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Do you like to make yourself 'to do' lists, and do you actually follow them?

I kinda like making them, or more, I worry I will forget stuff and I like to be productive.. I always give myself massive, 'to do' lists at the weekend, which is probably a shame, and at the start of the summer break I have an enormous list of stuff to catch up on.... I usually manage to do most of it too and that is a good feeling. 

Posted - July 18, 2018
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  • 234
    Boy do I EVER make myself "to-do" lists, or maybe I should call them "don't forget to do this" lists. I'm like you....if I DON'T have a list, I will most likely forget some things that I really NEEDED to do, but got so caught up doing other things that I forgot the most important ones!! A lot of times it may be phone calls that I need to make, but since businesses don't open early, I'm doing too many other things and forget the phone calls I should have been making!!! And like you say, I mark them off the list as I accomplish them.....that may be so I don't do them again, ya' think?....;-)
      July 18, 2018 11:13 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    I am exactly the same.. I would get distracted and forget what I needed to do .. 
      July 18, 2018 2:00 PM MDT
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  • 234
    The distractions drive me crazy, too!!! I hate it when I'm in the middle of something and the phone rings. I have to go get my list back out when I get off the phone, lol...
      July 19, 2018 12:02 PM MDT
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  • 10662
    No.  The only lists I make are shopping lists.  I'm not saying I don't forget to do things, because I can walk out the back door and instantly forget why I went outside.  Besides, if I did make a to-do list I'd probably forget that I made it ... let alone remember where I put it. 
      July 18, 2018 12:23 PM MDT
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  • 1502
    I have to make to do lists or I forget what I have to do. I have short term memory problems. 
      July 18, 2018 1:00 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Me too, which is why I have to do myself a to do list or I wouldn't remember what I needed to do 
      July 18, 2018 1:59 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    First thing that goes.
      July 18, 2018 2:30 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    a to-do list only works if you remember to take it with you and then remember to look at it.

    A recipe is a to-do list. You know what? Hot cocoa tastes odd if you forget to put vanilla in it!
      July 18, 2018 1:37 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    I have mine placed on the hob top in the kitchen... or on my computer where I can see it and refer to it.. They are almost always house or garden chores so I don't have to take it with me :)

    I am rubbish at following recipes however.
      July 18, 2018 1:57 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    No...I have a f*** it list.
      July 18, 2018 2:31 PM MDT
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  • 53524

      Hold on; I'm a bit busy right now, so I've made a note-to-self to answer this later. 

    ~
      July 18, 2018 11:59 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    When I DO?  I get things done.  I procrastinate and don't make the list.

      July 19, 2018 12:12 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Usually people make lists and don't DO them, so clearly you are a step ahead of most :P
      July 19, 2018 12:26 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    sometimes if i have something important to do that i dont want to forget
      July 22, 2018 5:34 PM MDT
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