Have you lost your keys recently? Or maybe your wallet?
Well apparently there is a scientific method to finding your lost house hold items, and fast!
Professor Michael Solomon has 12 steps to finding lost objects and you can read about them here!
I'll go over a few quick steps right now and how I recently found my lost keys, so you get the idea:
- Look where it's meant to be
This is very important! Lots of people will start looking where they thought they might have the object they are looking for and then begin frantically looking everywhere! Instead you should throughly search the are where you though the object last was.
- Think systematically
It's not going help to rummage around looking for a lost item. Your search should be systematic and thorough. Start in the most obvious places!
- Think 18 inches!
Professor Solomon states that a lost household object can usually be found within 18 inches of where it was meant to be! So make your really having a good look in all the right places. Also think about the size of an object e.g. if it can fall behind or in between furniture.
Recently I had lost my house keys. I was almost 100% sure that they were in my room somewhere (where they usually are) but I couldn't find them anywhere! My first mistake was the frantic search, I checked where I thought they might be and then started randomly looking everywhere and even kept checking the same places multiple times! I eventually had given up and was about to get a new set of keys cut when I decided to have one last look and this time I was following the advice of Professor Solomon.
I searched obvious places where they might be (around the bench top, in my bag, in my uni backpack). From there I searched all of my bags even ones I didn't think I had used. So where next on the systematic list? Pockets. I went to my cupboard and checked every pocket that was hanging in there and found my keys!
It turns out that I had put the keys in the pocket of a winter jacket that I had worn to uni one day, hung up and forgot that they were in there at all! So now I have my keys back and I don't have to spend money on getting another set cut.
Next time you lose something make sure to give Professor Solomon's tips a go and let me know how it goes!
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