Home Organization with ADHD

Although not everyone with ADHD, the life struggling disorder, issue the same problems in their day-to-day life, a mutual complication valid for everyone is home organization followed by cleaning. Revolving around your identity, ADHD might sometimes daunt house cleaning so much that it might feel like it's sucking out your life’s spirit. 

 Most people with ADHD can relate to the pain and solely the problems that comes with it. It's difficult most times to identify irrationalities inside your brain just like it's hard to find solutions to basic problems at home. Admittedly, there is no quick trick to make ADHD and house cleaning go perfect together. However, with the right tools and strategies it is possible to turn baffling house tasks and home clutter into a more fitting routine which will somewhat cope with your ADHD mechanism.

In this blog, I will feed your desire for change and sustainability with simple yet crucial tools and ideas which will reverse the downtrend you think your life is going through! 

Avoiding clutter all around. 

Creating clutter all day all night might be the number one problem people with ADHD face in their homes. This is mainly because of the sole nature of having difficulty in organizing stuff. This could be explained with how the ADHD mind works differently in a way where it moves from one idea to another.  

 The way to minimize everyday mess in your home comes from decluttering frequently. This does not mean taking on a task to tidy up the whole house at once. It is rather, picking small time frames in your day (such as the morning) and setting a time of approximately 10 minutes to tidy up one room of your home every day. Rotating through the time you spruce up and the rooms each day also reaps more benefits.

Bins and sins. 

This tip is linked with the one above because it helps organizing your home further. Bins can be saviors when it comes to eliminating dreadful clutter in your home. You can start by buying some clear plastic bins and labeling them into certain groups such as general, mail, etc. Eventually with this basic solution, you will have different bins for different trash which will help reduce overall clutter inside your home.  

Preparing a cleaning roster. 

 One thing adults with ADHD can freely admit is that when it comes to house cleaning, if there isn't a plan, cleaning will probably not be done. Humans with ADHD can tend to have an excuse for not getting stuff done. For house cleaning this embeds more ideas like '' I've got better things to do'' or '' I'm too busy''. To set these tiring procrastinating thoughts aside and to really give in the attention your home needs, set up a cleaning schedule!

 For your schedule, it is wise to list out the cleaning tasks that you normally should complete with time frames such as daily, weekly or monthly. The next step can be putting them on an actual calendar so that you can see them every day. What the eye sees every day, the brain will eventually obey.

Take it easy. 

 One piece of advice for ADHD wired brains and house cleaning is take it easy and start small. ADHD and stress go hand to hand. The main reason behind this, for people with ADHD, is because they have too many things going on in their brains all at the same time. There is barely a time off for someone who has a brain functioning with ADHD. Feeling overwhelmed by the tasks in hand may cause a severe stress level as a result. This will finally reach to a point where you don’t want to do anything at all.

Don’t worry too much about tackling everything at once. Rather than diving deep into cleaning everything, start small and do small cleaning tasks one at a time. While this may create the feeling of slow progress, in reality, it helps you in acting more efficiently. Efficiency is all about consistency and because you will be focusing on smaller and easier tasks it will form into a habit on its own! Habits are formed with a ton of practice. Take your baby steps seriously and repeat them without quitting. At one point or another, you will find yourself easily adapted to what seems hopeless to bare now.