Simple Tricks to Stop Losing Your Keys, Cards, and Cables

A home for everything

Put a small dish, hook, or tray right by the door and make it the only place keys and wallet ever live. The habit takes a week to stick and then runs on autopilot, because you always know exactly where to look.

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Do the same for the other usual suspects: a labelled box for cables, a fixed pocket in your bag for your phone, a spot for chargers. The rule is simple, one home per item, always returned, and the things you used to lose simply stop going missing.

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