![]() ![]() I don't know about this, yet another product to help us download and install non-MSFS addons. Copyright 2011.You would avoid yourself a lot of trouble if you were using Add-on-Linker freeware, your add-ons would be safe outside of MSFS! Now where did I put my brand-new Brother labeler?Įxcerpted from Confessions of an ADDiva: Midlife in the Non-Linear Lane, by Linda Roggli (Passionate Possibility Press). ![]() How about “Professional Disorganizer”? There’s a label a woman with ADHD could wear with understanding and good humor. While I doubt that I’ll ever be a professional organizer, I do think I’ve earned another title. Medication, pens, and measuring cups are a few of the other things I keep extras of. I have four sets of makeup: one for home, one for the car, one for work, and one for travel. There are probably 15 pairs floating around my house, office, and car at any moment, each pair with a braided neck cord, so I don’t lose it. One strategy that works for me is having duplicates of things I use often, like reading glasses. I spend a lot of time working through all the challenges and my solutions to them, but, eventually, I devise a workable system that will allow me to not think about the mail ever again. When I return to that folder, I’ll find them both.Īnother system I use is what I call “Think Once,” also known as “Think Once Really Hard and Then Don’t Think About It Again.” I take on a knotty, persistent problem - dealing with incoming mail, say - from all angles. If my brain thinks of life insurance policies and bicycle warranties the same way, that’s how I file them. Sometimes, the associations in my head are one-of-a-kind. My most important papers were corralled, and I could always find the unopened mail.Įrica calls my filing system “creative.” She grimaces and frowns because I don’t file alphabetically. An acquaintance, who also has ADHD, told me about a revolving plastic organizer that she uses with great success. We can’t use the systems that work for other people. The cart would have helped if I had used it. We assembled it, placed it in the kitchen - clutter central in my house - and labeled each drawer. We found a rolling cart, with lots of skinny drawers, in the attic. I swear, ordinary household objects silently scream at me to be put away or tended to as I walk by: “Put me in the dishwasher!” “Call the repair guy, so I can stop leaking!” I don’t stop to take care of those things in the moment because my brain is overloaded from thousands of other screams: “Can’t you be on time for once?” “These pants are too tight you need to eat less.”Įrica tried to organize me her way. Multiply that by an 80-year life span, and we spend 13 weeks of our lives trying to find our bloody car keys. A researcher who studies such things says that if we spend five minutes looking for our car keys each day, it adds up to 30 hours a year. It still hurts to think about it.Īnd there’s the simple aggravation of not being able to find things when I need them. ![]() I fell on the concrete, cracked two ribs, and broke my wrist. I was picking my way through a narrow path of stuff in the garage and caught my shoe on a planter that was sitting in the walkway. My messy house causes me physical injury, too. ![]() When I cleaned out my car, a week before I traded it in, I found an uncashed paycheck that was eight months old. I lost the contract for a magazine article I wrote, twice, and was too embarrassed to ask for it a third time. The Price of Being Disorganizedĭisorganization is expensive for me. It’s buried under the new stuff we don’t want to lose. But after a couple of days, we can’t see the important stuff anyway. We are so afraid we’ll lose something in a drawer or a folder - “out of sight, out of the ADHD mind” - that we keep everything in the open where we can see it. I had misplaced this note at the bottom of a laundry basket full of papers that I stashed in my husband’s office. Erica - the woman I had called in desperation to help me clear out my clutter - held up a yellow scrap of paper, and I crumpled in shame. ![]()
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