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1 - Always, and I mean always, leave your keys on the same place everytime you arrive at your house. That also applies to remote controls and any other object that you recurrently needs to use. Life's to short to be wasted trying to find tiny things.

2 - have a soldering iron at hand on your toolbox. I lost count how many little fixes I was able to accomplish using one, and I'm definitely no electrical engineer. Our modern lives are full of electronic gadgets that are purposefully designed to break on a short amount of time, and we should not accept that. I made myself led lamps that last forever, cell phones that have 3 times the original battery capacity, fixed earbuds that would otherwise go to the thrash, all because I learned how to use a simple soldering iron.

3 - plug your laptop to your 60 inch TV and get yourself a wireless keyboard and mouse kit. Nothing beats working on a gigantic screen, seated confortably on my amazing recliner sofa. And a full on PC is the best media center you can get, I could NEVER settle for a hoku or any other of those "smart tv" thingies. I want my full PC.

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I'm not sure about the rest but 1. is a winner. More generally try and arrange your life so that you have to do the least thinking possible; life is always going to occupy any spare mental territory so there's no reason to do the work for it.