I've never forgotten to remove my cap and put on the cotton OR hat - tucking my hair inside. That would be like forgetting pants - which I also have never done.
No, but I forget to put on my pouch before I close the locker. Have to open it up again, put it on. Has my scissors and pens, and it's where my ring and watch go if I scrub in. Because I once threw my ring away putting it in the scrub pocket. At the end of the day, worn scrubs are dumped in the laundry bag in the locker room.
Having a lock with a thumb position combination instead of numbers has been wonderful, since my hand remembers, when summoning up numbers was always an iffy proposition. Especially first thing in the morning - before 0700, or after very long days.
I have forgotten to wear my jacket home after work on warm days with cold mornings. I've left my ring & watch in the pouch at work. Or my necklace when I take it off and drop it in there as well, because it's irritating under the thyroid shield when running the fluoro.
After I lock the car, I clip the keys on to my purse* strap, where it stays all day. As I leave, I slip my badge into the outside zip pocket, where it stays when I'm not at work. These sorts of habits are part of why I forget details less now than when I was younger, lose fewer things.
My clothes I lay out the night before, mostly developed that habit so as not to wake D in the morning in small apartments. But mostly because I don't trust my morning brain, and try not to stress it out too much.
*A very small baggallini, very practical.
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I've taken to laying out, or at least deciding, what I will wear the next day before I go to sleep so that I don't have to give it any thought whatsoever. I am trying to teach my kids to do the same, but it isn't always effective.
It's part of my going-to-bed routine. Like brushing my teeth and locking the doors.
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