
How Do You Stay Organized?
What’s your favorite organizing hack? Share your story or tips—your insight could help someone else thrive! 🗂️✨

What’s your favorite organizing hack? Share your story or tips—your insight could help someone else thrive! 🗂️✨
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Jeg har en frisørsalong i huset mitt som er plettfri, men resten av huset mitt er et skittent rot. Det virker som om det å tjene til livets opphold er min drivkraft for å holde salongen ved like, og også at kundene dømmer meg.
Jeg er veldig imponert over at du rydder 30 minutter om dagen!! Det vil sannsynligvis bli en vane å "bare være organisert" når du er ferdig med å kaste det meste av tingene dine! Med mindre du har barn, i så fall vil du gjøre det hver dag til de flytter ut :)
Jeg er på samme måte. På jobb er jeg superorganisert fordi det er et system. Ikke så mye hjemme. Men jeg er i ryddeprosessen av hele huset mitt akkurat nå. Bare går rom for rom. Hver dag bruker jeg en halvtime på å rydde ved å kaste eller donere. Jeg finner sjelden noe jeg desperat vil beholde nå. Jeg er bare så lei av å ha et rotete hus.
Historien gjør meg bare frustrert: "Finn deg en ryddekompis" – hvor ofte har jeg ikke prøvd det i mitt liv! Det er som – "ikke si nei til all tilbudt hjelp" etter fødselen av babyen. Jeg har langt flere giftige og egosentriske mennesker rundt meg enn hjelpende hender. Men den siste jeg ville betale for rengjøring/papirarbeid (hun hadde tilbudt akkurat det for penger) fortalte meg at det var så ille at jeg ville trenge (og få) profesjonell hjelp, hun jobbet imidlertid ikke for meg, bare bisarrt...🥳 Jeg deler dette slik at andre mennesker kanskje føler seg mindre alene i: ikke alt er realistisk, det avhenger også av andre mennesker.
Jeg setter en beholder der jeg ser rot. Og bare kaster det oppi. Det får meg til å føle meg bedre.
Jeg prøver å legge ting på samme sted hele tiden og prøver å ha minst én av alt i hvert rom i leiligheten!
Jeg organiserer livet mitt ved å gjøre oppgaver jeg liker og elsker. ❤️ Jeg synes det er en god strategi. Hvis det er noe jeg ikke vil gjøre/ikke liker, er det da jeg tenker på «hva ser jeg frem til?». Det hjelper meg, for da kan jeg vite hva som ligger foran meg og gjøre livet mye enklere
Marie Kondo. Å bruke skoesker til oppbevaring av samme kategori, og når det er brettet og ikke beveger seg, elsker jeg det, og jeg kan holde meg til den samme organiseringen non-stop, men det fungerer når jeg har laget en god klassifisering og tingene ikke beveger seg så mye. For meg er det veldig overveldende med en boks blandet med alt, det får hjernen min til å kollapse…
Jeg organiserer én gang og prøver å lage en rutine for hvor alt skal være. Eks: Hvis jeg trenger saksen min, er de alle på samme sted, og jeg legger dem tilbake der når jeg er ferdig med å bruke dem. Det er som i klasserommet, aldri endre rekkefølgen slik at barna kan venne seg til å legge det tilbake. Huset mitt er det samme, ellers mister jeg tingene mine.
Jeg liker å organisere, og resultatene er en stor belønning. Men jeg må gå inn i hyperfokus for å få jobben gjort. Så jeg bruker lang tid på å fullføre ett prosjekt, men det er verdt det.
I literally have to reorganize my desk every day. I also dont know if anyone else feels this way but - honestly when i do organize and put stuff away, even if i label it - out of sight out of mind and then it becomes a nightmare trying to find things. So ill have piles of things, papers for work, a dresser that looks like a bomb went off on it and theres just random items all lver it, piles or clothes the list is endless. HOWEVER - i can tell u where very specific items are in each “mess”. I call it organized messes because it works for me. But it also is extremely stressful to live in what looks like sheer chaos. So if it looks good i feel better, but really it makes it harder for me to do things because i never remember where anything is. Ill find things in random drawers etc months later that i frantically searched for for days and never found. Honestly i cant find a balance. Same with my laptop. I have 1000000 different apps and tabs and documents open which is so disorganized but if i close them ill forget about them and then it turns into a bigger issue.
