Question:  I have adult ADD. Due to late in life (coupled with menopause) diagnosis my organizing has worsened. Do you have special specific ways/tools that ADD people relate to better than the general public for organizing, shelving and time management?

Answer:  Thank you for this question. I would like to recommend some reading for you on this topic, that may provide some ideas on how you can get some order back into your life while accepting the realities of the ADD condition.

The book is “ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life” by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau. It is available on Amazon.com, and has gotten some amazing reviews from others that are also dealing with ADD in their daily lives and the chaos that can accompany it.

I hope this is helpful.

Lori Fowler
Ducks In A Row Home Organization and Design
ducksinarownc@earthlink.net

Question: I have recently moved from a 2500 square condo to 1400 square feet apartment (2 bedrooms).  I would like to divide one of the rooms for storage and self standing racks for hanging clothes. I am not allowed to nail anything to walls and I would like to do this as economically as possible.  Any suggestions?

The problem is I have a lot of clothing and books and wouldn’t like to throw them all out.  I am trying hard to reduce the amount of clothing and books – but at present two rooms are full of containers waiting for a place to be put….
I hope you can suggest some solutions.

Answer:  Before I suggest anything, move all those containers into the extra bedroom.  If this is going to be your storage room, it may as well start storing your stuff.  Besides, you’ll be less stressed if the entire apartment didn’t look like it’s been turned upside-down.

Moving can make any space look like it is cramped and overflowing.  Of course, as you have alluded to, the first step would be to go through all those clothes and books and ruthlessly discard whatever you can. Continue Reading »

Question:  I am a rubber stamper and wonder if you have any storage ideas to store the stamps, both mounted and unmounted.

Answer:  I am more of a scrapbooker so I don’t have the knowledge of all the fun goodies that you would need to store for a stamping hobby. However, I do use quite a few stamps for scrapping, so I’ll draw off that knowledge… Continue Reading »