The $1 memory aid (and why your spouse won't like it)
Posted
Jan 30 2008, 06:15 PM
by
Karen Datko
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Do you have trouble remembering to put the DVDs in the mail or take the dog to his vet appointment? Jacob Cazzell has a simple and cheap idea for jogging your memory. "Put your important to-dos and memos where you'll see them when it counts most -- first thing when you wake up and last thing before bed. Where? Your bathroom mirror," he writes at SuccessMinders. The dry-erase marker will cost you a buck or less.
The problem is, your wife might object to the mess you're making. Jacob advises, in a very amusing fashion, how to get around the "low wife acceptance factor." (We assume this will work for husbands too.)
Before you turn your bathroom mirror into your bulletin board, stand in front of the part of the mirror that your wife normally uses, and draw a heart large enough to frame your head and shoulders. Write a note underneath. "'I wuv you' works well," he says. Let your wife find it. "They will by the end of the day, and you'll get major brownie points for being such a big sweetie."
He recommends using an Expo marker. He says, "They don't have fumes that make you feel stoned, and in a small bathroom that's a good thing."
