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We get really into Halloween at my house. This is partially because it’s my youngest son’s birthday, and partially because it’s my other sons’ favorite holiday. I’ve come around on it, and with their prodding, over the years, we’ve amassed a substantial trove of decorations.Handmade garlands of spooky pumpkins drape over doorways.

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Live Webinar on July 19: Your Organized Home: Functional Organization for Your Life Phase Right Now

Not available July 19? Don’t worry. Register now and we’ll send you the replay link to watch at your convenience.What does a functionally organized home look like? For families with working parents and school-age children, it’s most essential (and difficult) to organize rooms and backpacks.

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Q: “My Sons’ Bedroom is Chaos!”

Q: “How do I help my boys get their messy bedrooms in order? They never throw anything away and leave empty boxes, clothing tags, and shopping bags in their rooms for weeks. Their clothing drawers have no sense of order.

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5 Steps Toward a Decluttered (and De-Stressed) Life

Is your closet stuffed with sweaters last worn during the Obama administration? What about towels so threadbare, blankets so stained, or pillows so flat they’d likely be turned away by the local animal shelter? If this hits close to home, you’re probably like many people with ADHD who form loyal attachments to possessions and then resist tossing them when they are no longer wanted or needed. When belongings pile up, shrinking the living space in an area of your house, you know it’s time to commence Operation Declutter.Keep in mind that decluttering your home is a journey, not a destination. It doesn’t have to happen all at once.

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Q: “How Do I Get Rid of My Sentimental Clutter?”

Q: “I am decluttering but having a hard time parting with my kids’ artwork, bric-a-brac from my late mother, and other mementos. What should I do? Rent a storage unit, or just live with these items?”A: Heavens! Do not rent a storage unit. This will be cumulatively expensive in both finances and labor (emotional and the “bills-to-pay” variety).When it comes to weeding out nostalgic items, keep in mind these three questions:[Read This Next: The Ultimate Room-by-Room Organization Guide]A former client of mine was holding onto a six-foot roll of linoleum left over from the first house she owned.

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“Q: How Can I Make Housework Stimulating?”

Q: “Doing housework is flat-out boring. I have a hard time getting started, if I start at all. Then, because I wait so long between cleanings, the work seems overwhelming.

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How to Organize Your Digital Space for the New Year

Every new year brings with it a fresh start and a new set of resolutions. One new year’s resolution you can make that will help set you up for success is to maintain an organized workspace all year long.

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Q: “I Need Craft Room Organization Ideas That Keep Supplies in Sight!”

Q: “How do I organize a craft room without forgetting about supplies tucked away in drawers or boxes? What are the best tips for someone who needs to see it all? Anything to avoid?” — JoInUKHi JoInUK:An organized craft room is essential for bringing your creative ideas to life. However, having everything out on display can make you feel overwhelmed and cost you money and time. Here are some of my favorite organizing tips, which make your supplies visible and help you to feel calm and inspired.1.

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10 Hacks for Conquering Household Chores with ADHD

From laundry and dishes to meal-planning and grocery shopping, there’s no shortage of household tasks that need to get to done — again and again and again.They are boring, repetitive, and necessary — kryptonite for ADHD brains that light up over novelty, not the same old same old. Meanwhile, the unfolded laundry, unpaid bills, and empty fridge continue to loom.To transform monotonous household tasks into worthy challenges, ADHD brains need creative hacks.

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8 Paper Planners That Will Change Your Life

“Many ADDitude readers like Time Timers and old-fashioned Moleskin calendars. What products or apps do you use to manage your time?”When we asked this question in a survey completed by 1,342 ADDitude readers last month, the answer came back loud and clear: We like paper planners.

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10 Decluttering Hacks Designed by and for ADHD Brains

Clutter has a sneaky way of lying dormant and then abruptly disrupting our lives, like mosquitoes in the summertime or pop-up ads online. For those of us with ADHD who are prone to accumulating piles of stuff, the task of decluttering may seem too daunting to even begin, and harder still to sustain.Here, learn how other ADDitude readers break down the task of decluttering into bite-sized chunks and chomp away a little each day.

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Making Three Lists and Checking Them A Lot

[Read: Manage the Holidays]Making a gift giving list and deciding a spending limit for each person on the list is a lifesaver (and money-saver) for anyone, but especially those of us prone to last-minute shopping.First, decide what your overall budget is for gifts and cards this season (see our sample below). Then write down the names of family and friends that you usually see over the holidays and exchange gifts with.

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Stocking Stuffers for Adults with ADD

BUY NOW$12.02Insomnia is a common side effect of ADHD. One of the best scents to help promote a restful night? Lavender.

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3 Digital Skills That Ease Learning (and Life) for Students with ADHD

school organization and productivity.From email hacks to best practices for digital filing, here are the secrets your students need to know for making the most out of everyday digital tools.Digital organization is critical — and best started early in the academic year. The following steps may seem obvious, but explicit instruction helps students visualize how they can best manage the piles of digital files they create and receive in a given school year.Young students should use a comparable, single-binder system for school, with folders for each subject to organize paper materials.

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“Q: My Deep Kitchen Cabinets Are a Terrible Abyss.”

Q: “Our kitchen cabinets are just awful because I can’t see anything in them. They’re set up like a pantry closet that is really tall and the shelves are super deep.

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The School Supplies Your Child Actually Needs: 10 ADHD Essentials

BUY NOWSimplify the supplies. I can’t stress this enough. With your child’s teachers’ permission, purchase multi-functional items.

