l think the phrase gives hope when trying to forget something or someone.....like gettin gover someone.....l know lv used it a time or two.....

Hopefully, if I am "out of sight" of my boss, I'll be "out of mind" too and they won't find out what I really do at work....LOL

A good example could be to avoid devoting your attention looking at things that don't bring any fulfillment to you or make you have negative feelings. The tricky part is to analyze if something is worth looking at, recognize the difference and not sweep too many things under the rug.

I hope that When something is out of my sight and mind, that I will not get in trouble for forgetting about it.

i'm sitting here at my desk, the candy jar is empty...=Sara not eating candy i'm sitting here and the candy jar is overflowing with goodness=Sara pigging out on Reese's

It means nothing to me because for me it's not true. Some people are out of my sight, but they're never out of my mind.

It refers to people who are to self absorbed to think of poeple unless they are with them. Unfortunately, I have probably been that why from time to time. It's not the way I want to be and I try to stay in touch.

The best example of out of site out of mind can be found in the lives of kids. Take a child to the family reunion and introduce them to that cousin you have not seen since you were 10. They could play all week and love up on that cousin... but let them not see that same person or have any contact for a year or 2... when that cousin shows up again... it's like a meeting that's never taken place before. I've even had a situation where my own daughter forgot me briefly. Before we moved to where we live now, to save money, we sent my daughter here first to stay with her grand parents. She was here about 3 and 1/2 months before we made our move here and when we got here.. she ran straight to her mom with no hesitation, but was afraid of me, so I didnt' push it. It took her about 2 days to warm up to daddy... she just walked in and jumped on my knee and hugged me, so I was a happy dad from that point. I'd had that happen before when she was 1 and went with her mom to a funeral and they stayed there for 2 weeks. When they got back she didnt know me and was scared to death. THAT HURT. When it happened the 2nd time... I was ready for it.

Meaning The idea that something is easily forgotten or dismissed as unimportant if it is not in our direct view. Origin The use of 'in mind' for 'remembered' and 'out of mind' for 'forgotten' date back to the at least the 13th century. The earliest printed citation of a link with memory and the sight of something is in John Heywood's Woorkes. A dialogue conteynyng prouerbes and epigrammes, 1562, as reprinted by the Spenser Society, 1867: "Out of sight out of minde." The phrase is used as an example of the supposed comic results that early computer translation and speech recognition programmes came up with. The phrase 'out of sight, out of mind' was supposed to have been translated by a computer as 'invisible idiot', 'blind and insane' etc. This is on a par with 'computers can wreck a nice peach' (computers can recognise speech), which is also used as an example of how computers lack the general knowledge to compare with humans at speech recognition. These reports lack consistency and are too neat to be anything other than inventions. There's no evidence to support the stories but they do illustrate that although 'anyone can make a mistake, but to really foul things up you need a computer'. Even using recent (2007) programs to translate 'out of sight, out of mind' into Russian and then back to English the best they could do was 'from the sighting, from the reason'. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/274400.html Cf. L. absens haeres non erit, an absent person will not be an heir. He that is ute bi-loken [shut out] He is inne sone foryeten [forgotten]. [c 1250 Proverbs of Alfred (1907) 46] Whan Man is oute of sight, son be he passith oute of mynde. [c 1450 tr. T. à Kempis' De Imitatione Christi (EETS) i. xxxiii.] Whereunto also agreethe oure Englyshe proverbe which sayethe: Oute of syght, oute of mynde. [1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus' Adages (ed. 2) D6V] Old women now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them. [1797 A. Radcliffe Italian III. ix.] Sir John and the rest saw no more of her; and out of sight was out of mind. [1863 C. Kingsley Water Babies i.] The brief‥was promptly concealed. ‥He was working on the principle ‘out of sight, out of mind’. [1979 ‘S. Woods’ This Fatal Writ 45] ‘Once word gets out, people will come,’ they say. ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ [2002 Spectator 13 Apr. 38]