[Dalien]

PS I should have added to my previous post that I do have a couple of areas where I have organized chaos: My desk is one for sure! I love this area. My books, journals, paper & writing instruments, ramblings all in one area (for the most part...some is beside my bed). I don't label things (anywhere for that matter). Other places would be, a few drawers that I will stuff things into. I don't think I am obsessive compulsive; I do allow room for just setting things down. Though they can't stay there for a long period of time. I will go a week depending on what it is then they need to go back to their home.



Yes, HorribleAesthete, I have grasped the less is more concept a few years back. It is nice not having so much clutter!

[MissNobody]

'damit' is a German word that means 'with it' or 'so that'. :O

*sigh* damn it again!

[MissNobody]

My INFJ mother-in-law apparently is like this a lot. She'll get into a cleaning frenzy and clean up the home office, including my husband's workspace (he works for the family business); he hates this, because she'll sometimes "clean up" something that was important to him, and later deny that she did anything with it.

I would probably be like this, too, if I let myself go into a frenzy. But, I try not to do that...

For important things that I use a lot, like keys, or glasses, I have a few locations around the house that I tend to drop them, then I always know that they will be in one of these locations. If I put something somewhere where I usually wouldn't put it, I make myself pause and take mental note so that I am less likely to forget.

Those are the few things I never lose. My keys, my phone and my purse

[MissNobody]

This was definitely the case when I was younger. I was always so much in my head that I was very much the absent-minded professor (except for a brief bout of stress-induced OCD when I was about eight or so). Age and entering the workforce eliminated much of this, and joining the military hammered in the last nail. As much as I am attempting to embrace my P, I am hopelessly J in nature. Like Dalien, everything has a place. One thing that helps me in this respect is not having many possessions, and so very little misplace.

I do still have bouts of intense introspection when I wander about in a daze and forget what I was doing and why. I have decided to attempt to minimize the whys and whats in my life so that I can spend more time in my head, the only place where I feel safe...:)

I try to be very organised, I keep folders full of letters, wage slips, bills, insurance so I know where to find those! I quite enjoy it. Especially when I go looking for it and it is there, I then feel quite proud of my organising systems when that happens.

However 'absent minded' sounds like the best word to describe me. My thoughts are always on other things, not what I'm doing. I can very easily forget what I was doing or what I went into a room to do/get (as Dalien said).

[RememberWhenItRained]

unfortunately yes. not that bad, but still...

[yellowbritt]

I'm so absent-minded! Not only do I lose and forget things, but I'm just so unobservant. Sometimes I'm thinking so deeply and I'm so much in my own thoughts that I do the most ridiculous things. For instance, a few days ago I went home to visit my family. I was washing a load of clothes and wound up washing my camera and cell phone chargers. They must have somehow become mixed in with my clothes in my suitcase. How I didn't notice them is beyond me.

[yellowbritt]

I had been better about this lately, but then last Tuesday I lost my cell phone ($60 to replace it), and ever since then I've just kept losing things. It's been a nightmare. :/

[Jwing24]

Yes, and it bothers my SJ parents very much.

[napoleon227]

Not me. I hardly ever lose anything unless someone else move the shit on me and don't tell me. Then I get feisty cuz I hate lookin' for stuff that should be in it's damn place - where I left it! I'm very anal. Heavily tilted toward the J side.

[thegirlcandance]

Yeah, I'll also comment that my forgetfulness growing up what certainly not looked at by my ISFJ mother as a good thing. To her, that just influenced her to tell me how "irresponsible" I am and how I should not "be allowed on my own" because I had "not grown up yet".

Needless to say, I still forget things the same way as I did 10 years ago... the only difference now is that I have myself set into a routine on how to do things... which, ironically, I developed on my own because I was forced to once I started living on my own.