Have you ever forgotten a birthday? I know I have. There are a million ways to try and remember — from notes on the fridge to setting up reminders in Outlook — but I’ve never quite found the perfect solution. Luckily, I found a great article from Real Simple with some great ideas for how to remember birthdays for those of us with a less-than-perfect memory:

Visit a bathroom in a home in the Netherlands and you might find a good idea staring you in the face: a list of birthdays important to your host posted opposite the toilet. Why in that spot? To assure that it’s viewed regularly.

While you may not want to sacrifice your bathroom aesthetics for the sake of remembering key birthdays, the more often you see the dates, the more likely it is you’ll remember them.

“I have a list of every significant birthday taped to the inside of my pantry door,” Sue Ellen Cooper, founder and “Exalted Queen Mother” of the Red Hat Society says. “It’s impossible not to see those dates every time I open the pantry.”

Whether it’s inside a cabinet, on the refrigerator, or bookmarking a page in the novel you’re reading, place your list in a spot where you are likely to view it every day and you’ll always be aware of an impending birthday.

Check out the rest of the article here to see some more suggestions, then follow the advice and hopefully you’ll never forget another birthday again.