Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 3rd Edition: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized

I don't know if I have ADHD or not, but I have depression and it makes it sooooo hard for me to keep my house tidy. There are a lot of helpful tips in here that I'm going to use to organize my space. This book also helped me understand why my current organization doesnt work.

I've read through it and learned a lot of the "why" reasons and solutions for many things like when the coats get dropped on the floor instead of the hook 3 feet above it and what to do about it. It also talks about if you have a large family of mixed ADHD and normals. I did not notice any notes about ADHD and OCD families. I didn't realize we had someone dealing with OCD until very recently. I've had this book for a couple or few months and I was able to use it to reorganize my kitchen, my medicine cabinets, and got halfway through my children's bathroom. On my own with 4 kids in the home. So I feel like this would be great if I had a week with some motivated adults to help and ship the kids off for that time and we could fix the whole house. But I cannot make that happen at this time so I was a little hard on myself when I optimistically thought all of the suggestions made sense and that I could execute them. Nope. I still have ADHD so it's still really hard and I would need help that I don't have at this time for this book to help me the way I wanted it to. But if you are buying this because your children or spouse have ADHD and you want to help manage their chaos, you can probably pull a lot from this. But you have to be willing to not be a perfectionist and not want that magazine perfect home organization. This helps you set up your home to have things where they can be found and managed by ADHD members who have stuff trailed everywhere and no system has worked for you yet. Due to the severity of my ADHD as the mom with children with ADHD and a child with OCD, I've set up therapy sessions for a little bit of guidance how OCD will play into our chaos, and I am in the process of switching medications around so I can be on real ADHD stimulant medications before I can make this book really work. But I'm looking forward to gaining enough mental function to utilize it in the future.

This book really made me understand how to start organizing my home in a way that made sense for my ADHD brain. So many good ideas. Highly recommend to anyone with ADHD who struggles to stay organized or keep their living space clean.

I can only give this a 3 stars. As soon as I bought the book I misplaced it. So much for organizing

I found this book invaluable for setting up simple systems to keep house with adhd. It is probably the most helpful book I've read on the topic and I've already implemented some strategies in my bathroom to make my life easier. It has also given me a look back on my childhood and a way to understand my kids and their struggles and given me ways to help them. The editing was imperfect but I am not going to downrate the book for it. For example the book mentions the sticky finger method and how useful it is but then doesn't actually tell us what it actually is. This is an exception- it really doesn't happen elsewhere in the book. And I am grateful to have read this book. It has given me a lot to consider and I have a lot of "brutal purging" to do.