To remember the essentials you have to take with you every day—phone, wallet, keys, etc.—keep them beside the front door where you can see them on your way out. When preparing for appointments, put whatever extra items you might need to bring with you in that same spot with your wallet and keys.
Total agree. How to have that space in this house without the view into the room then being one of even more clutter/stuff?
It’s easy to remember the pot of boiling water when you’re staring at it, but not when you leave the room. Your attention is redirected toward the laundry on the couch you still haven’t folded, the snacks you left on the coffee table, or the latest posts on the Instagram feed you thought you’d scroll through while you waited for the water to boil.
This is why I always love when we stay in a small cabin or Airbnb. I'll never forget how viscerally peaceful I felt in that cabin in the Redwoods. It had everything we needed for simple functioning. It's all I wanted. It's why I lament modern life and our large homes and endless possessions. There's way too much for me to forget/lose track of when it's not in front of me.
Even I still wrestle with the worry that maybe I am just a cold and callous person—right up until I meet up with a friend in person and all the love and fun memories come flooding back at the sight of them.
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I’ll put a pot of water on the stove to boil for pasta. Then, I’ll leave the kitchen to do something else while I wait for it to boil. Almost immediately, I’ll completely forget that there’s a pot of water boiling on the stove—until I happen to walk into the kitchen a few hours later and find an empty pot sitting on a hot burner.
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