09 april 2024
Made a lot of progress on cleaning my room! No more big pile of clothing. Basically I read this book called Organizing Solutions for people w/ ADHD and it said that my priority should be to simplify putting things away. Huge breakthrough for me.
The book talked about decluttering and how hard it is to put things away when your drawers are overflowing. Well, I was also getting a pile-up because my drawers were overflowing. I decided that the best way to keep the pile from the floor was to just drop stuff in the drawers without folding (reducing the number of steps). To make room, I removed everything I wouldn't have put in the pile and put it on hangers instead. I have a built-in kind of rack thing in my room that I only kept a couple things on. Now I have basically most of my drawers on that thing and I still have half of that space left to use. Wow.
Basically like. I didn't want to just discard everything because I already know I have the minimum amount of clothing I need to get to work and uni and that's about it. Maybe a couple nice shirts for interviews and formal events. I've grown out of my nice-event pants, though, ugh.
Anyway, I found out I had bed linens in my clothes drawer. They were just in the very bottom drawer with my snowpants. Hm. Moved the snowpants to the hanger because honestly as much as I dislike hanging I really only wear snowpants when the bus stop gets intolerably cold in a way my thermals can't handle.
Ugh I keep. Getting confused inside my own head. Anyway! Drawers have been reallocated. More room for hats + scarves because I wear them every day. Put gloves and bags in the same drawer because one drawer was too large. Bags went from being hung on my mirror to in a drawer. Eliminated the "home wear" drawer in favour of storing the home-shirts with the outdoor-shirts and likewise with pants. Too much overflow otherwise. This way instead of changing out an outfit and then putting it away, I'm just swapping out elements. Something about building the swap into the changing process. Hoping that would cut down on the "extra step to put it away" feeling. So far it has, but I've only tested it once (groceries).
As for decluttering and so on, I'm reading another book right now called Decluttering at the Speed of Life that I'm hoping helps. I've tried Konmari, kinda, but the visualization is just too much for me, and jumping ahead of it to declutter just leaves me feeling even worse. I'll have to take this more slowly. Hopefully this helps somewhat. Goal is still to make it through one Konmari, eventually.