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One of the questions I keep seeing about Princess time™️ after stuff about the raccoons is stuff about the costumes and yeah…

Dressing up like a princess helps me clean. And yes, it might help you clean as well.

As someone asked about this morning, yes, I do have a degree in fashion design and work as a professional theatrical costume designer.

There are legitimate studies showing that the way you dress impacts the way you work. Your clothing has a direct correlation with your mood and success of the task at hand. Generally, this fashion theory is used to discuss how women perform and are perceived in typically male dominated business careers. HOWEVER, you can also back this theory and use it to make yourself do chores. Like I do.

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I got 1 task done today. I emptied the big trash can in my bedroom. That's one less fork to deal with.

I have severe executive dysfunction. I've been dealing with it by having myself do one small task a day. So far it's helped a lot. By doing it this way my brain doesn't freak out trying to tackle everything at once.

I got my inspiration for it from this Donald Duck comic:

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what are some of your favorite "hacks" for working with an ADHD brain?

I love optimizing my house to make things easier. Stuff that works for me:

Phone chargers in every spot where I tend to hang out (bed, couch, desk, kitchen table). They need to be long chargers, so I can lie down however I want, not fold myself uncomfortably because it's too short.

Bins where I tend to hang out, always at arms reach. I need to be able to immediately throw the trash or it'll stay there forever.

I removed the doors to the pantry, from my closet, I took off the drawers of the fridge, so I can always see what's in there and reduce the lack of object permanence.

I have a ton of clothes, so I can do laundry like, once every two weeks, or sometimes in dire circumstances, once a month.

Dry shampoo and baby wipes for the times where even showering is too hard.

Snacks and granola bars when eating is too hard.

I fold my clothes vertically in the drawers so I can see them all and stop forgetting they exist.

My jewelery is in transparent plastic boxes with little divisions (they're craft boxes from the dollar store). I can see what's in there and again STOP FORGETTING THEY EXIST

The phone alarm is not enough to wake me up so I got an old fashioned radio alarm and placed it outside my room. It's hell, but whatever it takes.

Hooks over doors, in every room. In my bedroom, that's where I hang my jeans, hoodies, whatever I use often.

On the doors again, shoe organizers, the kinds you hang. That's where the hats, mittens, scarves, belts, end up.

Never closed storage, always open shelves. Closed storage is where things go die.

The hooks near the front door are for keys but also small earphones, since I only need them when I go out. (the earphones are the ones with cable because i lose the airbuds and never remember to charge them)

Cleaning wipes in every room.

Face cleaning wipes on every desk. Careful not to confuse them.

The mop is the kind with a water bottle attached where you just spray and clean. That's like a million steps removed and you can easily clean that tomato sauce stain.

So many shelves, guys, I added shelves on the top of dressers. Things I use rarely go in labeled transparent plastic bins. always transparent.

Actually everything needs its own spot. Mess comes from things that have no specific spot. I'm still figuring out how to optimise some stuff. This week I bought a modular shoe rack from the dollar store, assembled it vertically, and it fit in a corner of the bathroom. Now I know where towels can go.

The spots where I hang out need to be comfortable. My bed, the couch, the desk, there's always a blanket, a fan, a humidifier near. Discomfort is the concentration killer.

A huge pan. I need to be able to cook massive portions because I don't cook often. My go to recipe is tons of veggies in a spaghetti sauce.

Boxes to drop my hairties, earrings, etc, in every spot I hang out.

Seriously, shelves, bins, dividers, displays, presenters, the dollar store is a treasure trove of adhd tools. The best ailes are: home organisation, crafts, school supplies, and strangely, makeup organizers. The point is to find the way to organize your stuff so it pleases your brain, and make living and cleaning easier. You go with your brain, not against it.

.... that’s most of it, I think. also no amount of organization will beat medication and therapy, but it all comes together for an easier life.

(oh yeah, this might confuse you into thinking my house is clean. is it definitely not.)

