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The Dreaded Kitchen Table

Well, I did it.  After a year of allowing my kitchen table to become submerged under an ever-growing pile of random clutter, I finally reclaimed it:

It's a work table with work on it, even.

This is exactly the kind of work I need to be able to do on this table.  I have [...]

Professional Help

It’s a truth of time management that some tasks need to be delegated, and that the best tasks to delegate are those that somebody else can do better.  For adults with ADD, cleaning and housekeeping are among those tasks.  Every book I’ve ever read about ADHD has said that if you can afford to hire [...]

How to Organize an Entryway, Step 5: Containerizing

Welcome back to the series, “How to Organize an Entryway”.

Yesterday I started the fifth step of organizing the entryway: Containerizing. Earlier in the week I went to The Container Store to get supplies. I got two clear acrylic sweater drawers, a set of matching clear dividers, and two plastic bins to try out [...]

Hyperfocus. What a time waster.

So, I’m doing this art project that required me to buy a certain number of items.  I go to Home Despot, I buy the items I need, I carefully put them in the shopping bag.  The self-checkout device has a meltdown over something, as it inevitably does.  While I’m offering it kleenex and saying “there, [...]

Creating a chore schedule

Last week I wrote about making up a gmail calendar schedule, but as you’ve probably already learned, it isn’t enough to just get yourself a gmail account and open up the calendar feature.  You have to create a schedule, and then you have to notate it in a way that makes sense to you.

For example, [...]

Today I Cleaned My Kitchen

Well, part of it anyway. But I cleaned that part of it really well.

I’ve been bitching a lot this week about feeling all tired and hibernatey. Low energy, low motivation, blah blah blah. Today I had to get it together because my partner’s coming back from a business trip, and I know [...]