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About 15 years ago my friend used to walk into his flat on Oak St & Steiner St and stick a colored map pin into a neighborhood map wherever he had just parked. Helpful for someone who only occasionally used his car, but had to search far & wide for parking when he did.

i park in front of my house... one bonus to living in the biggest and least dense urban sprawl in Canada...

I've found my camera phone to be very useful in helping me remember where I parked my car...especially in airport parking lots!

Wow, I can't imagine parking anywhere I couldn't look out a window and see my truck...that has to be awful!

Just sell the car - Then you don't have to remember where you parked it anymore!

Kemek2, I use my camera phone, too. It's especially handy when parking in any lot where the spaces are numbered, of course (just take a pic of the number), but if I'm forced to park along a street a couple of blocks from my destination, I'll take a photo of the closest street sign or some other landmark like a store front.

It's also a good idea to color code a map with all the neighborhood street cleaning to avoid parking tickets. We also use magnets with pictures of each make of car to know what's parked where.

I used to deal with this when I lived in Savannah. My permit allowed me to park within a 2 block radius around my building. I often remembered where I parked 2 days before instead of the day before and became frantic thinking it was stolen. I took many 2 block radius walks during those years...

Nice idea.. I'm just not sure I'd keep up with it though.

Very clever! Used to house sit a place in SF & they'd have us move their car on street sweeping days. I remember a couple of frantic episodes: "Am I looking for the red one or the white one?!"

I have to park on the street in Seattle in a not so non dense neighborhood, and drive a truck (fortunately, a Ranger, even if the extended cab so it's not too bad) and anytime after 6pm, forget being able to readily find a spot not too far afield, and after 8pm on the weekends it's almost impossible to find one, but I do find them, just not in front of my buidling usually.

By circling around the blocks near my building, I rarely have to park more than 5 blocks away, sometimes I get fortunate and am anly a few cars away, but can't always count on that though.

After a while, you DO get good at finding parking on the street however.

Wow, I never imagined. It makes sense though. The next time I get ticked someone is in "my" parjking space in front of the house, (forcing me to park in front of a neighbours house) I'll be grateful I don't have to walk five blocks and wonder where I put it.

Lily you are hilarious

My key holder! Nice to see it pop up here. My wife and I had one car when I made it. We kept asking each other where the car was left, which was fine except when we couldn't remember -- or when one of us was out without the car, and the other had no idea where it was parked.

I just remember where I parked.