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Basically title. I've always been a world champion at losing things. Out of sight, out of not mind, but probably the entire existence.

Putting something down and then quickly turning around to do something almost always meant that the thing I was holding just a minute or two earlier will be lost for another hour or two at the absolute bare minimum.

I know that the go-to method for us ADHD-ers to cope with that is to have one designated spot for putting all your important stuff in, and do so nowhere else. But my question is...

How in the living heck do you build and keep that habit? I can manage to keep it short-term, but my working memory is so consistently ass that it pretty much never stays with me.

My mind is so impulsive and scattered that even if I consciously say to myself "put this darn earbud case over there and nowhere fckin else", the moment any additional sudden stimuli kicks in I drop it on the spot and focus on that thing instead.

And bang, there goes my precious possession, lost to oblivion. It sounds like it should be manageable with some trial and error but... It's not. I'd like it to be so, but it's really not

Any tips y'all have to share?

God bless🙏

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