Chicken Little - Day 18 of 30 - Things That Make My Life Easier

Each day I talk about one thing that makes my life easier as a neurodivergent mother raising neurodivergent kids while going back to school full time in my 40s.

Keep losing your keys? Find a ridiculous container to put them in. You will thank me later.

I found this little chicken dish, which I affectionally named Chicken Little (I know, ridiculously original), at Value Village for like three bucks last year. I placed it in my entryway specifically to hold my keys because I was having so much trouble remembering where I put them and I was constantly running behind. My feeling was that because the container was so adorably dorky, I couldn't possibly not look at it every time I walked by - which would make it the perfect place to put something I needed to remember several times per day.

It worked! Not just for me, for my kids, too.

I hear a lot less "Have you seen my keys?" "Do you know where the keys are?" and a lot more "Chicken Little."

And when I think of Chicken Little, I giggle.

So make sure it's a container that makes you feel good.

How do you remember your keys?

-Jaren