Today’s new accommodation is a set of (crappy) shelves by my key hook next to the door so I can put stuff that needs to go to the car.
What’s your new accommodation?
Not new, but my biggest one is physically placing things I need to remember in the path of my daily routine. Like if I need to remember to bring my laptop to work, I might put my computer mouse in my shoe.
Another one is moving things in stages. If I’m cleaning my living room and something needs to go upstairs, I’ll just leave it on the stairs for the next time I go up. Otherwise I’m likely to get distracted when I get up there and forget to continue cleaning downstairs.
I also try to have multiples of things that I use in multiple rooms or places. Like a small trashcan in all my rooms so I don’t have to go somewhere else to throw it away. It minimizes distractions and helps me stay focused on the current task.
Yes to stages!! If I try to do the thing immediately I will get lost in an inception of side quests. So I have tables in every room dedicated to “things that need to go in another place”. Then when I’m going there, maybe I’ll remember to grab one of them 😅
Yes to multiples of things in each room/my car!! Off the top of my head I can think of: phone chargers, cups of pens and scissors, fly swatter, fans, Chapstick, hair ties. If I have to move it, Ive lost it
not new but whenever I have to do chores, I put bracelets on with little tags with the chore written on it. They jingle against each other and so I get a tactile and auditory reminder when I move around, a visual one when I look at my hands, and an annoying one whenever I have to use the bathroom or eat food.
Things like laundry I have to break into steps, like 1 load would be 3 bracelets, load washer, load dryer, fold.
Then when I do chores I can take them off, and the relief of removing them and being able to forget is actually a great reward.
Can you talk about the process of you remembering to put the bracelets on? How does that work?
Pretty much the same as your shelf. I prepare whatever ones I need the night before, and put them on my nightstand, so they’re in my face when I wake up. Sometimes I put them on my phone or something, if my nightstand is cluttered.
Where do you keep them? How do you ensure you put them away on the proper place?
I set them up the night before, and keep the pile on my nightstand. I have a drawer for all the ones I’m not using that day, and they go in no particular order.
They go in the proper place because when I finish a chore and remove the bracelet, I think of removing the bracelet as the reward. Putting it in the drawer is the last step to completing the chore, so the laundry isn’t done until that bracelet is in the drawer.
So the nightstand and the drawer are the only places they should ever be, unless I’m wearing them, and the nightstand is only when I set them up for tomorrow, so really just that drawer. I also keep new tags and a pencil in there so I can make neww ones without leaving the spot.
Now I’m not perfect and I do leave them around occasionally, like forgetting them on the bathroom counter, but because I always remove them in the same sorts of places, they don’t stay missing for long.
I got some AirTags for our car keys because while I treat my adhd with medication, my wife doesn’t and it’s a real struggle to find things sometimes.