Hvis jeg hadde en Bluetooth i øret som spilte en bok eller noe interessant jeg kunne lytte til, kunne jeg fokusere bedre, noe som ikke gir mening i det hele tatt.
Jeg er også i stand til å konsentrere meg og rydde bort ting under nyhetene om morgenen
Jeg er fortsatt på vei, men å finne ut at jeg elsker rutiner og bare hater de som familien min satte på plass for meg, hjalp meg mye.
Om jeg bare hadde råd til å donere alt som roter til rommene mine, og så bare kjøpe tilbake det jeg trenger. Hvis jeg trengte noe jeg kvittet meg med, kunne jeg bare erstatte det. Super sløsete, ja, men det ville vært effektivt.
Mari Kondo-metoden har virkelig forandret livet mitt.... spesielt livet til skuffene mine 😂. Da jeg var liten, puttet jeg bokstavelig talt hva som helst i skuffene tilfeldig.... og etter dager og uker hadde jeg absolutt ingen anelse om hva som var inni. Jeg har noen rotete, uorganiserte skuffer som det, men de har faktisk en kategori, så jeg vet litt bedre hva som faktisk er inni 😂
Jeg bruker UGMonk-kort for å skrive ned og ha huskelisten min foran meg hele tiden.
For gjøremål fra Microsoft og Google kalender har jeg widgets på telefonen min, og den gir også påminnelser slik at jeg alltid kan sjekke og bli minnet på, ellers ville jeg sannsynligvis glemme hver evaluering jeg har i løpet av semesteret eller arrangementer.
Jeg bruker Live Minder-appen. Jeg har en iPhone, og den setter påminnelser på låseskjermen min slik at jeg alltid kan se dem før jeg åpner telefonen min.
Det kommer og går Etter at jeg organiserte det, og så en fase hvor jeg ble travel og rotete, var det ikke tid til å rydde etterpå. Så igjen, venter jeg på en ny runde hvor jeg har tid til å reorganisere rotet igjen. Men etter hvert som jeg blir eldre, reduseres rotet i størrelse fordi jeg kanskje klarer å rydde oftere?
Jeg liker å organisere og rydde rommet mitt mens jeg ser på nyhetene om morgenen. Det starter dagen min bra ved å få meg til å føle meg vellykket, og jeg vil ikke alltid fokusere på nyhetene, men liker å høre folk rapportere om historier i bakgrunnen!
Wow, det høres super produktivt ut! Klarer du å gjøre det som din daglige rutine?
For me it's watching a movie that I like and have watched at least once before. Something like a rom com or horror that gets my juices going. With some emotional connection. That helps me get into my zone and visualise how I want my room (life) to look. How i want my wardrobe done. Aligned with the good vibes from watching something familiar or comforting.. hope that made sense
Jeg har tenkt å vaske overalt og ikke få gjort noe. Én ting om gangen, men bare hvis det var så enkelt.
Når jeg bestemmer meg for å endelig rydde hele leiligheten min i dag. Da går det aldri. Merkelig hvordan hodet mitt fungerer… Bare 10 minutter hver dag fungerer bedre.
I don’t stay organized. My areas are like my thoughts-scattered everywhere. My husband picks up the common areas because he can’t stand clutter. ☹️ Organizing is something I want to work on.
I have a minimalistic style in in my apartment and have 2 turn down lots of cool stuff
I have so much stuff! We just got written up by our apartment for too much clutter. My husband is mad at me. My kids hate me. I have been crying nonstop since we got the notice on Friday. We are on a list.
I’m the type that is always on the brink of crisis or I’m totally sailing. It’s one extreme or the other! I need to live in a house that is minimalistic and currently I’ve accumulated to the point of destruction again. So yes in crisis must declutter, throw away, rid of certain people and start to organise my life again.
Not putting something down unless it's in its designated place. I don't want it's really hard w Laundry
I'm that person who buys books and magazines on organization then buys cute baskets or other storage pieces which somehow leads to more clutter drives my husband crazy 🤦♀️
I was driving my parents crazy because I of the overbuying cycle. I blamed myself for not being responsible with my finances. (Irresponsibility it’s not an adhd symptom). Transparent organisers work better for me because it’s visible and I don’t forget. I tried to organise once, didn’t work, twice lost count. Then I saw organisation hacks that worked for me. My parents saw me trying, very hard. That counted.
