Well-ordered chaos is a blog about getting organized with ADD.
If you have ADHD, you may feel like organization is simply beyond you. If you’re at all like me, you’ve tried and failed dozens of times to get organized, probably starting in the first grade. I lost homework, school textbooks, library books, and permission slips. Then I lost class notes, course registrations, financial aid paperwork, and computer disks. After that it was bills, more library books, keys, wallets, credit cards, cash, the can opener, important papers from work, and my ID.
As for my home (and car, and briefcase, and office when I’ve had one), they were in total chaos. When company came, I had to spend every spare minute for the preceding week cleaning and hiding clutter. My closet doors would barely close because of everything stuffed inside, and I would pray that they’d just wait before bursting open. I discouraged friends from coming by unannounced, and when an urgent matter required someone to drop something off at my home, I was embarrassed to have them see how I lived.
More importantly, the clutter was making my home unhealthy. I have severe allergies and I need to vacuum at least once a week with a HEPA vac, but this was impossible with clutter on every horizontal surface. There were stacks of five-year old magazines, bank statements, and torn books. There were drawers full of half-finished sewing projects and broken knick-knacks. My clothing, clean and dirty, was stored in huge piles on the bedroom floor. In theory there were laundry baskets, but they were long buried, and to unearth them was to risk an asthma attack. Several advanced life-forms were evolving in my fridge, forming civilizations, and planning their own missions into space.
I was able to change all that. This blog will tell you how.
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