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“My Keys Were in the Fridge!” ADHD Stories of Wildly Misplaced Items

lost item story in the Comments section below.“I was in the airport with my family and I started to panic because I lost track of my phone. I was frantically moving my hand around the seat, looking for it.

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The Household Chores That Work for Kids with ADHD – and Some That Don’t

“What kinds of regular household chores does your child with ADHD have? Is it a struggle to get them to do their chores, or do they like having defined tasks?”ADDitude recently posed these questions to newsletter subscribers and received dozens of insightful answers. Yes, plenty of children with ADHD are tasked with setting and clearing the table, washing laundry, and taking out the trash — ordinary tasks with predictable incentives.

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Q: Which ADHD Organizational Tools Actually Work?

adults with ADHD, who shared the tools that have helped remedy messy workspaces and cluttered rooms. Here are some of our favorites; share your recommended ADHD organization tools in the Comments section below.“I bought clear containers from the dollar store for classroom supplies.

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Q: I’m Overwhelmed by Starting the Project That Will Reduce My Overwhelm!

fatigue and overwhelm, so that we can actually finish the project?” – ADHDMumUKHi ADHDMumUK:Project planning is daunting — especially for those with ADHD. There are endless steps to organize and plan, details that need remembering, decisions to be made, and loads of activation required.

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Lost (and Found) Keys: 15 Reader Solutions

ADHD, some of whom have devised truly creative solutions and strategies to avoid losing keys — or at least make it easier to find them when they go missing.ADDitude recently asked readers: What is your best strategy for keeping track of your keys? From simply keeping them in one place to using tracking apps, read on for ADHD-friendly key tips.1. “I attach a Tile to both sets of keys, and, just in case, I carry a spare car key and house key in my wallet.” – Kiki, Maryland2.

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How OKRs Can Help You Make The Most Out Of Your Human Capital – 2021

This article can help business owners understand why OKRs are so important in their world. In the olden days, companies use organizational goals at the beginning of the year – tasks and deadlines that are often forgotten about springtime hits.However, using OKRs helps provide clarity to the ongoing goals and missions of a company.

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Q: Should I Hire a Professional Organizer?

Hi Overwhelmed Wilma:There is a lot to unpack here. And since I don’t know the details of your circumstances (what is causing the disorganization, who else lives in your home with you, what systems you have already tried, etc.), I’m going to give you some general organizing tips that I hope will spark some solutions for you.#1: Everything Needs a Home. It’s been said that clutter is delayed decision making.

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5 Benefits of Executive Search Firms for Nonprofits – 2021 Guide

scionexecutivesearch.com, this process doesn’t have to be as hard as many people presume it can be.Plus, if you know all the benefits of executive search firms for nonprofits, you will see that this approach is the best way to go. Now, we would like to talk about all the benefits you can reap if you opt for this one.

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When the Kitchen Is the Family Room

Q: “Everyone in our family has ADHD. We all love hanging out together in the kitchen, which makes it the most challenging place in our home to keep organized.

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How Can I Stay Organized When I Have Too Much on My Plate? Here’s How:

Being overwhelmed when faced with a seemingly endless to-do list is all too familiar to most of us. The fast pace of life and the overall lack of time takes a toll on our wellbeing, making us stressed and anxious too often.

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How to Declutter with an ADHD Brain: Organization Solutions for Real Life

disorganization is a serious problem, and 40% of women over the age of 40 say disorganization is their most urgent ADHD issue. Our ADHD brains are prone to clutter for a number of reasons: poor working memory, weak impulse control, and access to services like Amazon that instantly fulfil our whims.

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Reconnecting with Family and Friends

ADHD often experience from family and friends. It can lead to depression or plain old loneliness and sadness.

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Q: How Can I Organize All of These Medical Forms and Bills?

Q: “I seem to be able to figure out how to organize the stuff in my house, but I’m really struggling with all of our medical paperwork. I have old lab reports and records that I don’t want to throw away, but I also have bills and insurance forms all over the place that need my attention.

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Filing Cabinets Don’t Work for ADHD Minds: Help for Paper Pilers

paperless, I changed my goal from eliminating all paper to having less of it.There are two ways most people process paper. Stacks of paper is usually the first.

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Q: When I Multitask, Nothing Ever Gets Completed!

stay organized? This impacts our family in multiple ways.” – WorkingSingleMomWithTeensHi WorkingSingleMomWithTeens:Thank you for submitting this question. As a single parent — working full time with your kids also at home — you have a very full plate.You mention in your question that when you focus on “everything a little” you feel behind and nothing is fully finished, yet when you focus on only one thing at a time you feel your projects are incomplete.But I need to challenge you a little in that thinking.

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“Bullet Journaling is Saving My Sanity in Quarantine.”

working from home (like millions of others) at the start of the pandemic, I had trouble separating work from home and managing my stress. Some mornings, I would waste hours figuring out how to start the day.

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Need Help Finding Your Passion? Use This ADHD “Brain Blueprint”

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Q: What Important Papers Should I Be Filing vs. Shredding?

Q: “My lack of a file system means piles of paper are all over home. Where do I put things on both computer and paper files? Paid insurance bills, medical bills.

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4 Organization Projects That Spark Joy in Quarantined ADHD Brains

When the emotional roller coaster of stay-at-home orders began, many of us felt equal parts terrified and excited. We feared the reality of working and learning (concurrently) from home, but we also dreamed of vanquishing all of those closets, drawers, and boxes that have lingered for years. That burst of motivation to organize was, for many of us, short-lived.

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