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Uses of the Peg and Link Systems 63

ing the umbrella—picture your dentist working over you
while he's holding an umbrella over his head; make a
ridiculous picture between umbrella and perfume, now, per-
fume to television; television to hardware; hardware to
book; book to watch; and finally, watch to eggs.
I've given you examples with the first few errands only,
because I want you to use your own imagination for form-
ing ridiculous mental links. You simply do the same as if
you were linking a list of objects. Actually it is the same
thing—when you come to the watch repairing and the pur-
chase of the dozen eggs, it isn't necessary to get the repair-
ing or amount of eggs into the picture. Just use watch and
egg for your ridiculous picture: i.e. You're breaking an egg,
and a wrist watch falls out; or, you're wearing an egg
instead of a wrist watch. The one item will bring the entire
errand to mind, of course. These are just memory aids or
reminders; you already have remembered that you must
repair the watch or that it is a dozen eggs that you need.
Thinking of, or being reminded of watch and egg is all
that is necessary to start you off on your errand.
When you get to the hardware store, you have to buy
five items. Make a separate link of these five:—you can
start by "seeing" a large bulb as the proprietor of the store;
you break him with a hammer; you frame a hammer and
hang it on your wall, and so on, to ironing board cover.
After you have linked all your errands for the day, all
you have to do, is complete one, and that will remind you
of the next, and so on. However, you needn't do all these
errands in sequence just because you used the Link method
to remember them. That might make it a little incon-
venient, unless you've arranged your errands accordingly.
No, you can do them in any order you like. Each time you
complete an errand, go over the link in your mind, in order
to remind yourself if there is one that is convenient to take