Clean Out Your Car!

Have you seen the Fabreeze commercial where the mom saves all of the stuff that accumulates in her car in a week and then loads it into the car? And then the family climbs in, blindfolded, and talks about how fresh the car smells. Would anybody do that with your car? I try to keep […]

How to Have a (Fake) Immaculate House

Becky from Organizing Made Fun wrote a series of posts about “How to Have a (Fake) Immaculate House” a while back. I bookmarked it and read it all the way through. And then I thought “what great ideas”. And then I did what you always do when you have ADHD. I forgot about it and […]

How to Organize Anything

Wow. That sounds pretty impressive, doesn’t it? Well the truth is that organizing anything just boils down to a few simple steps that are the same whether you’re organizing your closet or your spice rack. Start by setting aside enough time to get the job done. Estimate how long it will take and then double […]

The Back Up Plan

Those of us with ADHD may often find ourselves in a situation for which we are not prepared. My most famous one was inviting 10 people for Christmas dinner and forgetting to go grocery shopping. Not my finest hour. Most often these situations are of the everyday sort – running out of clean socks, underwear […]

Your Brain on Clutter

AS ADDers we’ve all had the experience of feeling as though our brains were cluttered with too much stuff. But did you know that physical clutter can mess with your brain too? Living or working in a cluttered environment makes everything harder. It’s harder to clean, to get around and to function. And that goes […]

Organizing All Those Papers!

I think organizing papers is a difficult task for anybody, but for we ADD Moms, it can easily become overwhelming. As part of BlogHer’s Life Well Lived feature, I’d like to share some of the ways that I keep my papers organized and easy to find. Pop over to the discussion and give us your […]