Having a "dump zone" just inside the front door, where I always dump my handbag, shopping bags, coat, shoes, umbrella, small pets—whatever is encumbering me when I walk through the door. It's a terrible, lazy habit, especially since it would only take a few minutes to put everything where it belongs. Truth told, I haven't worked on fixing it.

I used to leave my keys in the door too! But my "house" was in a guesthouse in a friends backyard, so no big deal. I don't do it anymore. Yes, I've been working on my own "dump zone" and it has gotten better. It can be done!

I unintentionally leave my closet light on after I get ready in the mornings. I have no idea why.

I've made jewlery rolls for my huge collection of necklaces (I make my own) and have small tackle like plastic boxes for my earrings. Do you think I put them back where they belong after wearing?! Nope, I toss them in a cute little dish that lives on top of the unit that houses my jewlery rolls!! Jeezzz.. :o}

Opening boxes from Amazon and then letting them pile up by the front door. >_>

At least you lock your doors; I am the absolute WORST when it comes to home security! Even when I lived on the potentially dangerous canals in Venice Beach I had this habit. How I solved it? I haven't! The good news is that I now live on a desolate col-a-sac in a teeny tiny town in North Carolina...

I treat horizontal surfaces as dump zones all over my house, usually for some project or other, then don't put the tools and supplies away. I'm trying to use a system where I have a box or basket for the other rooms in each room and at least put stuff there to return to the right room. Usually that just ends up getting too full to put anything else in and not getting returned. Now I have to train myself to go put the stuff back where it belongs at least once a week. My granddaughter adds to the chaos, she's a project fiend as well. Luckily I have a magnetic pickup to gather up pins and needles before finding them the "hard way".

I leave my keys in the door. Thank god for the postal carrier! She constantly reminds me. I also have a bad habit of leaving kitchen cabinet doors wide open. Open shelving was made for me.

Not filing away banking stuff. It ends up in a stack on top of the filing system, which is so lazy it hurts.

I constantly make mopping the kitchen floor my last chore of Saturday cleaning, then by the time it comes, I think I'm waaaaay too tired to mop, that I've done waaaay too much and deserve to stop.

I keep my keys in my car. It's parked in a locked garage, so I maintain that it's no big deal. It drives my husband insane, though.
Plus, in two weeks we're moving to a house where I'll be parking in a car port, instead of a garage. I guess it's time to break that habit?

The best solutions is to a necklace with your keys on it.. the type you wear in a conference with your badge....

Our farm coop delivers veggies and fruit every other week in a cardboard box. You're supposed to put the empty box out in the morning on your delivery day so that they can be reused. Of course I never remember. I have 6 of them in my pantry right now.

Piling up stuff to give to charity and leaving it in a big pile by the door for-ev-er. And batteries to recycle, too.
I should be working on this? Oh. I guess you're right.

forgetting to close the garage door after we drive in, especially when we are in a hurry to get inside from the car or if our hands are full. the consequences? tools stolen on a couple of occasions when we left it open overnight. the fix? a monitor attached to the door, with a receiver next to our bed - if the light is red, we forgot & left the door open, if it's green we can sleep soundly knowing the garage door is closed. love that thing.

My bad habit is having several little piles of papers scattered about at any given time, partly due to a hatred of filing and partly because I kid myself that keeping things in plain sight will mean I'll get to them faster -- bills, paperwork, contractor bids, insurance quotes, other to-do items (mainly paper stuff, filing, things to read).

Instead, I get bummed out by the little mounds of papers and avoid them like the plague, and ultimately need to paw through them to get to crucial things like the bills or my voter pamphlet or my annual health insurance renewal info. Arrrrggghhh!

Seems like the Front Door Dump Zone is a major issue for lots of us. We have a beautiful wooden bench by the door with our shoes neatly organized underneath and even a lovely basket on top to collect small wintery accessories, but the theory doesn't stand up to reality and the entire bench is constantly hidden with bags and coats and scarves and sweaters and folders and the shoes are constantly spreading of their own free will. Someone please come up with a great solution!

