Has being "shut-in" made you lose track of what day it is?

[MissMillie]

I swear, it happens to me a couple of times a week.


I thought today was Monday, Memorial Day.

[Passenger]

1. It has not. But only ...

But only because I make a conscious deliberate effort to keep track.

[intrepidity]

2. Day? How about Month?

Even Year, sometimes.

[FakeNoose]

3. Being retired makes me lose track

Nowadays, every day is a weekend.

[Hortensis]

6. This. Though I do sometimes find myself needing to find out

what others are calling it.

[LakeArenal]

35. We call it... today.

We haven’t known what day it is since we retired. Five years ago. Long before Covid.

[Hortensis]

40. Lol. No wonder this is the happiest stage after childhood.

Happy today, everyone.

[Mickju]

47. Same here

At 77 it doesn't matter what day it is unless I have a doctor's appointment.

[tblue37]

4. Being retired does.

[Throck]

10. 3 years to go here.

[Throck]

20. Retirement clock.

https://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Vine-Art-Retired-Seashore/dp/B076H96WZJ/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=retirement+clock&pd_rd_r=a4df88fb-fa40-4e08-a776-8fdf62807ee0&pd_rd_w=SOzDY&pd_rd_wg=KYsrv&pf_rd_p=ce028c81-ed8c-425a-8404-93bf425aa8ce&pf_rd_r=REQX4FSPZ9Z3EZX66KFA&qid=1622386477&sr=8-2#

[rsdsharp]

52. Yep. It can have consequences, too.

I had some serious health problems last year, so I effectively retired in early March, nearly three months ahead of schedule. Then in July, I was hospitalized again; much longer this time. After five days in ICU, and 11 additional days in the hospital, I was transferred to a rehab floor.

When I got there they asked me the date. “Uh, late July.” Then I realized they were doing a mental wellness check, thought quick, and came up with July 31. Up until that moment, it literally hadn’t mattered to me what the day or date was, for nearly four months.

BTW, the memory test words were bed, blue, sock. I bet Donnie can’t remember his ten months later.

[hlthe2b]

5. As a dog-walker who has a set pre-dawn schedule to walk, hike & hit the dog park, I keep a schedule

so as to avoid some problem doggies (and sometimes their owners). So, I'm always there by 6AM M-F and no earlier than 6:20 on the weekends. That alone keeps me "anchored."

[Faux pas]

7. Not

so much the shut-in thing, more like we're all still living in trump time.

[Demovictory9]

8. early in the pandemic.. yeah.. tues/wed/thur confusion

[Boomerproud]

22. Same here. I was shut in for 6 weeks last year and it was

a blur. Scary.

[Throck]

9. I found this is true amongst my co-workers who telecommute.

Been working at the office since last year. 90% telecommute. I get businesses emails on weekends and after midnight now. When people come back it's going to be a shock to their system.

[3catwoman3]

11. No, but retiring definitely has- still kinda new at it. March 31st

And that doesn't bother me a bit -

[Historic NY]

12. It happens....

Since I've been medically retired since my 40's I don't look at a calendar or carry a watch unless its the fitbit. I've had to start keeping an appointment books and add long term one to alert my phone. I still screw up writing a check with the date.

[Goonch]

13. I have a popup calendar on my computer desktop otherwise forgetaboutit

https://ccm.net/download/download-456-clicktray-calendar

[KentuckyWoman]

14. Shut in has made me less tolerant

Pinchy, selfish, self centered, rude types. Never had much use for them but I used to be able to tolerate them in public. I find my ability to do so is less. I don't know if it's the added year on my age, the shock getting back in public more, or that the last year has flashed an overload on my TV of these folks and I've decided they can all sneeze off.

[NickB79]

15. I've been working 6 days a week for months

THAT'S made me lose track of what day it is 🤣

[Wicked Blue]

16. I check the newspaper every morning

to find out what day it is.

Handy things, newspapers.

[MyOwnPeace]

41. OLD joke......

"I know it's Sunday because the paper is heavier...."

However, as 'papers' go the way of horses & buggies, that won't even be any help!

[NightWatcher]

17. I work every single damn day and often lose track of what day it is.

2020-2021 is wearing me out. Anyone with a Marine Science degree and boat handling experience want a job in Florida so I can take a damn break?

[nocoincidences]

18. The Covid-19 theme song

[AllaN01Bear]

19. ive lost tracks of whole weeks before the pandemic .

