I ran out of my favorite dusch gel a couple of days ago. Again.

That is, I knew that it was about to get depleted, but I somehow did not remember to buy a new one when I was in the supermarket. This was not the first time it happened, and I actually spent quite some time to come up with a solution that would make me avoid such situations.

I first just thought that buying a dusch gel with a transparent bottle would help me see when it gets depleted and like this I would remember to buy a new one when in the supermarket. It did not work.

I then thought of buying more flacons at once and then have the time to replace the depleted ones. It again did not work. No matter how many dusch gels I bought, I eventually ran out.

But, one day I stumbled across the solution. It went like this. I again ran out and that was annoying. I was actually away from town and I went to the first shop to buy one. Because I could not find the one I liked, I just bought one randomly. I then used it and I did not like it at all. I actually hated it. But, it was exactly because I hated it that the very first time I next went to the supermarket, I remembered to buy my favorite dusch gel.

So, now I just keep the ugly one around and when I run out of my favorite one both can I still accomplish the washing, and it serves as an effective reminder for me to buy a new one. And it just works.

You might say that I am just making a too big of a deal out of this trivial situation. It could be, but there is a lesson I take away from this:

What works for most does not necessarily work for you, and it is up to you to find what does.