Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD

Rereading

I hoped this was going to be a little bit more “how to schedule your life” and less “how to organize physical stuff (assuming the physical stuff you have is the stuff of a 50s housewife)” but maybe that was my mistake. Anyway the tone is fun and there are some gems, but it's Very Opinionated and I was cracking up at some of the advice. Check this out:

“there is no better motivation than hunger to inspire one to wash a dish!”

LOL no this is when I fail at making real food and instead just eat peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon.

“Six pictures from any vacation are more than enough. Limit your picture taking—your goal should be to document each year in only ten photos.”

Nahhhhh this is why we have iPhoto fam.

“Put borrowed items you need to return in a plastic bag in the front seat of the car. This way they are easy to hang on the doorknob of the owner's home the next time you drive through that neighborhood.”

I don't have a car, and even if I did I certainly wouldn't return borrowed items by randomly driving through someone's neighborhood and hanging them on their doorknobs. WTF??

And check out all this advice for organizing dining rooms, formal china and table linens! LMAO WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM

“all dining room support items should find a home in the dining room, which means procuring dining room storage style furniture such as sideboards and breakfronts to house your formal china and table linens.”

“Do not create an unnecessarily complicated and hard-to-maintain indexing system by photographing and indexing your table linens. Instead, sort them into the sideboard, simply, by table size, not color, season, or inches. For example, a drawer might have two stacks of tablecloths—one stack fits the table when it has no leaves in it, the other fits the table when it has one leaf in it.”

“If you serve formal meals, do not be misled into thinking that a china cabinet or breakfront is an extravagance. Innumerable homeowners pay me exorbitant sums to unclutter their kitchens, when all they really need is a china cabinet in their dining room.”

In this alternate reality, we also all have space for more than one bureau (with a side of sexism) and individual closets for everyone in the household:

“Although men can usually get by with one bureau, most women could probably use two or more to hold all their bras, hose, purses, scarves, shawls, slips, jewelry, and camisoles.”

“Remove anything in your closet that is not wardrobe related, with the exception of one set of bed linens, and anything that is not yours. That's right, do not allow other family members to share your closet space.”

Soooooo I dunno I think there was some decent advice in here but most of it was pretty silly. Definitely not targeted at millennials who live in apartments.