The method of loci is pretty good. Check out the book Moonwalking with Einstein if you want to learn more about the various tricks top memory champions use.
In high school they had us memorize a grocery list using numbers and rhymes. One - bun - milk. Two - shoe - eggs. Three - tree - bacon. And you’d think of some association between milk and bun. This worked well for me and that stupid grocery list is probably the thing I’ve remembered for the longest amount of time. I’d have a hard time telling you the address of the last place I lived, but I could tell you that list of groceries.