Re: Life in the Cluttered Lane

[Anonymous]

I have not been professionally diagnosed and doubt I will ever be. I don’t want meds and think I probably know more about ADD than my family doctor (I read a lot, often hyperfocus <I think I’m using the word right?> so I do a lot of reading on topics I’m interested in), but my sister-in-law HAS been diagnosed and she and I share a million ADD traits.

My big problem now, is that after I retired, and our kids moved out of the family home, I have both more time to collect things (mostly art materials and books), and more space to use. Our house used to look pretty presentable even with six kids, but now it’s a disaster zone, and it’s all my stuff. I feel overwhelmed by the task of sorting my stuff and all the decisions: deciding what to keep and what to give away (there is nothing to toss as I don’t store garbage, thank heavens!), and then trying to figure out how/where to store the stuff I keep. There’s been a pile of stuff in the living room for two or three months, and I keep promising myself I will put it away, but I think it’s getting bigger. I feel defeated and discouraged. On the bright side, when the co-op art gallery I belong to had a yard sale, I contributed about ten boxes of stuff.

How can I get the Stuff under control and get it organized. I HAVE stopped bringing new stuff in, pretty much.

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