This is great advice!

I think this is brilliant. Thank you for sharing!

I also like the 10 second rule. If it takes less than 10 seconds to do, just do it. Like instead of just kicking your shoes off at the door, take the extra few seconds to put them away. Little things like that add up so much!

@@elenorsolagracia7787 oh jesus, the bots are on youtube now? fu*k nooooo

@@terezahajkova3494, just report them as spam any time you see them. It’ll help clean up the comment section and hopefully make it inconvenient for the bots when they have to keep creating new accounts more often.

This has done WONDERS for me! Now everything has a designated place :)

LOVE THIS

OOO!! GENIUS!! I shall try this immediately!

Love this! I do similar but I race the toaster. 😆

I do this to songs ahaha

I race the kettle also. No dishwasher, but hand washing can be pretty fast if there's not too much to do.

I race the microwave! This changed the game for me honestly

it's like a reward. lol

it's really brilliant! I'll start doing it tomorrow. I thought it was the trick of twisting the hanger handle to check what you are wearing and return the rest of your unworn clothes. It didn't work for me, but I think Becky's method will work!

It is called challenge your closet and I love it when I am in a rut

Right! Both my fiance and I get so overwhelming so we're both going to try this and I'm legitimately excited

Totally genius!!!

It's brilliant! I have a running give away pile too. When I'm on the fence about an item, I put it in there anyway. If I find myself missing it I can go rescue it. Once it's out of sight, I very rarely go back for it.

You're not the only one. Trust me on this one.

Or, of you are my husband done=in the washer 🙄

plus your clothes get less wrinkled because they aren’t just sitting in a big lump for days!

I've always done it this way and I see the folding as a reward/incentive! I hate throwing things in the washer and transferring them to the dryer (short arms!) but when I'm folding laundry I get to throw it all on the couch and put on a youtube video.

I came to the comments for these tips 👏👏👏 thank you

@@maggierobertson2962 hahahah this made me SMILE 😂 OR if it makes you feel better, done for mine is in the basket 🤯😆😂

I once heard an Organizer say if you are always delaying putting your clothes away or have baskets full of fresh laundry every time then you might have too much clothing. I totally agree

Yes! Reduce the friction

Yes to the no folding part. My underwear drawer is just a pile and it always gets puts away first!

I would start donating to the thrift store than once a year. I used to think I needed to let clothing donations pile up, but now I don't do that and it has been so freeing! I have a small bag in my closet and if I put something on and decide not to wear it, I ask myself if I would miss it and if not, in the bag it goes. When full the kitchen size garbage bag goes in the back of my SUV. Then when I'm out and about I pop in and drop it off. No more big projects going through my closet. And easy to reach in and grab all my favorite things!

@@adgecy same! I do match my socks, but until you mentioned this, I’d actually forgotten that people fold underwear and bras.

This is extremely good!

that's so helpful!!!!!

This rule has been very helpful for me as well. Because once I've got some momentum going and I'm actually doing the task, I'm more likely to decide to just go ahead and finish. Starting is the hard part and giving myself permission to quit after 5 minutes makes it seem less daunting.

This is definitely a game changer!!

Will try that for sure, thanks !!

Thank you for putting this in the comments! I will be trying this out!

How do you handle things like underwear and socks?

@@mannameeves4423 I limit myself to 7 of each. And have a small basket for both. Very minimal.

What do you recommend for people who have a hard time getting back into a task after stopping the task? I mean this seems like it might be a good way to break that hypervisation, but I feel a little hesitant trying that

@@cheriberry3 that’s definitely a struggle for sure. It’s always important to remember that your personal brand of “productivity” is unique and doesn’t need to look like everyone else’s. If you do five minutes of dishes, stop before you’re done, do a little reading, bounce around from task to task etc it’s ok. A little bit of work is always better than doing nothing. Work with the energy of your adhd brain and not against it. But I keep lists and alarms on my phones of what I need to get done. Sometimes I just walk around saying what I need to do out-loud to keep it fresh in my brain.

I love Cass and her clutter bug definitions. It’s really helped me understand how to organize so that both me AND my husband can function in our space. He’s a butterfly, I’m ladybug with cricket tendencies.

I have ADHD too. My therapist literally gave me worksheets with all these tips but I've never heard about the clutterbug channel. I'll have to check it out.

Thanks for your insight on this! I have ADHD too and when my family moves things on me, I go absolutely insane because I forget to take care of important things because now they're "out of sight, out of mind". I have to be able to see everything out in front of me, which is why I've always struggled with traditional storage methods. Do you have any tips for storing non-clothing and non-book items? I find that bookshelves don't work very well for me since most things don't sit on bookshelves well the way books do. I love boxes and containers, but the problem is I tend to stack them and put them in front of my closet door and dresser drawers because there's no room for them, so then I can't get to my clothes 😆 It might be as simple as "get rid of everything that's not books and clothes", but that's just not realistic for me. I appreciate any ideas you have! Thanks a bunch! ❤

I dont have the diagnosis at 50 of ADHD but you just nailed me on multiple issues. As soon as I finish thanking you and the channel. I am going to irritate the LIFE out of my family moving my Kitchen tea and coffee area.

