- Broken ceramic soap dish
- Broken light shade
- Lost hotel key
- Lost credit card
- Lost power board
- Lost US adapter
- Waterlogged shoes
- Lost moleskine
- Shirt left in hotel room
- Lost wallet (found again, minus cash)
- Lost wiimote and wii nunchuck
- Missed flight to Hobart
- Fine for missing ticket in Berlin
- Fine for not repaying fine for missing ticket in Berlin
- Broken plunger
Friday, 6 February 2009
Avoidable Losses
In the last twelve months, from memory:
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Ignoring the ones that are problems with money management, you must be due for investment in some kind of optimal bag solution. Should you find one, a demonstration would be good.
Not sure how any of these problems are with money management.
An optimal bag would be nice, but I don't think that would tackle the root cause.
Hmm... the breakages happen, but a fair bit of this is a worry :-/
To do some advertising, Pacsafe, which you can get from Snowgum, etc., make neat secure but handy bags. That might fix some of the problems...
I don't know. I have a friend who seems to lose stuff a lot. I know she loses more than she says, as well, because we've been camping/travelling with them, and every time we've packed up a campsite or room for them while they've been getting the child-seat stuff together, we've always found a sock or a shirt or whatever.
I've lost about 3 things in my whole life (excluding breakages)... did miss a flight, but that was because Aidan and I managed to book on different days (same flight number and time!!).
I'm pretty sure the difference between me and my friend is that I have an obsession with/fear of losing stuff, so I'm always stupidly careful and double check everything most of the time.
I wouldn't recommend OCD though! The solution is not always better than the problem! :)
If I had to do an amateur diagnosis, I'd say that the part of my brain that tracks these things shuts down when I get stressed or tired.
Hmm... not good :(
I suppose the other option might be to install small gps tracking devices, or more simply, magnets to all these things, and walk around with either a gps tracker thingy, OR a whacking great magnet covered in essential items :)
I guess a better idea would be to not be stressed! :)
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