11-23-2018, 06:39 PM
(11-23-2018, 01:42 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: I lose stuff like that all the time, and I hate wasting effort on it the same as you. One of the few good things the military did for me was teaching my hyper-organization. The Lord helped me recognize that I needed to absorb that. You have to have it in you. Now at least I seldom lose track of important things, though I still misplace lesser stuff all the time.
Half of the problem I think is social: men have wallets, women have purses. It's much harder to lose a whole purse than a wallet. This is not me going "men's rights" or anything. I'm not that whiny and I have no desire to "have a national conversation about men's belongings"...I just need to adapt. Luckily, I don't own a lot of things so there's not a lot to get lost. It's just that the top 4 things (wallet, keys, phone, ID badge for work) are never in the same spot consistently.
Seriously entertaining (again) the idea of a fanny pack. They aren't considered as dorky as they used to be since they most of them are rebranded as "waist packs" or can double as over the shoulder bags as well. That would really solve my problem of the Big Four being scattered. I've also been continuing my kick of really getting rid of a lot of superfluous things to save brain space/energy, and having a fanny pack men's mini-travel bag will be another step forward for that.