@@kathryndipietro8974 I'm a crafter and I have a similar situation. I have so much stuff but don't want to get rid of everything. What kinds of things are you trying to organize?

Yes! The only way I get myself to clean is to set 15 minutes for any kind of cleaning or to set a goal of "take 50 items to where they belong". That I can do even several times a day iif needed, but I could never have a task like "clean the kitchen". The size of that is way too daunting and makes me freeze and not do anything (like I will literally be stuck on the sofa guilt-tripping about not cleaning). For my ADHD brain it has to be small enough that I can go past the time blindness 😊

My partner also leaves his “clirty” clothes on the floor. Hurts my soul

I have this basket! My SO calls it 'in-term'

I call it my wear-again pile and have a draw for them cause I got sick of seeing them thrown on a chair. My friend calls it her halfworn pile.

😉 Clirty is kinda flirty & fun! Think I could embrace that name & basket idea for gently worn foldable items. Definitely don't like mixing slightly worn items w/either clean or dirty laundry 🧺. 🤗Have a rack on the back of the bedroom door where I hook the hangers of gently worn "closet" goods. Otherwise, I kinda pile up my "wear again" things that came from a dresser on the back of a chair. That's at least until I get maximum use before transferring to the dirty basket😔. Your idea seems way smarter! 👏 💚 Bridget from Cali☘️ (using my pal's YT acct)

In planning my small walk-in closet for the downsized house we bought, I decided I’d put in several hooks for clothes that could be worn again. Saves a chair in the bedroom ending up as the core of a clothes heap. And has the added virtue of letting the clothes air out a little.

Or Rotate & Eliminate by Styling Test - so we keep the same acronym (REST) but in an easy to remember wording

These are pretty good I was thinking something like - It can stay or throw/give away!

Also known as R.E.S.T. - you made it an acronym!

Yay the rest Method! That's great

@@glamboss16 I love the name! yes! REST!

Autistic woman with ADHD husband here, yeah. I've seen some great tips also about visual organization for ADHD. Like for clothes using shelves and hooks instead of drawers and hangers because it's easier and more visual.

Hi fellow ADHD-er

Do you watch clutterbug on KZfaq? Finding out (and accepting) my daughter organised completely opposite to me has helped. She no longer has a wardrobe - just rails, no drawers - just boxes with no lids and shelves. Stuff still doesn’t get put away fast enough, especially laundry, but it has helped.

How to ADHD just put out a video with some organizational hacks too! I watched both but still didn’t put my laundry away 🤣 (I’m fostering a puppy right now tho so all my focus is on going outside with her lol)

@@jennabarna2353 sounds like as good a reason as any not to put away laundry 😍 I'll have to check out the how to ADHD video!

I do similar but by type so if it's just underwear it's done and the pile is smaller

@@outoftheburrough Me too! I always go through the whole basket and put the laundry into piles by type of clothing. Then, once they're in piles, I always pair all of the socks first because it's the most fun for me ☺ Then I fold my jeans because they're easy to fold, and then I do t-shirts because I fold them all the same exact way, but it's tedious so I watch a video or listen to a podcast while doing it. Then I deal with any odd items of clothing and after that, I can put all of the piles away in their respective storage spaces 😀 It makes the whole process feel less exhausting for me!

But how does it work when you pick like a summer dress in the winter? You can't really style that? Do you just keep it rotating then? Genuine question!

@@helenavo4088 personally I rotate my closet based on the season. So if you do that then it would eliminate the issue of picking out summer clothes in the winter.

Aw, best of of luck in your recovery!

I'm so totally onboard with this idea - household closets very close to the laundry room and bathroom would be a total game changer!

This is where small English houses are a boon. You’re never far from anywhere!

@@jenniewren9351 my house is 430 sq ft, I still have to go to the basement for laundry and first floor for closets.

Wtf you just blew my mind

My aunts house is like this, there’s a wall full of big cubby things labeled for all the types of clothes. Last time I was there there was a 3 foot tall pile of clean laundry that needed to be put away. It doesn’t solve the problem if you aren’t staying on top of it.

I agree! I love my sock organizers. Lol it's kind of fun putting each pair of socks in their own little compartment.

Love this name!

I agree

I call it “clean sink” rule and it works magically! Loaded sink for days was one of my biggest problems but now it is all good and clean. Also having washing supplies like gloves in easy access helps a lot. I used to put them away to not distract the eye but having them on sink is much less distracting than sink full of dirty dishes lol

What I say to myself is that until I can actually fit in this I can also have a better one. So this don't have to stay here anymore. It will be replaced with a better one. It's a way of thinking that always pays off.

I tried that with my teenage daughter as her clean clothes often end up in a pile in her room. She just slept with them there! I try not to think about it, otherwise I get cross at the amount of time I give to laundry, especially as I have chronic pain.

