I use this trick in many ways, but one of them is when companies or businesses send me a coupon, promotional credit or discount code that has the option to be used at a later date.
For
instance, the hairdresser our family uses, will often send a digital
coupon for $10 off a future haircut. But that email with the coupon will
usually arrive not long after one of our family members has recently
had their hair cut, as a thank you for coming in. So rather than archive
it in my email and hope I remember it the next time we go (which I can
guarantee you is very unlikely to happen with my brain these days) or
screenshot it and hope I remember I have that in my photos (same
problem, different place to keep it hidden), I use the my email snooze button.
But
before I use that snooze button, I go into our family calendar and see
when the next haircut appointment is scheduled, either for myself or for
our children. And when I find out the date of that,
I snooze the email, choosing to have it reappear in my inbox the
morning the appointment will be happening. Thus increasing the chance I
will see it and use it.
The same goes for a coupon or digital "cash" from a particular store I am sent. I read the fine print on the email and
when I see the dates it can be used, I snooze the email until the first
day I can use it, as a reminder that if I plan to buy anything with it,
I'd better get that done in the next couple of days.
Or
one last example. The company where we take our cars to get an oil
change will often reward us with a coupon, shortly after we have
visited. When I receive this email, I estimate about how long it will
likely be until one of our vehicles will next need an oil change. It
isn't an exact science for sure, so I just go my best guess. Then, when I
snooze the email with that coupon, I get two helpful hints when it
reappears at a later date. Because it not only reminds me to make sure
and use the coupon to save money, but that I also need to take one of
our cars in for an oil change soon, something that isn't always easy to
remember to do on my own, especially with three vehicles in our household.
Okay, there you go. Hope
that helps! Let me know if you have questions or have your own tips
when it comes to this idea. I would love to read them. Thanks friends!