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I always start a project and then leave it halfway through for about a week. It just sits there on the table or couch or chair or dresser, in whatever room the project is taking place, until my husband reminds me to either finish it or clean it up. LOL

We leave the lights on in our basement. It must annoy our neighbor because every once in a while we get a phone call from him...we still forget and leave it on though!

leaving my keys in the car in the ignition. most annoying habit luckily my car hasn't been stolen.

I lock myself out all the time. It's so annoying... less of an issue now I can call my boyfriend to come and let me in, but still a pain. eventually it will happen when he's out of town and then I'll really be in trouble!

I'm terrible about losing my keys in my own home. I come in and forget to take them out of my bag or pocket, or I put them down on some random table (or worse throw them on my bed.) The next morning I am in a panic because I know they're somewhere in the house (how else would I have gotten inside?!) but no where to be found. I've started making an effort to always put them in the same place...but I still forget...

I've left the front door wide open a few times. Once I get two toddlers in their car seats I just drive off without a backwards glance. My boyfriend has been good about it and nothings been stolen.

Am going to buy a lock that can be locked without keys. Fingers crossed I don't start locking myself out of the house.

The never ending papers/mail/crap that seems to pile up on the end of my kitchen counter.

Ugh, yes paperwork everywhere, making my office an obstacle-filled hazard, especially after dark. Am in the midst of reno'g my house so books and other items are also piled all over...it's depressing as I am usually quite organized and being this scattered is actually demotivating.
But at least I have keyless entry locks so I never lock myself out ;-)

No question, I've left the garage door open more times than I can count! Usually I forget to close it after parking our stroller but once I drove away with it wide open - we really need to get one of those reminder lights but I haven't seen them at my local stores.

Also I'm sure I'm not the only one with dirty laundry all over my laundry room floor, 1/2 loads from sorting and the next load to be done... so happy I can close the door on that mess!

I also leave my kitchen cupboard doors open. It doesn't really bother me so I'm not to excited to "work on it". But the bad part is that one door, when open, I walk under (at 5'5") but my husband (at 6') does not.

DON'T HIT YOUR HEAD ON THE ... oh. sorry.

Yes to piling and "dump zones" ! I dump everything on a chair in the living room near the front door and will often end up with 3-4 different backpacks/purses/coats/etc there at once (dump a new thing each day and never put it away.)

We also accumulate piles of papers and awkward mini-piles of items for recycling (we live in an apartment and the recycling goes in bins in the trash room directly across from our front door (making it pointless for us to have our own bins in the house), but items for recycling will collect on our kitchen counters and especially in my bathroom on top of the trash can for a while before I actually walk the 5 steps to take them out)

Not making up the bed. I think your room looks so much nicer when you do so, but this never happens. I leave in the morning first, and the hubby is NOT gonna do it.

Forgetting to turn off my AC when leaving my home for the day. Yes, it's lovely opening the door to a cool condo but it kills me that I'm wasting money. This heat spell has gone on for too long!!!!

I used to look at things like that as me being lazy, but have you ever thought that maybe where you are currently storing those items just might not be the right place? Think about it for a moment. What makes more sense: having to walk over to the closet (in my case this is in another room from the exterior door we usually use) or having a place right inside the door? If space permits, make a landing pad. I re purposed an old toy box for a bench/storage area, put a few hooks in the wall for coats and bags and put a decorative plate for keys and pocket junk on top of the curio that is next to the bench.

@Aurora Highlights: look for a Chamberlain garage door monitor. you can buy them online if a nearby store doesn't carry them. i've tried to find them and our local home improvement stores no longer carry the one i bought.

This is the one I have:
http://www.amazon.com/Chamberlain-CLDM1-Clicker-Garage-Monitor/dp/B0002YX7MM/ref=pd_sxp_f_r