[argyl]

21. At times.

[LizBeth]

23. Mine is Wed/Thur. I think it is Wed and it is Thur. Happens almost every week.

[Kaleva]

24. In the Navy, I'd lose track of what month is was.

[marie999]

25. No, only because I check my computer calendar every morning to check on what I need to do that day.

[smirkymonkey]

55. Same here, still working (from home) but one of the first things I do every weekday is

check the Outlook calendar to see what is up for the day.

However, on a long holiday weekend like this, I have found myself losing track of what day it is because I don't have any plans (It's rainy and cold here in Boston all weekend).

Soooo happy we have tomorrow off! What a difference one extra day makes. I feel so much more relaxed already.

[Yavin4]

26. At my former job, we were always allowed to Work From Home even before the pandemic.

So long as it was after business hours in the evenings, on the weekends, and while you were on vacation. But you had to be in the office during business hours.

I use to make this argument all of the time, and it went right over my boss' head. I would get emails 24/7 days a week and had to drop everything that I was doing to respond.

[Binkie The Clown]

27. Each morning the first thing I do is write the number of days in isolation on my calendar.

This morning was day 445.

[brooklynite]

30. Why have you been isolated that long?

[Binkie The Clown]

31. Still waiting for my second dose next week. However...

...I'm pretty much a hermit anyway.
That said, my weekly poker games are starting up again next week. I look forward to that.

On edit: I do go to the grocery store and pharmacy once a month or so.

[Silent3]

28. I only found the first 2-3 months of the pandemic like that

I've been fairly well adjusted to the rhythms of working mostly from home since, with some scattered off-by-one day fuzziness here and there.

For a few months in the fall I was in the office 4 days every other week, until the big, BIG winter spike in COVID ended that experiment. I just went back to the office for the first time since this past week.

[brooklynite]

29. No, because I haven't allowed myself to be shut in...

I've gone out (mask appropriately) almost every day of lockdown.

[beaglelover]

33. This!

[oldsoftie]

43. Same here. I continued as safely as I could.

Not as a protest, but because i had shit to do. And I'll still wear a mask today if some business asks me to do it. Because thats just being polite.

Even for those who had more reasons to be worried, there are plenty of ways to go out and about without much of an increase in risk

[frogmarch]

32. Until a few seconds ago, I thought

today was Saturday. Then I saw a DU post titled "on a rainy Sunday morning" and asked my computer what day it is.

[Brother Buzz]

34. It's easy peasy to keep track off once you....

stitch the day of the week into your underwear.

[FoxNewsSucks]

36. Often,

but as others have said above, it's more work-related. Working weekends, days off during the week, working 14+ days in a row, long ago ruined any normal rhythm to know the day

[Heartstrings]

37. We call everyday

“Blursday”.....covers all the bases.

[Journeyman]

38. Why of course not! Today is Blursday, same as it always is . . .

[csziggy]

39. Not recently - but I basically trained for it

With numerous surgeries over the last twenty years, it was originally hard to keep track of the days, especially since I stopped watching network TV. After two of the surgeries (knee replacements) I stayed at a rehab hospital where they kept the Day of the Week up on the wall to help keep the patients (mostly very elderly with a lot of Alzheimer's patients) oriented.

So before the pandemic started I got into the habit of checking my calendar every morning so I am aware of the day of the week.

What I do lose track of is the day of the month because that is not as relevant to my daily functioning. But I try to check that on the calendar, too.

[broiles]

42. We bought a clock that tells only the day of the week.

Hung it over the coffee pot.

[COL Mustard]

44. Someone I Worked With Last Year Referred To Every Day As "Blursday"

It still works!

[Ligyron]

45. All the time

Retired though so that may be the main cause.

[MiHale]

46. It's 2035 right?...

Been retired forever.

[secondwind]

48. Hell, yes.

[Mr.Bill]

49. No, but being retired has.

The other day I actually had to do math to figure out how old I'm going to be this July29th.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

50. Yes

But I am dissociative.
I lose track of what hour it is and what I was doing that hour.

Day I never remember what day it is,glad I got my phone.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

51. Yeah, it did.

It happened to me sometimes in the past too, even while working for some company nearly every day. It especially happened at companies which had people working 7 days a week, and I'd sometimes be pleasantly surprised that I wasn't scheduled to work the next day because I'd lost track of the current day of the week.

[struggle4progress]

53. I still having trouble accepting Reagan's election

[Raine]

54. No, the lock down didn't change my life that much

I spent most of my time at home long before covid.

[Iggo]

56. It did at first.

Then I had my company send me one of those big shipping department calendars. And now I only get lost on the weekends. As it should be.