Hang up the swimwear

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A wet swimsuit in a closed bag raises no alarm until several days later. That is exactly why it is one of the steps most often forgotten after swimming, however well the session itself went. The pictures below make hanging it up an ending rather than an afterthought.

A person hangs an orange swimsuit on a line where swim shorts and a bikini already hang.

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Hang up the swimwear

A person hangs an orange swimsuit on a line where swim shorts and a bikini already hang.

About this visual support

Delayed consequences are hard to learn from. A bag unpacked immediately smells of nothing, while the same bag after three days produces a result nobody connects to the specific action that was missing. Without a clear link between action and outcome the task never gets prioritised, however often it is mentioned.

Visual support moves hanging up from memory to routine. One picture at the end of the swimming sequence, after showering and dressing, means the step happens while the bag is open anyway. That is considerably easier than remembering it two hours later in the hallway at home.

A concrete tip is to hang up the swimwear before unpacking anything else. It then becomes the first step at home instead of the last, and the risk of the bag being put away half open disappears. In Routined the swimming day can sit as a routine with both packing and unpacking, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.