Survey #276—Full Response from Essie
| What parts or aspects of the book did you find difficult to grasp or challenging to apply to your home or situation? | I make piles or just put items down randomly. |
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| Please share your favorite quotations or key ideas and concepts from this book. | Losing items is constant for me, but they may be right in front of me blending into a cluttered surface. |
| Kolberg and Nadeau base most of their “ADD-friendly organizing strategies” on the idea that people with ADHD can reframe their neurodivergent traits as strengths, working with their ADHD to take charge of life. | I realize I may want larger categories of storage for some items, but more specific categories on other items. |
| Throughout the book, Kolberg and Nadeau suggest a three-pronged approach to applying their organizing strategies: You may do the work yourself; enlist the help of nonprofessionals, such as family and friends; and/or employ the services of professionals, such as professional organizers, ADHD coaches, and counselors. | My daughter visited hime from college while my husband and I were on a week long cruise. She cleaned and organized my pile-ridden bedroom. It was beautiful to walk into, but as I tried to maneuver life and could not find items, it was similar emotionally to having been burglarized. I also missed an important online sign-up due to a paper I had left out as a visual cue no longer being there. That paper looked like part of a pile to her, but to me it was mental freedom during my cruise, knowing I had a cue ready for a deadline that loomed soon after the cruise ended. |
| Please rate this book on a scale of one to five stars. | 4 |
| Here’s your chance to ask Gayle and Ed any question you’re curious about. It need not be related to this survey’s topic(s). If we think that your question—and our answer—might be useful or instructive to The Clutter Fairy Weekly audience, we’ll share them in an upcoming episode. | I am also dealing with a knee injury. How do I keep from being a burden to household members when I cannot gonup and down the stairs in the home very many times per day? The curse of an invisible injury... |
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