From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:
Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.
Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.
Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.
Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily
Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don’t obscure the view!
If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.
Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom
Reblog and say what project you currently have spread on your dinner table in the tags
I’ve gotten this book out from the library and it is fantastic. I was wary, because we all know how well most organization schemes work for us, but she is a professional organizer who specifically wrote the book because her usual methods didn’t work for clients with adhd (and then her own daughter, when she was diagnosed) and she had to actually sit down and figure out their needs and adjust her methods accordingly.
For once, a NT author sat down and took the time to really understand adhd and rearranged their whole methodology just to fit, and it shows. She explicitly says that a well-organized adhd house will not look like a well-organized NT house, and that is absolutely fine. Organization has to be about what works for you.
(Also: I had this book sitting in my back office basket at the library I volunteer in for weeks without being able to check it out, because I kept forgetting to return my overdue books. LOL)
I’ve installed like 20 hooks in my house since reading this, it’s great. Floordrobe becomes Walldrobe which keeps stuff cleaner and more visible when I’m trying to find the sweater I want.
I really like that book page. It reminds me of those rabbinical teachings i see quoted sometimes, like the “what can we learn from the child” quotation
Your ADHD loved one believes, naively, that things you use every day should be easy to use. The ADHD loved one argues that the aesthetics as seen by a hypothetical guest are much less important than the ability of people who live in this home to see and locate items they need. The ADHD loved one cries out that objects should be kept easy to reach, near the places where you’ll need them, without unnecessary effort to move them in and out of less-accessible places in between uses.
The ADHD loved one believes that a home should be functional. And the ADHD loved one is right.
