A SHOPPING LIST A WOMAN CAN'T FORGET
The women who have been reading this book have probably been waiting all along for a suggestion for a practical application of the Mental Filing System to their own activities. This chapter is dedicated to the ladies, and I hope to show them how to save extra steps and minimize exasperation by systematizing one of their daily household duties—making a shopping list.
Every day, as a woman goes about her house, she makes mental notes of things that must be ordered or replaced. A dripping faucet must be tightened, a squeaky blind repaired, a sweater mended, a new supply of soap put in. Yet at the end of a day, she has often forgotten to attend to several of these items, just because each one in itself is trivial.