Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 2nd Edition-Revised and Updated: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized

by Susan C. Pinsky

ADHD-Unfriendly Shoe Racks

So many clients are motivated to procure items for the home but are completely unmotivated to remove items from the home.

Backpacks, pool nets, and heavy-duty extension cords are more appropriate for hanging on some nails or a hook than lying flat on shelves.

Maintaining available empty shelving will help guard against allowing things to clutter up the floor.

The only way to reclaim your living spaces and bring order to your storage areas is to eliminate objects that are overstock or are no longer needed and create sensible and easily sustainable storage—shelves and hooks—for your remaining possessions.

Go ahead and use opaque tubs to store your Christmas decorations. You never need to retrieve something from your Christmas tub in July—everything comes out at one time—so it doesn’t help to see inside year-round.

The marketers want us to decorate for every holiday as though it’s a competition. Avoid holiday bloat. Choose ONE holiday (your favorite) to decorate for.

Sometimes you just need a spot to stash an item that is in transit; keeping these objects off the floor and on your staging area will ensure that your garage doesn’t deteriorate.

Avoid expensive, inefficient systems. No one is going to have the patience to winch and hoist those bikes up to the ceiling.