Me too. I feel you. I got in a relationship which I swore never to do again! This time it was physically abusive. I just give too much of my own time away and my life backs up on me. Now I’m in crisis again nothing is functioning and I feel like the world is closing in on me. I’m hyperactive type adhd. How bout you?
Stick to a routine daily or I let everything go and set hopeless wishing I had energy.
J'aurais utiliser cette appli en français. Je commence à peine à mettre en place des routines. Et je vois que j'ai beaucoup de travail.
I have a routine before going to bed after my shower. It allows me to do all the things I have to do daily for example clean the cat toilets and allows me to timebox. I have another one when I leave house to take everything I need like cleaning my teeth, put some clothes, badge, wallet, public transportation card… this way I can better estimate my morning routine and avoid to be late for the train! I use routinery app
I’m overwhelmed right now. Going through a divorce and having to sort out the house all by myself because he told me it’s my mess and stuff. He’s right. I was just diagnosed with ADHD two months ago and am medicated. I have made progress but it just seems like I should be doing more. 😩
I am with you. Would suggest self care and also putting down standards for the time being whilst taking care of "fluff". Does not need to and should not be a straight A project. No sir. Be mediocre at it by choice (at best!)
It does feel like a lot of n.typicals, or even n.diverse who are at different spectrums than us, figure that once we are diagnosed and are being medicated, we should instantly be well and finally acting as the person that THEY want us to be… it’s never that simple. And it hurts to be on the receiving end of that shame and guilt for being different than them… for being ourselves. Hugs to you, to both of you, and anyone else reading this! 🫂 Divorce, or being put out on our own, doesn’t mean it’s the end - it just means it’s our next chapter and our next chance to be who we want to truly be. Don’t ever give up on being the person you want to be! 👑
Hey. Sometimes you need to aknowledge that at least you aren’t in the corner rocking back and forth muttering “mercy”. It’s been known to happen! But I’m also autistic! I just got assaulted by my partner at Xmas and now think I’m pregnant also. That would be child number 6! At 46! When my youngest is 12. Oldest 30. So yeah. Sometimes life sux. But honey, at least you aren’t diagnosed AND medicated! I’m diagnosed as of last year. Not yet medicated need to find a psychiatrist. Got treated at psychologists office. They can’t prescribe! Damnit.
My house has been remodelled, I feel exhausted and really don't know where to start.
I have to play music for my brain to get me going. Once I’ve found that tune then I’m able to clean.
For the worst is a pile of papers that need to be sorted. My first step is to put it upright in a box or a box. Then I can go through the papers, magazines and other things one after the other and, for example, put out all the magazines. This reduces the amount of paper and I find the important papers such as invoices and letters faster. Nevertheless, everything remains in the order in which the stack was created. This is important to me because I often remember at what depth of the pile a note was.
I feel like I have so many daily to-do list like I have a stack of daily to-do list and always like Okay I'm going to consolidate all of them and have like one major mass 500 to do's on a list and start working my way down the list I haven't got to that yet but I'm going to lol
Create one list for the big ideas, and another list(s) for each idea to break them down. So essentially, you will end up with more to-do lists, but you will have one primary list for you to choose your next task from. It doesn’t even have to be in order of importance; you can number it like that later if you’d like to, though, but do remember that life is life, and more important things will come up before you can make it through your full list(s). This is where the Eisenhower Matrix could help you out, with prioritizing.
I was taught a technique, used it for a while, then stopped, procrastination overwhelm. However this technique is good if you’re consistent. Make an electronic list in say One Note or a simple word doc is fine too. Use headings to create time based sections to allocate task to: - Top 3 priorities to do now - today - this week - this month -this quarter -this year -someday - brain dump The idea is you put everything in either a time slot of if that’s too difficult put it in the brain dump Then you shuffle things up the list as the top 3 are done. As things change their urgency or importance with life’s demands, you can reallocate to a different time slot, so something you thought you would do this quarter when you got around to it can jump sections straight up to today if it suddenly becomes urgent and/or important. Ideally use a list to keep track of tasks done to help sense of progress. I’ve inspired myself through writing this just now and am wondering if I could somehow adapt this app to this. If not I’ll go back to One Note. If there’s a section where I can upload a word doc template I’m happy to do that. I’m day 1 Newbie here so haven’t explored the app fully.
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