Doesn't sound stupid to me! I can only manage that if I put it totally in my way. The vast majority of the time, I have take it to where it belongs as soon as I see it. The variation on this is when someone will ask if I can do something. I start to move, and they'll say, "Oh, you don't have to do it now!" Reply? "Yeah, actually I do."

Yup. And the double-whammy? Paying for something, starting to walk off and having the cashier say, "um... did you want your stuff?"(!) It doesn't happen with things like multiple grocery bags, but single bags and such, oh yes. Often. It's embarrassing, so my defense mechanism is to jokingly say, "Nah, I just wanted to hand you some money." Haven't figured out a solution to that one yet.

Like you, maus, I can't set my wallet down for even a second. Doing so has produced big time panic. Lots of stories there. Some that I still can't recount without having a flashback reaction. At any rate, after one of the biggies, BF handed me a lanyard and insisted I attach my wallet to my purse. It's been that way ever since. Feel kind of stupid over it, but it has cured the problem (though one time apparently I forgot even to put it back in the bag(!), and it was swinging around my knee. )

I'll join the chorus of: Putting things (especially important ones) in the SAME place EVERY SINGLE TIME. And right away. Oh. And writing things down as soon as they flash across the brain. On papers that also follow the "specific place" rule. And for situations for which it is useful, physically attaching things.

Good luck, Irken Invader Tak!