Janet, it doesn't matter how hard I try - I usually forget someone or something that I was supposed to remember. My cell phone has a calendar. I look at it multiple times a day because my day (at work) is never the same. I have meetings at different times of the days each week, so I have to keep a calendar. I can put birthdays/special days on my calendar, but if I don't do something about it the moment I look at it, I will forget. It is sooo frustrating.
I also have trouble remembering to buy a card/gift when I go to the store. Even though I live in town, sometimes I just can't make myself go to the store. I don't know what the solution is, but if anyone has one, I'm willing to try it. Maybe if I taped a calendar to my computer monitor, set a box of multiple occasion cards on top of the monitor, I could remember