I haven’t been updating either of my blogs much lately. This is partly due to drama in my offline life — like one in ten Americans, I am unemployed and looking for work. I’m spending most of my time these days sending out resumes and coverletters into various black holes, where I never [...]
Oscar has no problem with trash — he LOVES trash!
Adults with ADD are notorious for hanging onto clutter. We’ve being scolded our whole lives for loosing things through our carelessness. If we never throw anything a way, we know it’s there … somewhere. We might not be able to find it right now, [...]
It’s the New Year, and that means New Year’s it’s time for New Year’s resolutions.
One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, year in and year out, is to “get organized”. According to the National Association of Professional Organizers, who polled more than 400 adults last November, 71% of respondents felt that their quality of [...]
There’s a lot of wisdom in the old adage “A Place for Everything and Everything In Its Place”. However, if your space hasn’t been organized before, most of what you own does not yet have its own “place”. This is why it’s important to set aside a portion of your home as a [...]
After identifying Activity Zones, my clutter buddy and I talked about what was functioning well in each area, and what needed to be fixed. I was overwhelmed by the mess, and initially felt that nothing at all, anywhere in my kitchen, was working. Jana pointed out that the Cat Zone was not only functional, but [...]
The big day had arrived. My clutter buddy was at my home and by the end of that day I would, come hell or high water, have made some progress on organizing my home. My confidence had received a boost from learning that my apparently chaotic surroundings were actually a somewhat functional attempt [...]
Last week I started writing up my organizing journey from it’s very beginnings in the fall of 2004. Since the continuation of my entryway project now rests on things beyond my control (like somebody buying my bike and my clothes), I’ve decided to spend a few posts continuing that story. Today’s post isn’t about taking [...]
My organizing journey began in the fall of 2005 when a friend of mine called me with an interesting proposition.
“I think we should help each other get organized”, she said.
I was stunned. “Get organized? Help each other?” I asked. “How can I be any help to you at all? You’re pretty [...]
Well-ordered chaos is a blog about getting organized as an adult 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, [...]
