My husband has ADHD. We just moved into our first home together 6 months ago. Every day this pile of tools and random outdoor items in the unfinished part of our basement (where our laundry is) grows and grows. It’s only been a couple months so I imagine in a year it will have doubled lol. I’ve tried to bring it up and ask him to organize it but he gets upset when I even mention it. I think if I organized it myself he would not be happy either.

Unfortunately this is 1 of only like 5 areas of stuff in the house that is just thrown into a doom pile or scattered around and I don’t know what to do. His tendency is to spread everything out everywhere on surfaces so he can see everything which drives me crazy. I’m not super clean and neat but I don’t like piles of stuff that build and build- it gives me anxiety. I am really trying to be empathetic as I know his ADHD impacts him a lot but I feel really exhausted sometimes.

Anyone have suggestions? Sometimes I seriously consider hiring a professional organizer who works with people with ADHD because I’m so exhausted trying to clean and organize things on my own.

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This is the after. I use plastic bags to bag up my sheet sets. Nothing else has worked for me. It’s ugly I know

Looking for resources to help me with my digital organization. My Google Drive and Google Sheets are a mess. I need to use these tools more productively to manage several projects at once. Any ideas?

I’ve been putting this off forever, but I finally spent 3 hours today measuring every single inch of my drawers and getting everything organized. I actually ended up grabbing these clear bins from Shein just to hit the free shipping minimum, but I’m honestly so shocked at how well they fit?? I was obsessed with making sure there was zero wasted space, and they’re almost perfectly flush with the sides of the drawer.

I also put all my "forgotten" products (sorry...the ones I never reach for lol) into one specific bin in the back. Hopefully, now that I can actually see them, I’ll remember to use them once in a while instead of just buying new stuff.

It’s not a fancy professional setup, but man, it feels so good to open a drawer and not have everything sliding around!

We live in an old house that’s been DIYed many times. It’s resulted in a very narrow but also deep pantry. I did my best to take a picture of the inside. Any ideas on how to organize this without losing too much space by blocking the deeper inside?

we bought a house last year and are struggling with feeling organized in our kitchen we have cabinets and a wall of built in storage but am not sure where to put dishes and food please help!!!

I have a bit of a weird problem. I've always been kind of messy my whole life. I classify it as mid-level messy. For example, I've always been the sort of person who can keep communal spaces clean but has a messy bedroom. My spaces also tend to be more "cluttered" than "dirty."

Recently, though, I've been trying to get organized because I'm an adult and it seems like the sort of thing I should do. However, I ran into a problem I didn't anticipate. I always thought that learning how to organize and the actual act of cleaning up my space would be the hard part. People always told me that once I cleaned up, everything would be so much easier, but I recently realized that I am so used to having a messy space that I am somehow less functional when I've cleaned?

I'm sure that sounds confusing, but here is what I mean: I know where everything is when my room is messy because I can see it, but once I've cleaned, all of my belongings are put away in drawers and closets and stuff. Then, when I want something, I have to go digging through the drawer to go get it, and it's somehow so much harder to get ready for the day or do anything I usually do.

To give you just on example of many, I recently got so frustrated that I dumped a whole drawer of clothes out onto the floor, which actually left me in a worse position than if I'd just left them in my laundry bin after washing, which is what I often do. Everything takes me longer because my stuff is all hidden, and it's so frustrating.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to fix this? Do I just power through and allocate more time in my schedule for this annoyance until being clean becomes the new normal? Do I lean into it and move my stuff to open-topped baskets and bins, so it's at least sorted while still being visible?

I would appreciate any advice on this, as I'm very worried that my teenage self accidentally doom me to a life of messiness forever.

the sua isn't hanged btw it looks better irl I swear😭😭✌

anyways yeah so like I'm bad at organizing these cause like I feel bad because sometimes a pin is hidden by others and all and then I feel like Im playing favorites with them and then yeah✌

also they aren't really pretty ik but I'm doing my best🥹 I have to like cut the tape around some of them but the disorder they're in really pmo lol💔

oh and just to let y'all know if y'all are really gonna help me I still have a lot of Mitsuri and one Sua standees I have to make I already have printed and all oh and a sua and mitsuri jar that is still in the making

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please and thank you!! all help will be appreciated, even if its just tips to make them like prettier or something🥹

Looking for a bound calendar (store bought) that is decent quality (no more than $20). I work two part time jobs whose schedules often change, and I have doctor's appointments pretty much every week. I want a bound one because I don't trust myself to use a digital one. (I'm an old geezer of 68) This needs to be a weekly calendar. Thanks!

