Do you really remember the mental notes you have created?

When I do things for the day I have check list at hand. It is written in my tickler notebook. Lately, I am not doing it anymore. It is noted in my white board on the wall.

I used to remember everything, but I find it harder as I grow older.Scientists say tht the brain is shrinking and that's he cause of not being able to store so much information, specially new information. That's one explanation of why older people remember more what they did as youn people but not what they did a day before.

Well, I could do the same things like you do but sometimes do forget things. Maybe of old age, I guess! But shopping things would always stick on my mind!

I often fail. I don't know why. Maybe because my brain capacity has an end to it, and I can't remember everything, and maybe for my brain it wasn't important enough. Which is sometimes bad, because sometimes I forget stuff that are really important :P.

For me, this depends. If there's a lot of stuff, I need to write it down. But I can remember a short grocery list or something like that if I really try. What I can't do is decide I'm going to memorize 5 or 6 things on the grocery list, stare at it, then have it memorized. I have to use the information somehow. And the more I use it and work with it, the better I remember it. For example, say I need to go to the store and pick up a pound of hamburger, a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, cotton swabs, aspirin, and some dog food. The milk, hamburger, and eggs are all in quantities I usualy buy, so I don't have to remember this specifically. -The first thing I'd do is count the objects. I need to get six things. -Then I arrange the items by general location in the store. I would get the hamburger first, then the eggs, then the milk. Then I would leave the grocery department and get the aspirin, the cotton, then the dog food. -I list these by the first letter of each word. H, E, M, A, C, D. -Then I come up with some stupid sentence or phrase (the more stupid the easier to remember) where the letters are the first letters of each word in the sentence. Have early mornings and colorful days. And off to the store I go. It's never failed. If I spend 10 minutes doing this before I go, I won't forget. I use other tactics for longer lists, but I don't think they're as effective.