Especially if you're using the trial and error method for finding the right stuff - and if you've got a lot of instruments around, it might be a good habit to keep the "sleeve," with the descripton of the strings you have ON a given instrument in the case, right there with the emergency replacement set.

Of course we all expect to put new ones on before we forget what we have now, but sometimes it just happens.

I've noticed more and more of my friends suffering from CRS syndrome - and have to keep reminding them to make notes as they get older.

My own problem, of course, is that I just know so much that it won't all fit - and some of it goes away to make room....

John