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cleaning along desire paths

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Man plans, G-d laughs, as they say.

I woke up this morning to a resounding crash; I thought it must have come from next door or even from a car hitting something in the street below, but I only knew where one cat was, so I got up just to be sure. Figured I'd get a snack while I was up so I headed towards the kitchen...

I'll add image ID later but suffice to say there is some wreckage. A shelf I hung in the kitchen years ago, and which I haven't touched since, fell from about eight feet up. I'm not even sure why since the mounts and the shelf are all sound, but it dropped a couple of ceramic mugs onto a kitchen hutch where there was a glass candle holder, which shattered spectacularly. This morning's work turned out to be cleaning the kitchen floor.

I'll be wearing hard soled slippers in the kitchen for a while. At least it only knocked over my havdalah box and didn't break it. The glass candle holder wasn't anything special anyway.

Everything is ok; the cats are fine, I've swept and vacuumed the floor extensively, and while I'm sad to lose some stuff, it's just stuff. An hour later and I would have been in the kitchen when it fell, which would have been worse. At night the cats eat their dinner on that orange rug, so it could have been much worse.

If you've never broken glass or ceramics in your home, here are some guidelines:

1. Put on shoes immediately. The worst way to find broken glass is with your bare feet. And you will, because broken glass goes everywhere.

2. Sweep everywhere. I found glass and ceramic all over the kitchen floor, including where it should not have been. After sweeping, the vacuum found more.

3. Don't trust plastic trash bags. Put the sweepings in a paper bag or cardboard box.

4. Wear shoes for a few days. Even after sweeping and vacuuming I'm finding shards.

Fortunately we are all fine, so while safety is paramount, no real harm has been done. I'm gonna take the day, though. I'm a bit shaky and so are the cats. They're clinging and yelling for cuddles. I'm very glad that if it had to fall, it fell when and where it did.

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With pegboard, shelves can be adjusted to any height and spacing without damaging the wall surface. Though pegboard may be an unconventional wallcovering; it has practical advantages.

A Portfolio of Home Office Ideas, 1998

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This is a big thing that I continue to work on unlearning/relearning

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hab heut endlich mal mein gefrierfach enteist und meinen kühlschrank geputzt, ich würd mich dann jetzt mal kurz für ein stündchen wie jemand fühlen, der sein leben im griff hat, wenn's euch nicht stört.

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Started copying my photos folder from my old PC to the cloud yesterday. I had to keep it going through the night, and it stopped at some point during the night.

I had to restart it this morning at about 10am, and it's still going. I guess it will take until midnight. But I want to make sure it's completely uploaded to the cloud this time before I got to sleep.

I didn't really do much else today. I was extremely tired all day long. Maybe because of the bike ride I took yesterday? After about 2 weeks of not really being active that was pretty exhausting.

It snowed today, which I always love!

I have been watching the latest CR episode. Not quite finished yet.

And I took a short walk to keep my resolution to leave my apartment once every day.

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Cobwebs is good right. Spiders mean that the computer's ecosystem is healthy right.

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Is anyone else so dysfunctional that you have to count things as you put them away? I am not categorising this as OCD. It is more like a promise. I promise myself I will put away 10 things. Then, I put away those 10 things. If I’m lucky I put away 10 more things.

I got up to 47 things this round.

I am building up to other chores on this very toasty Sunday afternoon.

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20:55

I slept so long today, which was great.

Rewatched some of the concert I watched with my parents on New Year's Eve.

Managed to get the book returned that my friends gave me for Christmas but that I already have. That was easier than I thought.

Took the bicycle to the city centre to do some grocery shopping and meet my parents for coffee. The sun was shining, too, which was great.

Got some new calendars and notebooks for the new year.

Back home I started copying my huge photo folder to pcloud. It's still going ...

I also watched Shop around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart. I couldn't wait to see him in another movie. And this one is so delightful.

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