (Google’s Keep Notes since I use android) and continually add to it over time.
If I remember needing something and I have my phone, I can add it. This lets me run through the list to see if I can add anything else or need to uncheck things I might be running low on. Every so often at home, when I remember, I also go through the house to add any consumables I use; leaving unchecked if low, checking off if good for now.
When I’m in the store and the compulsory feeling of forgetting something hits, I go through the checked to uncheck whatever I can remember I need or am running low on, then add what the store has to my cart/basket. I then will only check things off right before I go to/while in checkout or when putting them away at home.
Do you list food on there, too, or mostly inedible consumables like toilet paper? Do you add bulk non-perishable food? Do you have weekly food on there, like produce? This is an awesome idea. My only hesitation is that I’ve always used a paper grocery list.
I do the exact same thing!
For me it’s just a text file named ‘buy.txt’.
Only 4? I buy them by the case.
Not sure that I have ADHD, but when I remember to, I put the empty bottle on the floor outside of the shower. I still forget or can’t deal with it when I get out sometimes, but it won’t sit on the floor indefinitely like it will if left in the shower.
It’s scary how you can find other people on the other side of the world doing the same thing as you, always reminds me I’m not that special lol. I do exactly this!
exactly. Squeeze the fucker out and yeet it right out. Some time the same day you’ll walk into your bathroom, find a shampoo bottle on the floor, ask yourself “da heck?” and will remember that you gotta go buy some.
And then Wifey will throw the bottle and yell at me because I don’t throw my junk, and then she will yell at me again because I use her shampoo.
Or you start a game of shampoo bottle “toss” because you nailed her in the head when she was brushing her teeth.
Nah, I never start a fight I can’t win.
Have I ADHD? I thought I was just stupid ^^.
Despite the way it’s portrayed in the media, ADHD is underdiagnosed in some groups (women and anyone not white is less likely to be diagnosed in the US, for example). So, maybe. It’s worth talking to a psychiatrist about it if it’s regularly impacting your life.
It can be difficult to figure out on your own whether or not your symptoms are ADHD, because everyone has moments that could count as ADHD symptoms. But for people without ADHD they only happen occasionally or rarely. To steal an analogy, everyone pees, but if you’re pissing 40 times a day it’s time to see a doctor.
That said, if you’re in the US now is a super shitty time to get diagnosed because there’s a terrible ADHD med shortage. My husband’s been without meds for about 2 months now.
Thanks for your serious answer. My bad joke wasn’t deserving such a caring message.
To be honest, I actually don’t think I have ADHD, I’m just the kind of guy who’s always in his head, not actually paying attention. As a teenager I saw a psychologist because I had memory troubles, but he didn’t saw anything strange (and I’m a white man; I’m not American, but racism and misogyny are realities here too).
I hope your husband will receive his meds again soon!
Why not both? :P
I’m at least stupid, maybe both.
That’s another nail in the coffin.
Oh well, at least it works to my advantage when I don’t remember to bring work with me home to ponder.
It doesn’t even have to be hidden away, the thing you aren’t remembering or even do occasionally remember to do could be in the middle of your living room.
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Two is one, one is none.
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I try to throw the bottle to the bathroom entrance, and once I’m done in the way of the front door to make it a physical inconvenience to forget it (then hopefully goes on the shopping list)
This is my universal system. It doesn’t even need to directly correlate with the reminder, since most of the time I just need to be reminded that I need to remember something.
For example, I’ll leave a chair in the middle of the kitchen so I remember to do something when I get home. The second I see it I remember whatever it is I need to do. I’ll leave it there until it annoys me into doing what it was I needed to do. Very effective for my ADD/OCD combo.
