#also tho if you're like me and your adhd clutter (or non adhd clutter) is everywhere and you buy things that come in boxes | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

thesixthstar · 5 months

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my toxic trait is that i legitimately have so many little organizers/trays/drawer separators that help me keep my room clean that are literally just cut up cardboard boxes from things I bought - a 12-count clif bar box but horizontal turns into a tray for hair care stuff, and another clif bar box cut vertical for pills/painkillers, old box for period pads with the lid removed becomes my sock container in my drawer, and another for undies. cardboard panels from an amazon box now separate my pants from my shirts from my skirts-and-misc in my clothes drawer. Another clif bar box holds pens and pencils.

which would be fine except. it means that i feel like I should hold onto all my cardboard boxes forever just in case inspiration strikes and it could be a good organizer tray size, so i am forever fighting the urge to keep what is usually just actual garbage (well, recycling at least)

#tag #also tho if you're like me and your adhd clutter (or non adhd clutter) is everywhere and you buy things that come in boxes #this is your sign: grab scissors. if you have tape handy that can help but its optional. make a tray and put a handful of clutter object in #rinse repeat with whatever frequency makes sense to you #you may feel the urge to categorize things as you put them into trays: go ahead and categorize but dont get too caught up in it #it doesn't solve clutter but it makes it SO much easier to move the clutter around #and gives you strong visual blocks of 'how much room does this take up' and 'where might this tray of stuff fit'#and as any sorting task does it also makes you pick up each thing which gives you a moment to go #'wait ok do i actually want to bother keeping this?'

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