I have a disability that I've never really told anyone about.
Actually, I've had it since I was a teenager.
I cannot put things back in my wallet or purse after I've used them.
And by "things" I mean money, phones, credit cards, sunglasses, etc. You know, stuff you might need later.
I have lost more stuff and had to re-issue more credit cards that any human should ever have to do in a lifetime.
Oh, sure, when I lose stuff I vow NEVER to do it again, and, I'll change my ways if I can just have one more chance.
Yet, after I make that vow, I'll stop at the grocery, fling my sunglasses on the seat next to me, go in and buy something and stuff my debit card in my pocket.
I have no idea why I'm unable to put these things away. I don't typically lose other stuff, but, this is getting to be a problem.
It's not that my debit card or my sunglasses, etc. have been lost in public (knock on wood), it's just that wherever I put them makes sense to me at the time, and, then I can't remember what I've done with them, or, they fall out and slide around the car or something only to be seen again when I clean out the car or get a new debit card.
Yes, I KNOW this is a bad habit, and, anything you lecture me about is nothing I haven't told myself, yet it continues.
Yes, I KNOW it's not hard to just put the cash or card back in my wallet after I use it, but, I am impaired.
I thought perhaps my purse was too big, or, my wallet is too stuffed to make putting things away easy, but, I've pared down a lot, and, it still persists.
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
While I do that, will you look under the seat and see if my sunglasses are there?
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I occasionally suffer from that disorder as well. Usually, though, it's my Costco card. You know how they hand it to you, along with your receipt, and then hurry you along so you can go stand in the next line to exit the store and have the bouncer check your basket against your receipt? I always seem to just pocket the Costco card during that whole process and then forget about it until it tumbles out of the dryer.
I have the very same disorder. I lose stuff all the time. But I'll take it a step further....I sometimes don't even carry a purse but have "ADD pockets" with cash, cards, receipts, chapstick, change, ipod , cell phone all jumbled up together in there. My schlep bag might have 9 pencils for my notebook but no pen for the checkbook because I left it on my desk or diapers but no wipes because I left those in the car. I don't even put things back in the same place at home and twice in the same year had to replace my credit and debit cards. Is there a support group somewhere?
I have *exactly* the same problem. My kids tell me all of the time that I should get the Buxton Organizer that they see advertised on television. They don't seem to realize that more pockets and places to put stuff won't help a person like me!!
well at least you are on your way to recovery...because you have started to admit your problem :)
I seem to be suffering from this disorder as well. Its gotten so bad that I don't even use a purse or wallet anymore. I still haven't found a solution to the problem, but if you find a 12 step program or something, let me know.
I NEVER put stuff back in my wallet either. People are always yelling at me about it, too. Like it affects them? But I've never lost anything either (that I know of). And now that I've said that you can bet that all my cash and credit cards are now missing from my purse.
Your sunglasses are atop your head, darling. Now, put those cards IN your wallet or I'm going to start telling everyone that you are my mother.
Since I am not allowed to offer a solution (thank goodness, because I don't have one anyway), the best I can do it try to get you to take solace that you are not like my wife. She is anal about everything being precisely back where it belongs in her wallet and/or purse, and then proceeds to lose the whole damn thing.
Wait a minute. If you get cured, what will you do for b**g material? Better think this through.....
When you figure out what causes this, please let me know. I've been searching for a cure for years!
I hate getting behind women in line a t the grocery store who pay with cash, right down to the penny, and then proceed to rearrange their purse while you wait to pay. That is precisely why I did the same thing as you until about a year ago. Now I use a purse that has those two little pockets right on the inside, right near the top. That is where I keep my two cards, one debit, one American Express and a couple store discount cards (Barnes & Noble comes to mind) and a few dollars. The purse has a real easy zipper, so it really takes no effort to unzip one-handed , find the pocket and run. I just use a wallet for grocery cart quarters, drivers license and medical id cards. Seems to be working.
I not only stash my cards in my pocket, then I will change to a different pair of jeans and forget to transfer my 'pocket stuff.' Then I show up in the checkout line with a cart full of stuff and no means to pay. You would think that one wouldn't do this more than once.
I have this problem in a major way. When I run out of credit and debit cards, I know it's time to do laundry, whereupon I will find them in the pockets of the pants I wore the past few days.
Rhonda, my 8yo [our in-house expert on TV commercials] has tried to convince me that I need that same organizer. It might mean more if she hadn't lost her lunchbox in the living room earlier this week.
Meanwhile, my 2yo never loses ANYTHING. In fact, he often knows where my things are -- and not because he moved them. LOL. He just sees where I put them....and then he REMEMBERS.
Also, my sunglasses are also currently missing. I must remember to ask the 2yo about that in the morning.
I was watching the Today Show this morning and they described a phenomenon known as "Momnesia."
I just assumed it was named after you...
Nice to put a name to it, though.
I do that same routine too. It seems like the only thing I do put back at the time of use is the savings card at Piggly Wiggly. But it is fun to find that forgotten cash in my coat pockets a few days after I put it there. Maybe there is a group for people like us, just like AA or Weight Watchers, LOL!
I too am a sufferer of this condition. I find it incredibly difficult to get my wallet open and put the change in it without creating a traffic jam at the checkout line. So I drop the money in my purse and it swims around in there with all the other junk. -- except for my credit card, which is in the pocket of the jeans I wore last Tuesday, and my sunglasses, which are in the dining room next to the mail, and my cellphone, which is on the back floorboard of the car. I do not appreciate it when sales clerks look at my purse and laugh, either. Obviously they weren't raised right.
oh shut the fuck up
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Douchenozzle.