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	• Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of ... Susan C Pinsky Fair Winds Press, 2006 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Beautiful Book for the ADD-Brained

I have a whole shelf full of organizing, cleaning, and time management books that have great ideas in theory, but when our ADD family tries to apply them only serve to make me feel guilty. This book not only gave great tips (ones that non-ADD people may read and think totally obvious and unnecessary to mention), but did so in a way that did not seem condescending or guilt-inducing. I also was very glad to finally see a book for people with ADD that was filled with beautiful pictures of reasonably (not perfect) clean and organized spaces. So often, we either see magazine-perfect rooms shown in books for homemakers without ADD or little to no illustrations at all in books for those with ADD...the ones who probably need the pictures the most.

My one criticism was with the expectation that the reader will be wealthy enough to afford, for example, a dishwasher. In the section on washing dishes, there was no mention even of what a person who does not have the means to have a dishwasher should do. There were other places were I felt that a level of material wealth was just assumed as well.

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great help for those withh ADD

As a professional organizer and the mother of a daughter, age 20, with ADD, this book offers a lot of great information that will benefit many of my clients and hopefully my daughter too! I even bought an extra copy for my daughter and hope she will use some of the ideas from the book. Great book, I would highly recommend it.

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WONDERFULL the authour must really know me

this book is amazing, it's like the author took many years to study my living habits. i never knew how much AD/HD affected my home life, i though it only effected school and driving. i bet it probaly effects the workplace too, i wonder if there is any books about that. the 2 most important things it said that struck me to the bone is how ppl with AD/HD require more engery imput into any task, so they get tired and overwhelmed much eaiser, and that what you don't see you forget about, end up buying duplicates of, and that is it hard for someone with AD/HD to get rid of stuff, getting rid of too much too fast is overwhelming. And as i had started to discover on my own that taking closet doors off helps me a lot to keep the closet organized and helps me to keep track of clean clothes and put them away eaiser, the book also said sometime you need to remove cubard doors, keep things out in the open, it may not me more attractive but it is more fuctional, fuctional is the key to keeping the AD/HD home organized. fuctional is easily accesable and easy to put back. The book goes into details of how to display things and where to put things so that it makes the most sence... it also gives us permision to not make our beds!!!! personaly with my bed when it's not in use (wich it is a lot, also explained in the book) i leave it with just the pillow and fitted sheet on it, all the sheets and blankets are on a shelf between the side of my bed and the wall. sometimes they are folded sometimes they are not, but it's easy access and easy to put back and i dn't have to get out of bed att night if i wake up cold and need another blanket. some stuff in the book is logic, like next to every phone there should be a notebook and a pen/pencil, personaly when i did this i velcroed the notepad and pen to the shelf next to the phone. that is just a little of what the book is about, you have to read it for the details of how to do it. if you want to contact me for help beyond what the book can give you i am at fight_the_good_fight@hotmail.com Also i learned that having less stuff really does decrease stress, i had to spend a weekend away from home and only had 2 hours to pack, taking only the nessisties and living with only them really helped me focus on my life and what i needed to do about the things that werre stressing me out.

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Amazing results!

I've had this book for three days, have read almost all of it, and have used it to organize my pantry, bedroom, and walk-in closet! And I haven't spent a penny! I'm so excited to get the linen closet, dish cupboards, and everything else done, as well! And I am working on scheduling a couple of days with my husband and helpers to finally tackle that beast of a garage!
With ADHD, I'll never be able to make Martha Stewart proud,(note to self, cancel that subscription,) nor will I ever get the proper use out of my boxes and boxes of organizational tupperware. I get it now, thanks to this book. But I can and have created efficient spaces that are manageable!
Being frugal never got me organized, but "the brutal purge," has done wonders for our home! I can finally justify getting rid of all of that stuff that I have kept, "just in case!"
The book itself is easy to read, has step-by-step instructions for organizing and has lots of easy, inexpensive tips for organizing things without spending lots of money. Basically, you have to make the stuff fit the space, or invest in more space! What a simple concept, but this woman illustrates it and motivates so that it is finally achieveable!
I was just diagnosed less than three weeks ago, and life is brighter than ever, now! And cleaner!

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ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, are prevalent in society today, afflicting about 4.4% of the adult population, which is over 13 million Americans. Four out of every five adults do not even know they are ADD, and while it is often difficult to differentiate adults with true ADD from adults who are merely forgetful and disorganized, Organizing Solutions for People with ADD outlines new organizing strategies that will be of value to anyone who wants to improve their organizational, or lack of, skills in their life. The chapters consist of practical organizing solutions for ADD at Work; prioritizing, time management, and organizing documents, ADD at Home; paying bills on time, de-cluttering your house, scheduling and keeping appointments, ADD with Kids; driving them to various activities, grocery shopping and meals, laundry, babysitters, organizing drawers and closets, and ADD and You; organizing time for your social life, gym, and various other hobbies and activities. Color photographs that capture the short attention span of the reader are featured throughout, as well as sidebars and testimonials from adults with ADD, providing numerous organizational tips, such as, the importance of dividing time into minutes or moments, task completion, how to avoid procrastination, asking for help, and how not to be a packrat.

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