Forgetting to shut off a Hair Straightener???

I am so frustrated with myself!!!! Almost every day I drive myself nuts thinking I forgot to shut something off but TODAY, i'm almost certain that I forgot to shut off my Hair Straightener and DH is traveling on business so I can't ask him to sneak home and check!!!!

It's a CHI straightener, anyone have this? Will it burn my house down?? Should I leave???? LOL I'm making myself crazy.

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omg I am the queen of this. I dont have this hair straightner but I am a stove/iron/blowdryer person ......

It becomes such a routine you almost always turn the item off but you forget that you did......that being said I would
still probably leave. Just to stop myself from going nuts

But for the future I find that it helps when I unplug an item - or turm off the stove. I say outloud and loudly to myself " I am unplugging the iron - I am turning off the oven". It kind of then clicks in my brain that it was done. But the downside I sound like a crazy person and DH is like "what did I get myself into"?

another trick I figured out that is if I call mt ans mach (not vm) and it picks up then my house is not up in flames yet. because a melted ans mach would most likely not pick up.

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it'll be fine.

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I can't even tell you the number of times I have turned around on the way to work to check if I turned it off. DH travels quite a bit, so I'm usually alone during the week getting ready for work.

I have, like another poster suggested, started saying out lout "I un-plugged the straightener" This way, when I panic about halfway to work at my usual spot (IDK why I always think of it at this particular spot, but I do) I will remind myself that I did, in fact, un-plug it.

I know exactly what you are talking about with the worrying!

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I leave it on ALL the time too, but my problem is I never realize it's on until the next morning.

Now I have a vanity that has an outlet and light, so when I turn off the light switch, it turns off whatever is plugged into the outlet. That has been my saving grace lately.

I just recently went on a cruise and left the hair iron on for hours while we were gone. I could have burned down the ship! Also the room steward came into clean while we were gone - I'm surprised she didn't accidentally burn herself on it.

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Some of these products have an automatic shut off. I am constantly driving myself crazy thinking I forgot to unplug the many items I use in the Am!

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I too have to say it outloud to remind myself I am shutting it off! You probably did shut it.

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OMG! I have been thinking the SAME THING all day. I am wondering if i shut off my hair straightner. I would think i did but i have no clue. i Really dont remember doing it. I gi thourhg this all the time with the straightner.

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I constantly drive myself crazy with this What I started to do was plug it in a different spot so that I have to walk past it before I leave and I know it’s still plugged in.

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I'm a maniac with forgetting to turn things off. It makes me crazy. I've left my hair straightener on before and it did not damage anything at all, but I've learned my lesson anyway just from the stress of it. lol.

I've also left the oven on once like all day. What a loser!!! And the stove too, since there's no flame. It's happened, but I've learned to be more aware.

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I'm a maniac with forgetting to turn things off. It makes me crazy. I've left my hair straightener on before and it did not damage anything at all, but I've learned my lesson anyway just from the stress of it. lol.

I've also left the oven on once like all day. What a loser!!! And the stove too, since there's no flame. It's happened, but I've learned to be more aware.

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Every morning i have to make a real effort to focus on when i turn it off, so when i'm on the train i don't start to panic that i left it on. I think back to the image of myself turning it off.
However, there have been times when i turn around and do it, or imagine the house going up in flames.

I've considered doing an experiment to leave it on for an hour and see if it turns itself off - so for those times when i'm freaking out trying to remember, i'll know that it turns itself off anyway.

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Did you go home to check? Was it on?

btw, I do this all the time too.. you are not alone

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I was doing this to myself way too much, worrying all day until I finally got home to see my house still standing. Finally I incorporated making sure I turned it off into my daily schedule before I go to work! lol So now it's a habit for me to check before I leave.

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i was doing this for a while last year... haven't done it since. I started putting a post-it on my front door so that when I went to leave for work, I'd see the note to shut off appliances!