I do this too! It’s a great system 😎 and then I don’t have to dig for the matching socks

I do that as well! Dump everything out, pick the same big things and then you go smaller and smaller. Makes it easier to keep an overview. And i also pile all the same things by person. Like my sisters underwear and my underwear go in separate piles but i fold them at the same time. That way it's also easier to put it away after folding it and you don't have to check every item again! You just take the whole pile of tshirts and put it away

I’ve found that up it’s either same day, or bit by bit as I need the stuff or the bag again 🤦🏼‍♀️ I used to travel a lot so it wasn’t so bad but haha things are a smidge different just right now.

I just brought in from the car my suitcase from a trip two weeks ago about three days ago, and the bag of essentials I bring to my dogsitter today. I feel you!

A trick I use is to put my suitcase on my bed, not in the corner. Then I can't go to bed till that suitcase is unpacked. I suppose if you were getting home really late and that wasn't feasible (although really it only takes like 15 minutes max to unpack for me) you could put the suitcase on your couch or in your shower - somewhere it won't be able to hide - and then put it on your bed in the morning.

I did this for a year! It was a good reminder that though I may like the idea of a shirt or sweater or dress, I never actually wear them. And it helps remind me when replacing clothes what I actually wear in daily life.

I already use the flipped hanger method and it's worked quite well! Now I think I want to combine it with the first thing on t the rack method to force myself to build outfits around these clothes and maybe decide to get rid if them sooner rather than later.

I’ve always loved this idea but I’ve never actually seen it work. I’ve never had a group of friends who shared a body type and size such that it was easy to pass clothes around. I find it easier to post it in my local Buy Nothing group and to get clothes off there as well. Same sort of idea but with a large pool of people you’re more likely to have people of similar shape and size.

@@ang_131 We have all shapes and sizes! We pay more attention when our size is sharing her clothes (the first to raise their hand gets it). Then we try on stuff afterwards and if it doesn't fit, we hand off to the next interested party. It's more about having fun and drinking wine and visiting too! :)

Yes! I and a couple of friends have been doing that for a couple of years now! One of us creates a private Facebook event and everyone invited brings whatever they've been decluttering, including shoes (and sometimes books and smaller stuff). You can invite other friends as well. What doesn't get chosen by anyone, is then the host's responsibility to take to goodwill. 😃

@@sabinekarlsson8803 It's a great excuse for a get together! I still use a set of plates a friend was letting go of. I think of her all the time when I eat with them.

SAME hahaha

🚖 Yes, the "Taxi Technique" is a perfect descriptor for Becky's current closet rotation system👍. 🔄 She certainly developed a clever way to come up with a fresh daily outfit for every item that finds it's way to the front of the queue. It is a real time opportunity that 🪄sparks creativity while at the same time helps her determine if something still suits (i.e., figure, personality, preferences, style, wardrobe, lifestyle, climate, etc.). 😉I can definitely see how such an artsy, free-spirited individual could create "calm out of chaos." I don't mean to sound 🙀catty. I'm impressed she finds structure & simplicity in this "last in/first out" closet organization method. It's a lovely example of how her mind thrives on such a spontaneous, daily exercise. 💯% a systems gal. I admire anyone that creates an organizational system that serves them. That's easy to maintain. That reduces their stress level. 😔I'm just on the other end of the organizational spectrum, so her system would be a bit 🥺overwhelming for my more matchy-match instincts. Much more at ease keeping "like" clothing sorted by... (1) CATEGORY: Tops/Vests/Jackets 👚/🥼 Bottoms 🩳👖(skirts) Misc 👗(Suits, Special Occasion) (2) COLOR: Black🖤, 0live Green 🫒/🪖, Red🍒, brown🍫, Chambray🧊, Navy⚓, White🤍, Pink🥿, Gray⚫, + misc. Note: Keep a gap between black & navy, so I don't mix them up by mistake😳. (3) COMFORT*: (cool😰🩱/🎽/👕/🦺 vs hot🥵 👔/👘/🧥 layers). *🌄Mediterranean/Desert🏜️ climate that skews more sunny/warm🌡️year round. Plus, my hormones run hot😡. As a result, fabric weight & sleeve lengths are a major consideration. Find it easier to layer to add interest & warmth as needed. Own far less long sleeves, heavy weaves, &/or knits. 😬I also dislike wearing 🦠 germy outside shoes👟/clothes👖 inside my home🏡. More like TV "Mr Rogers" when I come through the door🚪. 👠Shoes must get swapped👡/🩴. 🤔Unless I'm planning to go back out right away, will shed my outdoor clothes & change into indoor options (i.e., "pjs" for residents only, "loungewear" if expecting guests, "atheleisure" if going in & out of private areas + possibly 👀seen by neighbors). Finally, like rotating hanger on closet rod to show an easy visual of which garments have been worn. It high-lights items that need scrutiny &/or inspiration. 💚 Bridget from Cali☘️ (using my pal's YT acct)

I love cleaning....in my mind ! In real life ? I'm sick of it ! And I really mean SICK OF IT !!! So now I try to have maximum results with minimum effort. So far so good.

Yooo came here to say the same thing. These tips are so great for the dopamine-challenged among us :')

@ᴛᴀᴘ ᴍᴇ ᴀɴᴅ sᴇᴇ Victoria what?

I'm yet to graduate from the mountains 🙈 😆 but yes to grouping! That way I can give my family's respective stack to pack away themselves.