How to remember a grocery list

Do you ever find yourself leaving your grocery list at home or in your car? It's frustrating, but there's a way for you to remember a list of items simply by using a method of associating images and words. This method of remembering is how we all remember anything because we've either consciously, or subconsciously associated an event to something we already know. Next time you need a to remember item you have to pick up at the grocery store, instead using a list try this technique to remember your items.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Imagination

1. Choose a peg system to remember your list. I use mostly these two
   
   1: MYSELF (Hair, eyes, nose, lips, etc...
   2: MY BEDROOM (Door, table, chair dresser, computer, etc...
2. While you think of an item for your grocery list try to associate the item with the first thing on your peg list. Make it the most ridiculous image you can in your mind's eye for those two things together.
   
   1: Oranges: (Orange/Hair) My head of hair on an orange.
   That's totally ridiculous looking!
   
   2: Carrots: (Carrots/Eyebrows)My eyebrows are made out of Carrots.
   
   3: Milk: (Milk/Eyelash)I see myself pouring eyelashes out of a milk
   container over my cereal. (That's totally ridiculous and gross,
   but highly effective for remembering!)
   
   You can add as many items as you have body parts.
3. Throughout the day try to practice remembering these ridiculous images to become more proficient as time goes by. It does not hurt to say these
   images out loud either. (Just don't do it around other people, they'll think you're nuts! Nuts, I almost forgot! (Nuts/Nose) My nose is a walnut.)

Tips & Warnings

• The most effective way to remember things is by associating them with something you already know. You can use things you already know to link to different things you don't already know, such as a grocery list.