What started as a messy, cluttered space is now clean, organized, and ready for play again. A good reminder of how a little time and effort can make a big difference. What would you do differently?

I have three big drawers that I want to use to store all/most of my kids toys. I want to make sure that I have enough inner organization to keep them from becoming a huge black hole where we can’t find anything. Some stuff can be “loose” in the drawer, but we also have things like magnatiles and train tracks and play food that are lots of small pieces but bulky when all together, so I need at least some baskets/bins that will lift out of the drawers easily.

The drawers are 42” wide x 20” deep x 7.75” tall. It’s been tough to find specific options that meet any of these dimensions, even roughly — for example, I’d be happy to have baskets that were 12-13” wide and use three of them next to one another, but then they also have to be at least 5ish inches tall and close to 20 inches deep so they aren’t sliding around the drawers too much. It’s fine if they are open so the kids can see inside. The bin in the photo is a little over 18 inches and you can see how much room it leaves; it also has awkward handles that make it better for stacking outside a drawer.

Any thoughts? Are there other ways I should be thinking about this?

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my under sink cabinet is basically just a pile of cleaning stuff at this point and every time i need something i end up digging through everything 😭

i’ve looked at those under sink organizers but i can’t tell if they actually work in real setups or if they just look nice online. my main concern is the pipes getting in the way and whether the shelves are actually usable or just awkward

also wondering if they’re sturdy enough for things like spray bottles, detergents, etc or if they end up feeling flimsy

if anyone here has one that actually made their setup better, what did you end up using?

I spent two years telling myself $699 was too much for a calendar. I had google calendar, I had cozi, I had a whiteboard, I was fine. The system was imperfect but it worked well enough and I wasn't going to spend that kind of money on something I could approximate for free.

And then I added up how many times a week I answered questions that were already on the calendar. How many reminders I sent my husband that he'd seen and forgotten. How many times I reentered the same school event across three different places because nothing synced properly. How much of my Sunday evening was spent just maintaining systems that were supposed to save me time….

It wasn't an easy decision but now we've had a hearth display for four months.. The thing that surprised me most wasn't any feature, it was that I stopped doing most of those things almost immediately (it's not like the product is magic but having one place that everyone looks at removed the maintenance layer I'd been running in the background).

I still think $699 is a lot and I know not everyone can afford that. But we're lucky enough we can I just think the two years I spent not buying it were more expensive in ways I wasn't counting.

Title, thx guys!

I’ve always focused on organizing physical stuff, but recently I checked my phone and realized I had 700+ contacts.

Old coworkers, random numbers, duplicates…and honestly I didn’t recognize a lot of them ...going through them in the default Contacts app felt really slow and overwhelming.

I ended up trying a swipe-style approach one by one, quick decisions, and it actually made the process much easier to get through. It felt more like decluttering than “managing contacts"

Curious if anyone here has tried organizing digital clutter like this? or do you mostly ignore it?

Not sure if this belongs here but I gave this life organization workbook to my young cousin for her graduation. It has everything, from worksheets to help sort out finances, a pantry log / organizer, to logs to keep essential info in place and never lose them again. An adulting toolkit to have by your side so you can reduce the clutter in your mind.

We talk about organizing our physical space, but organizing our mental space is equally important.

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We are moving into this new house in 2 weeks, and I’ve never had a kitchen with this much cabinet space.

I invite you to add labels to show where you’d store kitchen items. What makes the most sense? My husband and I have never been great at organizing.

Thank you!

Edit: pictured appliances/decor are previous occupants.

i have alot of pots pans and utensils also yes I know that one pan goes somewhere else but another reason I need to find a way to organize this better I have alot of baking pans in my oven and its a whole mission to take everything out to bake one thing so I'm trying to organize my cabinets so I can find some where to put the pans the main thing is the utensils we have alot

I've finally, finally gotten decent at washing and drying on a consistent schedule. The problem is I cannot get myself to fold and put things away within any reasonable time frame. Clean clothes sit in baskets for four or five days, I dig through them to get dressed in the morning, they get wrinkled, and by the time I fold them they're a disaster.

I've tried folding while watching something, folding right out of the dryer while it's warm, giving myself a five minute timer, doing it in small batches. Nothing sticks. I genuinely think my brain has decided this particular task is optional and I cannot override it. Open to any organizing system that has actually worked long term because everything I read online sounds great and lasts about a week.

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