No you won’t “definitely won’t forget this time”
our sink is close to the stove.
It has a extentable head.
It can be used to fill a pot thats already on the stove.
sometimes this takes more than 3 seconds for large pots.
so you can just hang the head of the faucet in the pot for half a minute, the hose is just long enough.Then you go and fetch mop and bucket, and dry socks.
every single time.
Man, I’ve done that so many times. Another one is, “I’ll set this important object in this random place while I go do a side-errand. When I’m done I’m sure I will somehow remember where I left it, even though this has never worked before.”
Bonus points if it’s contained in a pressurized aluminum can.
Expect: “What the heck was that boom?!”
I hope it was seltzer instead of soda.
Kid of a girl I was seeing years ago put a can of Coke in there, forgot about it, and the fucking can exploding blew the door of the freezer off somehow.
I’ve been using the “kitchen timer” function on my microwave non-stop since I found it
I do the same thing by only putting my drink in the freezer when I’m cooking something else on a timer like in the microwave.
❌ Randomly when I just want a cold one?
✅ When I’m making a hot pocket.
I’ll remember because by the time I put it in there I’m close to dying of thirst, but still won’t drink something at room temp. So forgetting and then remembering my crippling dehydration is generally a pretty good egg timer for it
Get a drink with more alcohol in it. It will survive longer
Roughly 1 degree below 0°C per degree (percent) of alcohol is the rule of thumb I was taught
FUCK I put a snack in the freezer like… 5 days ago? And completely forgot about it until now
This will happen again I can’t fetch it right now
I’ve forgotten about thin mints in the freezer for so long that I had purchased another pack the next Girl Scout cookie season and only found them when I put newly purchased package in the freezer.
Jo when you home buddy? Set a timer.
This. I put protein shakes in the freezer bc they taste better the colder they are. They aren’t good though if you freeze them then let them thaw, so it’s a pretty high risk game. I try to remember to set a 30 minute timer on my phone whenever I do it.
You know ice exists, right?
Smartphones have location-based reminders. Just ask Siri or whatever Google calls theirs this month.
Know thyself and set a timer. I don’t allow myself to do stuff like that without setting an alarm.
Beep, beep, beep,
Beep, beep, beep,
What’s that for, again?
Better turn it off
I’m gonna turn it off now, and get to it right away. Where does the burn smell come from?
MultiTimer for Android and iOS: Set as many labelled timers as you like.
Android (not sure about iOS) you can also label your native alarm app alarms.
Can recommend 👍👍
“Why does it smell burnt? I am sure I set a timer!”
“Hey Google, set a 20 min reminder*, ‘drinks in the freezer’”
20 mins later Google will notify “Brinks the breezer” but hopefully that’s enough to remind me.
Yeah I get real snotty with the assistant too, cussing it out and talking mad shit. I don’t care if a future AI catches me out. Fuck Roku’s Basilisk, either a superhuman AI respects lesser beings or it’s no better than a flawed hypocrite like me.
Give it the British lady voice and it will soothe your rage when it fucks up.
20 minutes later: silences timer because I’m too focused on something else.
2 days later: … crap.
“Guess I’m re-washing that load of laundry.”
Don’t you fucking call me out like that, dammit
Again…
I have graduated to even screwing up my timers. Now the timer doesn’t get silenced until the thing it is timing gets accomplished. Unless I’m distracted and fail to use that rule, then it’s back to square one of course.
Edit: whoops, two people already said basically this. Guess I’ll leave it
I usually press the “+1 minute” button and then the “pause” button. That way it stays in the tray of my phone and I’m too OCD to not get rid of it as soon as possible. Then of course you have to adhere to the rule of only removing the timer once you did what you set the timer for…
Use alarms and snooze them instead giving you 10 min until it rimgs again. Repeat until task is done
But then don’t you have to set it to a precise time on the clock each time you use it, rather than “30 min in the future”, for example? The issue for me is timers that I set often, like while cooking. Seems like a minor annoyance maybe but I use them while cooking and entertaining especially, AKA having my attention severely split already lol, additional complexity is to be avoided
Yes it doesn’t really work for cooking or tasks where you need to be precise, but then snoozing wouldn’t work anyway since 10 min would be too long for most occasions. However you can use your assistant on your phone to set precise alarms. Just say “Hey Google/Siri set an alarm for 12 minuts for the pizza” and it should set an alarm instead of a timer.
I just have a few generic alarms on my phone i keep changing for whenever i need them. They dont repeat weekly on Android automatically so they are like single use. I also do also have weekly repeating timers for remembering stuff like trash bins or groceries delivery.
I love when my timer goes off and I have no memory of setting it. Which critically important thing am I forgetting now?
Rule 1: set timers Rule 2: name ‘em
Yep! My fridge has a one-tap 30-min timer specifically for drinks in the freezer (you can also then adjust the time with more taps). Needless to say, it is one of the most used functions of my fridge (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Don’t know wheter it is a “smart fridge” but that’s one smart fridge!
Everyone’s gotta learn the hard way.
Oh yes, that rule I set for my self is written in
bloodmoldy laundry.
I’ve learned the hard way (multiple times) that if beverage goes into freezer a timer of one hour MUST be set on my phone or smart speaker, because I gaslighted myself into believing it’s illegal to put drinks in the freezer and if someone finds out I’ll be arrested.
This is genius!!
😂
Bomb has been planted.
My ex. Never me. I’d drink soda warm before id risk it bursting.
My ADHD absolutely can’t handle that clean up.
If you get lucky it supercools before freezing and the shock of the vessel breaching is enough to freeze the rest of it mid-explosion. The one time I’ve had a bottle burst (luckily the cap gave way first), that happened and I was left with a bottle with frozen liquid holding the cap a few cm above the bottle and minimal dripping.
You mean my roommate wasn’t trying to make beer slushy all over the freezer daily?
No I wasn’t
That’s why I always set a 1 hour timer. Or I will definitely forget.
Sometimes I set a timer and when it chimes I’ve already forget what it was for lol
On most smartphones you can give titles to timers.
instinctively silences timer without addressing what the timer was for
Why the fuck did I set a timer?!
Yeah, and that’s when I needed to step up to setting named alarms rather than timers or reminders.
Neville?
My phone lets me label timers. Get an app that can do that.
It’s even faster to put it in ice water and the worst that can happen if you forget about it is your drink gets warm again.
Add salt to the ice water so it melts colder and it will cool your drink faster.
