Parents and caregivers juggle countless reminders beyond simple dates, including household chores, friendships, bills, and other essentials that shape daily life. Forgetting small tasks can have outsized consequences when many things occur simultaneously. A social prompt about extreme automation revealed creative, life-changing hacks that offload memory and enforcement: dishwashers that text and cut kids’ Wi‑Fi until emptied; pets trained as medication reminders; alarms that require scanning a bathroom QR code to stop; annually requesting a replacement credit card to cancel unwanted subscriptions; and automated daily shortcuts that surface past photos for gradual cleanup. Many people use automation to simplify and romanticize routine life.
There are so many "nobody told me about this" life lessons you have to learn as you grow. As a mom of three who is fully embedded in these incredibly sweet yet incredibly hectic years, I can say for certain that nobody - and I mean, nobody - told me how many things there are to remember. And not just dates or, like, "next Friday is pajama day at school,"
So, when social media personality Jen Hamilton (@_jen_hamilton_ ) asked for everyone's most "unhinged automation" hacks, I was all ears. Hamilton was specific, too: She wanted unhinged ideas. Not just "my bills are on autopay," she wrote as an overlay of the video, but automated ideas that completely changed someone's life. Over 11,000 comments later, and y'all... some of us are living in the future.
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